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  2. How I Laid the Ghost or EILEEN'S DELIVERANCE.

    It was on the evening of a dull day in November that I made my long contemplated visit to the haunted house. I was at that time a ...

    Article : 2,116 words
  3. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

    It was a first-class carriage, the compartment was crowded; with his back to the engine sat a short, stout, perky, plethoric, cock-sparrow of a man ...

    Article : 1,082 words
  4. GRAVE AND GAY.

    "I am so unhappy!" a young wife confided to a girl friend who paid her a visit "Why, dear?" inquired the other. ...

    Article : 237 words
  5. The Doctor's Discovery Or A ONE-MAN JURY.

    The physician released his hold on the wrist of Magnus Weatherman, the banker, whose sudden seizure, just as be arose from the breakfast-table ...

    Article : 1,701 words
  6. LEGAL PLEA FOR HER HAND.

    The judge's daughter was perturbed. "Papa," she said, knitting her pretty brow, "I am in doubt as to whether I have kept to the proper form of ...

    Article : 336 words
  7. Kindred Souls.

    When Paderewski was introduced to the champion polo player of England, he is said to have remarked: "I know we shall be good friends ...

    Article : 46 words
  8. Getting Out Of it.

    Caller: Speaking of babies, madam, that's a fine youngster. Allow me to congratulate you. Madam: Sir, that baby is not mine. ...

    Article : 34 words
  9. "The Flight of Ages."

    Before his plays became successful Mr. George Bernard Shaw held the post of first critic for a popular half-penny newspaper. On one occasion he ...

    Article : 104 words
  10. A CHOCOLATE KING.

    The curious reference to the "Chocolate King of Anticosti," made during the debate on the Newfoundland fisheries must have puzzled many people. ...

    Article : 290 words
  11. AT THE ALTAR.

    A very fine-looking couple once came to me to be married (relates a clergyman). They gave their ages; he as thirty-one, and she as twenty-five. I ...

    Article : 522 words
  12. It Was An Ad.

    A little child was crying miserably one afternoon in Moscow. He walked slowly down one of the principal streets, and his howls soon brought a ...

    Article : 114 words
  13. A Thanksgiving Service.

    The bachelor community of a certain suburb were greatly scared by the advent amongst them of a fearsome type of the desperate husband-hunting ...

    Article : 114 words
  14. MARRIED COURTING.

    The man who imagines that after marriage his wife will be satisfied to take his love for granted does not know woman. ...

    Article : 326 words
  15. Biter Bitten.

    Doctor X. was called at two o'clock one bitter winter morning to visit a patient four miles away. On his arrival the latter said: ...

    Article : 192 words
  16. MEDDLESOME MAMMAS.

    A really meddlesome mamma is a very dreadful person. She is anxious to secure lovers for her daughters, of course, which is her chief aim, but ...

    Article : 250 words
  17. POVERTY FOR PRINCIPLE.

    In a money-grabbing world, it is pleasant to read of instances in which men cheerfully resign riches for the sake of principle. ...

    Article : 157 words
  18. COMPARED WITH THE PAST.

    An old Londoner, talking of hin early days, remarked that be observed almost as great changes In the people as in the metropolis itself. ...

    Article : 213 words
  19. A Promising Opening.

    The travelling showman was waxing eloquent, as he described the characteristics of his Wild Horse from Tartary. ...

    Article : 219 words
  20. Drastic Measures.

    In the schools of a certain town measures were recently taken to test the eyesight of the children. When the doctor had finished each scholar When I discovered a large, rusty Iron horseshoe lying in a street puddle I was glad, for, of course, to find a horseshoe Is an omen of much good ...

    Article : 1,717 words
  21. CONUNDRUMS.

    Why is the letter E like London?—Because It is the capital of England. Why are grasshoppers like watches?—Because they move by springs. ...

    Article : 173 words
  22. THE CARE OF THE PIANO.

    A piano is as sensitive to cold and heat as an invalid, so it must not be put too near a fire, or the wood will be drawn by the heat Never leave it ...

    Article : 119 words
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