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  2. WIT AND HUMOR.

    "Vell. Isaacs vos not so good a golf player as be vos a peezness man." "I should say not! He don't foozle much in his peezness!" Johnny: "I met Dicky Wilkins this morning, ...

    Article : 176 words
  3. LITERATURE

    "Eleanor," the latest story from the pen of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, included in Macmillan's Colonial Library, is one which will not diminish her deservedly high ...

    Article : 2,055 words
  4. JUDGE MADE JOKES.

    Jokes are still made in county courts and police courts, and at coroners' inquests the fun waxes fast and furious. But jesting, so far as the superior tribunals of the land are concerned, is a thing of ...

    Article : 325 words
  5. NO MONOPOLY.

    Chorus: "Hil Plumber!" Plumber: "Geel They act as if they had the only busted pipes in the neighborhood!" ...

    Article : 21 words
  6. ENCOURAGING.

    Thee Husband: "You are too set in your own opinions to be a good reasoner." The Wife: "I don't see how you can say that. I hold myself open to conviction even when I ...

    Article : 40 words
  7. AN UNFORTUNATE REMARK.

    He: "I never approved of dressing gowns, my dear. Can't you come down to breakfast in something else?" She: "Certainly, during! It will cost about twenty pounds." ...

    Article : 31 words
  8. LIVING HIGH.

    Aunt Outland (at Italian restaurant, awed): "Ain't this grand, Joseph?" Outland (impressively): "Yes. Just think of bein' a millionaire, an' havin' a half-crown dinner with wine like ...

    Article : 33 words
  9. A FAIR OFFER.

    Old Gentleman: "Do you think, sir, that you are able to give my daughter all the luxuries to which she has been accustomed?" Suitor (a practical man): "Well, you have been ...

    Article : 75 words
  10. A WOMAN OF CLASS.

    Mr. Plowden, the magistrate at Murylebone, and arbiter elegantiarum of that locality, was called on by a lady to decide a rather delicate domestic difference--a question of caste, in fact, which ...

    Article : 352 words
  11. NATURALLY UPSET.

    Si Scranton: "Yaas, Lem, I admit my wife's death did awfully upset me. I'd jest lost my best dawg the week afore, ye know." Lem Lehigh: "Uv course. Si; an' when yer ole ...

    Article : 55 words
  12. SHE BROUGHT THE PROOFS.

    A good many of the Reservists' wives were at first too proud to apply for relief from the local funds, and some have not even yet put in a claim. One poor woman, who had postponed the evil ...

    Article : 150 words
  13. HIS LINGUAL ABILITY.

    Count de Fraug: "Pardong zee libairtee, mamzelle, bote I vish to interrogate viz you zee trifle." Miss Beautigirl: "Certainly, count. What is it about which you wish to speak?" ...

    Article : 139 words
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  15. A FEW PUZZLING FEATURES IN CONNECTION WITH STAGE PLAYS

    Why does an actor, when leaving the stage, always stop at the wings and repeat something that has just been said? Suppose George says, "Where and when shall we meet?" James may reply, "Let ...

    Article : 633 words
  16. THE WRONG SMELL.

    At a recent missionary meeting a young minister named Smith was called upon to give an address. Mr. Smith's style is remarkably flowery, but those "purple patches" with which he frequently adorns ...

    Article : 150 words
  17. WHY HE DIDN'T.

    The counsel for the plaintiff in a breach of promise case was rather taken back the other day. The defendant had entered the witness box. ...

    Article : 246 words
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  20. THE ANCIENT MARINER.

    'Twos when I wan in the West Indy trade, somethin' like twenty or thirty or forty years ago," said the ancient sea dog. "My bouses hung out in Portland, an' they owned sev'ral schooners an' a ...

    Article : 1,942 words
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