{No abstract available}
Advertising : 1,011 wordsIt is the intention to publish in the "Sunday Times" a regular weekly sermon. There is a complaint that the people do not go to Church; our new departure will ...
Article : 3,008 wordsThe Landlady: "If either of you gentlemen find a comb in your soup, it belongs to Miss Nearsight." ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 22 wordsIt is from no disrespect to our country readers that some of our storyettes concern dwellers in rural simplicity. But to even up matters here is one about a Sydneyite. It ...
Article : 138 words"Where are you going?" inquired Mrs. Blithers as Mr. B. started to leave his seat in the stalls directly the curtain fell. "I think I hear an alarm of fire." he ...
Article : 68 words"No thoroughly occupied man," says a great writer, "was over very miserable." How about a man thoroughly occupied in dodging a dun? ...
Article : 26 wordsThere stood in the dock a big, burly artisan, a regular Hercules in point of stature, brought up on a charge of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. ...
Article : 63 wordsA man who wished to take proceedings against a creditor in a distant town sent a letter addressed: "To any respectable lawyer in A—"The post-office returned ...
Article : 39 wordsA curious sign has been adopted, at Bombay by a native baker proud of his knowledge of English, "European loafer" being printed in large letters over his door. ...
Article : 32 words"Harry," exclaimed the blushing maiden; "this declaration of love is so sudden that I—that—that I hardly know what to say. I was unprepared for it. It unnerves me." ...
Article : 130 wordsInspector of Prisons: "And what brought you here?" Prisoner: "A cold." Inspector: "A cold.?" ...
Article : 71 wordsHojak: "You don't really imagine that girls actually propose sometimes, do you?" Tomdik: Well, all I know is that this is leap year, and some girls are getting ...
Article : 44 words"Let us waste no time," yelled the temperance orator. "Let us not waste our time in dealing with the small beer-shops and gin-palaces. Let us go to the fountain ...
Article : 59 words"Know him? I should say so! We are hushands-in-law." "Eh?" "Our wives were divorced from the same ...
Article : 27 words"British Weights and Measures" is the contribution of Mr. J. W. Evans, the Sydney Metropolitan inspector of weights and measures, to the world's weights and ...
Article : 653 wordsMr. Isaacs was very cross. Not only had he had to stand up in the tramcar for the whole journey, but every now and again he had to shift his position in order to ...
Article : 125 wordsShe: "You are unusually brilliant this evening." He: "Yes. I just had a radium cocktail." ...
Article : 23 wordsNelly: "I would not marry the best man in the world." Tom: "You will not have the chance. I am already engaged." ...
Article : 29 wordsAmateur: "This is my latest attempt at a landscape. May I ask what you think of the perspective?" Artist: "The perspective is its strong ...
Article : 40 words"Johnny Samkins," said the Barjo schoolmistress, impatiently, "what is it you are fidgeting with?" Johnny did not reply, but the class sneak ...
Article : 144 wordsJack: "Are people ever punished in church nowadays, pa?" Pa: "Yes, my son; I was married there." ...
Article : 27 words"Is there anything between you and my daughter?" "Nothing but you." ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Rider Haggard had a strange adventure while collecting materials for his new story, "The Brethren: A Romance of the Crusades," which is running in "Cassell's ...
Article : 101 words"I can always tell when you are going to tell a lie," said Cregg to Legg. "How?" asked Legg. "I see you open your month." said Cregg. ...
Article : 33 wordsIn his "Records and Reminiscences," Sir F. Burnand says that shortly after he succeeded to the editorial chair of "Punch," Sala wrote a parody of the "Notes" which ...
Article : 241 wordsMrs. Gramercy: "Does she object to her husband drinking?" Mrs. Park: "Not at all. She says the only time he is agreeable is when he is ...
Article : 38 wordsHusband: "Darling, I believe that I am failing." Wife (in alarm): "Gracious, how often I have warned you, George, against your ...
Article : 55 wordsAmong Sir Lewis Morris' recollections is one of a visit he once paid with Tennyson to the house of George Henry Lewes and Geo. Eliot. They found a room chiefly full of ...
Article : 120 wordsMabel : "Why didn't ybu scream when he put his arms round you?" Ethel: "When I wanted to I couldn't, and when I could I didn't want to." ...
Article : 37 wordsEffie: "Silly! Dolls don't eat anything!" Bertie: "Don't, eh? Well, that old one of yours that I cut open was stuffed chockful of breakfast food." ...
Article : 37 wordsHe was a very young physician, but there was a glow of happiness on his face as he walked along the street. Presently he met his friend Billcosts, also a very young man ...
Article : 181 wordsComedian: "No money to pay salaries, you say? Well, you're a nice manager, you are!" Manager: "Well, the business has been ...
Article : 59 wordsSir Lewis Morris did not know Browning intimately, but had an anecdote to tell of a Browning meeting which he attended at the late Mr. Haweis' house in Chelsea: ...
Article : 158 words"The reason I can't get along with my wife is that she wants to submit all our differences to arbitration." "To arbitration?" ...
Article : 74 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 26 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 81 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 11 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 3 Apr 1904, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: