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  2. With a Show Around the Wor WRITTEN FOR "LIFE."

    In 1870 a large population numbering not loss than 10,000 had spread itself along the river, constant recruits arriving from all points, with a goodly sprinkling of Americans ...

    Article : 1,506 words
  3. THE SOLEMN HALF-HOUR.

    NE of the greatest ills to which man is heir is the cheap razor. It is eminently fitted ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,015 words
  4. Women as Companions.

    It would seem sometimes as if men avoided women when not fervidly in love with them. Is it only kindled imagination and tumu 'tuous blood that render them ...

    Article : 1,115 words
  5. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

    Hawker (with mousetrap)—"Good morning, madam. Allow me to show you one of our patent, non-corrosive, copper-riveted mousetraps, warranted to—" ...

    Article : 78 words
  6. That Bad Boy Again.

    Bobby (whispering)—" Didn't I hear Clara tell you, Mr. Featherly, that she was sorry, but she really couldn't give you a lock of her hair ?" ...

    Article : 51 words
  7. Faretiœ.

    When the poet said that "the eye was the window of the soul, "he did not refer to a glass eye. The Mackay Baser contains the ...

    Article : 951 words
  8. A Great Idea.

    She—" See this cunning little mouse, George. Poor thing ! I wonder what killed it ?" He—" Where did you find it ?" ...

    Article : 65 words
  9. A Problem.

    Mrs. Dosenberry—"What nonsense there newspapers study out I Now, here's a statement that widows are more likely to die than widowers." ...

    Article : 63 words
  10. Musical Memos.

    Musical "catches" are out of fashion at the present day. Cricket and matrimonial "catches" sake the cake nowadays. Canticle means a sacred hymn. We are ...

    Article : 167 words
  11. Miscellaneous

    The Prussian Diet—Saner kraut and "polony." The Chinese difficulty—to whisk off mosquitoes with his tail. ...

    Article : 861 words
  12. The Cheapest Way.

    Chairman (of life insurance company)— "Now, I've caught you, you rascal ! Drop that jewellery or I'll blow your brains out I" Impudent burglar—"Yar dassent[?] I're ...

    Article : 53 words
  13. A Mediœval Relic.

    Antiquarian to visitors:—"This object. gentlemen, is the pencil used in writing the original mother-in-law joke." And the assembly reverently doffed their ...

    Article : 39 words
  14. It Looked That Way.

    MISS SHAPELEIGN—"Oh ! I have had such fun up on the station, Jack learning to ride bareback, and you just ought to see my new habit." JACK—"Ah, pardon me, but I thought you had it on." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  15. Altogether Different.

    CANDID FRIEND—"It's too bad, Jobson, the way you are going it; card's racing, betting, and all that sort of thing. Your father never carried on like that. JOBSON (scion of one of our loftiest houses)—"Ah, no, perhaps not; but you see his father wasn't an aristocrat." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 49 words
  16. Odds and Ends.

    Mr. W. S. Gilbert has made his mark in opera libretto and verse. but an anecdote in the Reminiscences of Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft assigns sufficient reason why he. ...

    Article : 721 words
  17. About Chilblains.

    Now that winter is almost with ns, people would do well to hunt up their chilblain cures, dust them, and place them where they will be handy for future use. The ...

    Article : 230 words
  18. He Couldn't See the Fun.

    Snifkins, can you ride ? "asked Tompkins of a friend. Yes, some. Why do yon ask ?" "Because we are going to have great sport ...

    Article : 226 words
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