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  2. LEGEND OF A GAS BILL.

    Once noon a time an eminent citizen entered the office of a gas company, and threw down the month's bill he had received that day, and shouted : ...

    Article : 603 words
  3. INVENTIONS AS OLD AS THE HILLS.

    It is generally supposed that the first machine gun, as we now term the class of weapons, which literally pomp lead on the enemy, was the ' organ" gun ...

    Article : 938 words
  4. (Copyright.) THE JOSS: A REVERSION; OR, THE STRANGE STORY OF POLLIE BLYTH.

    What they wanted, with so much anxiety, in my office, I was unable to b guess. They had already purloined the God of Fortune. ...

    Article : 5,353 words
  5. SOME FAMOUS SECRET MARRIAGES

    That the days of romance are not yet dead is proved conclusively by the latest Anglo-American alliance, which has fluttered the dovecots of London and New. York society. ...

    Article : 350 words
  6. MAKING IT WORTH WHILE.

    There was a measure of philosophy in the conduct of a certain Irishman of whom a good story is told. In walking over a plank sidewalk whilst ...

    Article : 166 words
  7. THE ANIMAL SHOW.

    When I am a man—in fun, you know— And Pa is the little child, And he corms home from his work in town, ...

    Article : 239 words
  8. LUCKY FOR HIM.

    A well-known judge observed, on coming into Court one day, that a barrister had his ankle bound up with a silk handkerchief. ...

    Article : 119 words
  9. A BUSINESS RIVAL.

    Mr. Edwin Long, when realising an annual income of £15,000 from his famous paintings, had a beautiful mansion in S . John's Wood. ...

    Article : 100 words
  10. HE GOT THE WORST OF IT.

    Dusenbury and his wife do not get along very well together. As a general thing Mrs. Dusenbury gets the better of her husband. This was notably the case ...

    Article : 91 words
  11. HOW THE ARTIST WAS CALLED.

    When Henry 6. Watson, the illustrator, landed at Naples. he did not know much about European travel. He had to make some sketches in the villages ...

    Article : 173 words
  12. AN IRISH-AMERICAN YARN.

    Said a Yankee to an Irishman: "Down in Kentucky 'we have a wonderful machine. You put in a pig at one end, turn the handle, and out come the ...

    Article : 111 words
  13. "ITS NOT AISY."

    Michael F— is a married man—a very much married man. He has married no fewer than four times; and all his wives are still to the fore. ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. A SAFE THING.

    Millyuns: Why do you think he would make a good cashier ?" Confidential Man: Ever hear him tell a story ?" ...

    Article : 38 words
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