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  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    "Morning, sir! Hair-cut, sir? Shave sir?" sang out the obsequous barber. "Shave, please," said the client, ...

    Article : 120 words
  4. WHY ARE FAT MEN FUNNY?

    Laugh, says the proverb, and grow fat. It stops there, just as though that were the end of the matter. Bat it ...

    Article : 342 words
  5. PLANNING A RAID.

    The history of a raid from the moment it is ordered—probably by the Brigadier—to the moment when a dozen or so resolute men crawl away ...

    Article : 441 words
  6. THE MOUSTACHE IN WARFARE.

    It was in warfare that the idea was evolved of soldiers having their chins clean-shaved to enhance their fighting powers. ...

    Article : 267 words
  7. THE KAISER'S SLIMNESS.

    A curious example of the Kaiser's slimness, to give it no harsher name, recently came to light. The Ocean Cup, which he gave ...

    Article : 202 words
  8. INDIGESTION IN APPETITE STIMULATION.

    It is a well nigh universal idea Among ordinary people, encouraged to great extent by doctors, that it is a good thing to stimulate the ...

    Article : 1,325 words
  9. NO SYMPATHY REQUIRED.

    A couple of old salts met after a iong absence, and the following animated conversation ensued:— "Well, old man, how are you ...

    Article : 181 words
  10. MONSTER CLAWED HORSE.

    Scientists have just discovered, much to their own amazement, that a strange race of animals, unlike anything existing to-day, once ...

    Article : 749 words
  11. GOING STRONG AT 100!

    A man who was on the verge of manhood when the "Pickwick Papers' were appearing in monthly parts, a man, too, who might be Sam Weller ...

    Article : 736 words
  12. TOWNS WITHOUT TAXES!

    In these days of expensive living what a boon to live in a city without taxes! But there are such places. ...

    Article : 223 words
  13. DANGEROUS FARMING.

    It has been said, scores of times, that long after the war we shall hear of ships striking mines, but it is not so generally realised how ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. LOCATED.

    The orderly officer went an extra round of the camp to see that all the sentries were at their posts. He came on one man lying fast asleep ...

    Article : 602 words
  15. A BROTH OF A BOY.

    The King of Spain celebrated his thirty-second birthday recently. As he became King the moment he was born, he has been a monarch longer ...

    Article : 200 words
  16. WHAT MAKES RIFLES KICK SO HARD.

    Not the most pleasant part of firing a rifle is what is known as the "kick"—the vicious backward drive of the steel-shod butt against the ...

    Article : 394 words
  17. NAVY'S SECRET BOOKS.

    Signal-books are not the only confidential volumes issued to the Navy. though they are the ones most often mentioned. There are confidential ...

    Article : 342 words
  18. GOSPEL QUEUES.

    The gospel queue is by no means unknown. When Charles Haddon Spurgeon was preaching regularly at the Metropolitan Tabernacle anyone ...

    Article : 291 words
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