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  2. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

    A millionaire lay dying. He had lived a life of which, as he now looked back on it, he felt none too proud. To the minister at his bedside he murmured weakly: ...

    Article : 71 words
  3. CHARGED FOR HIS "CHEEK."

    Once in Canada Mr. Rudyard Kipling had a little disagreement with the landlord of the hotel at which he was staying. Just before leaving, the famous author ...

    Article : 88 words
  4. SHE TALKED TOO WELL.

    Sometimes there is a drop of regret in the cup of joy served by fate to the husband of a brilliant talker. "I should think it would be a privilege to sit at the ...

    Article : 123 words
  5. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    Myer: "I'm going over to the barber[?] to get a hair cut." Gyer: "Why don't you get them all cut when you are at it?[?] Considerate Motorist: "I'm awfully ...

    Article : 890 words
  6. WRONGLY PUT.

    There was a hopeful gleam in the eyes of the young man with a slightly retreating chin as he approached the father of his lady-love. ...

    Article : 114 words
  7. THEY GOT AWAY.

    In Kansas the police arrest musicians Who give concerts on Sundays. "But," says the marshal to the grand jury, "several persons who participated ...

    Article : 64 words
  8. A HOPELESS WISH.

    One day some poor children were permitted to go over a fine stock farm, near a city, conducted as a hobby by a wealthy professional man, and when their ...

    Article : 95 words
  9. TRYING HIS PATIENCE.

    When Grover Cleveland was practising law in Buffalo, one of his friends was a lazy young lawyer, who was forever pestering him about legal points that he ...

    Article : 112 words
  10. THE SERVANT PROBLEMS.

    From "Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy," by Hashimura Togo, in "Collier's Weekly." San Francisco, May 1,1908. To Editor "Collier Weekly" which make ...

    Article : 767 words
  11. ADVERTISING A BARGAIN.

    An American country paper contains this advertisement of a cow for sale:— "Some months ago I purchased from [?]y friend, the Hon. J.W. Irons, a ...

    Article : 138 words
  12. A NEGRO PREACHER'S PARABLE.

    An old darky, anxious to be a minister, went to be ordained. He was questioned thus:— "Can yon write?" ...

    Article : 207 words
  13. A TELL TALE.

    The American tourist is generally such a "rusher" that he returns home with the most extraordinary jumble of "information" concerning the places ho visits. ...

    Article : 128 words
  14. DISILLUSIONED!

    A medical student came face to face in a hotel with a kind, fatherly-looking old gentleman with white hair and most respectable appearance. They stood looking ...

    Article : 117 words
  15. OUT OF MIS ELEMENT.

    a party of tourists, including a famous Presbyterian divine, was travelling in a very thinly-populated district of Northern Canada. ...

    Article : 122 words
  16. HIT THE MARK.

    A bachelor divine was alone in his study when his housekeeper brought him the card of one of his parishioners, a spinster of means and charm. ...

    Article : 124 words
  17. THE REASON WHY.

    An American comedian crossed over to England and secured a corner-man from a certain celebrated minstrel troupe, who was expected to "knock them" sky high. ...

    Article : 297 words
  18. NONE TOO FLATTERING.

    The solemn-faced man who drove the country omnibus never lost an opportunity to display his knowledge to a new passenger, nor had he ever been known ...

    Article : 219 words
  19. A QUESTION OF PRIORITY.

    The victim of the following story, told in Mrs. Henry W. Cole's "A Lady's Tour Around Monte Rosa," was possessed of a keen sense of humour. Otherwise his ...

    Article : 148 words
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