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  2. Alotsam and Jetsam

    Blushing Bride: "I want to get a present for my husband, but I hardly know what to buy." Shopman: "Why not get one of these nice ...

    Article : 65 words
  3. COULDN'T CONTRADICT.

    Mother: "Elsie, your sister tells me you took a second helping of pudding at Mrs. Brown's to-day." Little Elsie: "So I did, mamma." ...

    Article : 68 words
  4. BEECHER'S REPARTEE.

    Here is a story about Henry Ward Beecher which has never before got into print. A young newspaper man who was the Albany correspondent of a metropolitan daily, entered ...

    Article : 163 words
  5. VIEWED IT DIFFERENTLY.

    It was at an exciting football match in the North of England the other day, and the home team, after being penned in for some time by their opponents, broke away ...

    Article : 106 words
  6. A TIP FROM ROCKEFELLER.

    John D. Rockefeller, it is said, was greatly annoyed by a presuming acquaintance. This acquaintance persisted in wanting to know when to buy Standard Oil. ...

    Article : 104 words
  7. SHE WANTED TO KNOW.

    Philosophy may not be a feminine gift, but there is one tiny maiden who is never content unless she knows the "cause why" of things. She endeavours as a rule to ...

    Article : 169 words
  8. AFRICAN AUTHORS.

    Being a writer of no mean ability himself, the Prince of Siam for the time posed as an expert critic, and terminated an interview with the following estimate of some unnamed ...

    Article : 74 words
  9. PAID FOR IT.

    A kind-hearted Washington woman paid a visit to New Orleans while the shipping season on the river was at its height, and as the loading or unloading of a big river boat is one of ...

    Article : 207 words
  10. A TAILOR'S DODGE.

    "You've made a mistake in my bill," said a young man, excitedly, to his tailor. "Impossible!" asserted Mr. Shears mildly. "Oh, but it's so!" exclaimed the youth in ...

    Article : 150 words
  11. DIAMOND DUST.

    Lots of girls give themselves away for the asking. A trunk is usually strapped when ready to start on a journey. ...

    Article : 109 words
  12. FACTB AND FANCIES.

    "Is-the house you live in your own?" "Not now." "You have sold it?" "No; got married." What is the difference between a tube ...

    Article : 763 words
  13. NO SERIOUS DRAWBACK.

    Bridget was engaged to be married to a young plumber, Terence Dolan by name, and when, two weeks before the day set for the wedding, she fell down the cellar stairs, she was in the depths of woe. ...

    Article : 220 words
  14. ON THE STAIRS.

    "Sh-sh!" she whispered. "I thought I heard some one on the stairs." "Shall I go see?" he asked. "No! No! What if some one should be ...

    Article : 130 words
  15. THE SOMALI MULLAH.

    A good story is told of how the Somali Mullah worked one of those "miracles" which drew many wayfarers to his banner. An English man-of-war was sent to ...

    Article : 167 words
  16. EMERSON'S OPTIMISM.

    The contrast offered by the sunny, cheerful Sage of Concord to his gloomy, dyspeptic friend, the Sage of Chelsea, is brought into striking relief by the revival of an anecdote ...

    Article : 195 words
  17. INSURED AGAINST TWINS.

    One pair of twins is not much of a burden to any family, however needy it may be, but a second pair often proves somewhat of an encumbrance, especially if it comes within a year ...

    Article : 206 words
  18. COLLEGE WIT.

    One morning a student read in the classroom a sparkling essay, and the Professor, knowing or suspecting it to have been cribbed from some public print, asked, as the reader ...

    Article : 444 words
  19. A TALE OF THE SERVANTS' HALL.

    A gentleman who resides in the neighbourhood of Hampstead Heath tells the following story of the modern domestic:— Arriving home rather late a few nights back, ...

    Article : 227 words
  20. DIDN'T REMEMBER HER.

    "I'm telling a good one on myself these days," remarked an American attorney to a party of friends gathered round a dinner table. "I went down to-the other day on ...

    Article : 238 words
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