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  2. Dame Durden's Post Office.

    Everyone under 18 is, invited to write letters here. The best will be published, and, perhaps, win a prize, and even the worst will be read with interest. Writers may choose any members pf the Court they please to ...

    Article : 2,087 words
  3. Nothing Like Knowing the Language

    To speak French to a Frenchman requires some bravery. An American lady once embarrassed her Parisian tailor by entreating him to make the trousers of her gown very large. ...

    Article : 415 words
  4. PASTIMES.

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  5. Miscellaneous.

    A Galway magistrate, who was a major in the county militia, sentenced an old woman to six weeks' imprisonment for shop-lifting. "Well, thanks he to the Lord," exclaimed the prisoner, ...

    Article : 543 words
  6. EN LIGHTER VEIN.

    Prince Louis Esterhazy, military attache of the Austrian embassy at London, was recently travelling alone in an English railway when an elegantly dresesd woman entered the carriage. Present ...

    Article : 228 words
  7. WORD SQUARE.

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  8. NOVEL ACROSTIC.

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  9. CHARADE.

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  10. SOME "INTENTIONS."

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  11. A Merciful Providence.

    Heaven born Artist: ''You want an advanced education to see Nature as I see it." One of the Commonplace: "My dear fellow, I thank a merciful Providence for the lamentable ignorance that prevents my seeing anything in Nature like that." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 44 words
  12. Sings to a Debtor.

    "There's the best colector in the city," and the head of a prosperous firm indicated the man on whom this praise had been bestowed. "He doesn't look it." ...

    Article : 350 words
  13. DECAPITATION.

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  14. TRANSPOSED DELETION.

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  15. Ironbound.

    A newspaper editor of some celebrity as a disciplinarian was noted among his colleagues for the extreme disorder of his own desk. Though in sisting upon methodical habits on the part of his ...

    Article : 192 words
  16. SUBSTRACTIONS.

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  17. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES OF MARCH 18.

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  18. The Veteran's Retort.

    It is related of the Emperor William of Germany that at a recent review in Berlin he reprimanded old General von Meersoheldt for losing his presence of mind at a critical moment. "If ...

    Article : 213 words
  19. Queer Superstitions.

    Alexander the Great would never touch red-hot iron with his left forefinger. Miltiades would not eat cat on the first day of the moon. Caesar thought it unlucky to leap into a well. Brutus ...

    Article : 161 words
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