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  2. POETRY & RHYMES.

    The toi-toi plumes have faded, And the frosts have sallied forth, The flowers have left the winter here To summer in the north; ...

    Article : 265 words
  3. FLASHES.

    "You can't sit there, mum. These here seats are reserved." "You don't seem to be aware that I'm one of the directors' wives!" ...

    Article : 364 words
  4. BREVITIES.

    London has one street 70ft, long, being the shortest street in the city. The Prince of Wales's breakfast never varies. It consists of tea, toast, and one ...

    Article : 1,240 words
  5. CATCHING SEA-SPIDERS IN ALASKA.

    "If any one desires a dash of excitement I can recommend the fishing of Alaska," said a returned Klondiker. "I lind been fishing above Sitka when one ...

    Article : 1,003 words
  6. DESTRUCTION OF DAWSON CITY.

    The expected has happened. A great fire, long threatened, has overwhelmed Dawson City, and nothing is left of the centre of the metropolis save a heap of ...

    Article : 713 words
  7. LITERARY NOTES.

    Havana is not altogether a paradise for the lovers of new books or magazines. Thetiewest books in English, which can be purchased, are ...

    Article : 726 words
  8. STRAIGHT SHOOTING AND GOOD FEEDING.

    As we were among the first to call attention to the necessity of training our captains of guns in the British fleet to as near perfection as things ...

    Article : 729 words
  9. THE HAGUE CONFERENCE.

    The plice whort you're a goin' ter is miles an miles awye— Abart a tharsand sye— And as yer've gort ter walk it, yer won't ...

    Article : 231 words
  10. THE NEW CANCER CURE.

    Some sensation has been caused of late in Paris and elsewhere by the discovery of Dr. Bra, by whom the press announced that the cancer microbe had ...

    Article : 488 words
  11. SOME RUSSIAN PROVERBS.

    Proverbs point sense and master speech. God straightens the crooked bullet. A fool shoots, but God guides the ...

    Article : 390 words
  12. A "HOWL" AT SURREY.

    [W. P. Howell made a sensational debut for the Australians against Surrey, by taking ten wickets for 28 runs.—Daily Paper.] TUEN—"Ten Little Nigger Boys." ...

    Article : 191 words
  13. THE VINTNERS.

    In those days when along Thames the banks were open, not crowded with great buildings and warehouses as now, but occupied by small stands and ...

    Article : 1,021 words
  14. DELMONICO'S.

    Delmonico's,. the most famous restaurant in two hemispheres, has followed the drift of New York fashion, and has moved "up town." The founder ...

    Article : 596 words
  15. THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE BOERS.

    To explain the undeniable strain of "dark" blood existent in the Transvaal Boer, we must again fall foul of Olive Schreiner. That gifted novelist—may ...

    Article : 1,195 words
  16. SCHOOL BOY LYRICS.

    A copy of Kipling's "School Lyrics" sold the other day at Sotheby's for £135. Mr. E. Kay Robinson, who contributes to Literature, is enabling the public, bit by ...

    Article : 332 words
  17. THE CHESHIRE SALT TRADE.

    An important scheme which has long been simmering in the minds of many Cheshire salt manufacturers has collapsed. For some time fierce ...

    Article : 430 words
  18. SOME PROBABLE AGENDA

    Of the Peace Conference now being hold at the Hugue. 1. Declarations of war shall in future be abolished, as being calculated to ...

    Article : 431 words
  19. RAT STORIES.

    A two-horse load of tin clippings was being transferred to the rear basement of a prominent hotel. It had come from a can-factory, and the narrow, ...

    Article : 439 words
  20. THE PANTOMIME OF CONVICTS

    A former governor of the gaol at Armley, near Leeds, once caused a wellconducted prisoner, but an old gaol bird, to exhibit his powers as a weight ...

    Article : 698 words
  21. HEREDITY.

    Lines ending in rhymes four syllables long have been discovered hy "Literature" in the Butterfly Magazine. They are on "Heredity," by Adrian Ross:— ...

    Article : 108 words
  22. DOCTORS DISAGREE.

    [Dr. Conan Doyle is furious that Dr. Robertson Nicoll should write literary criticism for six different papers.] That speech is silver we are told— ...

    Article : 67 words
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