Excerpt from American Wit and Humor, Vol. 1: A Collection From Various Sources Classified Under Appropriate Subject-Headings<br><br>American periodicals abound in witty say ings. Not only the comic papers but almost every newspaper, whether secular or religious, has its funny column. Every community has one or more men who are noted for witty say ings and quaint observations. Almost without exception Americans are quick to recognize and appreciate wit. Jokes do not require a label in America. This may be owing to the cosmo politan origin of our people. Coming from many other countries and welded in a com mon Citizenship the bump of humor has become abnormal. Here an Irishman loses his brogue, but not his wit. The more phlegmatic German learns to perpetrate puns over his pipe and mug, and the Englishman does not require a night's reflection to discover the point of a repartee. Many of these bright sayings deserve a longer life than is afforded by the ephemeral newspaper. To that end some of them are pre sented in this volume.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.