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  2. THE FIGURE "5."

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 270 words
  3. THE CAMEL.

    An Arab thinks less of his camel than he does of his horse or even his mule. The camel is of value to him because of its great strength and ...

    Article : 242 words
  4. FOR YOUNG FOLKS

    Mrs. Smith was talking with a visitor, when her little son came in, and forgot to remove his cap. To admonish him she said: "Francis, ...

    Article : 53 words
  5. RANDOM READINGS.

    The old method of tying a string about the finger to recall to mind some task to be done at a certain time has been done away with.The ...

    Article : 191 words
  6. WHERE THEY CAME FROM.

    The word "sweetheart" seems everything it ought to be for expressiveness. Once would naturally think it had been coined for the occasion, ...

    Article : 308 words
  7. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING,

    In Cuba, tabacco is planted, grown, and gathered in ninety days. People, as a rule, hear better with their right than with their left ear. ...

    Article : 764 words
  8. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Asked what call be would sound it the headquarters were in flames, the promising Territorial bugler replied: "Oh, the 'cease fire, sir!" ...

    Article : 843 words
  9. ETHEL WASN'T TAKING RISKS.

    Little Ethel had been very naughty. It was certainly wrong for her to tie the cat's tail to the chair leg and pour ink into her father's slip ...

    Article : 132 words
  10. BIRDS AND THE WEATHER.

    Ancient folklore has it that the condition of the weather is foretold by every feathered creature. Should an owl hoot after sunset we shall ...

    Article : 183 words
  11. GOOD FOR EVIL.

    Once upon a time a poor beggar man, who lived in a country where the King was called a sultan, stood in a street and begged. By and Bye ...

    Article : 266 words
  12. ONLY HIS SISTER!

    It was the first time Reginald had ever been to a masked ball, and, although usually of a quiet disposition, the spirit at the evening bad filled ...

    Article : 135 words
  13. DELAYED EVIDENCE.

    A certain barrister was retained on one occasion to defend a Zulu charged with stealing a gold watch from his master. ...

    Article : 166 words
  14. OLIVE OIL AND WINE.

    The ancient Romans had a saying to the effect that a long life and a pleasant one depended on the free use of two fluids—olive oil without ...

    Article : 201 words
  15. LEFT AND RIGHT LIMBS.

    The physiologists and scientists in general have been making some curious experiments with a view to determine the relative length and ...

    Article : 147 words
  16. AN IMPEDIMENT.

    "Please write your name on that line," said the official pushing to ward the woman a book and a pen. "Do yez want me first name?" she ...

    Article : 139 words
  17. DON'T BE LAZY.

    Long years ago the people who lived in a little town became very lazy. Everything was too much trouble for them. ...

    Article : 464 words
  18. TABLES TURNED.

    "No, sir," said a wealthy merchant to his confidential clerk, who had asked for the hand of his daughter; "no, sir; if you were a rich man it ...

    Article : 130 words
  19. AN UNEXPECTED HINT.

    The visitor Lad dropped in "just for a minute," but she remained about three hours after the minute was us. ...

    Article : 127 words
  20. COMMON MISQUOTATIONS.

    Critics who assent that we get more neglectful and careless every day in speech, manners, and customs, have proof of part of their as- ...

    Article : 317 words
  21. ENCOURAGEMENT.

    "Now, applied to the hand, a kiss signifies respect. On the forehead, it denotes friendship. Upon the lips it denotes all things—or nothing." ...

    Article : 124 words
  22. THE OTHER PILE.

    With many blushes the young lady asked the village post-office clerk II there were any letters for Miss Dolly Jones, and male post-office clerks can I ...

    Article : 107 words
  23. WHERE ARITHMETIC FAILED.

    A boy, who had been to school for a year and a half, and who had been working a good deal at arithmetic, came home one mid-summer for his ...

    Article : 119 words
  24. WHERE MONKEYS ARE RE­GISTERED.

    The monkeys of Gibraltar are familiar objects of interest to visitors to the Rock, and hold official recognition in connection with the gar ...

    Article : 130 words
  25. A MISNOMER.

    Mrs. Fitz-Caudle: "Ah, me! there was a time when you always called me 'Daisy,' now It's 'Mrs.Fitz-Caudle, as if I where the merest stranger to ...

    Article : 45 words
  26. ALL IN A TWINKLING.

    A lady who had just received an interesting bit of news said to her little daughter: "Marjorie, dear, auntie has a new baby, and now mamma is ...

    Article : 56 words
  27. FOILED.

    "I once thought seriously of marry­ing for money." "Why didn't yon. then?" "The giri in the case did some thinking, too." ...

    Article : 23 words
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