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  2. Flotsam and Jetsam.

    A Brisbane Housewife, whose husband's income as well as her own store of forbearance has been sadly depleted by recent "rises" in price of the staple supplies of ...

    Article : 261 words
  3. FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

    A new reading has been given to the term "free wheel" in Japan. According to the "Kobe Chronicle," a young gentleman was brought up at the Ku Saibansho the other ...

    Article : 111 words
  4. HAT LIFTING.

    It is no secret (says the "Scotsman") that the daily publication in the "Times" of secrets of the great Berlin Conference, in the seventies were transferred to the ...

    Article : 165 words
  5. IF YOU DON'T KNOW, ASK.

    Mr. Sharp: "What an inquiring mind Miss Lightly has! We were at an Italian table d'hote the other evening, and she said with a very kittenish air: 'Oh! did you ...

    Article : 86 words
  6. DOOLEY'S DEFENCE.

    "Mr. Dooley" discourses in the "Century" for May on books and book-reading. "Hardly a day passes but some lady fr[?]ind iv mine stops me on me way to ...

    Article : 120 words
  7. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.—HUDIBRAS. Clara: "How long have you been en[?]mies with her?" Maud: "Ever since she ...

    Article : 928 words
  8. A STORY OF MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY

    Captain Wheeler told (says the "Daily Telegraph") an amusing story in the course of his lecture on "Military Photography," before the Camera Club. It had been ...

    Article : 180 words
  9. KEEPING THE SEXES APART.

    At one of the great London hospitals a cold-storage chamber was being constructed in connection with the post-mortem-room, and the secretary of the ...

    Article : 108 words
  10. SHE KNEW HIM.

    "You," sighed the rejected lover, "would find your name written in imperishable characters in my heart could you but look." "So?" murmured the fair young thing, who ...

    Article : 64 words
  11. HE WAS IN THE SAME.

    A gentleman walking down a street observed a little boy seated on a doorstep. Going up to him, he said, "Well, my little chap, how is it you are sitting ...

    Article : 127 words
  12. A DEAR CLOCK.

    A broker giving his experiences recently to the "Pall Mall Gazette" said:—"I remember an old gentleman dying down at Southcombe and leaving a wonderful ...

    Article : 194 words
  13. LACK OF TACT.

    Gladys: "I always like to play whist with Mr. Gossling." Myrtle: "Why?" Gladys: "When I scold him about the ...

    Article : 82 words
  14. A BAD JOB FOR BOTH.

    A vigorous-looking woman got into a 'bus, and slammed a small boy down on the seat with mach unnecessary emphasis. Then she picked him up and did it again. ...

    Article : 157 words
  15. PRAYING FOR HUSBANDS.

    The young women of Hoboken have fallen upon a novel but, we imagine, a natural way of stimulating the marriage market. During the past two years there has been a lack of ...

    Article : 112 words
  16. THE LETTER T.

    An old one is the letter T, for Time begins with it, you see; it is the starting point of Truth, the virtue which we teach our youth. It starts the ...

    Article : 153 words
  17. THE REPORTER'S REVENGE.

    "Do you see that man?" And I observed a rather lonesome person wandering aimlessly about Parliament House. Regret was stamped upon his face, and his ...

    Article : 164 words
  18. AND HE WAS.

    A man was dancing a quadrille when he heard his pants' seams ripping, at which he rushed into a dressing-room, where his wife, good soul, was soon busy with needle and ...

    Article : 122 words
  19. AN ELEPHANTINE TRANGE.

    "We had with us in our menagerie," said the old circus man, "one of the meanest elephants I ever knew. He wasn't vicious, but he was full of low-down tricks, ...

    Article : 349 words
  20. IT DIDN'T WORK.

    A minister in a recent sermon on the subject of "Lying" illustrated his text with numerous stories, and one of these showed how, even in church, a man's false pride sometimes leads him ...

    Article : 181 words
  21. A SOFT ANSWER.

    This tale was told by Judge Pennypacker in beginning, a response to a toast at a Pennsylvania. German banquet at Philadelphia. The story, he said, showed the readiness of the ...

    Article : 140 words
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