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  2. Humour.

    AN Irishman once sought employment as a diver bringing with him very little experience. He had never been beneath the ...

    Article : 144 words
  3. Sketcher.

    THE nineteenth century is the age of fada. The people of our day possess the peculiarity of mind which tends to exaggerate every ...

    Article : 997 words
  4. Personalities.

    A CHINESE boy was, says the 'Indian Medical Gazette,'brought into the Peking Hospital terribly injured by a heavy log falling ...

    Article : 150 words
  5. POETRY.

    The world grows lonely, and, with many a tear, I Stretch out longing hands in vain to clasp ...

    Article : 142 words
  6. RICH AND LIBERAL.

    The richest man in Scotland, assuming. Mr Carnegis to be away, is said to be Sir Charles Tenaant, Bart., whose seventy eighth birthday occurs on November 4th. ...

    Article : 220 words
  7. NOVEL

    When the sisters returned from Abordeen they were in raptures over the house, Christina even going to far as to say it was absolutely perfect. Elizabeth had ...

    Article : 3,255 words
  8. A ROYAL CARPENTER.

    'Ma faither's a soger,'said a little Scoi[?] lassie. 'An' ma faither, too,'said her playmate. ...

    Article : 136 words
  9. HATS ON BEFORE THE KING.

    Captain Weld-Forester, who married Miss. Alexina Wollaston, is the third son of the fifth Lord Forester, who shares with one or two other peers the rather ...

    Article : 128 words
  10. Science.

    A SOOTHING Drink for a Bad Throat in made thus: Make a pint of barley water, and bring it to boiling point over a hot fire. ...

    Article : 1,230 words
  11. AT A POLITICAL MEETING.

    Two candidates, one of whom was entirely bald, while the other had a luxuriant head of hair, were seeking the favour of the electors in a densely ...

    Article : 130 words
  12. MILLIONAIRE'S SON.

    D. J. Finch, jun., son of a New York millionaire banker, is running wild at present. Recently he made a purchase in a warehouse in Albany, and paid for ...

    Article : 295 words
  13. NOT THE PLEDGE.

    A strong temperance advocate spoke at a temperance meeting in Burnley, a few years ago, and during his speech he referred to the wealth of the publican. ...

    Article : 211 words
  14. NEVER MORE.

    It appears that Madame Albani completed the first half-century of her existence lately, having been born at Montreal, Canada, in 1851. The fact ...

    Article : 158 words
  15. NOT HANDSOME.

    Dr. Hook, the celebrated Yorkshire vicar, was not a handsome man. An old acquaintance says of him. 'The boy Walter Farquhar Hook might ...

    Article : 177 words
  16. TWO MINDS THAT THOUGHT AS ONE

    A leading English inventor of the time, though not popularly knows, is Mr Joseph Wilson Swan, who celebrates his seventy-third birthday on the last day of ...

    Article : 199 words
  17. STILL WAITING.

    A millionaire, famous for his love of horses, and also for the low prices he paid of them, saw a very good-looking hack in a Quaker's stable. As usual, he ...

    Article : 183 words
  18. GOOD ENOUGH FOR PRACTICE.

    A newly-recruited militiaman was touching along put Whitehall, when his gaze suddenly fixed itself upon one of the two stately mounted custodians of the ...

    Article : 180 words
  19. HIS LITTLE JOKE.

    The late Ameer of Afghanistan was a friend of England, but he had funny ways of showing his friendship. The Indian Government, for instance, gave him some ...

    Article : 205 words
  20. Advertising

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  21. BESSIE'S ANSWER.

    Beasts having been punished for misbehaviour, slunk to the other end of the room crying. when her sobs had subsided, her ...

    Article : 84 words
  22. BOILED OVER.

    There was once an American in Cabul who thought himself so important that the Ameer had to bake him down a peg. So he called him before the throne, and ...

    Article : 134 words
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