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  2. Hlotsam and Jetsam

    This story is told of Lord Beaconsfield and the late Lord Rosslyn, who was as famous for the extreme freedom of his di[?]tion as for the sharm of his manner. When Beaconsfield ...

    Article : 84 words
  3. "CHEENGE ME ANITHER."

    A well-known conjurer one day visited a S[?]tch village. After performing many astonishing tricks he asked for a halfpenny, which a [?]iller lent him. The conjurer ...

    Article : 78 words
  4. NOT WORTH MUCH.

    Jack: "That's a fine dog you have, Jim. Do you want to sell him?" Jim: "You can have him for a couple of pounds." ...

    Article : 64 words
  5. NEEDED A BISHOP.

    A capital story is told of a Canon belonging to one of our Cathedrals. Thinking himself inaccurately described and unjustly dealt, with in a certain paper, the ...

    Article : 159 words
  6. THE REASON WHY.

    "Oh, sir," gasped a boy who ran up to a policeman in Whitechapel road, "there is an awful light going on round the corner." ...

    Article : 72 words
  7. WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK.

    A man left his umbrella in the stand in a hotel recently with a card bearing the following inscription attached to it:— "This umbrella belongs to a man who can ...

    Article : 85 words
  8. THE GREAT PAWNEE CHIEF.

    Mr. Chauncey Depew tells how, after the Pawnee Indians had exterminated the Crows, when he was a boy he journeyed from Peekskill to New York to see the mat Pawnee war ...

    Article : 96 words
  9. AN ACCOMMODATHNG HUSBAND.

    A curious little affair occurred lately in the offices of a well-known Birmingham solicitor. A woman appeared, and after relating her domestic woes asked the ...

    Article : 225 words
  10. A CENTIPEDE WANTED.

    Pat Healy (carving fowl at a wedding): "What will you have, Mrs. Dooley?" Mrs. Dooley: "oh, a leg will do me, Mr. Healy." ...

    Article : 75 words
  11. WHAT HIS FATHER WAS.

    An actor was witness in a case, and was being questioned by the opposing counsel in a way that was not particularly to his liking; but a climax was reached when ...

    Article : 92 words
  12. TURNED ON THE GAS.

    Mistress (to new housemaid fresh from the country): "Now, see, Mary, this is the way to light the gas. You turn this little tap, so, and then apply the match, so. You ...

    Article : 94 words
  13. SONG OF THE MICROBE.

    Said the merry Typhoid Microbe to the Bubonic Germ, "Oh, I like this mode the women folk have started: ...

    Article : 86 words
  14. PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY.

    A feud leader, who had about exterminated an opposing faction in the States, and had made a good fortune for a mountaineer while doing it, for the kept his men ...

    Article : 127 words
  15. A ROLAND FOR IN OLIVER.

    All amusing episode took place in one of the parish church[?] in Lanceshire some time ago. The minister was going through the service is church one Sunday afternoon when the ...

    Article : 121 words
  16. BUT FOR THE BOTTLE.

    Max O'Rell relates in "Harmsworth's Magazine" that a deputation of the W.C.T.U., with a journalist, waited upon him in America. He deplored the evils ...

    Article : 116 words
  17. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.—HUDIBARS. Jaggles: "So he married the widow? I thought he had his eye on the daughter." ...

    Article : 628 words
  18. NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT.

    During the Mi-Careme, M. WaldeckRousseau, the French Premier, was proceeding on foot to an appointment at the E[?]ysee, when he came across one of the ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. A SLIHGT MI MISUNDERSTANDING.

    The chance for an argument between the loquacious barber and a somewhat impecunious patron resulted from a very simple remark which the tonsorial artist intended to be funny. ...

    Article : 347 words
  20. EVOLUTION.

    "Vot's all dis I readts mit der newspaper apoudt dis efferlutin piziness? Vos you understand apoudt it, O'Rorke?" "Of unthershtand th' main point av ut, ...

    Article : 517 words
  21. A "BULLER" STROY.

    The following story, which comes from the Cape, illustrates alike the genial goodfellowship which characterises General Buller, and the belief of the colonials in ...

    Article : 166 words
  22. LOOKING AFTER HIS SOUL.

    The clerk in charge of a Yorkshire post office was annoyed by the conduct of a certain farm labourer, who, by buying stamps on the very edge of closing time, ...

    Article : 178 words
  23. THOSE WILY PUBLISHERS.

    "[?]uida" the lady novelist, is spending her declining years at her lovely home in Florence, surrounded by her pet dogs, a shert time ago she related the following ...

    Article : 171 words
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