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  2. Very Sudden.

    After a brief two weeks' acquaintance, he invited her to go to a football match with him As the players made their appearance ...

    Article : 78 words
  3. The Missing Ship.

    ["The 'Guiding Star,' which left Liverpool on the 9th January last, for Melbourne, by the last advices had not arrived there, and her name is now posted at Lloyds as a missing ship."—" Times," ...

    Article : 330 words
  4. Municipal Elections.

    The following is a table of municipal councillors who retire by effluxion of time in August next :— KILMORE SHIRE. Kilmore Riding.—Cr Patrick Skehan, Kilmore. ...

    Article : 128 words
  5. A London Tragedy.

    One bitterly cold night, when the stars shone brightly down on the frozen earth, a policeman. walked briskly through one of the well-known London parks, striving in vain ...

    Article : 233 words
  6. A Competent Witness.

    Lawyers who, make it their business to badger witnesses sometimes display a lack of caution in the selection of their victims, as is plain from the following story. It will be ...

    Article : 397 words
  7. He Wouldn't Work Overtime.

    On entering a lunatic asylum some short time ago, I found one of the inmates had just finished white-washing one of the rooms; before I had been there long, the manager of ...

    Article : 91 words
  8. For Themselves.

    Some time ago at a council meeting in North-east Lancashire one of the members rose solemnly and said : Mr Chairman and Gentlemen,—We have ...

    Article : 77 words
  9. A Good Offer.

    Not long ago the manager of a travelling circus caught a small half-starved looking urchin crawling under the waggons with the evident intention of seeing the show for ...

    Article : 148 words
  10. The Girl and the Pancake.

    During the World 5s Fair at Chicago, when President and Mrs Cleveland arrived their appearance was a signal for flowers, being thrown into their carriage from every ...

    Article : 204 words
  11. Better Dead.

    A couple of men were strolling along the bank of a canal. Suddenly they saw a notice-board stating that five shillings would be paid to anybody who rescued another ...

    Article : 152 words
  12. Bargain for Bargain.

    A party of scientists, while on a tour in a rural district, dined at a small in, where the fare was clean if simple. At the end of the dinner, the leader of the ...

    Article : 482 words
  13. Beyond the Law.

    When Farmer Fairweight came to the city on a flying visit to his grandmother he made up his mind to see all other sights as well. And after be had dutifully drunk tea ...

    Article : 157 words
  14. Candid.

    A bachelor farmer, a little past his prime finding himself hard up, thought the best thing he could do would be to marry a neighbor of his who was reputed to have ...

    Article : 440 words
  15. Work-a-day Maxims.

    Here is the list of ' Don'ts':— Don't marry a woman simply because she is pretty, Don't marry a woman who is not in ...

    Article : 259 words
  16. Accounted for It.

    Not the least amusing of the experiences of a well-known lady traveller and writer was her visit, when in China, to the wives of a polygamous mandarin, a great novelty to ...

    Article : 172 words
  17. Rotten!

    In one little town business was very bad, and the manager, standing at the door, was prepared to do anything to audience an audience into the little hall. ...

    Article : 101 words
  18. Why He Came Down.

    Briggs hired a livery horse the other day to take a little exercise. He got more exercise than he wanted, and as he limped to the side of the road to rest himself, a kind ...

    Article : 83 words
  19. Advertising

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    Advertising : 760 words
  20. Johnson's Dog.

    When Johnson went to his office one day I last week he felt calm and contented. He hadn't any need to worry about his wife's I loneliness any more, for he had. bought a ...

    Article : 165 words
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