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  2. NINE LIVES.

    He sat hip down with a fountain pen, And of paper a ream or two; And started a story of three bad ...

    Article : 174 words
  3. P[?]ERIENCES

    In the year 1881 I was employed at one of the principal Local Stations in the Eastern Counties as an engine fitter. One day I had been repairing ...

    Article : 357 words
  4. HOW TO TACK A [?] HOUSE.

    It was at my own home in Pr[?] Com[?]nds [?] leg over a house and a[?] years spent helping to have [?] ...

    Article : 920 words
  5. FREIGHT JUMPING.

    To escape mutilation and possible death twice within a few hours is an experience not easily forgotten,, and to-day, 25 years afterwards, the ...

    Article : 620 words
  6. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Prisoners in the Meant [?]mery City Jil, Chicage are now permitted to go out and fish all day. A mail steamer with a speed of ...

    Article : 629 words
  7. A COLD CALL.

    In negro househ[?]ds especially in communities where negcoes from a large portion of the population, It frequently happens that the women ...

    Article : 167 words
  8. THE LAST SWALLOW.

    All day be had heard, the twitter of the gathering swallows on the telegraph wires outside, but his, mother had fed. him just the same ...

    Article : 821 words
  9. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    The negro gardener, a jolly fellow with whom the; boys of an American school used to have considerable sport, would sometimes prove too ...

    Article : 202 words
  10. LEGAL TERMS,

    The lawyer is a person who habitually talks In, legal phraseology t and I quite, believe he walks ...

    Article : 336 words
  11. A NERVE SHAKING BATH.

    Towards sundown, after a sweltering. day, I was one afternoon, wearily tramping along the banks of the Vaal River, Transvaal, when coming ...

    Article : 213 words
  12. A BEAR STORY.

    Jinks was wearing a huge patch over his right eye, a bandage across his face, one arm in a sling, while a crotch under his left arm helped ...

    Article : 105 words
  13. A FAMOUS MILLAIS.

    We all remember the joke in "Punch," where 'Arry. face to face with a gorgeous sunset, exclaims to his Mend, "What a crib from ...

    Article : 386 words
  14. A BATTLE OF WITS.

    A city clerk with a reputation for wit, while passing along a crowded thoroughfare, accompanied by some friends, noticed an oyster stall ...

    Article : 101 words
  15. THE GAMP LAHGUAGE.

    There is a language of umbrellas as of flowers. For instance, place your umbrella In a rack, and it will often indicate that it will change ...

    Article : 375 words
  16. THE MASTER MIND.

    "What I want to know is," said, the proprietor of the Village Arms to the great lion tamer, who was in the, bar, "how you have the nerve to ...

    Article : 287 words
  17. NO KEY: FOR TIMMINS.

    "The other night," remarked Mr. Timmins, deferentially, after he had waited two hours for an opening, "Brown was going home, when he ...

    Article : 261 words
  18. A DUTIFUL SON.

    A Yorkshire woman, coming down the garden walk, was horrified at seeing her son standing on his head against the garden wall ...

    Article : 60 words
  19. AWKWARD.

    "You've made; a mistake in your paper," said the indignant man, entering the editorial sanctum. "I was one of the competitors at the ...

    Article : 63 words
  20. A CLOSE CALCULATION.

    "It seems to me," said a customer to his barber "that you ought to lower your peth for a shave, in these hard times ...

    Article : 71 words
  21. PRIME.

    "Ah !" exclaimed the cannibal chief, smacking his lips, "what kind of a minister was that we had for dinner ...

    Article : 49 words
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