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  2. HUMOROUS COLUMN.

    HER UGLY SELF. — She was a haughty dame, and being on a shopping expedition with a friend happened to catch a glimpse of an acquaintance she did not wish to ...

    Article : 206 words
  3. Nearly Dropping the Shah.

    The Shah of Persia, when dining with the Lord Mayor during his visit to London (20 years ago), nearly sat down on the floor through the ...

    Article : 348 words
  4. Jenkinson's End.

    "HELLO, Colless! What in the world brings you here?" "The necessity of living," laughed Colless after the first glance of ...

    Article : 2,586 words
  5. PERKINS' PATENTS.

    SOME time ago my neighbour Perkins made up his mind to try to get out of poverty by inventing a patent medicine. After some reflection he ...

    Article : 1,039 words
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    THE QUINTESSENCE OF STALENESS.—"I hilve eaten apples that ripened more than eighteen hundred years ago, bread made from wheat grown before the. children of ...

    Article : 225 words
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    JOHN'S LITTLE GAME.—"An amusing thing occurred while I was at Yokohama," says a recently returned traveller, "An official notice of the Government hod been published ...

    Article : 154 words
  8. The Family of the Future.

    MARY S. GILLILAND, writing in the International Journal of Ethics upon "Women in the Community and the Family," says the family of the future ...

    Article : 413 words
  9. Lemons and Fish.

    AN amusing incident is described by Miss Susan Gavan Duffy in The English Abroad, apropos of her visit to the Milan, where she was taken to ...

    Article : 390 words
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    SAVING AIR,—People who want to live long should remove at once, to Lynton, in Devonshire, whence the following veracious story has just come. A visitor approached ...

    Article : 83 words
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    AN ARDUOUS OCCUPATION.—"Thank you kindly, ma'am, for the dinner," said the tramp. "I'll never forget your, kindness to me; and now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be ...

    Article : 92 words
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    MOSTLY A NATIVE.—"Are you a native of this parish?" asked a Scotch Sheriff of a witness who was summoned to testify in a case of illicit distilling. "Moistly, yer ...

    Article : 139 words
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    A "tall" story is told by a recent author for the edification of English readers:—A strange case of snake bite occurred while I was in Gippsland. While two men were ...

    Article : 289 words
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    AN AMUSING INCIDENT occurred recently. A lady, who had found it exceedingly difficult to engage good servants, decided upon engaging lady helps, and was very successful ...

    Article : 162 words
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    A story is told of an opera singer, the Huguenot Princess, in Meyerbeer's opera, "Les Huguenots." Although a magnificent vocalist, her figure was somewhat too bulky ...

    Article : 159 words
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    It was a lecture delivered by a learned purveyor of liver pills, and illustrated by diagrams of the frame of man. " That," he explained, pointing out a totally different ...

    Article : 102 words
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