This dialogue takes place in a hospital between two poor fellows, one of whom seems to be in a desperate state.
Besides, the unfortunate man has no illusions about his fate and he tells his poor neighbor that he is calmly awaiting death.
- My dear, you never know. For example, about twenty years ago I was earning a good living, when suddenly I lost everything I had saved in bad speculations. Now, to make matters worse, I fell ill and all the doctors abandoned me.
- Have all the doctors abandoned you? repeats the dying man, whose eyes light up with a glimmer of hope.
- Yes, I didn't pay them!

It's an amusing riddle that we discover in an old illustrated magazine.
Who is the great thinker and writer whose name, the city he illustrated, the city where he lived and the title of his works begin with a P?
- You haven't found it?
Here is the answer:
- Pascal, Paris, Port-Royal, Pensées, Provinciales
Of course it is not very mean, but it is better to play at it than to speak ill of one's neighbor.

We knew several ways to make hiccups go away. An Australian doctor teaches us this one:
At the first hiccup, vigorously compress the pulp of the little finger of each hand against that of the thumb.
Of course, it is quite difficult to achieve, but by the sustained attention it requires this way of curing hiccups must be very effective.
However, I believe it is preferable to stick to the old remedies, for example sucking a piece of sugar or asking a friend to scare you.
Finally, hiccups can still be cured by contempt, it sometimes succeeds.

A Dutch Treasury official has just published interesting observations on the longevity of coins.
He tells us that gold coins wear out the least quickly because they pass through fewer hands than others (especially since the war).
But the record for wear and tear is undoubtedly held by bronze, which loses half its weight in a century.
Basically, all currencies are very perishable, even banknotes. You know, for example, that a hundred-franc note changed in the morning barely lasts as long as roses.

A very charitable lady stops in front of a church and starts a conversation with a poor fellow who is holding a purebred dog on the end of a string.
The animal seems very intelligent and the good lady, who is from the Society for the Protection of Animals, is full of praise for man's great friend.
- How right you are, madam, declares the poor fellow. So, without my dog ​​I would have already died of hunger.
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- Without your dog? How so?
- Lady, I've already sold it four times and each time...
- Each time?
- Each time, he came home

At school, in a class of very young boys.
The teacher explains how the plural of certain words is formed.
He declares: Some words in "ail" form their plural in "aux". Examples: vantail, vantaux; travail, travaux.
Then, wanting to see if he has been understood correctly, he asks:
Come on, who among you can give me another example of words in "ail" forming their plural in "aux"?
A finger is raised.
- I'm listening, my little one.
- Well, sir, declares the student, there is the word marmaille.
- What, the word marmaille?!
- Yes, sir. In the plural, marmaille makes marmots!

The Badaud.