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  2. Flotsam and Jetsam

    Wife of Patient: "I'm so sorry, doctor, to bring you all the way to Indooroopilly to see my husband." Doctor : Pray don't mention it, my deer ...

    Article : 51 words
  3. High Principles.

    Raphael Green (proudly grasping his epoch-making work, " The Rescue of Andromeda," to driver) : " Drive to Burlington House, please." Ultra-modest Cabby : " No, ...

    Article : 51 words
  4. Woman as she Sometimes Is.

    A woman there was and she had her fun (Better than you and I) ; She wrote out receipts, and never tried one, She wrote about children—of course she ...

    Article : 96 words
  5. Proud to Knew Him.

    " The other night," said the fat boarder, " I slept in a room with a generous gentleman. I snore horribly—in fact, I'm a snorer from the first rank. We retired. In the ...

    Article : 119 words
  6. Commissioner Kerr's Humour.

    Few English Judges have attracted so much attention by their humour on the bench as Mr. Commissioner Kerr. He is caustic, and even brutal. ...

    Article : 256 words
  7. Too Late for an Exchange.

    " I hear you have a little sister at your house?" said a grocer to a small boy. " Yes, sir," replied Johnny. " Do you like her?" was the grocer's next ...

    Article : 100 words
  8. Thankfu' for Sma' Favours.

    An old Highlander recently discharged from one of the Scottish coasting steamers was met in the street the other day by one of his late fellow-workers. " Hallo, ...

    Article : 99 words
  9. Gordon's Courage.

    Sir W. H. Russell, the veteran war correspondent, tells this characteristic story of Gordon : During the Crimean war there was a ...

    Article : 104 words
  10. Her Opinion in Full.

    The car turned sharply around a curve, and the tall man who was holding on to a strap, somewhat loosely was suddenly thrown from his upright position with a force that ...

    Article : 119 words
  11. Read the Tongue.

    How many of us, when performing some difficult or painstaking feat with the hands, work the mouth in rhythmical contortions? The scene is laid in the schoolroom during ...

    Article : 89 words
  12. The Only Solution.

    Two gentlemen and two ladies were seated In a railway carriage, each of the four being a stranger to the other three. As they left the station one of the ladies requested ...

    Article : 148 words
  13. Facts and Fancies.

    A little nonsense now and then Isrelished by the wisest men.— HUDIBRAS. A good many people cast their bread upon the waters, expecting buttered toast as a ...

    Article : 721 words
  14. Net Meant for Him.

    The public is invited to sympathise with a quiet and citizen of Brisbane, who occupied a seat near the door of a crowded tram, when a masterful stout woman ...

    Article : 142 words
  15. The Poor Victim.

    When the new boy got into the schoolroom, he was, of course, pestered with numerous questions by the other scholars as to his name, his parents' profession, the ...

    Article : 146 words
  16. No Made a Hit.

    They sat just in front at a concert one evening last week, he and she. She was beamingly coy. He was impressively devoted. Any one that had ears could not ...

    Article : 161 words
  17. How He Fooled 'Em.

    " That reminds me," said the young doctor, who was as fond of a good story as he was of a rich patient, "of a fellow I know in college. He was a gay boy. and ...

    Article : 298 words
  18. An Ingenious Poacher.

    During a recent snow in England, a baldheaded man was brought before the magistrate for being found on game-preserved land, evidently in search of the unlawful ...

    Article : 193 words
  19. Couldn't Run Away.

    There are times in war when one active brain is equivalent to a great many guns. Witness this incident of the German revolution of 1848, told to an American paper by a ...

    Article : 184 words
  20. First Baby in the Family.

    The doctor had come in late from a hard day's work, driving from place to place, feeling pulses, giving encouragement and writing prescriptions. He had eaten his ...

    Article : 405 words
  21. New English Words.

    As a result of the " literary competition" of the London Academy, a list of new words which have been added to the English language is given to the world. It will ...

    Article : 247 words
  22. Voltaire's Wit.

    Voltaire had once taken a box at the opera, and was installed in it with some ladies, when the Duke of Lauxun, one of the worst men in the time of Louis XV., arrived ...

    Article : 235 words
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