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  2. OUR ILLUSTRATION.

    The Eight Hon. Archibald Phillip Primrose (the present Earl of Rosebery) is the eldest-son of the late Lord Dalminy; his mother being the only daughter of the 4th ...

    Article : 354 words
  3. Playing it Low Down.

    An Adelaide landlord had a tenant who was a drummer. He was a real bona fids musician, and pounded on a large bass drum. He was a shabbily dressed man, who looked ...

    Article : 351 words
  4. Tax the Poor Orphan.

    Mr. Shackell—sir, bend your head this way and open up your soonstic apparatus. I would hold some converse with you. Tit-Bits' mission is to expose injustice and oure ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,133 words
  5. The Capuchin Catacombs.

    The soil upon which the Capuchin Monastery at Palermo, Italy, is built, possesses to such a degree the singular property of hastening the decomposition of a corpse, that in one ...

    Article : 869 words
  6. An Australian Ghost Story.

    One Christmas I received an invitation to stay a few weeks at a schoolfellow's farm up in the north of Gippsland, so I packed up my traps with alacrity, and in less than ...

    Article : 1,306 words
  7. Raceli[?].

    The following is displayed in front of a Boston restaurant: "Civil Service rules carefully observed." "Here is a kind word for the publican.— ...

    Article : 1,155 words
  8. The Most Useful Weapon.

    The proof of a boy's mechanical skill is usually what he can do with a juckknife the proof of a woman's is what she can do with a hairpin. Few women take naturally ...

    Article : 370 words
  9. Couldn't Be.

    De Beriot was once asked by a pupil how long it required to learn the violin. "If the learner possesses brains, talent and patience; ten hours a day for ten years," was the ...

    Article : 61 words
  10. His First Shave.

    This is a momentous event in a boy's life; as it is to him the line demarcation between boyhood and manhood. The microscopic indications under his chin ...

    Article : 439 words
  11. Disappointing.

    One of the heavy weeklies has a writer whose bald ignorance of common physical principles greatly irritates us. He had an article last week headed, "How to re-cover ...

    Article : 187 words
  12. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

    BILL.—No, we don't know who is the author of the line—"The proper study of mankind is women." TRINITY wants an example of a syllogism. ...

    Article : 382 words
  13. Getting at the Point.

    Of course it was a sin For him to stick a pin In the chair Where his parent often sat; ...

    Article : 177 words
  14. A Picnic Cake.

    "You first see that the pan is well greased." "Oh, of course." "Then put it on the oven," "Yes." ...

    Article : 58 words
  15. He was Dead.

    A crowd was gathered round a form Which lay upon the floor, And everyone had turned his eyes Towards the open door. ...

    Article : 149 words
  16. Theological.

    "Can any little boy or girl tell me why the lions would not hurt Daniel?" said a visitor, addressing a suburban Sunday school. "I know," said one bright little fellow, ...

    Article : 95 words
  17. Embarrassing Richness.

    A "Humorist," meeting the editor of a daily paper, said—"I say, you've cut me off your exchange list." ...

    Article : 85 words
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