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  2. ALLEGED HUMOR

    Newsboy: "Great mustry. Ninety-nine victims! Paper sir?" Gentleman: "Here, boy, I'll take one." (After reading a moment): ...

    Article : 51 words
  3. FRUIT GROWING

    During the pruning season last year Orchard inspector Wallis visited the Wallan (Victoria) district and gave a pruning demonstration in one of the ...

    Article : 935 words
  4. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 616 words
  5. COST OF LIVING

    The inquiry into the cost of living is being continued before Mr. Justice Heydon. Mr. Connington read from the ...

    Article : 824 words
  6. BERVITIES

    One lighted gas jet consumes as much air as four adults. London has 200,000 telephones, and the calls average 1,250,000 per day. ...

    Article : 1,061 words
  7. MANNERS TAUGHT HERE

    It is a far cry from the days of Dickens's "Dotheboys Hall," where the pupils learnt nothing, to the present time when schools exist for the ...

    Article : 642 words
  8. DEFINITIONS.

    Aviator,—The air hog of the future. Baby,—A starter in the human race. Sun,—A fresh figure in the world's revolution. ...

    Article : 260 words
  9. PART OF THE WAY.

    Smith's opportunity had come at last. He had been offered a really good job in Australia. So he forthwith threw up his twenty-six-bob-a-week clerkship ...

    Article : 79 words
  10. MAIDENLY MATURITY.

    The unmarried lady of questionable age waxed exceedingly wrath when the census taking man asked the number of her years. ...

    Article : 104 words
  11. UNBLUSHING BRIDES.

    Is the modern young woman delaying her wedding day a late as possible, and has the blushing bride of seventeen gone entirely out of fashion? It is ...

    Article : 420 words
  12. INSPECTING.

    She was being shown through the locomotive works. "What is that thing?" she asked, pointing with her parasol. ...

    Article : 56 words
  13. GOT GOOD VALUE FOR HIS MONEY

    An old farmer had come into South port to see the King on his recent visit. He had the true Lancashire dread of being "done," and he asked a friend ...

    Article : 91 words
  14. HE WENT ONE BTTER.

    Two natives of Marseilles were discussing the best of eating game. "Well," said one, "if it's a wood- ...

    Article : 93 words
  15. SKIN DEEP.

    After Thomas Soar, Esq., had been an important member of the Muddleton Rural Council for several years, he received an inspiration to endeavor ...

    Article : 92 words
  16. USEFUL TO KNOW.

    To make Cheap Soap.—Very few housewives—even careful ones—know that soap can be made of fat skimmings, dripping, or fat meat boiled ...

    Article : 446 words
  17. TROUBLE AHEAD.

    "More hard luck," sighed the house holder in the town which had developed a war of gas companies. "I wish these corporations wouldn't fall out." ...

    Article : 69 words
  18. BUSY MEN

    Should Weigh This Question and Profit by Another's Experience. May have energy in abundance. May know his business well. ...

    Article : 383 words
  19. FOR HIS WIFE'S SAKE.

    A farmer recently called at the office of the local paper, and indegnantly asked the editor why (although it should have been there) his name had ...

    Article : 83 words
  20. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 298 words
  21. AN ENTERPRISING MANAGER.

    An actor had been out with one of those barn-storming aggregations that move from town to town—whenever the police will let them. Salaries were long ...

    Article : 77 words
  22. FULLY QUALIFIED.

    A burly person sauntered into the premises of a film-producing company the other day and managed to reach the managing director's office without ...

    Article : 143 words
  23. WHAT HELPED HIM

    "Yes," said the colonel, "men may chaff about the supposed power of the human eye over wild beasts; but it's a fact, nevertheless, that I once kept a ...

    Article : 108 words
  24. PASS THE SALT.

    An old man with pains most erratic. Said in tones that were surely emphatic. "It's as damp as a tomb In my small attic room, ...

    Article : 34 words
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