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  2. Flotsam and Jetsam

    We once did call a mine a mine, but now it's "excavation"; Likewise we learn granite and slate bear really no relation. ...

    Article : 286 words
  3. HIS POSTHUMOUS PRICES.

    Here is an excellent and very typical story told by the English papers of James M'Neill Whistler: A Colorado millionaire—extremely ...

    Article : 103 words
  4. THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS

    The old Captain and one of his man were discussing the question, "Which is the more powerful—the clergy or the Judges?" The Captain, advocating the claims of ...

    Article : 94 words
  5. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

    A man was once being tried for murder, and his case looked hopeless indeed. He had, without any seeming provocation, murdered one of his neighbours in cold ...

    Article : 355 words
  6. WITTY REPARTEES

    When Cicero was told that a certain lady had said that she was but 30 years old, though she was unquestionably far older, he replied, "I must believe her, for I have ...

    Article : 447 words
  7. AN INSINUATION.

    It was a warm Sunday morning in church. Fans were fluttering, hymnals flopping, handkerchiefs mopping streaming faces; and the minister thought his ...

    Article : 117 words
  8. HE GOT HIS PASS.

    The return of General Kitchener to England revives stories of the conqueror of the Soudan and the Transvaal. A war correspondent tells of Kitchener's dislike ...

    Article : 156 words
  9. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.—HUDIBRAS. "Oh, Henry, don't cut your pie with a knife." "Eliza, you ought to be thankful ...

    Article : 725 words
  10. CLERICAL SARCASM.

    The following church notice was recently exhibited:— "The service on Sunday morning is at 11 a.m. The supposition that it is ten ...

    Article : 85 words
  11. "ONLY."

    The British postal authorities are having trouble with the word "only" on face Of the post card. "The address only to be written on this side" is capable of ...

    Article : 239 words
  12. AUTOMOBILE RETORT.

    A good story is told of a magistrate who had as make a hurried journey to a town twentyfour miles away. As there was no suitable train, he want to a motor car agency, and ...

    Article : 100 words
  13. THE "MOUSE CURE."

    While practising his profession in Persia Dr. C. J. Wills had at least one amusing experience of the credulity of the people and succeeded in exposing the quackery of a ...

    Article : 519 words
  14. A SYMPATHETIC BACK.

    Here is an anecdote told by Bismarck. Speaking of the work of the governess in the Royal family, he said: "One day the poor, kind lady, after having ...

    Article : 156 words
  15. WHAT WAS IT ?

    An incoming steamer had Just passed into the Garden Reach, and was ploughing her way in the direction of the bridge. The wind was blowing at a brisk rate. ...

    Article : 302 words
  16. LICKING THE IDE OFF.

    A missionary built himself a modern house on what is known as "The Bluff," south of Yokohama, and surrounded his grounds with the first fence that was ever built In that cart ...

    Article : 215 words
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