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HUMOROUS BOOKS.

Dr.

Valentine's Comic Lectures; or, Morsels of

Mirth

for

the Melancholy.

Containing Comic Lectures on Heads. Faces, Noses

and Months; Comic Lectures on Animal MagueLi•m ; Burlesque Speci–

mens of l:ltump Eloquence ; Trnnsu.cLions of Learned Societies; Comical

Delineation of Eccentric Oharacters : Amusing Colloquies and Mono-

logues. With twelve portraits of Dr. Valentine iu charncler ... . ..30 els.

Mrs. Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fun.

Containing the

Quear Sayings of Mrs. Partington, and the Funny lJoings of her remark–

able Son Isaac. Also the most amusing collection extant of PlayfulPuns,

Phunny P.oems, Pleasing Prose, Popular Par odies, and PolilicJu Pasquin–

ades, Rhymes Without Henson and Reason Without Rhymes, Anecdotes,

Conundrums, Anagrams, eto. Illustrated. Paper ..• .... ... . .....30 eta.

Yale College Scrapes; or, How the Boys Go

h.

at New

Ho,ven. This is a book of 114 pages, containing accountSof nil the famous

"Scrapes " and " Sprees " of which students of Old Yale have been guilty

.for the Inst quarter of a century ... . .. . ... .. . ... . .. . . . ... ... . .... .

2~

eta.

Chips From Uncle Sam's Jack-Knife.

Illustrated

with

over

100

Comical Engravings, nnd comprising a collection of over

600

Laugh–

·. able Stories,

~nnny

Adventures, Comic Poetry, Queer Conundrums, Ter–

rific Puns and Sentimen tal Sentences..•..........•••..•.• •... . . .

2~

eta.

Fox's Ethiopian Comicalities.

Containing Strange Sayings,

Eccentric Doings, Burlesque Speeches, Laughable Drolleries and Funny

- Stories, by the celebrated Ethiopian Comedian Qha.rles Fox .......10 cts.

Ned Turner's Circus Joke '.Book.

A

collection of the best

Jokes, Bon Mots, Repartees, Gems of Wit and Funny Sayings and Doings

of the celebrated Equestrian Clown

a.nd

Ethiopian Comedian, Ned

Tumer................. ... .. .. ...................................

10cts.

Ned Turner's Black Jokes.

A collection of Funny Stories,

Jokes and Qonundrnms, with Witty Sayings and Humorous Dialogues,

e.s

given by Ned Turner . ........ . .. . ... . ....... . .... . ..... . .........10 eta.

Ned Turner's Clown Joke Book.

Dontainingthe best Jokes

and Gems of Wit, composed and delivered by Ned Torner.••.••.. •10 cts.

Charley White's Joke Book.

Containing

a

full expose of nil

the most Laughable Jokes, Witticisms, etc., as told by the celebrated

.Ethiopian Comedian , Charles " hite ..... . .. . . .. . ... . .• , ••.••• , ..•

1

O eta.

Black Wit and DM"ky Comersations.

Containing laugh–

able Anecdotes, Jokes

o.nd

Darky Conversations......•••••••.••••10 eta.

Broad Grins of the Laughing Philosopher.

This book

is

full of the drollest

a.nd

queerest incidents imaginable interspersed

with

jokes, qua.int sayings and funny pictures ..•. . ....•• ,

:

.... . .. . .. .

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Very, Very Funny.

Containing the Cream of the best funny

things published in "Puck", "The Detroit Free Press" "Norristown

H erald," ,. Peck's Snn,"

'' Tex~

Siftings." "Arkanso.w' Traveler," eto.

No threadbare jokes, but everythrng fresh

a.nd

profusely illustrated. I Octs.

How to Speak in Public; or, the Art ofExtempore Oratory.

·A v"luable manua.1 for

tho.se

who desire to become ready otT·hand

speakers : containing clear directions how to arrange ideas logically 1>nd

quiokly, inoludlug examples of speeehes delivered by some of the !fl'0Bteai

cr1t.er1. Paper. ,, ,,' , ,, ,,,,,,. , ..

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