[Editorial]
The Wasp/June 26, 1886
The Wasp/July 3, 1886
The Wasp/July 10, 1886
The Wasp/July 17, 1886
The Wasp/July 31, 1886
The Wasp/August 7, 1886
The Wasp/August 14, 1886
The Devil's Dictionary
The Wasp/August 14, 1886
[Editorial]
The Wasp/August 21, 1886
Why Men Don't Marry
The Wasp/August 21, 1886
[Editorial]
The Wasp/September 4, 1886
Our National Joke
1887
A Caution to Prophets
San Francisco Examiner/February 20, 1887
1888
Prattle
San Francisco Examiner/January 1, 1888
1889
One Kind of Coroner
San Francisco Examiner/September 4, 1889
Prattle
San Francisco Examiner/September 8, 1889
Concerning Desertion
San Francisco Examiner/September 9, 1889
Fatlings of the Flock
San Francisco Examiner/September 15, 1889
As We See Ourselves
San Francisco Examiner/September 15, 1889
Prattle
San Francisco Examiner/September 15, 1889
San Francisco Examiner/September 22, 1889
1895
The Prevailing Corsican: On Napoleon
San Francisco Examiner. April 21, 1895
1896
Bierce on the Funding Bill
San Francisco Examiner/February 1, 1896
Huntington Lying in His Last Ditch
San Francisco Examiner/February 2, 1896
Huntington's Methods Almost Beyond Belief
San Francisco Examiner/February 3, 1896
Its Shameless Work Goes On
San Francisco Examiner/February 6, 1896
Mr. Huntington On the Grill
San Francisco Examiner/February 9, 1896
Huntington Must Take the Oath
San Francisco Examiner/February 14, 1896
His Deal With Pacific Mail
San Francisco Examiner/February 15, 1896
Huntington Under Morgan's Lash
San Francisco Examiner/February 18, 1896
Huntington's Great Rage
San Francisco Examiner/February 19, 1896
Enlists in the People's Cause
San Francisco Examiner/February 20, 1896
Says Hopkins Knew It All
San Francisco Examiner/February 21, 1896
Morgan to Offer His Own Measure
San Francisco Examiner/February 22, 1896
California Wins Eastern Friends
San Francisco Examiner/February 25, 1896
1898
Joaquin Miller on Joaquin Miller
San Francisco Examiner/January 30, 1898
If I Were Mayor Phelan
San Francisco Examiner/February 6, 1898
Commercial Retaliation
San Francisco Examiner/February 12, 1898
A Man of Genius
San Francisco Examiner/February 13, 1898
Dogs for the Klondike
San Francisco Examiner/February 14, 1898
De Lomer than De Lome
San Francisco Examiner/February 20, 1898
An Innovation
San Francisco Examiner/February 28, 1898
Letter From a Dead Sailor
Transcribed by Ambrose Bierce
San Francisco Examiner/April 3, 1898
A Word of Warning
San Francisco Examiner/April 10, 1898
The Seamy Side of It
San Francisco Examiner/April 17, 1898
Chickamauga
San Francisco Examiner/April 24, 1898
War Topics
San Francisco Examiner/May 1, 1898
San Francisco Examiner/May 8, 1898
San Francisco Examiner/May 15, 1898
The War to Date
San Francisco Examiner/May 20, 1898
Surrounding a Fleet
San Francisco Examiner/May 21, 1898
War Topics
San Francisco Examiner/May 22, 1898
A Freak War
San Francisco Examiner/August 7, 1898
Echoes of the War:
How an Old Man-o’-Warsman
Came by Two Historical Letters
San Francisco Examiner/August 20, 1898
Rhetorical Monke-Shines
San Francisco Examiner/August 27, 1898
The Pleasures of Peace
San Francisco Examiner/September 4, 1898
New "Imaginary Conversations"
San Francisco Examiner/September 18, 1898
Apocryphal Conversations
San Francisco Examiner/September 25, 1898
San Francisco Examiner/October 3, 1898
Prattle
San Francisco Examiner/October 30, 1898
San Francisco Examiner/November 6, 1898
San Francisco Examiner/November 20, 1898
San Francisco Examiner/November 27, 1898
San Francisco Examiner/December 4, 1898
San Francisco Examiner/December 11, 1898
San Francisco Examiner/December 18, 1898
San Francisco Examiner/December 25, 1898
Prattle
San Francisco Examiner/January 1, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/March 19, 1899
Our Task in the Pacific:
Some Plain Words About the Philippine War
San Francisco Examiner/June 25, 1899
Kipling Fighting Putnam
San Francisco Examiner/July 2, 1899
The Writer Folk
San Francisco Examiner/.July 9, 1899
War Topics
San Francisco Examiner/July 23, 1899
Ingersoll, The Dead Lion
San Francisco Examiner/July 30, 1899
A Voice from the Tomb
San Francisco Examiner/August 6, 1899
The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/August 6, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/August 13, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/August 20, 1899
Immortality and Reincarnation
San Francisco Examiner/August 20, 1899
The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/September 3, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/September 10, 1899
1900
Administration's Philippine Policy
Voiced in Congress
San Francisco Examiner/January 10, 1900
The Survival of the Fittest
San Francisco Examiner/January 14, 1900
Enemies of the Canal Fail
San Francisco Examiner/January 17, 1900
The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/January 28, 1900
British Soldier Shows His Fighting Qualities
at Spion Kop Battle
San Francisco Examiner/February 3, 1900
The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/February 4, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/February 25, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/March 4, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/March 11, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/March 18, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/March 25, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/April 1, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/April 8, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/April 15, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/May 6, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/May 13, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/May 27, 1900
Ambrose Bierce Says:
Public Opinion is Responsible for Many Fallacies
San Francisco Examiner/June 1, 1900
The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/June 3, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/June 10, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/June 17, 1900
We Should Hold
Minister Wu Ting-Fang as a Hostage
San Francisco Examiner/June 23, 1900
The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/June 24, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/July 8, 1900
A m b r o s e B i e r c e
1842 - 1914?
1868
Confessions of a Weak-Minded Man
San Francisco News Letter/March 7, 1868
Confessions of a Weak-Minded Man--No. 2
San Francisco News Letter/March 14, 1868
Confessions of a Weak-Minded Man--No. 3
San Francisco News Letter/March 21, 1868
Letters from a Hkdhoite--No. 1
San Francisco News Letter/April 4, 1868
Letters from a Kdhoite--No. 2
San Francisco News Letter/April 11, 1868
Letters from a Hdkhoite--No. 3
San Francisco News Letter/April 18, 1868
Religious Intelligence
San Francisco News Letter/April 18, 1868
Letters from a Hdkhoite--No. 4
San Francisco News Letter/April 25, 1868
Original Aphorisms
San Francisco News Letter/May 23, 1868
The Vanity of Fame--An Eastern Tale
San Francisco News Letter/June 6, 1868
Letter from a City Missionary
San Francisco News Letter/August 15, 1868
San Francisco News Letter/October 10, 1868
Letter from an Ass to a Fool
San Francisco News Letter/October 10, 1868
San Francisco News Letter/October 24, 1868
Earthquake Items
San Francisco News Letter/October 24, 1868
The Aborigines of Oakland
San Francisco News Letter/November 7, 1868
A Scientific Dream
San Francisco News Letter/November 14, 1868
San Francisco News Letter/December 5, 1868 San Francisco News Letter/December 12, 1868 San Francisco News Letter/December 19, 1868 San Francisco News Letter/December 26, 1868 1869 The Town Crier San Francisco News Letter/January 16, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/January 30, 1869 Webster Revised San Francisco News Letter/January 30, 1869 Graveyard Gossip San Francisco News Letter/February 6, 1869 The Town Crier San Francisco News Letter/February 6, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/February 13, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/February 20, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/February 27, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/March 6, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/March 13, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/March 20, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/March 27, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/April 3, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/April 17, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/April 24, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/May 1, 1869 Interior Items San Francisco News Letter/May 8, 1869 Across the Continent--[By Samboles] San Francisco News Letter/May 15, 1869 The Town Crier San Francisco News Letter/May 15, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/May 22, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/May 29, 1869 Laps San Francisco News Letter/June 5, 1869 Cleopatra's Nose San Francisco News Letter/June 5, 1869 The Town Crier San Francisco News Letter/June 12, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/June 19, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/June 26, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/July 3, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/July 10, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/July 17, 1869 "News Letter" Aphorisms--By Our Special Philosopher San Francisco News Letter/July 24, 1869 The Town Crier San Francisco News Letter/July 24, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/July 31, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/August 7, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/August 14, 1869 A Dark Conspiracy San Francisco News Letter/August 21, 1869 Letter from Mud Springs San Francisco News Letter/August 21, 1869 The Town Crier San Francisco News Letter/August 21, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/August 28, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/September 4, 1869 Letter From Red Dog San Francisco News Letter/September 4, 1869 Academical San Francisco News Letter/September 11, 1869 The Town Crier San Francisco News Letter/September 11, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/September 25, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/October 2, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/October 9, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/October 16, 1869 Un Ballo San Francisco News Letter/October 16, 1869 Letter from Scoundrel Gulch San Francisco News Letter/October 23, 1869 The Town Crier San Francisco News Letter/October 23, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/October 30, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/November 6, 1869 San Francisco News Letter/November 13, 1869 The Town Crier San Francisco News Letter/July 1, 1871 1872 Letter from London Daily Alta California/July 22, 1872 Daily Alta California/July 28, 1872 Daily Alta California/August 17, 1872 Daily Alta California/October 21, 1872 Daily Alta California/October 25, 1872 Daily Alta California/October 26, 1872 Daily Alta California/October 30, 1872 1878 1881 The Devil's Dictionary Prattle 1886 Prattle The Devil's Dictionary Society Notes Prattle Long-Felt Wants The Discalfted Cow An Imminent Calamity Prattle Our Medical Column The Devil's Dictionary Science on the Half-Shell Prattle Our Interior Contemporaries Society Notes Prattle Society Notes The Document in the Case Prattle Uncommon Occurrences Prattle Judging a Judge Society Notes Prattle The Devil's Dictionary Some of Our Societies Prattle [Editorial] The Devil's Dictionary
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Ingersoll, The Dead Lion
San Francisco Examiner/July 30, 1899
A Voice from the Tomb
San Francisco Examiner/August 6, 1899
The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/August 6, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/August 13, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/August 20, 1899
Immortality and Reincarnation
San Francisco Examiner/August 20, 1899
The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/September 3, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/September 10, 1899
1900
Administration's Philippine Policy
Voiced in Congress
San Francisco Examiner/January 10, 1900
The Survival of the Fittest
San Francisco Examiner/January 14, 1900
Enemies of the Canal Fail
San Francisco Examiner/January 17, 1900
The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/January 28, 1900
British Soldier Shows at Spion Kop Battle His Fighting Qualities
San Francisco Examiner/February 3, 1900
The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/February 4, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/February 11, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/February 25, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/March 4, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/March 11, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/March 25, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/April 1, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/April 8, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/April 15, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/May 6, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/May 13, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/May 27, 1900
Ambrose Bierce Says: Public Opinion is Responsible for Many Fallacies
San Francisco Examiner/June 1, 1900
The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/June 3, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/June 10, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/June 17, 1900
We Should Hold
Minister Wu Ting-Fang as a Hostage
San Francisco Examiner/June 23, 1900
The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/June 24, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/July 8, 1900
1902
For the Canal
New York American/April 8, 1902
For Secretary of Something
New York American/April 16, 1902
The Bald Campaigner
San Francisco Examiner/May 10, 1902
Some Needed Words
New York American/May 19, 1902
The Bald Campaigner
New York American/May 31, 1902
The Curmudgeon Philosopher
San Francisco Examiner/June 19, 1902
Concerning One Beslubbered
San Francisco Examiner/July 1, 1902
The Age Romantic
San Francisco Examiner/October 4, 1902
The Eyes of Chowa Maha Vajiravudh
New York American/October 22, 1902
The Nations That Drink Too Much
San Francisco Examiner/November 6, 1902
The Crime of 1902
San Francisco Examiner/November 22, 1902
The Man and the Bird
New York American/December 11, 1902
Venezuela as a Regrettable Phenomenon
New York American/December 16, 1902
1903
A Social Nuisance
San Francisco Examiner/January 18, 1903
A Gifted Millionaire
San Francisco Examiner/May 27, 1903
Habitual Criminals and What to Do With Them
San Francisco Examiner/June 11, 1903
The Curmudgeon Philosopher and What Ails Him
San Francisco Examiner/August 10, 1903
San Francisco Examiner/March 6, 1904
San Francisco Examiner/March 13, 1904
1905
The Views of One
San Francisco Examiner/July 6, 1905
San Francisco Examiner/October 23, 1905
San Francisco Examiner/October 24, 1905
1907
Small Contributions
Small Contributions: The Writer Folk
1908
Small Contributions:
The Rise and Fall of the Aeroplane
If Reform Reformed
1909
Small Contributions: The Writer Folk
"For years and years California’s position on the Chinese question has been conspicuously contemptible. We have been imploring Congress to save us from ourselves—to avert from our undeserving heads the consequences of our own selfishness. We have prayed that the Chinese might be kept away from us, in order that we might not hurt ourselves by employing them. Within the past fifteen years I have myself repeatedly submitted, with all due deference, that we need not employ them nor purchase of them if we did not wish, and that we merited no outside assistance so long as we did. Others spoke to the same effect, but we were a feeble and unheeded few.
"All eyes were turned to Washington, all hopes were centered in Congress. It is not surprising that the relief we got was grudgingly given, for our sincerity was open to disproof. If there had been no Congress to help us we should long ago have helped ourselves. But for our own apathy and greed there would not be today enough Chinamen in California to carry a lightweight Polish refugee into the Board of Education."
"Prattle," The Wasp, April 3, 1886
Mr. George R. Sims, writing in the London Referee, wants a short and convenient name for the offense known as “traveling in a class of railway carriage superior to that for which the defendant had taken a ticket.” It is a ludicrous fact that the offense has never had another name, nor is it quite easy to invent one off-hand. I should like to know what it is in Volapuk. We have in this country certain clumsy phrases which might advantageously be condensed into single words. For example, to “join in the holy bonds of wedlock” might become to “jedlock.” The society editor would be spared much labor if he could say of the unhappy couple that they were “jedlocked,” or “lemaltared,”—the latter word meaning, of course, “led to the matrimonial altar.” Many of the ordinary reporter's favorite expressions could be treated in the same practical fashion. The familiar “much-needed rest” would become simply “mest.” The “devouring element” would be “delement,” and have done with it. When it was, as it so frequently is, necessary to say that something “reflects great credit” on somebody, the verb “to refledit” would serve an honorable and useful purpose. Instead of writing of a man freshly dead that he was “much esteemed by all who knew him,” we should say that he was much “estewed.” By such simple and rational devices as these the language would be notably improved, and an account of a dog-fight in the street, instead of occupying three columns, could be compressed into two, and space saved for the preliminary maneuvers of another dog fight.
"Prattle"
San Francisco Examiner