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THE flax was in full bloom; it had pretty little blue flowers as delicate as the wings of a moth, or even more so.The sun shone, and the showers watered it; and this was just as good for the flax as i...
日期：2016-05-16
SOME Workingmen employed in a shoe factory went on a strike, saying: Why should we continue to work to feed and clothe our employer when we have none too much to eat and wear ourselves?The Manufacture...
日期：2016-05-16
AN Editor who was always vaunting the purity, enterprise, and fearlessness of his paper was pained to observe that he got no subscribers. One day it occurred to him to stop saying that his paper was p...
日期：2016-05-16
SOME Members of a Legislature were making schedules of their wealth at the end of the session, when an Honest Miner came along and asked them to divide with him. The members of the Legislature inquire...
日期：2016-05-16
A STATE Official carrying off the Dome of the Capitol met the Ghost of his predecessor, who had come out of his political grave to warn him that God saw him. As the place of meeting was lonely and the...
日期：2016-05-16
Two Thieves having stolen a Piano and being unable to divide it fairly without a remainder went to law about it and continued the contest as long as either one could steal a dollar to bribe the judge....
日期：2016-05-16
A MEMBER of the State Militia stood at a street corner, scowling stormily, and the people passing that way went a long way around him, thinking of the horrors of war. But presently, in order to terrif...
日期：2016-05-16
A STATESMAN heard some Labourers singing at their work, and wishing to be happy too, asked them what made them so. Honesty, replied the Labourers. So the Statesman resolved that he too would be honest...
日期：2016-05-16
AN Indian who had been driven out of a fertile valley by a White Settler, said:Now that you have robbed me of my land, there is nothing for me to do but issue invitations to a war-dance.I don't so muc...
日期：2016-05-16
OF two Writers one was brilliant but indolent; the other though dull, industrious. They set out for the goal of fame with equal opportunities. Before they died the brilliant one was detected in sevent...
日期：2016-05-16
A SENATOR fell to musing as follows: With the money which I shall get for my vote in favour of the bill to subsidise cat-ranches, I can buy a kit of burglar's tools and open a bank. The profit of that...
日期：2016-05-16
The people being dissatisfied with a Democratic Legislature, which stole no more than they had, elected a Republican one, which not only stole all they had but exacted a promissory note for the balanc...
日期：2016-05-16
A FOOLISH Fellow who had been told that he was a great man believedit, and got himself appointed a Commissioner to the InterasylumExposition of Preserved Idiots. At the first meeting of the Boardhe wa...
日期：2016-05-16
A CERTAIN City desiring to purchase a site for a public Deformatoryprocured an appropriation from the Government of the country.Deeming this insufficient for purchase of the site and payment ofreasona...
日期：2016-05-16
SOME editors of newspapers were engaged in diffusing generalintelligence and elevating the moral sentiment of the public. Theyhad been doing this for some time, when an Eminent Statesman stuckhis head...
日期：2016-05-16
