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  2. GENERAL ITEMS.

    The eggs of a crocodile are scarcely larger than those of the goose. The invention of the typewriter ha[?] given employment to 500,000 women. ...

    Article : 859 words
  3. HUMOROUS COLUMN. A SHOCKING BIRD.

    A gentleman at Edgbaston has a parro, Which is preternaturally wise, and its remarks are rapidly becoming the terr[?] of the friends of the family. The bird hangs ...

    Article : 251 words
  4. A BAD DAY.

    You wish to know the trade that pays, And also which is up-to-date; A tradesman’s no chance nowadays, Unless he can adulterate. ...

    Article : 106 words
  5. "RULE BRITANNIA."

    If one were asked to name the industry pre-eminently British, the industry that suffers least from foreign competition and in which the skill and honesty of ...

    Article : 314 words
  6. LUCIUS SULLY.

    "It has its his ory,"said Lucius Sully, as he handed me a massive signet. It was made of gold, and the stone that was set in it was one of the finest rubies ...

    Article : 2,969 words
  7. CARE OF THE RAZOR.

    The razor—almost exceptionally among cutting tools—is so constructed as to facilitate the regrinding or sharpening of its blade with ...

    Article : 730 words
  8. TO THE RESCUE.

    The shop was on fire, and at the window stood a fair and lovely creature. Frantic with horror, he pushed through the people, and called upon the firemen to save her. ...

    Article : 226 words
  9. LOOKING AFTER LI’S LIFE.

    Notwithstanding the Chinese aversion to "foreign devils," yet the greatest of the Celestials will have no one as his physician except a certain English ...

    Article : 300 words
  10. RID OF IT.

    Wife: What in the world do you want with a trombone? You know that the man next door has driven us nearly wild by his performances on that ...

    Article : 46 words
  11. AN INDUSTRIOUS MAN.

    'The charge against this man, your worship, is drunk and disorderly,' said the arresting constable. ‘ I don’t deny it, your worship,' said the ...

    Article : 155 words
  12. HOW KIND

    Returned Trooper: Vera, you were engaged to me, and yet I hear that while I was at the front you went out often with that old admiter of yours, Bob Cudelsby. ...

    Article : 65 words
  13. TOOK HER MEASURE.

    " No!" he snarled. " You are very short!" protested the woman, his wife. " Ba, ha," laughed the man. ...

    Article : 47 words
  14. WHY HE CONSULTED HER.

    ‘ Are you the celebrated Madame Bombaston?’ he asked, after he had climbed four flights of stairs, and was admitted into a mysterious apartment, which made the ...

    Article : 112 words
  15. CLEVER

    New Father-in-Law: Well, sir, the ceremony is over; and now that you are the husband of my daughter, I want to give you a little advice. What would ...

    Article : 67 words
  16. TRUMBLE, THE CRICKETER.

    Hugh Trumble, who generally succeed in hiding his impressions as cleverly as he conceals his intention before he delivers the ball, said at Nottingham the ...

    Article : 176 words
  17. CURIOUS ATMOSPHERIC CONDITION

    On 30th November (St. Andrew’s Day) the following was overheard at a corner not far from Queen's Bridge, Belfast:—Tim: I say,Jock,areyou a Scotchman? ...

    Article : 66 words
  18. BAD GRAMMAR.

    The class was in the throes of English composition, and the words ' vacuum' and ‘ vacuous' cropped up to agitate the youthful mind. ...

    Article : 121 words
  19. SATISFIED.

    Timid Lady (about to buy a ticket for Europe): And is the boat that sails on Thursday perfectly safe? Agent (gravely): Madam, I can assure ...

    Article : 76 words
  20. HIS TURN HAD COME.

    ‘What means this outrager?' said the father, the other evening, when a big, fat, stout, agricultural Irish policeman, followed by a throng of excited people, burst in the ...

    Article : 212 words
  21. HER SIMPLE CHOICE.

    Many stories,mostly fabrications, have been told about long, difluse telegraphic messages sent by women,as if the feminine mind were incapable of expressing ...

    Article : 106 words
  22. VIRTUE IN A SMILE.

    Who can tell the value of a smile? It costs the giver nothing, but is beyond price to the erring and relenting, the sad and cheerless, the lost and forsaken. It ...

    Article : 100 words
  23. A MATRIMONIAL STORY.

    British Museum Newton, the archaeologist, was a capital story-teller, and Mr. Hare has preserved two or three of his tales, says the " Athenaeum." One is of ...

    Article : 104 words
  24. A RICH TRAIL.

    ‘Edwards is an awfully extravagant chap.' ‘Yes, he is.' 'Has he got very much money behind ...

    Article : 32 words
  25. THE PARSON AND HIS BIKE.

    Our parson wished to learn to ride, And lately he began; And now he’s qualified to preach Upon the fall of man. ...

    Article : 27 words
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