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  2. NEW YEAR'S DAY, 2001.

    The last stroke of midnight has echoed base [?]. December 31st 2000, has rolled [?] into the mist of the vanished ages. The twenty first century has dawned upon ...

    Article : 838 words
  3. A TALE OF WOE.

    "Yes," said the land[?]ord, "we do have funny experiences occasionally in the hotel business. Of course, I don't refer to the guests who blow out the gas or want to ...

    Article : 641 words
  4. ELLEN TERRY'S DISCOVERY.

    As the Melancholy Jacques attributed to "each man," Miss Ellen Terry has is her time played many parts. But, off the stage at any rate, she never did the theatre-going ...

    Article : 1,433 words
  5. A CHRISTMAS METEORITE

    It is a poor sort of Christmastide which does not produces at least one meteorite. In west Essex there is a little village called Great Parndon, which is near nowhere ...

    Article : 450 words
  6. THE PORTER'S MISTAKE.

    As the porter passed through the car she called him aside. There was a whisper and a gleam of silver. "Now, remember they are in the yellow ...

    Article : 231 words
  7. AN OLD PUBLISHER'S REMINISCENCES.

    Messrs. Simpkin Marshali and Co. publish the Random Recollections of an Old Publisher. William Tinsley." Mr. Tinsley's career is the more captivating because he ...

    Article : 1,283 words
  8. COMMON THINGS.

    On a recent visit of inspection, a Government inspector of schools asked a number of questions of the pupils about the little things in the world ...

    Article : 157 words
  9. WHAT THE IRISHMAN SALE.

    In court a rain wan on trial who could speak nothing but Irish, and an interpreter was called and duly sworn. The prisoner at once asked him some ...

    Article : 161 words
  10. A TERRIBLE KISS.

    A biography of Augusts, Empress of Germany, wife of the warrior king, William I., has just been published by Messrs. Swan Sonneo[?]achein and Co. It is from the pen of ...

    Article : 245 words
  11. SUITING BOTH PARTIES.

    Poor Wife (to husband whose loud snoring keeps her awake): Charlie, Charlie, do stop snoring. Turn over on your side." (Nudges him.) ...

    Article : 79 words
  12. THE CHINAMAN AND THE REPORTER.

    Here is a story from the "Ohio Monthly" which humorously illustrates the way in which large numbers of people are in the habit of thinking of the Chinese, as if they ...

    Article : 256 words
  13. WHY

    Brown: I say, old man, what individual stands the best chance of winning the two novels offered by " Woman ?' Smith: Well. I should say a weaver ...

    Article : 77 words
  14. THE BEST WAY.

    It was a hot, sultry afternoon in the middle of August. The new pupil teacher had been giving the children an object lesson on the wild duck, thinking that ...

    Article : 136 words
  15. HER STANDARD.

    "Did he seem pleased to have you ask for his daughter's hand?" "He's a man who closely conceals his feelings." ...

    Article : 178 words
  16. MOTHER WAS PACKING.

    A friend called ona worthy divine who had been offered a bishop[?]e. The daughter of the house met him at the door. ...

    Article : 58 words
  17. SLIGHTING THE WAITER.

    It was at a railway refreshment-room. The passenger was hungry and in a burry. "Please pass me them pertaters, mister," he said addressing an elegant gentleman who ...

    Article : 151 words
  18. HER ONLY FAULT FINDING.

    "Silas," said the woman, pausing before her husband under the apple tree "It ain't often I find fault with Providence, is it?" ...

    Article : 141 words
  19. ILL-LUCK OF PEACOCK'S FEATHERS

    There is at least one house in London where you will as soon see a python as a peacock's feather, says the "Onlooker." The drawing-room was once decorated with a ...

    Article : 153 words
  20. IT DIDN'T WORK.

    Father Tommie, I hope you apologised nicely for treading on that gentleman's foot. Tommie: Oh, yes, and he gave me ...

    Article : 55 words
  21. WHY IT WAS WANTED.

    A middle-aged woman called at a druggist's shop the other evening, and asked for morphine, and the assistant replied to her request with— ...

    Article : 123 words
  22. THE BOYS MISTAKE.

    A bishop Buying in a country hotel wished to be called early. The landlord gave the page-boy strict orders to address him as "My Lord." The boy ...

    Article : 52 words
  23. A BAD CUSTOMER.

    A good story is told of a British colonel who possessed a prodigious appetite. Where in Wales, he went on a walking tour, and stopped for a mid-day meal at a village inn. ...

    Article : 146 words
  24. NOT A RELIC.

    A visitor was being shown round a police court in a country town by the inspector, and after viewing the cells, the Chief Constable's room was reached. ...

    Article : 105 words
  25. INSECTS OF THE SEA.

    A few extracts from a contribution to the January number of " Knowledge " by Mr. G. H. Carpenter, B.Sc., will show how on granting is the study of the insect fauna of ...

    Article : 339 words
  26. HER DEFINITION.

    A little girl was asked by an artist to define drawing and replied:— "Oh, drawing is thinking and then marking round the think." ...

    Article : 51 words
  27. HIS IDEA OF WORK.

    In a small village in Kent lived a farmer who had two sons—the eider, Jerry, an industrious and hard-working boy; the younger, Willie, just as idle. His father wishing to ...

    Article : 116 words
  28. A BAPTISMAL NOTICE.

    A clergyman having two churches, one at each end of a straggling parish, was accustomed to conduct baptisms at each church alternate Sundays. One Sunday ...

    Article : 47 words
  29. THEY CHOSE WAGNER.

    They were assured of a successful season of grand opera—at least, from a financial standpoint. Accordingly, the manager deferred to the two society ...

    Article : 85 words
  30. HOW HE GUESSED.

    She whispered in the honeymoon, "How cool you were when you proposed! and I, poor thing, thought I should [?]— You noticed how my eyes were closed?" ...

    Article : 122 words
  31. THEY WERE MARRIED.

    Millie : Algy, dear, I dreamed last night you had given me such a lovely bracelet for a birthday present." Algy: Did you? Then you'd better go ...

    Article : 42 words
  32. TAKEN DOWN A PEC.

    Gusher: My wife han promised to wait for me at the gate of Heaven, if she is the first to go. Flasher: Tut, Tut! You shouldn't be so ...

    Article : 167 words
  33. THE "HEATHEN PASSEL"

    The candidates up far public examination a China suffer far more acutely than do even the most harassed victims of the form of torture in the West. They are immured ...

    Article : 173 words
  34. IMPROVING THE OCCASION.

    Near Hamlin, Kans., the religious sect known as the "Holiness People " have painted Scripture texts on barns and other buildings. On a bridge north of ...

    Article : 115 words
  35. WHAT DID HE MEAN

    A gentleman having a book sent him to criticise, replied in the following terms:— "Thank you very much for your book. ...

    Article : 87 words
  36. HE KNEW.

    She was rather proud of he waist, and intimated that he couldn't guess the measure of it. "I can give it within the fraction of an ...

    Article : 120 words
  37. A GOOD EXCUSE.

    "How, madam." said the crotchety Judge, who had been annoyed by the digressions of previous female witness sea, "we want no [?] evidence. Tell only what you know. ...

    Article : 55 words
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