Miscellany


It is related concerning a sofa, belonging to a man blessed (?) with

seven daughters, all unmarried, which was sent to the upholsterer to be

repaired, that, when taken apart, the following articles were

discovered:



Forty-seven hairpins, three mustache combs, nineteen suspender buttons,

thirteen needles, eight cigarettes, four photographs, two hundred and

seventeen pins, some grains of coffee, a number of cloves, twenty-seven

cuff-buttons, six pocket-knives, fifteen poker-chips, a vial of

homeopathic medicine for the nerves, thirty-four lumps of chewing-gum,

fifty-nine toothpicks, twenty-eight matches, fourteen button-hooks, two

switches, a transformation and two plates of false teeth, which

apparently had bitten each other.



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