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  2. WHICH WAY?

    The commanding officer of a certain battalion applied for a grooom, and Paddy, not knowing anything about horses or harness, put in for ...

    Article : 120 words
  3. GREATEST HOTEL MAN.

    Who is the world's grealest, "hotel man?" In New York, at any rate, that distinetion is aceredited to Mr John McE. Bowman, who recently ...

    Article : 109 words
  4. PAPER INDUSTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    The bulk of the world's supply of paper is made from spruce and other soft, woods, the supplies of which are steadily diminishing. The quantities ...

    Article : 216 words
  5. THE PADRE STAYS WITH THE GUNS

    It was a filthy night—one of the worst that I remember even on the strip of North Cornish coast that stands the full buffeting of the At ...

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  6. TWENTY-FOUR MILLION FIGHTERS.

    The lighting armies in the [?] European war, according to Sir William Robertson, number twenty-four millions of men. Such a figure as ...

    Article : 240 words
  7. GRANITE AND CREAM.

    In a letter to a South Country newspaper a correspondent wrote that the excellence of the clotted cream of Devon and Cornwall was no doubt ...

    Article : 176 words
  8. GIGANTIC U.S. BAKERY.

    The United Stales authorities do not intend that their troops fighting in France shall go short of bread. They have established a gigantic ...

    Article : 97 words
  9. HE GOT OFF EASY.

    A recruit of some two or three weeks standing had been given a pass home, On his return to camp he was much dismayed to find that ...

    Article : 175 words
  10. LONG DISTANCE GUN.

    A shell that will travel 1000 milts, and which is filled with a combinaticni of liquid fire, poisonous gas, and high explosive, is the startling ...

    Article : 187 words
  11. TOWNS WITHOUT TAXES!

    In these days of expensive living what a boon to live in a city without taxesl But there are such places. There is Orson, in Sweden. This ...

    Article : 220 words
  12. SARCASM!

    Hobbling Henry knocked at the door of the poet's house. "Got a long coat?" said he to the long-[?]aired one who unswered the ...

    Article : 90 words
  13. A WATER TEST.

    The children happened to be present when mother received an application for the position of nursemaid. "Why were yon discharged from ...

    Article : 82 words
  14. THE BACHELOR'S TRAIL.

    Two brothers, Angus and Duncan, who worked a small farm, had the misfortune to lose by doath their sister, who was their housekeeper. ...

    Article : 134 words
  15. SIGNIFICANT SIGNS.

    The young mother fiew to the door when her hubby's step was heard. "Oh, Henry, my love, I've found out what our darling little boy is ...

    Article : 122 words
  16. HOW HE THOUGHT.

    A well-dressed lady had given the nignal that she desired to allght, the tramcar was brought to a stop, but just there the rear was dircetly over ...

    Article : 121 words
  17. TOO BAD HE COULDN'T MARCH.

    United States Senator Howard Sutherland, of West Virginia, tells a story about a mountain youth who visited a reeruiting office in the ...

    Article : 156 words
  18. A WONDERFUL STORY OF HEROISM.

    The papers are full each day of stories telling of the wonderful heroism of our men on the battlefields, but even then a story will now and ...

    Article : 201 words
  19. ROCK CAKES.

    Rub [?] of butter into [?] of flour, mix in half a tenspoonful of mixed splce, 60zs. of castor sagar, 20zs. of chopped lemon peel, [?] currents, one ...

    Article : 115 words
  20. FIRST CUP OF TEA.

    The Chinese claim to be the first users of tea as a drink, and how it originated is told in a pretty little legend that dates back from 2000 ...

    Article : 221 words
  21. BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA.

    The source of this expressive, but rather eryptical, proverb is not, easily determined. It is usually held to have some connection with the ...

    Article : 101 words
  22. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    A little kerosene added to any meal polish will be found to be an economy. After washing the hands, put ...

    Article : 209 words
  23. BRITISH EARTHQUAKES.

    Earthquakes are not so uncommon in the British Isles as might he supposed. Out of the 6313 carthuakes which had been recorded in the world ...

    Article : 103 words
  24. HIS NOSE WAS LEFT.

    "Morning, sir! Hair-ent, sir? Shave, sir?" sang out the obsequious barber. "Shave, please," said the ...

    Article : 122 words
  25. FIGHTING BETWEEN FRANCE AND GERMANY.

    The following interesling statisties were compiled 17 years ago by the German soldier, Field-Marshal waldersce, who summed up the result of ...

    Article : 105 words
  26. SELLING HIS WIFE.

    Mary Ann Thompsen was the last wife to be sold at public auction in England, the "sale" taking place at Carlisle in 1832. She was the spouse ...

    Article : 152 words
  27. ALL IN A MINUTE.

    We do a good many things in a minute. For instance, we are whirled on the outside of the earth just 13 miles, and have gone around the ...

    Article : 104 words
  28. A NASTY ONE.

    She was not very young, but she had money. "Dearest—"' he began, but she stopped him. ...

    Article : 107 words
  29. A REAL MAN.

    Little Freddy bad just been put in a khaki suit with long trousers. "Mamma," he asked, "am I a man now like papa?" ...

    Article : 61 words
  30. SOME EXPERIENCE.

    The captain was looking for men of sporting abilities to attend the school for bayonet instrnetion. When the company was assembled, he ...

    Article : 46 words
  31. CHAMPAGNE FOR THE TRENCHES.

    Champagnc is served out to the French Army twice a year—on the National Fete Day of July 14 and at Christmas, one bottle to every four ...

    Article : 111 words
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