Queer Sleeping Cages and Timely Trenchant Tales
A miscellany traces camel sleeping cages and traveler lore from Khiya to the Caspian, describing the ship of the desert’s crates and the rustics of tram origins. It also recalls a light sleeper story, Scots jokes, and a quip about a daughter’s marriage with a titled husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Desert
Nazar
Chu
Vermont
Boston Herald
German and English law contrasted in humorous notes
A London Tit-Bits column excerpt jokes about German vs English law with anecdotes of police forms, fines for insults, bald quotes on privacy, and a Berlin ironworker fined for laughing at a riot. It also mentions a spider trap, Lablache’s bass range, a music shop gag, and a publisher’s notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Carlsruhe
Socialemocrat Society
Herschendorf
Law
Count von
Willock
London
Music Shop
Fed. Lion
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Great Britain
Bridgegait
Barnard Castle
Scotland
Benjamin Outram
Dean Swift
Boston Post
R Hines
Chicago
Hana M
Sen
THE
EAW
Harper’s
Lablache
Lyric
Ancy
Roy
Atate
Barmela Ohl
Preston
Cole
Acon
Wtf
Piaufacture 2
Jesse
COLE MANUFACTURING/CO.1
Gale
Preston, Idaho