The inhabitants of a certain Florida town are mostly engaged in wrecking, and manage to support themselves very comfortably from the proceeds. Sunday services at the church are ...
Article : 110 wordsAuthors have been known to say that it is easier to write a book than to find a name. So it seems to have been in the following case:— A gentleman living near Plymouth had a ...
Article : 134 wordsA man whose cognomen was Mr. O'Neal had a blondined young Sr., Who was courted one night By young Billy Bright, ...
Article : 99 wordsA late Archbishop of Dublin, noted for his originality and love of a joke, was one day walking along a road, when he came across three tramps lying on a bank by the roadside. ...
Article : 139 wordsThe following story is told by the Boston Budget:— The platform of the electric car was pretty well taken up by the driver, a man of the "bruiser" ...
Article : 214 words"'Scuse me," he said to the other passenger on the rear platform of a Woolloongabba car, "but do you use tobacco?" "Yes, sir," was the prompt reply of the man ...
Article : 77 words"Did you deliver that telegram ?" a clerk asked his messenger boy. "Oh, yes," was the reply, "only the man does not live in Abingdon-square, but in ...
Article : 81 wordsA little nonsense now and then If relished by the wisest men.— HUODIBRAS. If you would have a house when you are old lay a brick every day. ...
Article : 853 wordsPassing down one of the side streets towards the main thoroughfare she thought she saw her husband, in all the glory of his new spring suit, standing on the corner. The clothes had come ...
Article : 120 wordsA young lawyer who so far in his practice hasn't made enough to buy himself a brass plate was one of a party the other evening discussing the law and lawyers. ...
Article : 92 wordsHere followeth, dropped into rhyme, a woman's advice to women. And it was written only a hundred years ago! That a short century should effect so great a revolution! I ...
Article : 386 wordsAn officer in attendance at a shooting competition noticed two men firing with anything but William Tell-like accuracy. Approaching them, he exclaimed angrily: "You fellows ...
Article : 151 wordsThe funniest street sign that ever hung over a Now York door is that of a barber on Hudson-street, near where the city's thoroughfares get tangled up in such confusion at ...
Article : 165 wordsA certain man who goes fishing two or three times a year and brings home more stories than fish was talking to a friend not long after his last trip. ...
Article : 152 wordsA party of ladies were talking about how their husbands had proposed, when one whose present husband was her third laughed. "I think," she said, "that Henry's proposal ...
Article : 193 words"I had a large cork and bung factory in Grand-avenue, and I needed power to run my machinery," writes a Milwaukeean in Harper's Weekly. "Yon know, of course, that there is ...
Article : 576 words"Let me see your best brooms," said a little woman excitedly as she plunged into a grocery store. "Green or dried?" asked the grocer, putting ...
Article : 250 words"What a lovely boy !" she exclaimed, bending an enraptured gaze upon a pretty five-year-old playing on the green turf of the Botanic Gardens. ...
Article : 207 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), Sat 16 Sep 1893, Page 558
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: