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  2. HUMOUR.

    "Do you love sports. Mr. Cohenstein?" "Passionately! I sell sporting-goots, you know!" "Ma, whait is revenge?" "It is when ...

    Article : 800 words
  3. HE DIDN'T FORGET.

    A noted publisher used to keep a large memorandum-book on a table in his private office. The volume always lay open, and was in no manner a private ...

    Article : 247 words
  4. TRUTHS FROM THE DESERT.

    The dog barks, but the caravan passes on. The day will dawn, even without a cook. ...

    Article : 170 words
  5. HIS STANDARD.

    "You say you have no respect for that man who was caught grafting?" "Certainly," answered Senator Sorghum; "I have no respect for a man who ...

    Article : 35 words
  6. A MEETING WITH TROUBLE.

    Met trouble in de big road. He tell me, "Howdy-do?" He ax me whar I gwine; I tell him: "Fur fo[?] you!" ...

    Article : 52 words
  7. AN EASY WINNER.

    The porcupine may have his quills, The elephant his trunk. But when it comes to common scents, My money's on the skunk. ...

    Article : 26 words
  8. POOR CHILD!

    "Why do you look so sad, my love?" said Mr. Young husband. "I was thinking of a poor little beggar child that came here this morning," ...

    Article : 64 words
  9. IN JAPANOUSKY.

    First Russian: You say the fight was quickly over? Second Russian:. Yes; it was finished before you could say Jackopolinsky ...

    Article : 28 words
  10. AN OVERDOSE.

    Agent: Well, did the preparation I sold your grandfather make him seem younger? Stubbs: Yes: but we gave him an ...

    Article : 34 words
  11. ANSWERED HER OWN PRAYER.

    A little girl was greatly perturbed by the discoverey that her brothers had set traps to catch birds. Questioned as to what she had done in the matter, ...

    Article : 89 words
  12. JARVEY SCORED.

    Two Scotsmen were lately on a trip to the Emerald Isle, and, visiting Dublin in their tour, they one evening left their hotel on an exploring expedition to see ...

    Article : 204 words
  13. A GAMBLE.

    Blunt: I hear Blones has stopped gambling. Front: That's true. I bet him a hundred pounds that he couldn't stop, and ...

    Article : 28 words
  14. ECONOMY.

    Husband: You are not economical. Wife: Well, if you don't call a woman economical who saves her wedding dress for a second marriage, I'd like to know ...

    Article : 36 words
  15. MUCH REDUCED.

    A gentleman one day arrived at a forlorn country inn, and, addressing a waiter, inquired if he could have a chicken and asparagus. ...

    Article : 99 words
  16. LOYALTY TO "MR. BRIEF."

    Grover Cleveland had the reputation of being a self-willed man when he was in the Presidency, but there is abundant reason for believing that he admired ...

    Article : 331 words
  17. ARTISTIC.

    Uucle Silas: So ye've been studyin' art, hey? Well, hev ye learnt the business? Nephew: Not quite. I haven't ...

    Article : 34 words
  18. HE'D RATHER NOT.

    He: We must economise. Suppose, darling, that you try your hand at making your own clothes? She: Oh, George, dear, I never could ...

    Article : 42 words
  19. THE PLACE OF HONOUR.

    Rossetti once showed a sketch of a picture to Whistler, and asked how he liked it. It had good points, said Whistler, and he advised his friend to go ahead with it. ...

    Article : 131 words
  20. REVOLUTIONS.

    The world one revolution makes Per day, astronomers agree, Except in South America, Where they have often two or three. ...

    Article : 38 words
  21. TROUBLES.

    Some of us never seem to learn To take our troubles as they come, To meet each worry in its turn— We look ahead and borrow some, ...

    Article : 212 words
  22. AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY.

    She: I'm sorry, Jack, but it would never do for me to marry an extravagant man. Jack: But I'm not extravagant. ...

    Article : 44 words
  23. WHERE ALL MEN ARE EQUAL.

    The following good story comes from America:— Count Cassini's coachman was indignant at being stopped on a street under ...

    Article : 101 words
  24. TAKEN AS READ.

    Cholly: My wife writes an awful [?]ist. I hear from her regularly every week, but I can't read half a dozen words. Gu[?]: What do you do. then? ...

    Article : 42 words
  25. NO HARM DONE.

    Bifbang: I once knew a youth who smoked fifty cigarettes daily without any particular harm resulting therefrom. Rifraf: Is it possible? ...

    Article : 40 words
  26. WHAT WE OWE TO OLD MAIDS.

    "Do you know. sir," inquired the American tourist of his companion, while "doing" England—"can you tell me the reason for the fresh, healthful ...

    Article : 353 words
  27. ACCIDENTALS.

    "Didn't you say there were accidentals in that music?" asked Mr. Cumrox. "A great many," answered his daughter, who has musical ambitions. ...

    Article : 43 words
  28. THE COCK O' THE NORTH.

    An excursion from Wales to Glasgow took a crowd of Welshmen to the latter city. A large party of the excursionists visited the cathedral, and upheld the ...

    Article : 124 words
  29. SMART BUSINESS.

    A Mr. Ripley of North Carolina, in the early days of Southern settlement, was in Alabama, and found it necessary to return to North Carolina with ...

    Article : 289 words
  30. NO GREAT DIFFERENCE.

    Bilker: my sakes! Here's a story of a man going to marry a woman he doesn't know. Enpeck: That's nothing. The only ...

    Article : 50 words
  31. NATURAL SEQUENCE.

    Muggins: The girls in a Kentucky town have formed a society having for a motto "Lips that touch liquour shall never touch ours." ...

    Article : 43 words
  32. A GOOD IDEA.

    A clergyman dropped into a restaurant for luncheon. He hung his overcoat against the wall, sat down and ordered his meal. which he ate leisurely. When ...

    Article : 158 words
  33. WINTER.

    The col' win' 's raisin' high— Signs of snow an' sleet; Give us the old oak fire— Not the hot-air heat! ...

    Article : 52 words
  34. EXPENSIVE.

    Towne: I understand Melba was engaged to appear at a swell musicale recently and she got two hundred pounds for only one song. ...

    Article : 59 words
  35. HIS GUN.

    His brand-new gun was "hammerless," His powder, too, was what Is known as "smokeless." and we guess That he had "hitless" shot. ...

    Article : 27 words
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