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  3. A WONDERFUL FREAK OF NATURE.

    Among the many wonderful fr[?] in [?]ure [?] can be none in the geographical [?] that can possibly excel that [?]nown as "The Giant's Head." It ...

    Article : 279 words
  4. WISE UTTERANCES.

    Why may every member of Parliament be regarded as a strong man?— Because he can move the House. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were walking ...

    Article : 506 words
  5. THE POULTRY YARD.

    Mr. J. J. McCue. the Sydney expert, writes:— Make a start this season to change from "dunghills" to thoroughbreds, or ...

    Article : 434 words
  6. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    A Strict Grammarian.—"You think a great deal of your husband, don't you?" asked a relative, calling on a lady. "You are using the wrong preposition," ...

    Article : 82 words
  7. A GOOD REASON.

    "Why does Mrs. Brown look so cross?" asked the curious one. "Because she has just heard that the Greens have moved next door to ...

    Article : 463 words
  8. HE TOOK THE CLOCK.

    A well-known professor, who shall be nameless, sometimes became so much interested in his lecture that when the noon bell rang he kept the class five o[?] ...

    Article : 206 words
  9. THE 200 EGG HEN.

    The following paragraphs are taken from a work entitled "Two Hundred Eggs a Year." published by Edgar L. Warren of New Hampshire:— ...

    Article : 737 words
  10. THE BISHOP'S MOVE.

    One evening, during his recent visi to England, Rear-Admiral Charles S Cotton was entertained at dinner. Among the other guests were the Bishop ...

    Article : 171 words
  11. RESUMED DIGGING.

    Daring a recent Scottish Parliamentary election a canvasser stepped up to an elector who was busy in his garden, and bade him the customary "Good ...

    Article : 95 words
  12. DEFINITION THAT FITTED.

    Professor Payne was a noted examiner at Cambridge University, and his questions were always of a peculiarly exasperating nature. Once he ...

    Article : 53 words
  13. WAITING FOR AN ANSWER.

    One day a grand post office official happened to be passing through a British Government office with which he was not connected. There he saw a ...

    Article : 230 words
  14. GOLDEN APPRECIATION.

    Presiding at a presentation to his curate the Rev. W. J. Cole stated that a Lincolnshire parish once possessed a clergyman who was not munch ...

    Article : 96 words
  15. A SELL ANYWAY.

    'Yes,' said the draper thoughtfully, 'we sell an order when we can sell it and when we can't sell it, we cancel it.' ...

    Article : 26 words
  16. BORNE OUT.

    A.: "So you are going to plant a garden again this year. Were your vegetables last year a success?" B.: "Splendid! Why, my ...

    Article : 46 words
  17. THOUGHT HE'D GONE.

    A Yorkshire vicar, widely known for his charitable disposition, called one day to see a sick woman. He was shown up to the bedroom where she ...

    Article : 165 words
  18. RATHER DIFFERENT.

    "Good gracious!" exclaimed the reporter, looking over his account of the wedding in the paper, "that bridegroom will be mad when he sees this!" ...

    Article : 75 words
  19. WAIVED THE RESPONSIBILITY

    A newly-married man was entreated by his wife to accompany her on a shopping expedition, and reluctantly consented, but on condition that he was ...

    Article : 187 words
  20. [?]LLING.

    A good [?]ry is told of a [?] German professor's absent-mindedness. He repeatedly lost his umbrellas, seldom bringing back one he had taken ...

    Article : 112 words
  21. TAKE IT OUT.

    In the early days of Primitive Methodism there travelled in Leicestershire a minister named Neale, who was noted both for his eccentricity and straight ...

    Article : 133 words
  22. IT TAUGHT A LESSON.

    "I strongly object to the custom of christening ships with champagne," said the temperance advocate. "I don't," replied the other man; ...

    Article : 61 words
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