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  2. Flotsam and Jetsam

    Let's pretend that you and i Have no real cause to cry At the stones that bruise us so Iu the pathway we are ...

    Article : 145 words
  3. THE ATHLETE AND HIS FRIEND.

    One who had tried several times to jump across a stream, and had repeatedly fallen in, finally succeded, when he said to a friend: "How much better I am than you in having ...

    Article : 59 words
  4. IN HORSELESS TOWN.

    We sing the song of the horseless town And the streets so sweet and clean, With never a fleck one's clothing to speck, And no whiff of gasolene. ...

    Article : 121 words
  5. THE HORN OF PEACES.

    "You've heard about the horn of plenty, of course," said a young married man. "Now let me toll you about the horn of peace. Alice and I have our little differencs of opinion now ...

    Article : 365 words
  6. GOOD FOR DONKEYS.

    An old countryman, who was vainly endeavouring to drag an obstinate donkey by his halter through a country town, stopped at a chemist's and asked if he could put a little life ...

    Article : 136 words
  7. MISSED THE BRAINS.

    A good tale of the e[?]entricities of bullets in the late war is most succinetly told by James Milne in "The Epistles of Atkins,"though it is not precisely in acoordance with the story ...

    Article : 142 words
  8. HUBBY NEATLY TRAPPED.

    A provincial mayor in England tells a good story at his own expense. It seems that when in office he would sometimes return home late at night, after his wife had retired, and when ...

    Article : 125 words
  9. UNCLE REUBEN SAYS:

    When Uncle Rastus comes ober to my cabin an' I git him by de neck an' back him up agin de wall I kin make him admit dat de whale swallered Jonah, but de trouble am dat ...

    Article : 69 words
  10. FAST RAILROAD TALKERS.

    A group of railroad men in New Orleans were talking about the fastest ride they ever experienced (says the "Times-Democrat"). One man, in relating his experiences, said: ...

    Article : 210 words
  11. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    A litte nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.—HUDIBRAS. "That's another story," said the bricklayer as he finished his day's work. ...

    Article : 688 words
  12. WANTED TO INSURE AT NINETY-FOUR.

    A tough old fisherman of Grimsby presented himself at an insurance office the other day, and said he wanted to insure his life. He was asked his age, and he replied: "Ninety-four." ...

    Article : 93 words
  13. ELECTRIFIED MISTRESS.

    Paris papers relate a story of a very odd trick which has just been played by a servant on her mistress, who, dissatisfied with her conduct, had given her waring, adding that she did not ...

    Article : 209 words
  14. LOOKING TO HIS SAFETY.

    Two men went out the other day to kill a bull. To one had been allotted the task of standing to one side of the animal and holding him by the horns, while the other was to face ...

    Article : 126 words
  15. A LOGICAL LUNATIC.

    One day Southey, the poet, chanced to meet in St. James's Park a gentleman whom he had not seen since they were students together, more than forty years before. "And pray ...

    Article : 235 words
  16. A RUSSIAN FABLE.

    A pessant was driving some geese to town to sell them. He had a long stick and drove them pretty fast. But the geese did not like to be hurried, and, happening to meet a ...

    Article : 193 words
  17. ARRAH, GO ON.

    "Teddy," as the popular President Roosevelt is known throughout the States, is fond of a joke, but on one occasion his temper was sorely tried. It was during the great ...

    Article : 191 words
  18. A DOG OF CHARACTER.

    Much annulment was caused at a Southern police court recently by the evidence in a case in which a gentleman was summoned for not keeping an Irish terrier under control. ...

    Article : 320 words
  19. A PRACTICAL JOKE.

    The actor's powers of disguise and mimicry art admirably adapted to practical Jokes. A well-known comedian relates the story of how he threw his newly-engaged housemaid into a ...

    Article : 213 words
  20. LIKE A HORSE.

    He was a youngster possessed of spirit, and bad quits a bit of the quality known as humour. At fate would have it, he was obliged to leave school at a very tender age and go to work. ...

    Article : 242 words
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