日期：2008-04-06 A CERTAIN City desiring to purchase a site for a public Deformatory procured an appropriation from the Government of the country. Deeming this insufficient for purchase of the site and payment of reasonable commissions to themselves, the men in char... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-04-06 A FOOLISH Fellow who had been told that he was a great man believed it, and got himself appointed a Commissioner to the Interasylum Exposition of Preserved Idiots. At the first meeting of the Board he was mistaken for one of the exhibits, and the ja... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-04-06 THE People being dissatisfied with a Democratic Legislature, which stole no more than they had, elected a Republican one, which not only stole all they had but exacted a promissory note for the balance due, secured by a mortgage upon their hope of de... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-04-06 A SENATOR fell to musing as follows: With the money which I shall get for my vote in favour of the bill to subsidise cat-ranches, I can buy a kit of burglar's tools and open a bank. The profit of that enterprise will enable me to obtain a long, low,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-04-06 OF two Writers one was brilliant but indolent; the other though dull, industrious. They set out for the goal of fame with equal opportunities. Before they died the brilliant one was detected in seventy languages as the author of but two or three boo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-04-06 AN Indian who had been driven out of a fertile valley by a White Settler, said: Now that you have robbed me of my land, there is nothing for me to do but issue invitations to a war-dance. I don't so much mind your dancing, said the White Settler, pu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-04-06 A STATESMAN heard some Labourers singing at their work, and wishing to be happy too, asked them what made them so. Honesty, replied the Labourers. So the Statesman resolved that he too would be honest, and the result was that he died of want.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-04-06 A MEMBER of the State Militia stood at a street corner, scowling stormily, and the people passing that way went a long way around him, thinking of the horrors of war. But presently, in order to terrify them still more, he strode toward them, when, h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-04-06 Two Thieves having stolen a Piano and being unable to divide it fairly without a remainder went to law about it and continued the contest as long as either one could steal a dollar to bribe the judge. When they could give no more an Honest Man came... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-04-06 A STATE Official carrying off the Dome of the Capitol met the Ghost of his predecessor, who had come out of his political grave to warn him that God saw him. As the place of meeting was lonely and the time midnight, the State Official set down the D... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-28 SOME Members of a Legislature were making schedules of their wealth at the end of the session, when an Honest Miner came along and asked them to divide with him. The members of the Legislature inquired: Why did you not acquire property of your own?... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-28 AN Editor who was always vaunting the purity, enterprise, and fearlessness of his paper was pained to observe that he got no subscribers. One day it occurred to him to stop saying that his paper was pure and enterprising and fearless, and make it so... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-28 SOME Workingmen employed in a shoe factory went on a strike, saying: Why should we continue to work to feed and clothe our employer when we have none too much to eat and wear ourselves? The Manufacturer, seeing that he could get no labour for a long... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-28 THE Members of a Legislature, being told that they were the meanest thieves in the world, resolved to commit suicide. So they bought shrouds, and laying them in a convenient place prepared to cut their throats. While they were grinding their razors... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-28 A JUDGE was awakened by the noise of a lawyer prosecuting a Thief. Rising in wrath he was about to sentence the Thief to life imprisonment when the latter said: I beg that you will set me free, and I will some day requite your kindness. Pleased and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-28 A RICH Man wanted to tell a certain lie, but the lie was of such monstrous size that it stuck in his throat; so he employed an Editor to write it out and publish it in his paper as an editorial. But when the Editor presented his bill, the Rich Man s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-28 THE Members of a body of Socialists rose in insurrection against their Bellamy. Why, said they, should we be all the time tucking you out with food when you do nothing to tuck us out? So, resolving to take no further action, they went away, and look... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-28 A MOUNTAIN was in labour, and the people of seven cities had assembled to watch its movements and hear its groans. While they waited in breathless expectancy out came a Mouse. Oh, what a baby! they cried in derision. I may be a baby, said the Mouse,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-28 THE Sun and the North Wind disputed which was the more powerful, and agreed that he should be declared victor who could the sooner strip a traveller of his clothes. So they waited until a traveller came by. But the traveller had been indiscreet enou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-28 A LOGICAL Crab said to his Son, Why do you not walk straight forward? Your sidelong gait is singularly ungraceful. Why don't you walk straight forward yourself, said the Son. Erring youth, replied the Logical Crab, you are introducing new and irrele... 阅读全文>>