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  2. QUEER WILLS

    One of the world's queerest wills was that of Mr. Charles Vance Millar, who left £100,000 to the woman who would bear the most children in the decade ...

    Article : 450 words
  3. WITH THE WINE AND WALNUTS

    A British workman one day inquired of his mate, a plumber, what was meant by "tact." Said the plumber:— ...

    Article : 148 words
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    Advertising : 137 words
  5. A GRUESOME STORY.

    The teacher believed in getting the children to compose little sentences, using a definite word, which she supplied. ...

    Article : 76 words
  6. NOT REASONABLE.

    An elderly Scotsman who had lived a hard life duly passed over. Knocking at the gates of heaven, he asked Saint Peter for admittance. ...

    Article : 64 words
  7. KEEPING THE WEIGHT DOWN.

    A dear old mother of one of the sons of Erin had to send her boy a parcel containing a waistcoat. She was poor, and had to practise thrift. ...

    Article : 95 words
  8. ROUGH ON CORPSE.

    A Greek died in Ireland, and the undertaker sent his foreman to take charge of the funeral. When it was all over the foreman came back and ...

    Article : 94 words
  9. PLANETARY LIFE

    Looking at the physical condition of other planets within our solar system (writes Professor Stetson), we find little to encourage us to believe that any life ...

    Article : 316 words
  10. LIMITED FRENCH.

    Billy bent over her and whispered:—"Darling, if I should ask you in French if I might kiss you, what would you answer?" ...

    Article : 51 words
  11. PLAYING THE WRONG ORGAN.

    The organ-blower in a church one day fell asleep during the service, of which fact the audience soon became conscious by the vigorous blowing of ...

    Article : 124 words
  12. IN THE WRONG PLACE.

    The obiter day two dandy-looking fellows were scanning the pictures in a shop window. Prominently displayed was a print of a well-known. musician ...

    Article : 80 words
  13. FIXING THE STARE.

    It is told of Van Amburgh, the great lion tamer, that on one occasion, while in a bar-room, he was asked how he gained his wonderful power over ...

    Article : 185 words
  14. MAKING SURE.

    The butcher had just called at a surburban residence. The mistress instructed the maid to order a small leg of lamb. As the servant was ...

    Article : 166 words
  15. CHURCH'S SACRIFICE

    Chalices, jewels, and other valuables in the possession of the Roman Catholic churches in Chile have been offered to the Government by Archbishop Campille ...

    Article : 92 words
  16. JAPANESE GOODS

    Any settlement of the trouble in Manchuria between China and Japan may be complicated by the boycott of Japanese goods, which began in Nanking and ...

    Article : 337 words
  17. RUSH TO JOIN

    The rush of recruits to the French Foreign Legion caused by increasing unemployment, has been so great in the past year that no mote recruits are ...

    Article : 313 words
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    Advertising : 5,411 words
  19. FEWER DIVORCES

    As the novelty of easy divorces the "new domestic freedom" is wearing off. divorces are declining in the Soviet capital (writes a correspondent ...

    Article : 314 words
  20. MEN WORTH MORE

    Women are worth only half the value of men from an economic standard. Every man is worth at birth £1800 to his country. Women are worth about half that ...

    Article : 112 words
  21. THEY EAT TO LIVE

    Trappist monks consider eating to be a necessary evil, and curtail it to such degree that one step further, would be suicide. Dinner, to which scarcely a ...

    Article : 208 words
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