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  2. IIIS SHAVING BRUSHES.

    THERE was upon the steamer on which we were returning from Europe an elderly Jewish gentleman, who freely told any one who would listen, all his affairs. He ...

    Article : 1,321 words
  3. A LUCKY WIN.

    MOST of us have a streak of luck now and then, says the licensed Victualler’s Gazette, and if we back horses we certainly want it. As a rule, it is the bookmakers ...

    Article : 1,677 words
  4. HOW AN ADVERTISEMENT GOT A WIFE.

    THIRTY-ONE years ago, I was sitting by my fireside, footing up innumerable pages of my bachelor’s housekeeping books, taking exercise in arithmetic on ...

    Article : 1,702 words
  5. A HIGHLANDER’S WORD.

    IN the year 1795, a serious disturbance broke out in Glasgow among the Bredalbane Fencibles. Several men having been confined and threatened with corporal ...

    Article : 513 words
  6. CAUGHT BY THE MILL WHEEL.

    IT was on a Sunday morning, “ages long ago,” that the miller of this mill and his whole family went for[?]h to hear the holy mass at the church attached to ...

    Article : 1,403 words
  7. SLUMPSY JIM.

    SLUMPSY Jim was a professional man that is, he was professional in professing to follow a trade in public, which in private life he heartily detested. ...

    Article : 1,077 words
  8. A WOMAN’S WAY.

    IT was two bold knights-errant, they rode forth to take the air ; They were seeking for adventures, anywhere and everywhere ; ...

    Article : 376 words
  9. A WOMAN IN A MILLION.

    SHE got into the train at Victoria, having been shopping. She chatted with her friend gaily at first, when suddenly the lady sitting opposite ...

    Article : 454 words
  10. WHO ARE THE FUNNY MEN?

    THE answer might be that he is by no means the clever artist who signs his name to the drawing which appears in print. Who is he, then ? ...

    Article : 387 words
  11. AN EXCUSE THAT WAS NOT ACCEPTED.

    THE professor had sent for the young, man, and he eyed him pretty sharply over the top of his spectacles when he appeared.; “You’ve been absent from a number of ...

    Article : 346 words
  12. THE IRONY OF FATE,

    THE poet sat before the hearth, These verses he had penned : O, whirling flakes, O, snow-decked earth. Ye harbingers of wintry mirth, ...

    Article : 202 words
  13. COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS.

    A WOMAN in a ’bus had a baby about, a year old in her lap. On her right sat an oldish man, who was evidently fond of babies. The child looked at him, and he ...

    Article : 123 words
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