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  2. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

    A small boy entered a butcher's shop in Durham recently, and asked the shopman for a pound of tough steak for his father. "Tough steak?" queried the shopman : ...

    Article : 65 words
  3. A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.

    "Father, who owns these parks ?" asked a boy while out for a walk. "We do, my son," replied the boy's parent ; "we, the people. As a part of ...

    Article : 148 words
  4. A TERRIBLE CALAMITY.

    An Englishman, who was touring the Highlands recently, lost his way. Coming to a small house, he knocked at the door, and said to the old woman who opened it ...

    Article : 71 words
  5. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    Wisdom is nothing but crystalized experience." A maxim for the barber—Think twice and then shave the man before speaking ...

    Article : 920 words
  6. CAUGHT BY GUILE.

    A young man, in order to gain the consent of his prospective father-in-law, told the latter that he was earning £4 per week. "That's all right, lad." said the ...

    Article : 87 words
  7. A RUN ADHESIVE.

    Little Johnny Smith suddenly asked, in a startled voice, "Mamma, is that bay rum in the bottle on your table?" "Mercy, no, dear!" she replied. "That ...

    Article : 54 words
  8. A HARD JOB.

    An old coloured man stole a pig, and after getting home with the animal, knelt to pray before retiring. His wife heard him praying to the Lord to forgive him ...

    Article : 108 words
  9. NOT A FINISHED JOB.

    A man who had committed suicide by hanging himself in a village barn was found by a yokel on his return from a day's work. An inquest was hold upon ...

    Article : 112 words
  10. A KIDS COMPOSITIONS-MOTHERS.

    A fellers mother is the best of everybody in the wirld every time, fathers is prety good and sisters you can get along with if they aint two bossy and tattles ...

    Article : 974 words
  11. A JUDGE'S CONCERN.

    A good story is told of a well-known Judge concerning a recent case in which he decided for the plaintiff, but was overruled by the House of Lords, who gave ...

    Article : 111 words
  12. FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT.

    Seen : Court-house in country town ; two Bailies on tho bench—Sandy, a new. and Tammas, an old hand ; a poaching case had been tried, and Sandy stands ...

    Article : 119 words
  13. THE LADY COW.

    Marjorie was on a visit to her grandparents on the farm, and her enjoyment of country life was somewhat marred by the apprehension of being horned by the ...

    Article : 117 words
  14. A VICARIOUS SACRIFICE.

    One day a village clergyman was summoned in haste by Mrs. Johnson, who had been taken suddenly ill. He went in some wonder because she was not of his ...

    Article : 120 words
  15. SHE TOOK NO CHANCES.

    An anxious, nervous-looking woman, followed by a be-whiskered farmer, stepped up to the stationmaster at a little wayside station, and asked :— ...

    Article : 105 words
  16. A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

    On one of the railways in a remote district there is a station-building that is commonly known by travellers as the smallest station in existence. ...

    Article : 128 words
  17. THE HELMET IN USE.

    Flanagan had finished his term of service in the volunteers, and he felt that the time had come when his country must dispense with him altogether. When he ...

    Article : 121 words
  18. A BIG BET.

    Mr. Fry. the great bookmaker, used to tell how on one occasion he lost £10.000 to a stranger whom he had never seen before, and whom he has never seen ...

    Article : 200 words
  19. A GOOD BIBLICAL NAME.

    "What name do you give this child ?" asked the clergyman. 'John Ananias Jones, replied the proud father of the kicking infant, who ...

    Article : 186 words
  20. THE ONLY WAY OUT.

    "There is such a thing as somnambulism, of course?" queried the anxious looking man, as he appeared at the lawyer's office. ...

    Article : 104 words
  21. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.

    The story of a suit for damages recently decided in a German village reads like a revised version of "The House That Jack Built." In this case a cat was ...

    Article : 216 words
  22. A SMART-SETTER'S DIARY.

    A page from the diary of a typical woman of the smart set. The lady is young, beautiful, talented : 9 a.m.: Awakened by maid—very tired— ...

    Article : 161 words
  23. THE WRONG SELECTION.

    As Nicholas Douty, the song composer, was sitting in his studio the other day, the telephone bell rang, and a man whom he did not know asked : ...

    Article : 199 words
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