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  2. Alotsam and Jetsam

    [A French contributor to a pro-Boer fund sends 5d. to Assault Chamberlain, the British tyrant.] Courage ! Courage ! cher Monsieur Paul: You 'ave no cause to fear! ...

    Article : 130 words
  3. At The Gallery Door.

    Enthusiastic Playgoer: "Only fancy ! And you've never seen Charles Warner in "Drink." He was in "Drink" first the year I was born." Second Playgoer: "Nothing to my pater. ...

    Article : 53 words
  4. One Sister Got Away.

    "Have you any brothers or sisters?" said the teacher to the boy. "Yes, sir," was the reply. "Two brothers and a sister." ...

    Article : 50 words
  5. Her Teeth were Not Affected.

    Doctor: "Did you have a heavy chill?" Fair Patient: "It seemed so." Doctor: "Did your teeth chatter?" Fair Patient: "No; they were in my ...

    Article : 32 words
  6. A Golf story.

    Ed. Tufts, of Log Angeles, was playing golf with a friend recently. When he drove from the third teeing ground, he sliced the ball badly and sent it to one ride. It stopped in ...

    Article : 154 words
  7. Only an Ordinary Hoof.

    Sir Charles Russell (Lord Russell of Killowen), was examining a witness in an English court some time before he was raised to the peerage. The question was about the size of certain ...

    Article : 95 words
  8. They Were Tears of Sympathy.

    Mother: "Well, Tommy, what are you looking so sad about?" Tommy (who has partaken largely): " Nothing, mamma, dear: but I know now why you ...

    Article : 43 words
  9. Would Care For Mamma.

    A little boy was told by his father on the departure of the latter for a lengthened absence to take care of mamma. "I leave mamma," said the confiding parent, ...

    Article : 86 words
  10. Wanted an Honest Watchmaker.

    An old coloured man came to a watchmaker with the two hands of a clock. "I want yer to fix up dese hands. Dey ain't kept no correct time for mo' den six months." ...

    Article : 109 words
  11. Stolen Again.

    "The moonbeams were Stealing in the hen- house door," read the rustic child with the New'story-book. "What were they stealing?" teased the ...

    Article : 37 words
  12. Facts and Fancies.

    Why is there nothing like leather?—Because it is the sole support of man. Who shall decide when doctors disagree? —Alas! sometimes the undertaker. ...

    Article : 822 words
  13. The Frightened Minister.

    The skipper of a sailing vassal had as passenger an estimable but not very courageous minister and two careless young men given to mischief. ...

    Article : 92 words
  14. A Port Comparison.

    "Remember," said the young man's father, "that when I was. your age I earned my own living." "Of course."was the depressing answer; ...

    Article : 55 words
  15. On Outpost Duty.

    Apropos of the late General Symons, a good story is being told. While in India some years ago General Symons told one of his captains to put his company out on outpost duty. ...

    Article : 116 words
  16. A Belated Cyclist.

    In his recent volumes,"Devon" and "Corn- wall," the Rev. S. Baring-Gould tells an amusing story of a West countryman, an old farmer who was leaning on a gate. A ...

    Article : 82 words
  17. "Sitting On" Charles Dickens.

    When Charles Dickens was in Washington, he met one morning on the steps of the Capitol a young congressman from Tennessee, whom the great novelist had offended by his ...

    Article : 149 words
  18. Distinctions in Being Kicked.

    The Arabs, clever horsemen as they are, are quite as liable to accident as English grooms. But the Arab likes to be kicked by a thoroughbred horse, and cannot endure to be nut to any ...

    Article : 137 words
  19. Incredulous as to Its Origin.

    A party was being shown over the British Museum. In one of the rooms the keeper pointed out a collection of antique vases, which had been recently dug up at ...

    Article : 132 words
  20. Chesterfield's Wit.

    Lord Chesterfield was never at a loss for a polite retort. Once he proposed a person as proper to fill a place of great trust, pat which the king himself was determined should be ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. The Sailors' Stratagem.

    A man-of-war coming into harbour, the sailors were allowed to go on shore, but some of them roving too far, and carousing too freely, were permitted to go a second time only ...

    Article : 169 words
  22. The Curate's Joke.

    The following anecdote is told showing how the late Dean Stokes, when a curate in a northern town, scored off one of his superior officers. It was a ruridecanal meeting, and ...

    Article : 164 words
  23. The Jew Checkmated.

    Some little time ago a carrier in the neighbeohood of M- was engaged in removing the furniture of a certain well-known Jew of the district. As the latter was a notoriously ...

    Article : 294 words
  24. Doctor Thomas Alkins.

    A class of orderlies had been carefully instructed by a medical officer on the subject of enteric fever. The instruction was rather over their heads, and much time was wasted in ...

    Article : 267 words
  25. A Criminal Operation.

    "Some one," said Witherby, "gave you that counterfeit coin on purpose. You can't, of course, recollect where yon got it?" "I am afraid not," said Mrs. Witherby. ...

    Article : 231 words
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