GEORGE COLMAN being once told that a man whose character was not very immaculate had grossly abused him, pointedly remarked, that "the scandal and ill report of some persons that might be mentioned was like fuller's earth, it _daubs your coat_ a little for a time, but when it is _rubbed off_ your coat is so much the cleaner." CCLXXVII.--A SAGE SIMILE. MR. THACKERAY once designated a certain noisy tragedian "Macready and _onions_." CCLXXVIII.--AN ARCHITECTURAL PUN. _On the Statue of George I. being placed on the top of Bloomsbury Church._ The King of Great Britain was reckoned before The _head of the Church_ by all Protestant people; His Bloomsbury subjects have made him still more, For with them he is now made the _head of the steeple_. CCLXXIX.--THE MAJESTY OF MUD. DURING the rage of republican principles in England, and whilst the Corresponding Society was in full vigor, Mr. Selwyn one May-day met a troop of chimney-sweepers, dressed out in all their gaudy trappings; and observed to Mr. Fox, who was walking with him, "I say, Charles, I have often heard you and others talk of the _majesty_ of the people; but I never saw any of the young _princes and princesses_ till now." CCLXXX.--A PROVIDENT BOY. AN avaricious fenman, who kept a very scanty table, dining one Saturday with his son at an ordinary in Cambridge, whispered in his ear, "Tom, you must eat for to-day and to-morrow."--"O yes," retorted the half-starved lad, "but I han't eaten for _yesterday_ and _to-day_ yet, father." CCLXXXI.--A QUERY ANSWERED. "WHY, pray, of late do Europe's kings No jester to their courts admit?" "They're grown such stately solemn things, To bear a joke they think not fit. But though each court a jester lacks, To laugh at monarchs to their faces, Yet all mankind, behind their backs, Supply the honest jesters' places." CCLXXXII.--A WOMAN'S PROMISES. ANGER may sometimes make dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Queen Elizabeth seeing a disappointed courtier walking with a melancholy face in one of her gardens, asked him, "What does a man think of when he thinks of nothing?"--"Of a woman's promises!" was the reply; to which the Queen returned, "I must not _confute_ you, Sir Edward," and she left him. CCLXXXIII.--THE MEDICINE MUST BE OF USE. SARAH, Duchess of Marlborough, once pressing the duke to take a medicine, with her usual warmth said, "I'll be hanged if it do not prove serviceable." Dr. Garth, who was present, exclaimed, "Do take it, then, my lord duke, for it must be of _service_ one way or the other." CCLXXXIV.--ROYAL FAVOR. A LOW fellow boasted in very hyperbolical terms that the king had spoken to him; and being asked what his Majesty had said, replied, "He bade me _stand out of the way_." CCLXXXV.--BLACK AND WHITE.