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  2. LLOYD GEORGE AMONG THEM.

    In proportion to its size, Wales has; given to the world more famous men than probably any other part of the United Kingdom. ...

    Article : 193 words
  3. JUDICIAL WIT.

    A witty judge recently, after hearing a lot of hard swearing on both sides, addressed the jury : "Gentlemen of the jury, if you believe the ...

    Article : 350 words
  4. "I FAKE FURNITURE."

    I happen to be a furniture fakir, or maker of reproductions of the old pieces so dear to the heart of the collector. ...

    Article : 514 words
  5. THE TOWN CLOCK'S CAPTURE.

    Early one afternoon a well-dressed business-like-looking man, carrying a small leather hand-bag, walked up the principal street of the village of ...

    Article : 2,118 words
  6. IN THEIR MOTHER'S FOOTSTEPS.

    There are numerous instances in history in which parents possessing; uncommon gifts are supposed to have passed them on to their children. ...

    Article : 246 words
  7. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    "I always believe in saving something for a rainy day." "How much have you saved ?" "Oh, I haven't sayed anything, but ...

    Article : 136 words
  8. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    It is astonishing to find that there is anyone living at the present day who has had his teeth puiled out by the village blacksmith. Yet there ...

    Article : 133 words
  9. WHEN SPEED MEANS LOSS.

    Digging is not the only task where slow and steady wins the race. The dentist is a man who regards speed as an enemy of his art. The client ...

    Article : 231 words
  10. A COMMON EXPERIENCE.

    "I tell you, gentlemen," said the great explorer to the crowd in the hotel smoking-room, who were listening breathlessly to his recital, "you ...

    Article : 113 words
  11. MIRACLES OF SURGERY.

    Some miracles of modern surgery were performed at a hospital in Paris. The surgeons having become sculptors in human flesh. They ...

    Article : 340 words
  12. CHEERY GOLF COURSE.

    In the naming of greens and bunkers or the golf links of England little originality is displayed. Even the "Hell" of St. Andrews, so often ...

    Article : 160 words
  13. TOO PARTICULAR.

    The captain was relating some of his marvellous adventures to a listening crowd. "I had 'a narrow .escape once,"? he ...

    Article : 232 words
  14. NAMES YOU SMILE AT.

    "If a party had a voice," to quote an unkind rhyme, "what mortal would be Bugg by choice ?"-And yet the pioneer Bugg was a man of ...

    Article : 225 words
  15. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    The freshness of an egg may be determined by placing it in a pan of water. If fresh, the egg will lie on its side on the bottom of the pan. ...

    Article : 443 words
  16. TRUTH-COMPELLING BELL.

    A bell only 5in. high and 2½in. in diameter at the base was sold recently in London for 1,250 guineas. It is of bronze gilt, with human heads ...

    Article : 129 words
  17. THE BET WAS OFF.

    A lady whose name is Brown recently proceeded from the breakfast- table to the telephone in the hall to order some things from the butcher. ...

    Article : 139 words
  18. RECORD FLOODS.

    Though considerable inconvenience and loss was caused by the recept floods in the Thames Valley, the destruction cannot be compared with ...

    Article : 115 words
  19. IRREVERENT BIBLES.

    Some copies of old bibles that were recently placed on view in the Albert Institute, Dundee, were a veritable comedy of errors. ...

    Article : 242 words
  20. LONELY LIVES.

    Who is the loneliest Briton ? When this question was put to a class of school-children recently, one bright youth replied, "The man who ...

    Article : 211 words
  21. CRIME. MAPS.

    One of the latest things that is being prepared for Scotland Yard is a "crime map," showing the prevalence, by means of a series of dots, ...

    Article : 152 words
  22. THE STRONGER SEX.

    "I don't know what the young men of to-day are coming to:" said Mrs. Smith. "In. my young days there wasn't any need for all this ...

    Article : 163 words
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