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• 1.The Pugilist's Diet
• THE Trainer of a Pugilist consulted a Physician regarding the champion's diet. Beef-steaks are too tender, said the Physician; have his meat cut from ...
• 2.His Fly-Speck Majesty
• A DISTINGUISHED Advocate of Republican Institutions was seen pickling his shins in the ocean. Why don't you come out on dry land? said the Spectator. ...
• 3.The Seeker and the Sought
• A POLITICIAN seeing a fat Turkey which he wanted for dinner, baited a hook with a grain of corn and dragged it before the fowl at the end of a long an...
• 4.At Large - One Temper
• A TURBULENT Person was brought before a Judge to be tried for an assault with intent to commit murder, and it was proved that he had been variously ob...
• 5.The Power of the Scalawag
• A FORESTRY Commissioner had just felled a giant tree when, seeing an honest man approaching, he dropped his axe and fled. The next day when he cautiou...
• 6.Rejected Services
• A HEAVY Operator overtaken by a Reverse of Fortune was bewailing his sudden fall from affluence to indigence. Do not weep, said the Reverse of Fortune...
• 7.An Inflated Ambition
• THE President of a great Corporation went into a dry-goods shop and saw a placard which read: If You Don't See What You Want, Ask For It. Approaching ...
• 8.The Prerogative of Might
• A SLANDER travelling rapidly through the land upon its joyous mission was accosted by a Retraction and commanded to halt and be killed. Your career of...
• 9.The Judge and the Rash Act
• A JUDGE who had for years looked in vain for an opportunity for infamous distinction, but whom no litigant thought worth bribing, sat one day upon the...
• 10.A Harmless Visitor
• AT a meeting of the Golden League of Mystery a Woman was discovered, writing in a note-book. A member directed the attention of the Superb High Chairm...