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  2. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,127 words
  3. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

    "How did you lose your hair?" "Worry." "What you worry about?" "About losing my hair." ...

    Article : 20 words
  4. MAKING A START.

    Magistrate (discharging prisoner): Now, then, I would advise you to keep away from bad company." Prisoner (feelingly): "Thank you, sir. ...

    Article : 29 words
  5. HE WAS STUNNED.

    "Jack is a good follow, but I will not lie for any man. I love my friend, but I love the truth still more." "My dear," said the bystander, ...

    Article : 48 words
  6. SPINELESS.

    'Yes," said Mrs. Twickembury, "you seldom see Mr. Twickembury without a cigar in his mouth. He is a most invertebrate smoker." ...

    Article : 23 words
  7. DIDN'T MATTER.

    Wilson: "I've lost that fine silk umbrella that I took to town to-day." Mrs. Wilson: "Oh, what a pity!" Wilson: "Still, there is one ...

    Article : 33 words
  8. RUBBING IT IN.

    "Well, did he pay you?" asked the wife of a dentist who had been to collect a bill for a full set of false teeth that lie had made for a man almost a year ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 121 words
  9. THE DISTINCTION.

    The discussion as to whether one should use the word "woman" or "lady," and how to tell the difference, has been enlivened by this story: ...

    Article : 52 words
  10. WARNED.

    It so happened that a clergyman had for his companion during a railway journey an unkempt collier. The latter, who had a very large bottle of whisky, ...

    Article : 104 words
  11. EASY.

    Miss Wilkins, the primary teacher, was instructing her small charges. "Name one tiling of importance that did not exist a hundred years ago," ...

    Article : 45 words
  12. NOTHING MORE TO BE SAID.

    A certain minister was greatly disturbed by a number of women in his congregution who persistently gossiped in a loud tone during service. One Sunday ...

    Article : 106 words
  13. HONEY-SYLLABLE.

    An Oxford undergraduate was once out of funds, and wrote, to his father asking for some money. It [?]id not come, and the student being ...

    Article : 50 words
  14. DIFFERENT SOLDIERS ON SUNDAYS.

    little Bobby had been supplied with a lovely box of tin soldiers as a birthday present, and they so delighted him that he played with them on every ...

    Article : 92 words
  15. A TELL-TALE SENTRY.

    The new recruit was on sentry-go Up came an officer and demanded his orders. "Orders! "said the lad from the country. "Give up my orders?" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 106 words
  16. UPSIDE DOWN.

    The school concert had begun. Four little girls were dressed to represent the word "Star," and each-had one letter of that word pinned on to her snowy white ...

    Article : 98 words
  17. ON TRIAL.

    Mr. Wiggles, who has a polite way of being rude to persons who deserve it, was paid a visit the other morning by an undesirable, who usually broke into Wiggle's ...

    Article : 98 words
  18. ONLY DAMAGED.

    A young woman weighing about fourteen stone was gracefully waddling down the street, when she stepped on a banana skin in front of a grocery shop ...

    Article : 105 words
  19. IN AND OUT.

    The customers of the "Pig and Whistle" arranged to play a friendly game against the customers of the "Old Dun Cow" for the benefit of the Prince. ...

    Article : 139 words
  20. CARDS, PLEASE!

    A young married lady bad just acquired a now brougham and a new footman to match. "John," she said, one day, "we will ...

    Article : 142 words
  21. A MONTH OFF—THE CALENDAR.

    "Smithkins," raid that young man's employer, "you may take a month off." "Oh, sir." replied the clerk, as soon as he could command his voice, "it is ...

    Article : 140 words
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