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  2. Flotsam and Jetsam

    Said Mrs Brown to Mrs Parvenue: " Have you seen Mrs. Hyton's winter wrap? It's magnificent; ne plus ultra." Said Mrs. Parvenu to Mrs. Smith (a few ...

    Article : 48 words
  3. They All Smiled.

    Examining Counsel (to witness); "What is your age, madam?" Witness (with charming smile): "It would do you no good to know, sir, for I am married ...

    Article : 54 words
  4. Von Martens's Foresight.

    Prof. Frederick Von Madtens, who holds the chair of International Law in the St. Petersburg University, and is a frequent representative of the Czar In legal councils of moment, ...

    Article : 130 words
  5. Misapprehended.

    I paid her," said the imaginative young man, "the highest compliment one human being could pay another." "What did you say to her?" asked the ...

    Article : 80 words
  6. Other Sorrows.

    "It is so cruel," said the woman who had just got home from the melodrama, " to force a girl to accept a man she does not love as her husband." ...

    Article : 83 words
  7. When Disraeli Smiled.

    Disraeli, it is said, laughed only once in the House of Commous. Gladstone had made an impassioned speech in favour of the union of Wallachia and Moldavia. Disraeli pointed ...

    Article : 142 words
  8. What He Did.

    "What do you do for a living?" asked a lawyer, frowning horribly at a hatchet-faced young man who was undergoing ...

    Article : 86 words
  9. His Little Brother.

    One day Jack, overcome with loneliness, said: "Oh, I wish I had a little brother to play with mel" ...

    Article : 84 words
  10. Facts and Fancies.

    A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the (?) men-HUDIBRAS. Oh, George ! squeaked the parret as soon as the young man came into the room, " how ...

    Article : 776 words
  11. Getting Over the Difficulty.

    A few days ago a man hurried into a luncheon-room, found an unoccupied place at one of the little tables and called to the waiter: "Bring me a sandwich and a glass of milk!" ...

    Article : 167 words
  12. Johnny's Chance.

    A small son, age 3, turned up the other afternoon with a black eye and crying piteously "What's the matter?" asked papa. ...

    Article : 144 words
  13. That Window Again.

    A maiden on a street-car was "so very hot," she said: "Ah, allow me," said the dude, and he to the window sped. ...

    Article : 105 words
  14. One for the Little Darky.

    A Virginia Judge sat on the bench, with his feet up before him, showing their soles to the bar and bystanders. Counsel for the defence had offered a little negro as a witness, and the ...

    Article : 170 words
  15. Was He Irish?

    The American: "You do things queerly in Scotland. Now, in Edinburgh you number the houses on a street up one side and down the other." ...

    Article : 127 words
  16. The Meaning of "Two-ten."

    An amusing experience of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts is going the rounds. The baroness was once shopping in Paris and was passed from one department to another by the ...

    Article : 214 words
  17. She Was Filled With Alarm.

    "It happened this way," said she, relating the occurrence. "I was practising on the organ, and was all alone in the church—so I supposed. ...

    Article : 458 words
  18. A Startling Question.

    A four-year-old miss created a good deal of consternation, not unmixed with amusement, in a small social circle lately. She had been on a visit to her grandfather, and while there ...

    Article : 640 words
  19. Jones is Laughing Yet.

    This man's teeth were set and his lips compraised. He stood on the front veranda of his house, which is well out West End way. Aside from the fact that he wore no hat or ...

    Article : 344 words
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