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THE members of the School Board in Doosnoswair being suspected of appointing female teachers for an improper consideration, the people elected a Board...

AN Artillery Regiment of a State Militia applied to the Governor for wooden guns to practise with. "Those," they explained, "will be ch...

"YOUR Honour," said an Attorney, rising, "what is the present status of this case - as far as it has gone?" "I have given a j...

AN Itinerant Preacher who had wrought hard in the moral vineyard for several hours whispered to a Holy Deacon of the local church: "Brother, thes...

SOME Financiers who were whetting their tongues on their teeth because the Government had "struck down" silver, and were about to "inau...

A DRUNKEN Man was lying in the road with a bleeding nose, upon which he had fallen, when a Pig passed that way. “You wallow fairly well,“ said the Pig...

A HUNTER who had lassoed a Bear was trying to disengage himself from the rope, but the slip-knot about his wrist would not yield, for the Bear was all...

A MAN Running for Office was overtaken by Lightning. "You see," said the Lightning, as it crept past him inch by inch, "I can travel co...

SEEING that his audiences were becoming smaller every Sunday, a Minister of the Gospel broke off in the midst of a sermon, descended the pulpit stairs...

A JUDGE having sentenced a Malefactor to the penitentiary was proceeding to point out to him the disadvantages of crime and the profit of reformation....