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  2. Flotsam and Jetsam.

    THE palatial steamer Albany was on her daily trip up the Hudson. A number of passengers had gathered around the open door of the engine room, looking with interest at the ...

    Article : 218 words
  3. An Artful Dodge.

    THREE or four commercial travellers were seated in a smoking-car amusing themselves as commercial travellers are wont to do (says the Chicago Herald). The conversation was not ...

    Article : 392 words
  4. Carrying Out His Orders.

    HUGH M'GUIRE, a son of the Emerald Isle, who had volunteered in the Tenth Mississippi Regiment of Infantry, stationed at Pensacola, Florida, in 1861, was placed upon picket one ...

    Article : 260 words
  5. Facts and Fancies.

    BARNUM has treated Jumbo just as he has the public—stuffed him. YOUNG LADY (very stout): "Ah me! it's the way of the world, Mr. Featherly. We are here ...

    Article : 1,000 words
  6. A Declaration of Independence.

    THERE is great excitement at White Plains and New Rochelle, just above New York. The merry maidens of that locality are driving their single blessedness for all it is worth, perhaps ...

    Article : 438 words
  7. A Kansas Tornado.

    "ONE July night," continued the tall man, "I had my wheat all stacked ready for thrashing, and went to bed feeling as rich as if I owned the whole country. About midnight, ...

    Article : 426 words
  8. A Father's Letter.

    MY DEAR SON,—I tried to write to you last week, but didn't get round to it, owing to circumstances. I went away for a little business tower for a few days on the cars, and then ...

    Article : 1,074 words
  9. The Trapper's Adventure.

    THEY were waiting for a train at a wayback station up in Humbolt County, and the conversation turned to spiritualism. A weather-beaten trapper, who had come in with a lot of ...

    Article : 459 words
  10. Ned Buntline as a Humorist.

    I'VE lent money to jolly Artemus Ward—I have steam boated with Mark Twain and worked in the same office with good old Josh Billings for years. And in my green old age ...

    Article : 581 words
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