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  2. THE STORY OF A JOKE.

    Like a flash of heaven-born inspiration that joke came into my mind, I am not a punster I am not given to making jokes; still less am I given to repeating other ...

    Article : 1,490 words
  3. THE DATCHET DIAMONDS.

    "Don't you trouble yourself about that Mr. Franklyn. People who bring monstrous charges will have to bear the brunt of them. But I'll tell you what ...

    Article : 3,788 words
  4. AMATEUR DETECTIVE.

    Mrs. Brown has all the troubles that usually fall to the lot of a doctor's wife. She catches glimpses of her husband at irregular hours, she eats many of her ...

    Article : 922 words
  5. DR. WYNNE'S STRANGE PATIENT.

    Dr. Wynne, the celebrated " mad" specialist, was seated comfortably by life library fire. It was the half-hour after dinner, a lazy time, and he felt be might ...

    Article : 1,417 words
  6. KING EDWARD VII.

    Since his memorable illness, when he was still Prince of Wales, His Majesty has always been popular. The earliest public utterances and actions of the King ...

    Article : 774 words
  7. WHY DO MEN SWEAR.

    Professor G. T. W. Patrick, of the University of Iowa, recently lead a paper on "Profanity" before a scientific society in Lincoln, Neb. A good deal of it was ...

    Article : 760 words
  8. MR. CHARLES WYNDHAM ON ACTING.

    The June number of the "Pall Mali Magazine " contains an illustrated symposium, to which the principal actor managers contribute, on the work of the ...

    Article : 321 words
  9. THREE SIMPLE QUESTIONS.

    Librarians on this side have sometimes a good deal to put up with, but beyond the Atlantic they have more. One day, we read in a United States contemporary, two well ...

    Article : 414 words
  10. AN INFATUATED LOVER.

    Mr. George Griffith tells the story of a French soldier now undergoing a sentence of penal servitude for betraying Government secrets. In 1888 he chanced to be a ...

    Article : 362 words
  11. A LONG BILL

    "Don't you think it's a duck of a bonnet ?" said Mrs. Taddells to her husband, whom she had dragged into a milliner's shop. ...

    Article : 71 words
  12. OUTSPOKEN

    He: I always say what I think. She: I notice you are extremely reticent. ...

    Article : 16 words
  13. THOUGHTFUL

    Musician (ironically) : I am afraid my music is disturbing the people who are talking over there. Hostess : Dear me, I never thought of ...

    Article : 37 words
  14. WELCOME HOME.

    Hungry Higgins: De last time I visited me old home dey gimme a public reception. Weary Watkins; Speeches ? ...

    Article : 35 words
  15. MR. D--. AND MR G--.

    Mr. D -- is a very dark mail, and Mr. G. -- often chaffs him. One day Mr. G-- said to Mr. D--: "I want you to lend me your face." ...

    Article : 57 words
  16. MAN AND THE BABY.

    He was a large and portly, not to say ponderous, man, and he sat in the waitingroom of the railway station by the side of a quite little woman with a baby on her lap. ...

    Article : 280 words
  17. THOSE TWO WORDS.

    Tees: Yes, he's broken oft the engagement and she's broken-hearted. Jess: Why she doesn't appear to be She told me she didn't care. ...

    Article : 40 words
  18. BOTH ALARMED.

    A fire brigade officer tells the following as the most thrilling of his experiences. I was stationed in charge of a fire escape at a hospital (he says), and a comrade had his escape ...

    Article : 245 words
  19. OVERDID IT.

    "What brought you here, my poor man ?" inquired the prison visitor of a convicted bigamist. "Well lady," replied the prisoner. "I think my trouble ...

    Article : 65 words
  20. NO USE.

    " Are you guilty or not guilty ?" asked the magistrate of a man accused of theft. " What's the use O' me saying" Not ...

    Article : 40 words
  21. HE HAD TRIED IT

    " So you've been around the world ?' said the admiring friend. " I have." replied the traveller: " And you've seen all the sights and ...

    Article : 53 words
  22. EASY.

    " Jinks has no faculty for keeping money." " Lets it go to whoever asks for it, I believe!" ...

    Article : 39 words
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