GEORGE W. PECK,
Reading edition
Editor of “PECK’S SUN” Milwaukee.
ILLUSTRATED BY EMINENT ARTISTS.
CHICAGO:
1886.
CONTENTS.
About Hell
Another Dead Failure
Anna Dickinson
A Bald-headed Man Most Crazy
A Case of Paralysis
A Doctor of Laws
A Hot Box at a Picnic
A Lively Train Load
A Mad Minister
A Musical Critique
A Peck at the Cheese
A Plea for the Bull Head
A Sewing Machine Given to the Boss Girl
A Safe Investment
A Tony Slaughter-House
A Trying Situation
An Arm That is not Reliable
An Editor Burglarized
Banks and Banking
Bounced from Church for Dancing
Boys and Circuses
Boys will be Boys
Broke up a Prayer Meeting
Buying a Stone Crusher
“Cash!”
Camp Meetings in the Dark of the Moon
Church Keno
Colored Concert Troupes
Dogs and Human Beings
Effects of Mineral Water
Expedition in Search of a Doughnut
Failure of a Solid Institution
Fishing for Pieces of Women
Fooling with the Bible
George Washington
Granite Head Cheese
Internal Improvements
Joke on the Hat
Killing Big Game
Large Mouths are Fashionable
La Crosse Nebecudnezzer Water
Laying up Apples in Heaven
Mr. Peck’s Sunday Lecture
Nearly Broke up the Ball
Our Blue-Coated Dog-Poisoners
Our Christian Neighbors Have Gone
Palace Cattle Cars
PECK’S BAD BOY AND HIS PA. He Becomes a Druggist He is too Healthy He Quits the Drug Business His Pa an Inventor His Pa Dissected His Pa Goes Calling His Pa Goes Skating His Pa Gets Boxed His Pa Gets Mad His Pa Joins a Temperance Society His Pa Jokes Him His Pa is Discouraged His Pa Kills Him His Pa Mortified
Religion and Fish
Rope Ladders
Sardineindianapolis
Seven Year Old Horses
Summer Resorting
Take Your Latin Straight
Terror in Church
The Bob-Tailed Badger
The Boy and the Goat
The Difference
The Difference in Horses
The Fire New Year’s Day
The Giddy Girl’s Quarrel
The Gospel Car
The Infidel and His Silver Mine
The Knight and the Bridal Chamber
The Legend of the Lake
The Man from Dubuque
The Mistake About It
The Naughty But Nice Church Choir
The New Coal Stove
The Sudden Fire-Works at Racine
The Uses of the Paper Bag
The Waters of La Crosse
The Way to Name Children
The Way Women Boss a Pillow
The Woodcock
Those Bold Bad Drummers
Those Step Ladders!
Tragedy on the Stage
Trains Without Conductors
Try to Save Two Shillings
Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar
Why the Fever Did’nt Spread
Woman-Dozing a Democrat
Wonders of the Stage
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Anna Dickinson as “Mazeppa”
A Black Bear at Onalaska
A Dead Sure Thing
A Fashion Item
A Good Land Enough
A Lecturer Should Know What He Talks About
A Loan Exhibition
A New Sparking Scheme
An Odorous Bohemian
Base Ingratitude
Buttermilk Bibbers
Cats on the Fence
Christmas Trees
Col. Ingersoll Praying
Comforting Compensations
Convenient Currency
Crushing Nihilism
Enterprising Chicago!
Fish Hatching in Wisconsin
Frozen Ears
Gathered Waists!
Geological Survey
Give us War
Good Templars on Ice
Hard on Fond Du Lac
He Would’nt Have His Father Called Names
How Farmers May Get Rich
“How Sharper Than a Hound’s Tooth!”
How to Invest a Thousand Dollars
How to Reach Young Men
Hunting Dogs
Insecure Abodes
Lunch on the Cars
Mattie Mashes Minnesota
Merrie Christmas
More Dangerous Than Kerosene
Mrs. Langtry
One of Beecher’s Converts
Preparing for War
Raising Elephants
Registry of Electors
Selling Clams
She was no Gentleman
Southern “Honaw”
Spurious Tripe
Sure of Heaven
Supreme Court Judges and U.S. Senators
Ten Days in Love
The Advent Preacher and the Balloon
The Day We Reached Canada
The Dog Law
The Glorious Fourth of July
The Mule not the Eagle
The Old Sweet Songs
The Political Outlook
The Power of Eloquence
The Thirsty Gopher
The Universalist Bath
The Universal Object
The Wicked Mon Kee
The Wrong Corpse
Three Inches of Leg
To What Vile Uses May We Come
Too Particular by Half
What the Country Needs
What the Democrats Will Do
We Will Celebrate
Why not Raise Wolves?
ILLUSTRATIONS.
A Scene in Paradise
“Ah, my Friends, Look Down Into That Burning Lake!”
An Intrusive Nigger
At the Telephone
Behind the Scenes
Bossing the Pillow
“Do not Pass me by!”
Drummers Trying to Pray
“Get Thee to a Nunnery!”
“Happy New Year, Mum!”
Hiawasamantha, the Dusky Daughter of the Golden West
“I Want to be an Angel”
It Looked Like an old Dripping Pan
“It is F-f-four Sizes too Big!”
John McCullough Killing a Texas Steer
“Just as I am”
“Keno!”
Martindale Climbs a Pole
“Me Long Lost Duke!”
Mystery of a Woman’s Clothes
New Way of Taking Seidlitz Powders
No More Apples for the Minister
“Oh, That Will be all Right”
“Pa Grabbed Her by the Polonaise”
“Sard,” and the Greek Slave
Sacred Memories
Slippery Oysters
Swallow-Tails on the Climb
The Lady of the Seventh Ward
The Old Back Number Girl
The Old Man Tries His Hand
The Resorter
The Rotund Urso
The Sexton in all His Glory
The Startled Cat
The Tenor Arrayed in all His Glory
The Wandering Oyster
“Thereby Hangs a Tail.”
“This is too Allfired Much!”
“Too Late, Pa, I Die at the Hand of an Assassin!”
Turning the Proper Dingus
“Yell, or go Down!”