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  2. WIT AND HUMOR.

    Mrs. Henpeck: I believe, John, that you are leading a double life the way you go on! Mr. H.: Quite right, my dear-- a happy life at the office, and a dog's life at home. ...

    Article : 1,820 words
  3. PERSONAL.

    Of inadvertent libels one of the most remarkable was Mr. Pinero's naming of his heroine "Mrs. Eddsmith." There was a Mrs. Eddsmith, though she was not in the ...

    Article : 1,187 words
  4. COUSINS.

    "Good-night, cousin Mark." "Good-night, cousin Phyl." A dark man looked down with a touch of amused curiosity at the little, almost ...

    Article : 4,052 words
  5. ON A FAMOUS LINKS.

    "At the famous St. Andrew's links," said Andrew Carnegie, "the Sabbath is respected. Indeed, all over Scotland, the Sabbath is respected in a remarkable way. ...

    Article : 129 words
  6. DRINKERS' LOGIC.

    Carnegie is very much opposed to drinking. He will often rail with homely and humorous wisdom against drink. "Men drink," ho said one day to a broker ...

    Article : 128 words
  7. SUPREMACY AT SEA

    Speaking on foreign affairs, Mr. Birrell said that the reason we so rejoiced that our foreign secretaries were men of gravity and stolidity of judgment, as so happily ...

    Article : 546 words
  8. WELL HELD.

    A lady, seated in a tramcar recently, noticed that the lace of her shoe had come undone. It was the work of a moment, but a very warm and trying moment, to stoop down and knot it ...

    Article : 187 words
  9. THE PROFESSOR'S LETTERS.

    They are telling a good story in Berlin about a certain eminent professor. In order to teach his pupils letter writing, the professor recently conceived the happy idea of having them ...

    Article : 168 words
  10. CARUSO'S VENTRILOQUIAL TRICK.

    Caruso is n great ventriloquist, and before he sailed for home ho told, at a little farewell dinner, a story of his ventriloquial skill. "I was one of a house party up the river" ...

    Article : 232 words
  11. A NECESSITY.

    "Humph! Him? He's run before fight me!" "I guess he'd have to." ...

    Article : 15 words
  12. NO CHOICE.

    Landlady: Will you take tea or coffee? Boarder: Whichever you call it. ...

    Article : 14 words
  13. AN EARLY WORM. TOO.

    "You'll wake up some day and find yourself famous "Well, I dunno. I've been going out early for the morning papers for a long time now." ...

    Article : 30 words
  14. TURNING THE TABLES.

    He was a terribly "short" man, but he knew a real live business woman when he saw her. She was applying for a situation as shor[?] writer and typist, and lie turned upon her a rapid fire of ...

    Article : 191 words
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    Advertising : 24 words
  16. SAWING WOOD.

    Bummer Guest: You call this a quiet place. Why I hear a saw mill close by. "No, sir, that is my husband taking a nap." ...

    Article : 27 words
  17. LESE MAJESTY.

    Alpine Hotel Manager (to the man who has the telescope for hire): The Kaiser is coming here to-morrow. Be careful to say nothing to him about the majesty of the mountains. ...

    Article : 33 words
  18. IMPOSSIBLE.

    Bronson: I understand that he painted -cob- webs on the ceiling so perfectly that the maid were herself out trying to sweep them down. Johnson: There may have been such an artist ...

    Article : 41 words
  19. HE HAS SYMPATHISERS.

    "There," exclaimed Major Shifty, pointing to a notice on an otherwise blank wall, "s a sen[?]men that I would like to See proclaimed in circus poster type over the doorway of every post ofllce ...

    Article : 65 words
  20. Advertising

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    Advertising : 62 words
  21. THE INFORMATION FIEND.

    A journalist friend was talking about the humorist, Jeanne K. Jerome. "I crossed the Atlantic with Mr. Jerome," he said, "the last time he visited America. There ...

    Article : 131 words
  22. THOUGHT HE MEANT HER.

    Here is a story by Jerome at a recent festive gathering:-- It was their honeymoon trip to London, and the first time that they had ever been out of ...

    Article : 122 words
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