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  2. Alotsam and Jetsam

    'Elsie.: "Mamma, there's a funny old man in this Pickwick book that's always telling his son to beware of the widows. Why is that ?" ...

    Article : 64 words
  3. BEATEN ALL ROUND.

    "By the living man !" said the exdetective, " if I had come across that fellow within a month 'after It happened, I'd a shot him and reported that I did it ...

    Article : 373 words
  4. FAITH HEALING.

    " I see Jot dey vos arrested dot man's Dowie mit America vot starts dis new relishun, undt dot fait heallns, vos you readt dot, O'Rorke," remarked Swatze. ...

    Article : 517 words
  5. SAVING A TRAIN.

    " I saved a train once," said an ex-confeder ate officer, " at least I have always thought I did, but I lost a girl and she lost a five hundred dollar saddle mare. I was a pretty good ...

    Article : 543 words
  6. PHILANTHROPY.

    " How you must enjoy being a philanthropist !" said the sprightly young woman. " I don't quite understand you," replied the man of earnest manners. ...

    Article : 71 words
  7. A WOMAN'S TELEGRAM.

    A gentleman, whose wife was going to America, asked her to telegraph him a word or two, letting him know of her cafe arrival in Liverpool. In a few-hours he received ...

    Article : 205 words
  8. THE DOCTOR AND HIS TWO PATIENTS.

    An actress of some celebrity was getting very thin "indeed, almost scraggy. She went to a doctor who had the reputation of having discovered a mineral water which ...

    Article : 321 words
  9. THE FIGURES ON YOUR WATCH.

    I will wager," said a watchmaker to a customer, " that you cannot correctly put down the numerals on the dial plate of your watch." ...

    Article : 272 words
  10. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.— HUDIBRAS. Ada: "Jack says he wouldn't marry the nicest girl living." Dolly : " Pshaw ! As ...

    Article : 611 words
  11. A GAMBLER WHOM EVERYBODY TRUSTS.

    Pat Sheedy, the man who is mixed up in some mysterious way with the recovery of the lost Gainsborough picture of the Duchess of Devonshire, seems to be a very ...

    Article : 599 words
  12. FOXY.

    This is but a brief tale of two widows. It goes for the saying that they were pretty, Vivacious, and smart, and looked less than 40, though it is a suggestive fact ...

    Article : 363 words
  13. SOUR GRAPES.

    This is the way in which a free-gaited gossip talked about one of the most charming girls in the city when her engagement was announced : ...

    Article : 311 words
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