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  2. He Had Use for It.

    Here is a story about the Bishop of Chichester. Another prelate was explaining across a dinner table the remarkable results produced by one of his own sermons. At its ...

    Article : 83 words
  3. Flotsam and Jetsam.

    The boy stood on the back yard fence, Whence all but him had fled; The flames that lit his father's barn Shone Just above the shed. ...

    Article : 145 words
  4. Passed Easily.

    She had been studying medicine. Examining Medical Professor: " Now, Miss Jones, tell me how you treat a case of typhoid fever." ...

    Article : 59 words
  5. A Wrong Diagnosis.

    "We can let you have the bridal chamber," ventured the genial hotel clerk as he rubbed his hands and looked confidently across the register at the youngish couple. ...

    Article : 212 words
  6. Barrie's Fall from Grace.

    "Though the people of Kirriemuir, otherwise "Thrums," are proud of the stir which their fellow-townsman, Mr. J. M. Barrie, has made in the world (says the "Sun"), they are by no ...

    Article : 93 words
  7. A Tight Fit.

    In a certain town there is a man who has caused his friends a great deal of anxiety through his strange behaviour of late. Having lost sight of him for a short time a ...

    Article : 94 words
  8. Having Her Own Way.

    "Oh, dear," sobbed Mrs. Hunnimune, " I knew it would come to this, but I didn't expect it so soon." "Has your husband been ill-treating you?" ...

    Article : 87 words
  9. Sweet Sympathy.

    "Yes, friends," said the reformed gentleman at the mission temperance meeting, " I, too, have known what it is to be under the sway of the demon rum. I have known what ...

    Article : 80 words
  10. They All Do It.

    "Father," said the little son of a clergyman, "I think you told a lie in the pulpit this morning." "Why, what do you mean?" asked the ...

    Article : 81 words
  11. The Connubial Cigar.

    " Will you have a cigar?" asked the man of the house. " These are some my wife gave me for a Christmas present. Help yourself; let me give you a light." ...

    Article : 97 words
  12. Adam's Nurse.

    A Sunday school superintendent at the close of an address on the creation, which he was sure he had kept within the comprehension of the least intelligent of the scholars, smilingly ...

    Article : 102 words
  13. Facts and Fancies.

    A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men,—HUDIBARS. The essential oil of industry.—Elbow grease, Cows are now milked by machinery, Milk is ...

    Article : 782 words
  14. The Same Old Rubbish.

    A New York man bought his own despised horse back at an auction sale not many moons ago, and now a tale to match it comes from London. A man with a passion for good ...

    Article : 143 words
  15. The Doctor Got Even.

    "That horrid little Bimley boy!" exclaimed Dora, pouring tea; "he was just at insulting to Dr. Graver as he could be." "What did he do?" ...

    Article : 132 words
  16. The Disadvantage of Stoutness.

    A miner in the North, of England went to fish one day. He had no rod, so he let out his line and seated himself on the side of the dock. Now, he was very stout, and was afraid ...

    Article : 132 words
  17. Absent-minded.

    We remember the stories of the absentminded man who pat his umbrella to bed and stood behind the door all night, and of another man who couldn't find his pipe when he had ...

    Article : 156 words
  18. Discouraging.

    A lady owns a parrot A new pastor has been recently established over the lady's church, and a few days ago ha went to make his first pastoral visit. The front door was closed, and ...

    Article : 138 words
  19. The Hen as a Motor.

    "Yes," said the Inventive Man as he lay in the hammock under the trees at the summer boarding-house, " I have a great plan in mind. You folks have been girding at me for a week ...

    Article : 471 words
  20. The Cast of a Dye.

    An old bachelor who hangs around the hotels has sworn off using hair dyes. He courted a wealthy widow who objects to gray hair. To make himself agreeable he asked the ...

    Article : 154 words
  21. Useless Without the Directions.

    An Irishman observed some liver for sale. Not knowing what it was, he inquired of the butcher, and found that it was both good and cheap. He bought some, and, having done so, ...

    Article : 161 words
  22. Printers' Errors.

    Once upon a time the Foulis printing establishment at Glasgow determined to print a perfect Horace; accordingly the proof sheets were hang up at the gates of the university, ...

    Article : 233 words
  23. Plain Speaking.

    Everybody was wrong, it seems, in speaking of the seat of Lord Lonsdale, where the German Emperor was entertained last August, as Lowther Castle. It is Lowther simply. In ...

    Article : 222 words
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