Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — Old-Time Humor. [ARTICLE]

Old-Time Humor.

Upon one occasion Lord Chatham asked Doctor Hennjker to define “wit,” and received the reply, "Wit is what a pension would be if given by your lordship to your humble servant —a good thing well applied.” In “A Book of Famous Wits,” Walter Jerrold records a happy jest addressed to Queen Elizabeth. Mr. Popham, when he was speaker, and the lower house had sat long and done tn effect nothing, coming one day to Queen Elizabeth, she said to him: “Now, Mr. Speaker, what has passed in the lower house?” He answered: “If it please your majesty, seven weeks.”