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  2. WIT AND HUMOR.

    Teacher: How do you spell "Ham"? Boy: Which 'am—the 'am we eat, or the 'am we are? "Why did you say you were going to serve ...

    Article : 297 words
  3. PERSONAL.

    Those parents who take least trouble to correct their children are the first to cry out if anyone does it for them. Colonel Sir John Bland-Sutton, of the ...

    Article : 1,129 words
  4. Literature.

    The present position of Russia is one on which attention is concentrated. In the progress of events it is almost impossible to say what will be the outcome. The nation ...

    Article : 3,431 words
  5. FOR SAFETY'S SAKE.

    New Dentist (in prairie town): Will you take gas? Bronco Bill: Will it hurt much if I dont? "New Dentist: It will. ...

    Article : 38 words
  6. A RANK INQUIRY.

    "Smith used to call his little house 'The Nutshell.' I wonder why he changed the name? "He grew tired of having funny people calling to ask if the kernel was in." ...

    Article : 35 words
  7. A TOUGH NUT TO CRACK.

    "Do nuts grow on trees, father?" asked Charley. "They do, my son." "Well, on what tree does the doughnut ...

    Article : 27 words
  8. PRESENCE OF MIND.

    Victim: What has happened? Where am I? Doctor: You have been seriously injured in a railroad accident. But, cheer up, you will recover. ...

    Article : 35 words
  9. JUST AS HE LIKED.

    "I look upon you as a rascal." "You are at liberty to look upon me in any character you desire to assume, sir." ...

    Article : 27 words
  10. SO IT SEEMS.

    One day during a local cricket match a batsman hit a ball hard on the seams, which gave way. The fieldsman shouted out: ...

    Article : 40 words
  11. A CONCISE NARRATIVE.

    A soldier who had been wounded by a shell explosion was asked by a visitor to give an account of it. "Well, sir," rejoined the Tommy, "it was ...

    Article : 66 words
  12. PROTECTING THE NATIVES.

    The new assistant at the drug store in an American town returned a prescription to an old customer with a request that he wait till the proprietor returned. ...

    Article : 68 words
  13. REGINA'S REWARD

    There is an elderly member of the faculty of a university, a noted entomologist, who has retained in his employ a faithful cook whose services have extended over a period of twenty ...

    Article : 81 words
  14. TEACHING THE TEACHER.

    The teacher in elementary mathematics looked hopefully about the room. "Now, children," she said, "I wish you to think very carefully before you answer my next question." ...

    Article : 116 words
  15. THE PLUMBER'S PLUMB.

    It may be that the feat attributed to the plumber in the following anecdote is impossible outside the realms of the imagination, but within them it is a singularly pleasing achievement for ...

    Article : 146 words
  16. A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK.

    The six-year-old daughter of a well-known evangelistic preacher was playing on the pavement one day, when a shabbily-dressed and down-cast man approached her father's house, ...

    Article : 106 words
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