A TRAVELLER arriving at the capitol of the nation saw a vast plain outside the wall, filled with struggling and shouting men. While he looked upon the...
Two Politicians were exchanging ideas regarding the rewards for public service. "The reward which I most desire," said the First Politician,...
AN Ambitious Writer, distinguished for the condition of his linen, was travelling the high road to fame, when he met a Tramp. "What is the matter...
A POLICEMAN, finding a man that had fallen in a fit, said, "This man is drunk," and began beating him on the head with his club. A passing C...
A HIGHWAYMAN confronted a Traveller, and covering him with a firearm, shouted: "Your money or your life!" "My good friend," said t...
AN eminent Justice of the Supreme Court of Patagascar was accused of having obtained his appointment by fraud. "You wander," he said to the ...
SUCCESSIVE Congresses having greatly impoverished the People, they were discouraged and wept copiously. "Why do you weep?" inquired an Angel...
SEEING a ship sailing by upon the sea of politics, an Ambitious Person started in hot pursuit along the strand; but the people's eyes being fixed ...
SOME Holy Missionaries in China having been deprived of life by the Bigoted Heathens, the Christian Press made a note of it, and was greatly pained to...
A DYING Man who had been shot was requested by officers of the law to make a statement, and be quick about it. "You were assaulted without provoc...