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  2. Flotsam and Jetsam.

    No doubt in its time Brisbane has had many visitors distinguished and otherwise, and queer things have happened during its short but eventful history, still I think the unaccountable ...

    Article : 858 words
  3. His Natural Character.

    A celebrated actor who had been driven to his theatre in a hansom paid only the legal fare. Cabby, looking gloomily at the money, said: ...

    Article : 67 words
  4. A Scotch Divine on the Fall of Man.

    My brethren, if a' the axes were made into one axe, wad it no be a big axe? And if a' the trees that ever grow were made into one tree, wad it no be a big tree? And if a' the ...

    Article : 92 words
  5. Facts and Fancies.

    A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.— HUDIBRAS. Magistrate: "Who was present when you struck the defendant?" Sam Johnson!: "I was." ...

    Article : 1,010 words
  6. A Case of Trespass.

    Mr. Buggins's compliments to Mr. Tomkins, and begs that he will be neighbourly enough to keep his piggs enclosed, as they trespass on Mr. Tomkins's garden. ...

    Article : 96 words
  7. A Good Fight.

    When a farmer found out that his son John had been courting a certain farmer's daughter for a year or more without settling the question he called him out behind the and said ...

    Article : 282 words
  8. An Extraordinary Document.

    One of the most remarkable legal papers on file in the archives of the world is now in the National Museum of Paris, labelled: "Sentence on a hog, executed by justice, in the copyhold ...

    Article : 173 words
  9. Cyclones is Funny Things.

    "Cyclones is funny things," said the man with the ginger beard. "Yes," assented the grocer as he lifted the cat out of the dried apple barrel, "I guess you ...

    Article : 239 words
  10. The Successful Texas Orator.

    "I heard a political speech down in Texas last fall," said A.R. Gaines, of Gainesville, in that State, to a reporter of the Washington Post, "that would have impressed our Eastern ...

    Article : 318 words
  11. Unexampled Generosity.

    It is so seldom that people get the credit of better motives than they possess that the following incident, sent by a Harper's Bazar reader, seems worthy of notice:— ...

    Article : 415 words
  12. Veragua's Revenge.

    A dark, handsome gentleman, with sidewhiskers and a foreign air, stepped into the telegraph office on the World's Fair grounds and asked courteously: ...

    Article : 311 words
  13. He Fed an Elephant.

    "No, I wasn't born this way," replied the man as he backed up to a chair, got his crutches from under his arms, and fell into a seat. "This come on to me very suddenly one day ...

    Article : 427 words
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