01 - AT THE PESSIMISTS' CLUB
-Everyone is leaving. In a hundred years the world will be in chaos.
-Hundred years ! As you go. Don't you understand, sir, that optimism as incurable as yours ruins a country?
(Judge, New York).

02 - M'sieu, m'sieu. While you're holding him, would you like to take his skates off. They are mine ! »
(Passing Show, London).

03 - Where have you been all this time, Fred, I had you
yet told to hurry back?
-Yes, mom, but you didn't tell me to hurry up and go.
(Life New York.)

04 - That's a bad scratch, A cat?
- No, doctor. Another lady.
London Opinion, London)

05 - Come on, Geneviève! You're not going to get run over by a dray when your dad has a racing stable!
(Drawing by Félix Jobbé-Duval)

06 - The night watchman (counting the stars). Let's see! Where was I left last night?
(Punch, London.)

07 - he will come and ask for your hand.
Oh! so, I'm running to the manicurist!
(Drawing by Mars-Trick)

08 - You don't recognize it, darling?
-I do not hear anything.
But yes, let's see, it's a chess tournament.
(Punch, London.)

09 - (Drawing by Brice)
Work. Here's an example. You hear the wood working
-Yes, but you said earlier that the wood had played

10 - Guide.
This is the biggest waterfall in the Alps. If these ladies would stop talking for a few minutes, we would hear the roaring of the waters.
(London-Mail, London)

11 - To think that there are imbeciles who call it wireless telegraphy!
Wudge. New York

12 - I wanted to buy my husband a bath for his New Year's Eve, and then he gave up and went to a miller's house.
(Life, New York)

13 - It took me ten years to realize that I didn't know how to write.
- So, did you do anything else?
- Oh no! So, I was already famous.
(Punch, London)