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  2. THE YOUNG FOLKS.

    I have seen nearly every one of the gorillas on exhibition in the zoological gardens of the world, and in only one instance have I found an animal in any way up to the standard of ...

    Article : 2,356 words
  3. Scottish Anecdotes.

    Old Dr. Macfarlane was a botanist, and had a great knack in laying the white swellin' in the legs and arms of those afflicted wi' that disease. In the fell o' the year he dug up a ...

    Article : 1,531 words
  4. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    Her cheek turned rale. Of red bereft, It was indeed no jest; Her cheek turned pale ...

    Article : 30 words
  5. A Serious Game.

    Mr. Biznis: Whew! but I'm tired out! Mrs. Biznis: What's the matter ? Mr. Biznis: The second bookkeeper asked me for a half-day off to attend his aunt's ...

    Article : 81 words
  6. Took the Wind Out of Her Sails.

    "Mr. M'Clintock." she shouted, "I want you to take your feet off the parlour table." "Mrs, M'Clintock," he said, in a fixed, determined voice. "I allow only one person to ...

    Article : 64 words
  7. Ye College Graduate.

    He can trace the radios vector With a geometric sector. And can give the moon's diameter in feet. He can analyse the arum. ...

    Article : 41 words
  8. Too Long to Handle.

    A citizen of Chicago who rejoices in the name of Nelson A. Schimisichilewitz was drowned in a hole in the ice in the River Neva, in Russia, recently. Nelson should have taken ...

    Article : 60 words
  9. The Regular Dull Sickening Kind.

    Then be came with a whoop and a howl, To seek the editor's blood. A brawny printer caught him foul, And stabbed him through with the office towel ...

    Article : 41 words
  10. Typhoid in Verse.

    President Bayles, of the Health Board, drops into poetry. HIS OLD OAKEN BUCKET. Dr. Cyrus Edson, Chief of the Bureau of ...

    Article : 495 words
  11. Not the Right Rind.

    Fond Old Mother: It is so nice to know that John is doing well at last, and that he may make his fortune in sugar. Sympathising Caller: What is he doing ? ...

    Article : 56 words
  12. Rather Discouraging.

    Edward Bellamy, in Looking Backward, says that one hundred years hence the servant girl question will be solved, and housekeeping will be conducted without servants. This is ...

    Article : 41 words
  13. Starched Optimism.

    Soliloquised the collar As it stood up trim and neat: "I may not have a dollar, But my both ends meet." ...

    Article : 25 words
  14. His Ch[?]nce for Life.

    Sympathetic Citizen : Is he fatally wounded, do you think officer ? Policeman: Two av the wounds is fatal, sor, but the third is not, an' if we can leave him ...

    Article : 50 words
  15. On Windy Days.

    When charming faces Adorned with graces That glad the heart and entrance the eye By dust assailed are, ...

    Article : 32 words
  16. Radically Wrong.

    Painter--I assure you, my dear sir, the portrait of your wife will turn out a speaking likeness. Customer--Speaking! Can't that be altered? ...

    Article : 30 words
  17. Both at the Same Work.

    The funny man sat at his desk all day, And worked in a silent, industrious way; And out in the woods the squirrel light gathering chestnuts from morn till night. ...

    Article : 38 words
  18. Mothers-in-law.

    "Yes," said the young wife to a friend who was paying her a visit, "the men have always lots to say about their mothers-in-law, but you never hear the wives complaining about their ...

    Article : 104 words
  19. Help Yourself.

    Fight your own battles. Hoe your own row. Ask no favours of anyone, and you'll succeed a thousand times better than one who is always beseeching someone's influence and patronage. ...

    Article : 355 words
  20. Fragments.

    The young man who forged his way to the front is now in the "pen." All bright writers on morning newspapers are said to be very wicked; at least they ...

    Article : 327 words
  21. "Melbourne and Mars."

    This is the title of a weirdly interesting story just published by Mr. Joseph Eraser. Mr. Fraser imagines a man leading a dual life--in Melbourne and Mars--at times ...

    Article : 182 words
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