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  2. A YOUNG ISHMAELITE.

    Had you asked him his name he would have told you that it was “[?] jes jed, an [?] else,” and had you pressed our[?] further, you would have learned, had he been in a ...

    Article : 2,989 words
  3. A CHRISTMAS METEORITE.

    It is a poor sort of Christmastide which does not produce at least one meteorite. In West Essex there is a [?] village called Great Parndon, which is near now here ...

    Article : 315 words
  4. NEW YEAR’S DAY, 2001.

    The last stroke of midnight has echoed into silence. December 31st, 2000, has rolled away into the mist of the vanished ages. The twenty first century has dawned upon ...

    Article : 656 words
  5. COMMON THINGS.

    On a recent visit of inspection, a Government inspector of schools asked a number of questions of the pupils about the little things in the world ...

    Article : 130 words
  6. A TALE OF WOE.

    “Yes,” said the [?] “we do have funny experiences occasionally in the hotel business. Of coarse, I don’t refer to the guests who blow out the gas or want to ...

    Article : 501 words
  7. WHAT THE IRISHMAN SAID.

    In court a man was on trial who could speak nothing but Irish, and an interpreter was called and duly sworn. The prisoner at once asked him some ...

    Article : 159 words
  8. DOCTOR JOHNSON AND WOMEN.

    A recent study, by Mr. W. H. Craig, of Doctor Johnson and his opinion of women, gives some very pertiunet anecdotes of his uncompromising blun[?] toward them. He was ...

    Article : 346 words
  9. SUITING BOTH PARTIES.

    Poor Wife (to husband whose loud [?] keeps her awake) : Charlie, Charlie, do stop sporting. Turn over on your side.” (Nudges him.) ...

    Article : 74 words
  10. THE CHINAMAN AND THE REPORTER.

    Here is a story from the “Ohio Monthly” which humorously illustrates the way in which large numbers of people are in the habit of thinking of the Chinese, as if they ...

    Article : 228 words
  11. WHY

    Brown: I say, old man, what individual stands the best chances of winning the two novels offered by “Woman ?” Smiths Well, I should say a weaver, ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. HER STANDARD.

    “Did he seem pleated to have you ask for his daughter’s hand ?” “He’s a man who closely conceals his feelings.” ...

    Article : 151 words
  13. MOTHER WAS PACKING.

    A friend called [?] worthy divine who had been offered a his[?]opric. The daughter of the house met him at the door. ...

    Article : 60 words
  14. SLIGHTING THE WAITER.

    It was at a railway refreshment-room. The passenger was hungry and in a hurry. “Please pass me them pertaters, mister,” he said, addressing an elegant gentleman who ...

    Article : 138 words
  15. JOURNALISTIC AMENITIES.

    The “Arizona Kicker” contains the following : “ All our readers will bear witness to the fact that we have exercised the greatest patien[?] in bearing the slum and taunts of [?] esteemed ...

    Article : 320 words
  16. ILL-LUCK OF PEACOCKS FEATHERS.

    There is at least one house in London where you will, as soon see a python as a peacock is feather, says the “Onlooker.” The drawing-room, was once decorated with a ...

    Article : 127 words
  17. IT DIDN’T WORK.

    Father: Tommie, I hope you apologised nicely for [?]ading on that gentleman’s foot. Tommie : Oh, yes, and he gave me ...

    Article : 39 words
  18. WHY IT WAS WANTED.

    A middle aged woman called at a druggist’s shop the other evening, and asked for morphine, and the assistant replied to her request with ...

    Article : 141 words
  19. THE BOY’S MISTAKE.

    A bishop staying in a country hotel wished to be called early. The landlord gave the page [?] strict orders to address him as “My Lord.” The boy ...

    Article : 47 words
  20. A BAD CUSTOMER.

    A good story is told of a British colonel who possessed a prodigious appetite. When in Wales, he went on a walking tour, and stopped for a midday meal at a village inn. ...

    Article : 134 words
  21. INSECTS OF THE SEA.

    A few extracts from a contribution to the January number of “Knowledge” by Mr. G. H. Carpenter, B.Sc., will show how [?] grossing as the study of the insect [?] of ...

    Article : 264 words
  22. HER DEFINITION.

    A little girl was asked by an artist to define drawing and replied :— “Oh, drawing is thinking and then marking round the think.” ...

    Article : 45 words
  23. HIS IDEA OF WORK.

    In a small village in Kent lived a farmer who has two sons—the elder, jerry, an industrious and hard-working boy; the younger, Willie, just as idle. His father wishing to ...

    Article : 98 words
  24. A BAPTISMAL NOTICE.

    A clergyman living two churches, one at each end of a straggling parish was accustomed to conduct haptisms at each church alternate Sundays. One Sunday ...

    Article : 43 words
  25. HOW HE GUESSED.

    She whispered in the honeymoon, ‘How cool you were when you proposed ! And I, poor thing, thought I should swoon—You notices how my eyes were closed ?” ...

    Article : 104 words
  26. TO MAINTAIN A PRINCIPLE.

    There is probably not another business firm in the world, that annually [?] thousands, simply to maintain a principle as Whitall. Tatum & Co., the Quaker glass manufacturers ...

    Article : 279 words
  27. THEY WERE MARRIED.

    [?] Algy, dear I dreamed last night you had given me such a lovely bracelet for a birthday present. Algy : Did you ? Then you’d better go ...

    Article : 38 words
  28. TAKEN DOWN A PEG.

    Gusher : My wife has promised to wait for me at the gate of Heaven, if she is the first to go. Flasher: Tut, [?] You shouldn’t be so ...

    Article : 154 words
  29. WHAT DID HE MEAN.

    A gentleman having a book sent him to criticise, re[?]lied in the following terms :— “Thank you very much for your book, ...

    Article : 77 words
  30. HE KNEW.

    She was rather proud of her waist, and intimated that he couldn’t guess the measure of it. “I can give it within the fraction of an ...

    Article : 134 words
  31. A GOOD EXCUSE.

    “Now madam,” said the [?] Judge, who had been annoyed by the digressions of previous female witnesses, “we want no hearsay evidence. Tell only what you know. ...

    Article : 54 words
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