JAMRACH the Rich, being anxious to reach the City of Political Distinction before nightfall, arrived at a fork of the road and was undecided which bra...
AN Unworthy Man who had laughed at the woes of a Woman whom he loved, was bewailing his indiscretion in sack-cloth-of-gold and ashes-of-roses, when th...
AN Ingenious Man who had built a flying-machine invited a great concourse of people to see it go up. At the appointed moment, everything being ready, ...
"I SEE quite a number of rings on your tail," said an Alderman to a Raccoon that he met in a zoological garden. "Yes," replied the...
AN Inoffensive Person walking in a public place was assaulted by a Stranger with a Club, and severely beaten. When the Stranger with a Club was brough...
A MAN having found a Lion in his path undertook to subdue him by the power of the human eye; and near by was a Rattlesnake engaged in fascinating a sm...
THE Director of an Observatory, who, with a thirty-six-inch refractor, had discovered the moon, hastened to an Editor, with a four-column account of t...
A CAT was looking at a King, as permitted by the proverb. "Well," said the monarch, observing her inspection of the royal person, "how ...
THE Head Rifler of an insolvent bank, learning that it was about to be visited by the official Noser into Things, placed his own personal note for a l...
AN Object was walking along the King's highway wrapped in meditation and with little else on, when he suddenly found himself at the gates of a str...