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  2. WIT AND HUMOR.

    "Hello, old chap! What are you doing in the chemist's?" "I want something for my head." "H'm. flow much do you reckon you'll get?" ...

    Article : 885 words
  3. PERSONAL.

    The £100,000 said to have been cleared in the wheat speculations of the last week or two by Mr. James Patten, ex-"king" of the Chicago pit, is comparatively a mere ...

    Article : 1,157 words
  4. Literature.

    At a time when Australia is asked to declare whether she approves of the prosecution of the war, it is well that people should clearly understand the character of ...

    Article : 1,687 words
  5. THE REAL THING.

    Two pavement artists were boasting about how they could paint. "Do you know," said one, "I painted a six-pence on the ground one day and a beggar nearly ...

    Article : 81 words
  6. ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

    In "Action Front" Mr. Boyd Cable continues the series of vivid sketches of [?] conditions on the Western front, of which an instalment was given in ...

    Article : 1,283 words
  7. MELTING CHEER.

    A friend met a cheerful Irish citizen who had plainly suffered some hard knocks. "Well, Pat, how are you getting along now?" be inquired. ...

    Article : 95 words
  8. AN ODD GAME.

    Old man alones had never seen a football fray before, and when he returned from witnessing that between the two local Rugby teams, his criticism was far from complimentary. ...

    Article : 135 words
  9. PASSING HIS NOSE.

    On occasion, the Puritanism of the old New England clergyman was charmingly lightened with a flash of humor. There were no theological schools in New ...

    Article : 256 words
  10. LITERARY GOSSIP.

    Ethel Turner's books about children always possess a charm, and her admirers will welcome the latest addition to the list in "John of Daunt," published by Ward, ...

    Article : 567 words
  11. PRUSSIAN HUMOR.

    In his later years Frederick William, King of Prussia, was sorely afflicted with gout. The twinges of pain aggravated his naturally irascible temper. During the attacks he was accustomed ...

    Article : 115 words
  12. FLEET JOURNALS.

    Fleet journals are far less numerous than those published at the land Font or on the way there, perhaps because sea time leaves so little time for writing—the sailor's letter home is much shorter ...

    Article : 699 words
  13. SAT UPON.

    A late police sergeant was a most painstaking judge in all his cases, and in important ones it was his custom to defer summing up until the next sitting of the court. On one occasion he ...

    Article : 166 words
  14. BAD ENOUGH.

    The sympathetic neighbor asked, "Is your little brother ill this morning, Johnnie? I heard him crying in the most heartrending manner." "No, not exactly," Johnule explained, "but ...

    Article : 52 words
  15. TEMPTING.

    "I had always head that New Englanders were smart," a young physician remarked the other day, "but I hardly thought it developed at such an early stage." He smiled reminiscently, then ...

    Article : 114 words
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