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  2. DISGUSTING.

    Mrs. Able: "How Mrs. Cuttle did run [?] about the Perkinses! I have no patience with a woman who talks so about other folks." ...

    Article : 49 words
  3. THE DUKE'S SECRET.

    Sir Robert Peel's great colleague, the Duke of Wellington, on one occasion had commissioned Sir David Wilkie to paint "The Chelsea Pensioners," and when it ...

    Article : 166 words
  4. STORIES OF NOTED MEN.

    It is said that the American Bishop Taylor, who died recently, had for half-a-century slept with his head pillowed upon a stone. He generally carried the stone in ...

    Article : 406 words
  5. Alotsam and Jetsam

    I bought a patent camera a little while ago, About it I'll a history relate. It's small, compact, and portable, and fitted with, you know, ...

    Article : 320 words
  6. APPROPRIATE!

    The charming little four-year-old daughter of a Government official was the cause of considerable merriment, among the occupants of a Whitehall stand on Coronation ...

    Article : 105 words
  7. THE ASS IN REPARTEE.

    It requires a residence in the East to appreciate the ass at its true worth. There, in place of being used as a synonym for a dolt by a Dogberry or Carlyle, ...

    Article : 865 words
  8. THE ARABS REPLY.

    Mr. George Gray vouches for the truth of the following repartee of a little street arab. A party of actors were chatting together in the lounge of a music-hall ...

    Article : 116 words
  9. WHO WAS STEPHEN?

    In answer to the question, "Who was Stephen? set at a recent Bible examination, a schoolboy wrote the following:— "Stephen was the man who invented ...

    Article : 58 words
  10. BACK FROM THE DEAD.

    This is said to be a true dog story. A little dog was crossing the road, when it was run over by a vehicle, one of the wheels of which passed right over the ...

    Article : 130 words
  11. A CLEVER DODGE.

    A certain Paris photographer never says to a lady sitter, "Now, look pleasant, madam, If you please." He knows a formula infinitely better than that. In the ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    A little nonsense now and then Isrelished by the wisest men.—HUDIBRAS. Teacher: 'What is the future of the verb 'to love Jennie?' Jennie (sweet 16): ...

    Article : 632 words
  13. THE COMMA DID IT.

    Recently a school inspector arrived at a small town in Germany, and requested the Mayor to accompany him on a tour of Inspection round the schools. The Mayor ...

    Article : 156 words
  14. A PERFECT BRICK.

    A gallant little midshipman (says a writer on "Hotels as Homes" in the "Cornhill Magazine"), once offered the magnificent individual who had been ...

    Article : 95 words
  15. AN EYE TO BUSINESS.

    The daughter of a politician was sitting on her father's knee one evening when she was a little girl. She had a new little brother whom she regarded with wonder. ...

    Article : 127 words
  16. A GREAT JOURNALIST.

    In a circular relating to an "Italian Navy Engineer's Newspaper" runs the following:—" Knowning than our paper is owners mostly read by tecnisals, ...

    Article : 155 words
  17. AN ABSENT-MINDED QUEEN.

    Under British rule in India many of the native kings and queens, the rajahs and maharajahs of the Indian dynasties, have been removed. They have, however, been ...

    Article : 234 words
  18. A TRAMCAR COMEDY.

    The other day a smartly-attired young woman had a trying experience on a tramcar. At the moment she stepped on to the car a man befuddled with drink got ...

    Article : 208 words
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