A DISPENSER-ELECT of Patronage gave notice through the newspapers that applicants for places would be given none until he should assume the duties of ...
AN Office Seeker whom the President had ordered out of Washington was watering the homeward highway with his tears. "Ah," he said, "how...
THE King of Wideout having been offered the sovereignty of Wayoff, sent for the Three Persons who had made the offer, and said to them: "I am ext...
A STATESMAN who had been indicted by an unfeeling Grand Jury was arrested by a Sheriff and thrown into jail. As this was abhorrent to his fine spiritu...
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...
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...
A SLANDER travelling rapidly through the land upon its joyous mission was accosted by a Retraction and commanded to halt and be killed. "Your car...
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.&qu...
A HEAVY Operator overtaken by a Reverse of Fortune was bewailing his sudden fall from affluence to indigence. "Do not weep," said the Revers...
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...