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• 1.A Prophet of Evil
• AN Undertaker Who Was a Member of a Trust saw a Man Leaning on a Spade, and asked him why he was not at work. Because, said the Man Leaning on a Spade...
• 2.The Tail of the Sphinx
• A DOG of a taciturn disposition said to his Tail: Whenever I am angry, you rise and bristle; when I am pleased, you wag; when I am alarmed, you tuck y...
• 3.The Penitent Elector
• A PERSON belonging to the Society for Passing Resolutions of Respect for the Memory of Deceased Members having died received the customary attention. ...
• 4.Religions of Error
• HEARING a sound of strife, a Christian in the Orient asked his Dragoman the cause of it. The Buddhists are cutting Mohammedan throats, the Dragoman re...
• 5.The Austere Governor
• A GOVERNOR visiting a State prison was implored by a Convict to pardon him. What are you in for? asked the Governor. I held a high office, the Convict...
• 6.Two of the Damned
• TWO Blighted Beings, haggard, lachrymose, and detested, met on a blasted heath in the light of a struggling moon. I wish you a merry Christmas, said t...
• 7.The Compassionate Physician
• A KIND-HEARTED Physician sitting at the bedside of a patient afflicted with an incurable and painful disease, heard a noise behind him, and turning sa...
• 8.The Returned Californian
• A MAN was hanged by the neck until he was dead. Whence do you come? Saint Peter asked when the Man presented himself at the gate of Heaven. From Calif...
• 9.The Man of Principle
• DURING a shower of rain the Keeper of a Zoological garden observed a Man of Principle crouching beneath the belly of the ostrich, which had drawn itse...
• 10.A Matter of Method
• A PHILOSOPHER seeing a Fool beating his Donkey, said: Abstain, my son, abstain, I implore. Those who resort to violence shall suffer from violence. Th...