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  2. Ill-starred Diamond.

    Mr Edward M'Lean, an American million. I are, is the latest person to defy the terrors ( of the Hope diamond, having, bought it for his wife for £60,600. The stone has carried ...

    Article : 359 words
  3. Give the Pigs Plenty of Water.

    Observation among dairy farmers has convinced a number of them that a considerable proportion of the feed given to the pigs is virtually wasted, because it is not ...

    Article : 368 words
  4. Man or Woman.

    I say the woman. " What the average woman doesn't get to know about the man she meets, and the man who interests her, isn't worth ...

    Article : 342 words
  5. Mutiny.

    About the year 1890 I was serving as ableeaman on board a schooner trading between Honolulu and 'Frisco in the sugar trade. Some voyages there was a lot of money on ...

    Article : 405 words
  6. M.P's. Best Stories.

    "The funniest thing that occurs to me at the moment," said Sir Wm. Bull, when asked for his best Parliamentary story, " is. when my friend Roland Hunt made a speech, of ...

    Article : 311 words
  7. All According.

    John and Pat were two friendly workmen who were constantly trying to take a rise out of each other. Are you good at measurement? " asked ...

    Article : 66 words
  8. Advertising

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    Advertising : 421 words
  9. A Trifle Mixed.

    His knowledge of geography may have been imperfect, but the boy mentioned in this anecdote knew something about human nature. ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. Putrefied Cheese Smell Changed to Pineapple.

    Two odours which do not seem to have anything in common, that of putrefied cheese and, that of pineapple are so closely allied from the chemical standpoint, that it takes ...

    Article : 256 words
  11. Not Worth the Offer.

    "I was standing out in front one night," said a theatrical manager, "when a ragged title urchin came along with a dog under his [?] The dog was a yellow cur of the mans ...

    Article : 187 words
  12. Self-Help Cost Nothing.

    An " object admonition " is often more efficacious than storms of reproach. One day the colonel of an American regiment noticed a soldier on parade wearing a ...

    Article : 126 words
  13. How He Managed It.

    Two privates from different companies of the same regiment stationed at a certain barracks met the other morning near the canteen, which from the fact that a monkey was ...

    Article : 330 words
  14. Love and Business.

    The intermingling of love and business seems to be incongruous on the face of it, but it is inevitable with most people. Try to imagine what it would be like if a ...

    Article : 171 words
  15. No Longer Wanted.

    A certain eminent playright, being con gratulated on a recent suceess he had achieved, made some very true remarks on- playwriting, pointing them with a story ...

    Article : 285 words
  16. One Sufficient for Him.

    A young fellow from the country was attracted while passing a theatre by the posters announcing the pantomime of the "Forty Thieves," ...

    Article : 347 words
  17. Couldn't Be Done.

    Adolphus de Foppe walked into the ball, room with a lordly air. " Tell my chauffeur," he said, in a loud voice, to one of the footmen, " to bring the ...

    Article : 570 words
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