VORCE.

The place to which the pilgrimage is to be made is Cole's Book
Arcade, Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia, where they must buy a
book of some kind, and that act DIVORCES them at once.

Bashful persons need not mention their pilgrimage to the Book Arcade,
when they purchase the book, unless they choose.

Anyone having obtained a DIVORCE will be allowed to choose out of 9
other portraits. If the number of the portrait that fell to their lot
was 8, they can choose any other number ending with 8, as 18, 28, 38,
48, 58, 68, 78, 88 and 98, of if their first number was 65 they can
choose from 5, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55, 75, 85, 95 and so on; whatever
their number was, they may choose from the corresponding figures
throughout the table.

If, after making a choice out of the 9 portraits, anyone is still
dissatisfied, by making 10 pilgrimages to the Book Arcade, or by
buying and giving away 10 copies of this Funny Picture Book, they
can claim the indulgence of a GRAND DIVORCE and choose which they
like out of the whole 104 portraits.

Given under our Royal hand and Seal at the Palace of the Book Arcade,
this 21st day of November, 1890.--COLE, REX.

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Riddles And Catches

Why are cowardly soldiers like butter?
Because they run when exposed to fire.

Why is hot bread like a caterpillar?
Because it's the grub that makes the butter fly.

Why are ripe potatoes in the ground like thieves?
Because they ought to be taken up.

Why is an acquitted prisoner like a gun?
Because he is taken up, charged, and then let off.

Why is a beggar like a barrister?
Because he pleads for his daily bread.

Why are lawyers like scissors?
Because they never cut each other, but only what is placed between
them.

Why is a newspaper like an army?
Because it has leaders, columns, and reviews.

Why is a prosy story-teller like a railway tunnel?
Because he is a great bore.

Why is a dun like a woodcock?
Because he bores with his bill.

Why is grass like a mouse?
Because the cat'll (cattle) eat it.

Why is the sun like a good loaf?
Because it's light when it rises.

Why is a plum-cake like the ocean?
Because it contains many curra(e)nts.

Why are tears like potatoes?
Because they spring from the eyes.

Why is Queen Victoria like a hat?
Because they both have crowns.

What is the difference between a steep hill and a large pill?
One is hard to get up, the