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  2. A MYSTERY OF MASTER AND MAK.

    One often hears stories of servants who are so excellent that their masters are content to leave the entire management of affairs in their hands, ...

    Article : 956 words
  3. INGENIOUS CROOKS.

    Petty crookB are continually, thinking out new schemes for relieving us of our surplus cash. A girl of 21 victimised cafe ...

    Article : 560 words
  4. TO STOP SLEEPTALKING.

    Behind an exhibit in the electrical section at the British Industries Fair at Birmingham lies a London doctor's discovery of a cure for sleep-walking. ...

    Article : 213 words
  5. BINDING: A BIG DIAMOND.

    There stepped out of the train into Cape Town recently one of the lucki est men alive. He was Jacobus Jonker, the man who stoped down and picked ...

    Article : 978 words
  6. THE HELPING HAND.

    "Do the work that's nearest, Though 'tis dull at whiles, Helping when we meet them Lame dogs over stiles." ...

    Article : 308 words
  7. THE NAVY's BLACK SQUAD.

    Watch the stoker as he wearily descends the iron ladder to the stokehold. His heavy fireproof clothing is designed to protect him from hot ashes ...

    Article : 533 words
  8. SEASIDE WHISPERS.

    A wealthy woman's maid hesitated outside her bathroom door, tapped, and said softly, "The key's under the mat, madam," before she went downstairs ...

    Article : 573 words
  9. IN ABYSSINIA'S CAPITAL.

    The streets of Addis Ababa are thronged with diversity. Young men with curly hair are reckoned inferior in status to those who have had their ...

    Article : 232 words
  10. SIXTY YEARS IN BED!

    In a certain village in Hampshire there is a woman who took to her bed twenty-five years ago because of a chill. She has remained there ever ...

    Article : 151 words
  11. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    We are reminded that fashions in men's clothing are continually changing. Every tog has its day! Thwarted.—The early bird that went ...

    Article : 192 words
  12. DOCK EXTENSIONS.

    At London, in an extensive scheme of dock Improvements and extensions, six hundred men "will be regularly employed for five years, and many ...

    Article : 431 words
  13. THE SHIP-BREAKING BUSINESS.

    Breaking up a skip floes not mean that she is smashed to pieces with sledge hammers. At the shipbreakers she will be taken to pieces almost as' ...

    Article : 187 words
  14. WHAT TO DO IN A THUNDER STORM.

    There is no need to be frightened of thunderstorms because the number of deaths caused by lightning is infinitesimal. ...

    Article : 184 words
  15. IN IMITATION OF SIMPSON.

    "By Jove, it's Simpson!" exclaimed the young man, bumping into a portly gentleman and dealing him a hearty slap upon the shoulders. ...

    Article : 117 words
  16. Political Note.

    Woman (about to attend political meeting): "I'm not prejudiced at all. I'm going with a perfectly open and unbiased mind to listen to what I'm ...

    Article : 207 words
  17. A MAN WHO DRESSED IN PAPER.

    Not many persons have worn paper clothes, except perhaps at carnivals, but a man has done so for many years (a home paper says) without any ...

    Article : 231 words
  18. THE FIRST SAFETY PIN.

    A little boy, the son of an English blacksmith, used to act as nursemaid to his baby brother. The baby often cried, and its tears were generally ...

    Article : 97 words
  19. LEARNING.

    Learning is like a river, whose head, being far in the land, is, at first rising, little and easily viewed; but still, as you go, it gapeth with a wider bank; ...

    Article : 94 words
  20. Wasn't So Clever.

    He: "Do you know that I am sometiling of a mind reader?" She: "Oh! Then why do you sit at the other end of the settee?" ...

    Article : 79 words
  21. Still Hone.

    Muriel: "The man I marry must be a hero." Dora: "Oh, come, dear. You are not as bad-looking as all that." ...

    Article : 54 words
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