日期：2007-11-28 Two Footpads sat at their grog in a roadside resort, comparing the evening's adventures. I stood up the Chief of Police, said the First Footpad, and I got away with what he had. And I, said the Second Footpad, stood up the United States District Att... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-28 A BIG Nation having a quarrel with a Little Nation, resolved to terrify its antagonist by a grand naval demonstration in the latter's principal port. So the Big Nation assembled all its ships of war from all over the world, and was about to send the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-28 Two Frogs in the belly of a snake were considering their altered circumstances. This is pretty hard luck, said one. Don't jump to conclusions, the other said; we are out of the wet and provided with board and lodging. With lodging, certainly, said t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-28 AN Insurance Agent was trying to induce a Hard Man to Deal With to take out a policy on his house. After listening to him for an hour, while he painted in vivid colours the extreme danger of fire consuming the house, the Hard Man to Deal With said:... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-13 THE Chief of the Weather Bureau having predicted a fine day, a Thrifty Person hastened to lay in a large stock of umbrellas, which he exposed for sale on the sidewalk; but the weather remained clear, and nobody would buy. Thereupon the Thrifty Perso... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-13 A DELEGATION at Washington went to a New President, and said: Your Excellency, we are unable to agree upon a Favourite Son to represent us in your Cabinet. Then, said the New President, I shall have to lock you up until you do agree. So the Delegati... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-13 A PERSON with a Wart on His Nose met a Person Similarly Afflicted, and said: Let me propose your name for membership in the Imperial Order of Abnormal Proboscidians, of which I am the High Noble Toby and Surreptitious Treasurer. Two months ago I was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-13 SEVERAL Political Entities were dividing the spoils. I will take the management of the prisons, said a Decent Respect for Public Opinion, and make a radical change. And I, said the Blotted Escutcheon, will retain my present general connection with a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-13 A MAN died leaving a large estate and many sorrowful relations who claimed it. After some years, when all but one had had judgment given against them, that one was awarded the estate, which he asked his Attorney to have appraised. There is nothing t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-13 A BEAUTIFUL Old Man, meeting a Sunday-school Pupil, laid his hand tenderly upon the lad's head, saying: Listen, my son, to the words of the wise and heed the advice of the righteous. All right, said the Sunday-school Pupil; go ahead. Oh, I haven't a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-13 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 the neck of a bull. I thought the steaks more digestible, the Trainer explained. That is very true,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-13 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. What are you in there for? Sir, replied the Distinguished Advocate of Republican Institutions, a sh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-13 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 and almost invisible line. When the Turkey had swallowed the hook, the Politician ran, drawing the cr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-13 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 obstreperous without apparent provocation, had affected the peripheries of several luckless fellow-ci... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-07 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 cautiously returned to get his axe, he found the following lines pencilled on the stump: What nature reare... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-07 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. You need not suffer alone. Name any one of the men who have opposed your schemes, and I will over... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-07 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 the shopkeeper, who had been narrowly observing him as he read the placard, he was about to speak,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-07 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 mischief is at an end, said the Retraction, drawing his club, rolling up his sleeves, and spitting... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-07 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 Bench, lamenting his hard lot, and threatening to put an end to his life if business did not impro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-07 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 Chairman to her, and she was asked to explain her presence there, and what she was doing. I came in for m... 阅读全文>>