M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-07-17

A writer in Life Illustrated furnishes the
following chapter on 'surnominal puns.'


ecdotes, etc., only incidentally connected
with the matter on haud. We turn little
out Of our way to collect few OF them
here. Ihis,aIticle may therefore be consid.
ered-a merely episodical. We trust il will
prove amusing. .ieE
Sir John Manners, who was created Earl
of Rutland, told Sir John More that he( MOre)
was too much elated by his prelerment, yer.
ifying tine old Latin proverb, HOnOres mutGat
Mores. Nay, MY lOrd,i retoTted SifTbomss.
'tie provbib reads much better in English,
'Honors change MnnueIs.n : . ~
An old lady haGia favorite nephew, W no
was student at Catherine Hall, and about
whom she was very anxious. She inquire
of his tutor how he conducted himself. 20,
very well, indeed, madam replied the latter,
he sticks 10 Catherine Hall Sticks to Ca
tharine Hall, does he2 the young reprobate
but his iataer was just like him-always
fond Of the girs.'
A tTadesman in London named Fell, re-
moved from Ludgate Hill to Fleet Street,
where he announced the fact as follows;
| FELL
from LuGgate Hill. "a
A wog wrote underneath;
20, what a fall was there, my countrymcn!'
Lutatius Catulus accused certain ex.
.ortiuner. The defender Of the accused,
thinking by a sarcasm to dsconcert his too
rehe nent adversary. said, why do you
bark, little dogp (Quid latrGs CdtulC)--
'BecauseI saw thief rejoined Catulus.
DR.. Lettsom, famous physician Of the
last century, used 10 sign his prescriptions,
|. Lettsom, which gave rise to the following
epgram:
When any patient calls in haste,
physics bleeds and sweats 'em
If after that they chose to die,
Why, then of course /. LETS EN-.
a person named Danger kept public
house on the Huntingdon road, near Cam
bridge, England. On being compelled to
quit the house, which was not his own, he
built an inn on the opposite side Of the
road and caused to be painted beneath h is
sign: Danger from over the way His sue
cessor in the old house re!orted by inscribing
over his door; There is no Danger here now.'
Skin and Bone. There were too milIers
at Manchester, England, whose names were
Skin and Bone DR.. Byron wrote the fol-
lowing epgram on them.
"B0ae and Skia, two milcrs thin,
Would starve us all, or it,
But be it known to Skin and Bone,
That Res4 and Jlood can't boar itln
Alexander Gum was discharged from the
custom-h house at Edinburgh, for malpraC-
tice. The entry in the books stands thus =
A. Gum was discharged for making false
report
A gentleman named Eneas Mcdonnell had
been conducted TO the watch house in state
of great incapability,' as he was returning
from the enjoyment Of the hospitality Of the
Archbishop of Troy. On the following
morning he was charged with the offence,
when Curmn remarked that the patrol had
been guilty Of a great blunder, as well as
gross libel, since the gentleman was no less
a person than " P.uS EneuS escaping from
Troys sack"
This is most excellent sirloin, sir said
guest to his host one day at dinner pray,
what is the name of your purveyor? 'Ad-
olson, replied the host. ANY relation TO
the Spsctator?' inquired the guest. Most
probably was the rejoinder, 'ior often see
steel By his side.
The following punning jeu d'esprit went
the rounds of the papers some ten years ago;
The crer Of neighboring county court,
was, upon certain occasion, required to go
TO the courthouse door and. as is usual
when witness is absent, call out for Philip
Logue, one of the sons of Erin who had
been summoned in certain case then pen
ding. The man with the baton accordingly
stepping to the door, sang out at the top of
his voice, philip Logue Philip Logue u
A wag of lawyer happening to pass the
door at the time, whispered in his ear 'Epi-
cguo, Also 'Eppy LOguc" bawed the
crier. 'Decalogue, TOO, prompted the lawyer,
8olto voce. 'Dicky Logue = vociterated the
crier. Apologize suggested the man OF
law. 'Appy LOgue!' p reiterated the official,
at the same time expos;ulating with the law
yer, Surely, you want the whole family Of
them, sir.
One of the 1est titles for mercantile firm
that we have ever seen is Call & Settle,
which is painted in golden letters on sign,
in one Of our eastern cities. Customers are
reminded, every time they pass, of their out
standing accounts. Neal & Pray is the name
of another firm. But the following beats
all Two attorneys, says an old newspa.
per, in partnership i'll a town in the United
States, had the name of the firm, which was
Cdtcham d Chetum, inscribed in the usual
manner upon their office door; but, as the
singuIarity and ominous juxtaposition Of the
words led to many a coarse joke from pass
ers by, the men OF law attempted to destroy
in part, the effect of the odd association, by
the insertion Of the initials Of their Christ
ian names, which happened TO be Isaiah
and Unah; but this made the affair ten times
worse, for the inscription ran
81. CATcHAM g. U. CHETUM!"
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