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  2. WIT AND HUMOR.

    She: He talks like a book. He: Y-e-e-es--but you can't shut him up like a book. ...

    Article : 24 words
  3. PERSONAL.

    Lord Curzon's little girl was taken to the Delhi Durbar. She was asked by the Viceroy "how she liked it?" "Oh! papa," she replied, "it was wonderful, and how ...

    Article : 1,202 words
  4. IN A MEASURE.

    Willis: Was Jones an exhibitor at the horse show? Wallace: Yes, in a measure. He made an ass of himself. ...

    Article : 23 words
  5. TOO MUCH.

    "My daughter says you kissed her, sir, without notice." "Well, sir, did she want me to serve a subpoca on her ?" ...

    Article : 24 words
  6. A RARE DISTINCTION.

    Fatted Frederick: If ye was ter find a half a sovereign, what would ye do with it? Ragged Roland: Frame it. ...

    Article : 27 words
  7. A WISE WOMAN.

    Clara: I hear you won your breach of promise suit. Did you get the whole £5000? Violet: Every penny of it. I married my lawyer. ...

    Article : 28 words
  8. DISTANCE LENDS ENCHANTMENT.

    He: Could you learn to love me if I were a millionaire? She: I certainly would like you better were you well off--say a thousand miles or more. ...

    Article : 33 words
  9. WE'VE ALL DONE THE SAME.

    Mr. Pidgeon: After my luck at the races yesterday, I've determined to chuck betting. Mr. Barwon: Bet you five to one you don't. Mr. Pidgeon: Done with you, in quids. ...

    Article : 37 words
  10. HIS MISFORTUNE.

    Lady: It must be a dreadful misfortune to be blind. Beggar: It is mum. When I go home at night I can never tell from my wife's looks whether it is safe to growl about the supper or not. ...

    Article : 42 words
  11. BRUTE !

    "You used to call me an angel before we were married, but you never do now." "I've found out my mistake, dear. I thought you wouldn't want much to wear, but you do. ...

    Article : 35 words
  12. A LONG SHOT.

    Little Clarence (who reads and ponders): Papa, who was Pepys? Mr. Calipers: I don't know, my son--in fact, I do not know anybody who does know, but I fancy ...

    Article : 43 words
  13. FEBRUARY 14.

    Mistress: So you want me to read this love letter to you? Maid: If ye plaze, mam. And I've brought ye some cotton wool ye can stuff in yer cars while ye ...

    Article : 37 words
  14. A WHIST DRIVE.

    The excitement had just reached its height. The cards had been collected and numbers checked, and the prizes distributed. Silver backed hair brush for the first lady and a small picture for ...

    Article : 971 words
  15. THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE.

    "I am very sorry, Mr. Giles, to hear that the doctor gives no more favorable report of your wife's health. He says, now, that he rather fears lockjaw." ...

    Article : 49 words
  16. CAUSE.

    She can swing a six-pound dumbbell, She can fence and she can box, She can row upon the river, She can clamber over rocks; ...

    Article : 48 words
  17. THE END OF THE GREAT ELEPHANT.

    The elephant Jingo, purchased recently by Mr. Bostock from the Royal Zoological Society, died on board the Georgic on the 12th March. Jingo seemed to fret and pine away from the time the ...

    Article : 212 words
  18. A THINKING PARROT.

    M. Pierre Hachet Souplet, writing in "La Presse" on the intelligence of birds and animals, relates a remarkable accomplishment on the part of a parrot. He considers its achievement ...

    Article : 270 words
  19. THREE PREACHERS.

    There was once a clergyman, who was a famous preacher. So throve he on preaching that he was enabled to build, ad majorem gloriam Dei et sui, a new church, more beautiful and more commodious ...

    Article : 708 words
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    Advertising : 306 words
  21. Advertising

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    Advertising : 246 words
  22. MR. CHAMBERLAIN HOME AGAIN

    It was a grey, indefinite, opaque morning, with no horizon, but sea and sky mingling in haziness, the sun shrouded with smoky, unmoving clouds, the water heaving like the breast of a tired ...

    Article : 2,544 words
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