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  2. PERSONAL.

    Another injustice to Ireland. It is the practice of the police in Dublin to visit the bouses of respectable vintners and call up on customers at the bar to stand up to see ...

    Article : 1,241 words
  3. WIT AND HUMOR.

    Soulless:--Edith: "What a soulless creature she is!" Ethel: "Yes! To say she had seen Mark Hambourg, and rather liked him!" A Vacuum.--Willie: "I can't got it through my ...

    Article : 219 words
  4. IMPROVED ITS LOOKS.

    A young civil engineer was recently initiated into a Masonic lodge, and of course received the necessary lambskin apron. This he carefully folded in a bundle, which he took to his home, where there ...

    Article : 335 words
  5. HE HAD THE CASH.

    He lacked refinement, culture, grace; He had no charm of form or face. To see him read would pain your sight-- Twas misery for him to write. ...

    Article : 109 words
  6. AN UNFORTUNATE PROFESSOR.

    A study in discord and harmony came before Mr. Plowden at the Marylebone police court recently. The complainant was a professor of music, who kept an academy which consisted of six ...

    Article : 284 words
  7. ON TRAMPS.

    This may not be considered a very interest subject, by a good many of your readers. [?] is all the same. Tramps, or swagmen, which you like to call them, are a class of peple ...

    Article : 994 words
  8. HIS CHOICE.

    "Singing is recommended as a cure for disease," remarked the tenor. "I prefer the disease," added the philistine. ...

    Article : 22 words
  9. THEIR QUARREL.

    "After all," he said to himself, as he walked along the avenue, "I may as well give in. It's a small matter, anyway, and not worth coming between us, even for an hour." ...

    Article : 536 words
  10. SHE LOVED THAT.

    She: "Was It a love match?" He: "Yes; in regard to money." ...

    Article : 17 words
  11. PROOF.

    Madge: "But don't you really believe that Ida is engaged?" May: "No; I'm sure she isn't. I asked her if there was any truth in the report, and she ...

    Article : 36 words
  12. HOPING FOR THE BEST.

    Benham: "Everybody says that baby looks like me." Mrs. Benham: "But he may outgrow it, dear." ...

    Article : 20 words
  13. HIS NAME.

    "Does he bear a good name?" "Well--er--er--it is Smith. What do you think about it yourself?" ...

    Article : 22 words
  14. TOO MUCH.

    "The fact is," said Witherby, "I am not only tired of living so far away from town, but the everlasting torments I have been subjected to since I bought my house in the country are more ...

    Article : 402 words
  15. A FOREIGN TONGUE.

    "As I understand it," said the talkative one," the Afrikanders trekked from the voorlooper to the kopje, and dorped it from the spruit to the disselbeom. It stands to reason, too, for--" ...

    Article : 48 words
  16. DISCLOSING HIS IDENTITY.

    Judge: "What do you do during the week?" Witness: "Nothing." Judge: "And on Sunday?" Witness: "I take a day off." ...

    Article : 32 words
  17. FOR THE VARIED STAGE

    "I've a song here that I think will do." "Is there any sense in it ?" "Not a particle." "Is there any tune in it?" ...

    Article : 43 words
  18. WHEN EXTREMES MEET.

    Editor in Chief: "I understand young Bluegore, the millionaire's son, has gone in for journalism." City Editor: "Yes; he's on my staff." Editor in Chief: "And what do you think of ...

    Article : 66 words
  19. MILITARY TERMS.

    "You see," said the man who was supposed to be well informed, "I have made a study of military terms, and I think my definitions are correct. When an officer goes forward, and finds that he ...

    Article : 105 words
  20. THE DOCTOR'S VISIT.

    The way women will jump at conclusions and state supposition as fact is enough to drive a man crazy. The other night, when Mr. Brown went home to dinner, his wife said: ...

    Article : 324 words
  21. PARLIAMENTARY WIT.

    Among the certain events of a budget night in the House of Commons now is a little duel-- friendly, though severe--between Sir William Harcourt and Mr. Gibson Bowles in reference to the ...

    Article : 358 words
  22. THE DUKE AND THE QUEEN.

    The Duke of Cambridge has for years attended divine worship at Christ Church, Mayfair, on Sunday mornings. Once upon a time the verger, having heard that the Duke had gone out of town. ...

    Article : 148 words
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  25. A QUESTION OF PRONUNCIATION.

    There have always been controversies as to the correct method of pronouncing the historic Huguenot name borne by the new Common Sergeant. At a bar dinner on one occasion a slip was passed ...

    Article : 114 words
  26. OLD SAYINGS.

    As poor as a church mouse As thin as a rail, As fat as a porpoise, As rough as a gale, ...

    Article : 195 words
  27. HIS SARCASM.

    "Brudden and sistabs," sternly said good old Parson Woolimon, after the collection had been taken up upon a recent Sabbath morning, "before de hat was done parsed I expounded the request ...

    Article : 190 words
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