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  2. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

    Here are a few witty and amusing toasts given at banquets : One rather cynical toast ran thus ; "Woman--she requires no eulogy ; ...

    Article : 151 words
  3. RINGS AND WINGS.

    Suppose a bird spent the summer in a tree at the end of your garden, migrated in the autumn, and returned again next spring. Would you ...

    Article : 198 words
  4. SILENT CATS.

    The Arabs are said to have an old legend concerning the cat, to the effect that this animal was created to destroy the mice which bred in ...

    Article : 297 words
  5. AN APPLE A DAY.

    An apple a day keeps the doctor away, says the adage, but in my experience it depends upon the size of the apple, and .whether it is raw ...

    Article : 474 words
  6. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Grousing at the coffee, snarling at the bacon, the master of the house grabbed at his letters, and started to read them. ...

    Article : 131 words
  7. BATTLESHIPS OF THE FUTURE.

    I was coming south from Scapa Flow the other day with the Battle Cruiser Squadron, and as we sped along I was chatting to a shipmate ...

    Article : 1,192 words
  8. ALWAYS TOGETHER.

    They had been having a little discussion, had Mr. and Mrs. Gibson. And, as usual, it had ended on the personal note. ...

    Article : 68 words
  9. BABY'S REMARKABLE FOOT.

    Virginia Scroggins, a two-year-old child of Rockwall, Texas, boasts the largest feet of any baby in the world. She is just beginning to walk about ...

    Article : 99 words
  10. A PRESENT FROM AUNTIE.

    Of course I know that when Pomeroy first mentioned insurance to me, I ought to have stepped back a few paces, then taken a running jump at ...

    Article : 766 words
  11. OH ! THAT HONEYMOON.

    "What is the difference," asked a newly-fledged bridegroom, "between a honeycomb and a .honeymoon ?" to which probably from his own ...

    Article : 408 words
  12. WHY SHE SMILED.

    Father objected to . his daughter's swain--a fact of which the young man was well aware. But the lure of love is strong, and the wooer often ...

    Article : 133 words
  13. £3,000 EASTER EGG.

    The most valuable Easter egg in the world was presented to Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, on the Easter after her marriage, by the ...

    Article : 287 words
  14. CHEATING DAVY JONES.

    In November 1918 the French cargo steamer Tours went ashore on the rock-bound coast of Hunts Bay, ten miles from Swansea. ...

    Article : 472 words
  15. POOR PROSPECTS.

    "Propinquity is what brings about marriages," declared the father of three single daughters in didactic mood. ...

    Article : 162 words
  16. COST £2, WORTH £4,000.

    An officer at Murmansk recently gave a Finn fisherman a pound of sugar for a fur pelt. It turned out to be a silver fox skin, and on ...

    Article : 478 words
  17. DIE-HARD SUPERSTITIONS.

    Over the door of almost any old farm-house you will find a horseshoe nailed up. If you ask the owner why he has put it there, he will say ...

    Article : 387 words
  18. HIS CLAIM.

    Honours were flying thick and fast through the Government office, which was closing down-. This is only a humorous story, remember ! In real ...

    Article : 340 words
  19. WHEN TENNIS WAS A CRIME.

    Modern folk are accustomed to regard tennis as an innocent enough sport, likewise bowls and shove ha'penny, which is still a popular ...

    Article : 316 words
  20. WILLS AND WON'TS.

    Even . ths great Duke of Marlborough could not resist the temptation of a farewell "slap" at his duchesa when he left her £10,000, ...

    Article : 202 words
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