The Comic Almanack, Volume 1: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities
David Hume · en
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—We never admit puffs into our paper in any disguise or
under any circumstances, for we are sure that "the man who would make"
_a puff_ "would pick a pocket." It is a love for veracity alone that
induces us to state, that MONSIEUR CHARLATAN'S TUSKOLATUM MYSTIFICATUM
for renewing decayed TEETH is the most wonderful and surprisingly
efficacious invention ever invented. How will those ancient maidens
rejoice, who have only a colt's tooth in their heads, when they are
told, that by sowing this panacea in their gums overnight, a fine crop
of full-grown grinders will sprout up by the following morning! We speak
from our own experience; and whereas, before we used this extraordinary
invention, our great anxiety was how to get teeth for our food, the only
matter that now troubles us is how to get food for our teeth.
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ACCIDENTS.—We are happy to state that there is a great diminution in the
number of accidents in the past week. Only 250 persons have been drowned
by steam-boats; 320 women and children burnt to death by their clothes
catching fire; 560 run over by omnibusses and cabs; 252 poisoned by
taking oxalic acid instead of salts; 360 scalded to death by the
bursting of steam-boilers; 200 blown to atoms by the explosion of
powder-mills; and about 100—there or thereabouts—stabbed by drunken
soldiers, off duty; all which evinces a great increase of vigilance,
carefulness, and humanity, highly creditable to all parties concerned.
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FEBRUARY.—"Transfer Day at the Bank."
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