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  2. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

    Knicker : Time brings strange changes. Bocker : Yes ; the boy whose mother can't make him wash his neck ...

    Article : 38 words
  3. GOOD MANAGEMENT.

    Boss' Wife : So this is the new office boy ? I suppose you behave like a little gentleman, especially if there are ladies present ? ...

    Article : 62 words
  4. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    He : "May I kiss you just once ?" She : "No." He (unabashed) : "Then now many times ?" "'Doctor, how soon, do you think, ...

    Article : 649 words
  5. RASTUS' RHETORIC.

    Senator Taylor, of Tennessee, tells of an old negro whose worthless son was married secretly. The old man heard of it and asked the boy ...

    Article : 61 words
  6. HER DISCOVERY.

    Husband : Think of it ! Here is a hair-pin I have found in the soup ! Wife : Yes ? Now I know where our things have gone. A shoe-horn ...

    Article : 43 words
  7. A CRUEL BLOW.

    A well-known lawyer, told a good story the other day, apropos of a certain legal decision. "It was a cruel blow—as cruel as ...

    Article : 82 words
  8. ALL SAFE.

    Irving was playing "Macbeth, and he had reached the place where Macbeth orders Banquo's ghost to leave the banquet board. ...

    Article : 74 words
  9. A RARITY.

    Some would-be wag once sent Henry Ward Beecher a latter containing on a sheet of paper only the words "April Fool." Mr. Beecher ...

    Article : 73 words
  10. A VACANCY.

    A minister preached over an hour on the four greater prophets, and then, when his exhausted congregation thought he was through, ...

    Article : 99 words
  11. ROUGH ON THE RECTOR.

    A dignified country rector, interested himself in getting places in London for little workhouse girls of fourteen, belonging to his parish. ...

    Article : 110 words
  12. DOING BETTER WORK NOW.

    Six-year-old Oscar sat on his father's knee, holding a mirror. Suddenly he exclaimed : "Papa, did God make you ? ...

    Article : 63 words
  13. CASH TRANSACTION THIS TIME.

    A certain American Judge was likewise cashier of his home bank. A man presented a cheque one day for payment. He was a stranger. ...

    Article : 81 words
  14. NOT WELL PUT.

    Thomas Nelson Page, in the smoking-room of an hotel, criticised trenchantly the work of a popular novelist. ...

    Article : 106 words
  15. IF THE TAIL HOLDS.

    Two negroes, out hunting, found a cave which had many "bear signs about it, and after a short argument it was decided that Joe ...

    Article : 117 words
  16. A GOOD SUBSTITUTE.

    The little boy's teacher told him he must add without counting on his fingers. Then she gave him several mental sums. He solved ...

    Article : 89 words
  17. A CHILLING PASSAGE.

    One of the charms of music is that the musically uneducated person does not have to "understand ' it. With "imitative" music, however, the case ...

    Article : 116 words
  18. HE DID NOT PRAY.

    The mother of the twins found them fighting furiously. The larger twin was on top, and was beating Tommy about the face and head. ...

    Article : 118 words
  19. HE ALSO SMILED.

    A young couple entered a railway carriage and were immediately put down as a bridal pair. But they were remarkably self-possessed, and ...

    Article : 98 words
  20. "SUCH AN INFERNAL DINNER."

    A tiny girl of seven gave a dinner party, for which twelve covers were laid, and that number of small maidens sat down to dine. It was a ...

    Article : 144 words
  21. A FAIR EXCHANGE.

    We are all inclined to defend even a faith we do not believe in when we hear it attacked by some one who does not please us. and we ...

    Article : 132 words
  22. THE LESSER EVIL.

    On the first Sunday of their. visit to town the successful merchant escorted his parents to a fashionable church. Some of the hymns ...

    Article : 165 words
  23. TAKEN LITERALLY.

    Carelessness in the use of languages is quite as reprehensible as carelessness in cookery, and with a literal-minded servant in the case, ...

    Article : 121 words
  24. BREAKING THE NEWS GENTLY.

    Danny Wilmarth was a brakeman One day while his train was on a side-track at a town in Ohio, another train that was doing some switching ...

    Article : 222 words
  25. IN A KITCHEN GARDEN.

    'Pray tell me why,' the onion asked, In all this blazing sun, I should be wrapped in seven coats When I don't need but one ?' ...

    Article : 156 words
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