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  2. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

    When Belinda, fairest maid, Strolled with me the woodland glade, With a lover's fondest art Plead I for her hand and heart. ...

    Article : 85 words
  3. A "TAKING" DOCTOR.

    An old darky was taken ill, and called in a physician of this own race. After a time, as there were no signs of improvement, he asked for a white doctor. ...

    Article : 79 words
  4. WHY THOSE TEARS?

    At a golden wedding an entertainment was given to the surrounding tenantry of the aged couple. At the close of the proceedings the elderly host rose and relieved ...

    Article : 87 words
  5. A LOVELY ERRAND.

    He was a cherubic youth of 4, with a beautiful, blue-eyed countenance and an angelic smile—the kind of a boy that honest persons long instinctively to kidnap. ...

    Article : 187 words
  6. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    What is the difference between a watchmaker and a gaoder? One sells watchhes, and the other watches cells. If every person would be half as good ...

    Article : 990 words
  7. NATURAL CURIOSITY.

    A Bishop in full robes of office, with his gown reaching to his feet, paid a visit to a mission hail in the slums. At the close he said he would be glad to answer ...

    Article : 86 words
  8. AN UNPROFITABLE BUSINESS.

    There is a crier in an old-fashioned country town who is very keen on picking up lost children and demanding a shilling from the agonised mothers before giving them ...

    Article : 90 words
  9. WHY?

    "'Mary,' the said reproachfully, "Why do you put the hair of another woman on your head ?' "'Why,' his wife answered, 'do you put ...

    Article : 36 words
  10. A MEAN MAN.

    Cleopatra had just dissolved the pearl. "Doesn't that make a pretty expensive drink ?" she inquired. " Oh, I don't know," returned Antony. ...

    Article : 51 words
  11. THE LAST WORD.

    Mr. Peters was watching his wife over his newspaper. "What is that you are making, my dear?" said he. "I suppose it is a present for some friend, but ...

    Article : 344 words
  12. QUIN'S WIT.

    Of the wit of James Quin, the actor to whose memory Sir Henry Irving unveiled a tablet at Bath the other day, the "Manchester Guardian" recalls several ...

    Article : 128 words
  13. THE PROPER CURE.

    The man who can see both ways that a rule works, even if one way may point against himself, is broad-minded and pretty sure to [?]s the great saving sense of ...

    Article : 134 words
  14. DIPLOMACY.

    Brown : " Hullo ! your lady typewriter's left you, I see ?" Black : " Oh, yes ! I gave her notice to leave. She wasn't a bit of good—couldn't ...

    Article : 79 words
  15. THE WILY JAP.

    Mr. Takahira, the Japanese 'Minister at Washington, has a new story which he tells with great glee. He says be heard two women discussing his nation. ...

    Article : 89 words
  16. MORE LIKE HOME.

    A lady when in a toy shop noticed a small girl who was eagerly looking at a mechanical mouse. Although we had never been introduced ...

    Article : 149 words
  17. A WONDERFUL HEN.

    Senator Festus O. Butt, of the Arkansas Senate, had just finished one of his droll stories about feeding morphine to a pointer pup and watching him as he indulged in ...

    Article : 285 words
  18. HIS RULING PASSION.

    The teacher of a village school was asking her class one or two questions. One of them was : " Can any boy in the class tell me what ...

    Article : 87 words
  19. WITHOUT A STAIN, BUT...

    I heard a good story the other day of a trial in a remote pant of Australia before a rough-and-ready Irish Magistrate (says "Club Chatterer," in "To-day"). The ...

    Article : 174 words
  20. A BUSINESS MAN'S ADVICE TO HIS SALESMEN.

    All fixtures and property in the house should be treated with the greatest care; the first scratch paves the way to carelessness. ...

    Article : 350 words
  21. IT MIGHT DO

    "He wants a pane o' windy-glass tin inches by foorteen," said Patrick one day, as be entered a shop where his employer, a master carpenter, traded. ...

    Article : 125 words
  22. WIDE AWAKE.

    Sir Mortimer Durand, the British Ambassador at Washington, is a student of child life, and wherever he is stationed he never fails to gather some interesting ...

    Article : 276 words
  23. WAITED UPON BY A PRINCE.

    In his recently published memoirs, "The Story of My Struggles," the famous Hungarian scholar, Arminius Vambery, dwells entertaningly on his personal relations with ...

    Article : 205 words
  24. BETTER BLOOD.

    On a certain farm there are two small boys, bright little fellows, 6 and 7 years old, named Will and Tom. Like most other lads, both of them dislike work. ...

    Article : 165 words
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