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  2. SPORTSMEN'S SUPERSTITIONS.

    It has been said that sportsman are not, as a rule, either superstitions or eccentric. I (remarks Basil Towzer in "Fashion") do not at all hold with that ides. If they are not ...

    Article : 1,228 words
  3. CHINESE COURTS.

    The present trouble in the Far East will make the mixed Courts a feature of every big Chinese city. They will be established to try all disputes between foreigners and ...

    Article : 3,162 words
  4. THE LOST CITY.

    Tradition has it that somewhere in Central Western Mexico there exist the ruins of what was once a populous Ast[?] city. It was there that Montex[?]s was reported to ...

    Article : 1,855 words
  5. AN ACTRESS FORGOTTEN.

    She hesitated a moment before entering the manager's office. She looked at the smart sign. brilliant with gilt lettering; at the splendid negro [?]unky at the door, who ...

    Article : 1,450 words
  6. HE FOUND HER.

    Stranger (at the door): I am trying to find a lady whose married name I have forgotten, but I know she lives in this neighbourhood. She is a woman easily ...

    Article : 90 words
  7. WHAT MADE HIM DOUBT.

    It was a mean advantage he took of her, but of course when a family is divided on polities no [?] is shown. "It is useles to argue," he said, "I ...

    Article : 84 words
  8. MACHINE MADE.

    The "World" some years ago recorded a very happy hon-met, The Duch[?] Dece[?] who was a Miss SInger, had been taking part in some theatricals at ...

    Article : 61 words
  9. HE DIDN'T CATCH THE TRAM.

    "I was out in the western part of the state the other day on a master of business." said Brown. "I expected to get back the same day. but I missed the train and was forced ...

    Article : 297 words
  10. HAD THE BEST OF THE DIALOGUE.

    "'Olloway-road—all the way for tuppence!" bawled an energetic bus conductor. "You have dropped some thing." said a humorous passenger, with ...

    Article : 55 words
  11. ALMOST A HINT.

    "It's a beautiful day for a walk," she said, looking out of the window. "Indeed it is," be said, doing likewise. "Would you like to take a walk?" she ...

    Article : 52 words
  12. A PERFECT SHAME.

    Mrs. Goods[?]ul: I think it's a perfect shame that the early settlers killed off the Indians the way they did. Miss De Pretty: Indeed it is; just ...

    Article : 43 words
  13. HAVE YOU EYER MET KIM

    In a certain skirmish. a Colonel (General he came to call himself) get a [?]ght a cratch on his leg. The wound was matter of great glory to him and he nursed it through after ...

    Article : 206 words
  14. INJUSTICE.

    "Won't you give a veteran something to eat, mum?" said Tired Thompson to Mrs. Whiffet., unbelievingly. "You were never a soldier, I'll be bound." ...

    Article : 48 words
  15. THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

    He: Do you understand the language of flowers, dear? She: Oh, yes, a little He: Do you know what those dozen ...

    Article : 44 words
  16. THEY WERE ALL THERE.

    Professor (to student of surgery) Please inform the class the names of bones forming the skull. Student: An—er—I do not at the ...

    Article : 47 words
  17. SHE DIDN'T PROPOSE.

    "John, she said, as she [?]oyed with one of his coat [?]uttons, "this is leap year, is it not?" "Yes, Mamie," he [?] as he looked ...

    Article : 177 words
  18. A PIOUS HOPE.

    The Professor's wife: The professor is in the laboratory conducting some chemical experiments. The professor expects to go down to posterity ...

    Article : 37 words
  19. THE GRAND SECRET.

    Mrs. Youngwife: I have at last discovered how to receive guests property. Mr. Youngwife:? Mrs. youngwife: I have everything ...

    Article : 36 words
  20. SOLDIERS IN PETTICOATS.

    Them recently lived in a cottage on Caithness Moor an aid lady who took a prominent part in the Crimean War. [?]zabeth Co[?]ll was her name, and she was the wife of John ...

    Article : 173 words
  21. THE REASON WHY.

    Jackson: No. I never take the newspaper home. I've got a family of grown up daughters, you know. Friend: Papers too full of crime? ...

    Article : 36 words
  22. FAMILY PRIDE.

    Miles: My grandfather celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth one day last week. Gilles: That's nothing. If my ...

    Article : 35 words
  23. THE JEWS' HARP.

    Among bumbler instruments of music the Jews' harp has an ancient and honourable history. In more modern days no one excelled Koch, the famous ...

    Article : 109 words
  24. EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM.

    Shrewd Deacon: Go ahead, I guess you'll not catch me happing. Trader: I don't know about that, if I'm to judge of what I saw in church ...

    Article : 32 words
  25. THE VERDICT.

    The most popular man in a Western town once got into a difficulty with a disreputable rough, who was the terror of the place, and did him up in a man[?]er entirely satisfactory ...

    Article : 146 words
  26. A VENTRILOQUIST.

    Pat: Say, Phalim, phat's a ventriloquist? Phalim: He's lad p[?]at stands on one side [?] of the room and talks to himself ...

    Article : 31 words
  27. ODIOUS COMPARISON

    "Tell me," said the seeker after KLOW-ledge." wasn't it Shakespeare who said, "The evil that men do lives after them. the good is off interred with their ...

    Article : 115 words
  28. IN MEMORIAM.

    In a cemetery adjoining a small town in the State of Vermont there is a tombstone bearing this remarkable legend— "Sacred to the memory of three twins." ...

    Article : 58 words
  29. NOT A BARGAIN.

    They were seated on the sola. And the lovely maiden fair Seemed lost in a deep reverie— In her eyes a vacant stars. ...

    Article : 50 words
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