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  2. SHE SAT ON THE TICKETS.

    "Madam, Will you please stand up just a second?" said the perspiring conductor of one of the closed cars on 4th avenue. "Certainly not," said the passenger addressed, ...

    Article : 420 words
  3. THE DREYFUS CASE.

    The Rennes revelation of scandal, calumny, and fraud, the spectacle of French general officers lying and equivocating with oriental facility, the painful ...

    Article : 2,336 words
  4. THE RED SPECK.

    With a loan [?] limp as a rag, Drenton Dohn helped himself to quinine enough to blow the roof off the head of an ordinary man. ...

    Article : 5,627 words
  5. THE SINS OF CYCLISTS.

    The secrcher as a type is no more. A few brief months ago he was making his royal progress through suburban roads, blazing his trail with the prostrate forms of ...

    Article : 2,067 words
  6. SHOCKING ALPINE DISASTER.

    A serious Alpine accident has befallen two Englishmen, Messrs. Hill and Jones, who, accompaned by three guides, were making the ascent of the Dent Blanche, ...

    Article : 888 words
  7. THE SUB-EDITOR.

    When the errors of the telegraphist are added to the whims of the newspaper reporter, and the fine writing of the country correspondent, it may be imagined that the ...

    Article : 214 words
  8. EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY.

    Mountebanks appealing to the credulity of the ignorant in the name of religion are always with us. This year the most succcssful and notorious of these is a man ...

    Article : 416 words
  9. A TRIO OF TALES.

    A friend whom I had taken to see Rainhill Asylum, seeing in the outdoor squad a man whelling a wheelbarrow upside down, said, "You silly idiot, why don't you wheel the ...

    Article : 230 words
  10. LUCKY FOR WILLIAM BROWN.

    A man named William Brown is engaged as a windon-cleaner at a certain big hotel in London. One morning William, instend of doing his work, was amusing himself by ...

    Article : 195 words
  11. A TERRIBLE TALE OF THE SEA.

    Captain Younghusband, in his book on Japan, says:—"As we put to sea we passed a sunken steamer, the Auglia, and afterwards heard the ghastly story of her loss. ...

    Article : 312 words
  12. CURING A BAD-TEMPERED WIFE.

    A man and his wife in Nottingham having "had words" over some trilling affair, the woman took it late her head to sulk, and so continued for three weeks. The ...

    Article : 196 words
  13. PRINCE CHRISTIAN'S ADVENTURE.

    Prince Christian, who is taking his usual cure at Kissingen, bad an amusing adventure there the other day. Mr. Alcock, the well-known secretary of the Surrey Club, ...

    Article : 454 words
  14. MORE "BULLS."

    "Friends," said an agitator, at a meeting of Irish Home Rulers, "the cup of our troubles is running over, and it is not yet full." ...

    Article : 115 words
  15. WITH CONGO CANNIBALS.

    Mr. Herbert Ward writes on this subjeet in "Cassell's Magazine" for September:—It is necessary to appreciate the fact that the large majority of the inhabitants ...

    Article : 322 words
  16. AT THE WOMEN'S CONGRESS.

    At one of the meetings in London, a foo voluble French delegate, who bad received, several gentle hints to cut short her address, was at last ordered to sit down by ...

    Article : 68 words
  17. NO CREDIT FOR GOOD INTENTIONS.

    "Some people," said the boy with the dirty face, "never thank ye, no matter what ye do fur em. A feller put a bent pin on the teacher's chair th' other day, ...

    Article : 72 words
  18. THEIR DIVERGENCE.

    "How did those two delightful young people happen to drift aparll" "Most natural thing in the world. He was after a heart and she after a bank ...

    Article : 48 words
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