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  2. HUMOROUS COLUMN. A MUCH INJURED MAN.

    An old farmer unjustly suspected his maid-servant of having stolen a small sum of money from a drawer in which he kept his loose cash and his best clothes. ...

    Article : 277 words
  3. WHEN FATHER CARVES THE DUCK.

    We all look on with anxious eyes When father carves the duck, And mother almost always sighs When father carves the duck; ...

    Article : 193 words
  4. NOT GUILTY.

    ONE of the most extraordinary and certainly one of the most daring feats which I have had the honour of inventing and executing in the course ...

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  5. THE EARLY DAYS OF LORD ROBERTS.

    Frederick Roberts was born at Cawnpore on September 30, 1832, and was brought home by his mother, about a year and a half later, to Clifton, where ...

    Article : 631 words
  6. ARMY AND NAVY.

    There are no naval volunteers. Sailors sign articles, soldiers don't. Tommy is paid on the table, Jack on his cap. ...

    Article : 439 words
  7. WHAT A PITY.

    The officers of an army are sometimes very haughty in their bearings towards any other of their fellow-officers who belong to a lower class of society. ...

    Article : 138 words
  8. THE CAUSE OF EARTHQUAKES.

    As regards the cause of earthquakes, our natural desire to know all about them is doomed in great measure to disappointment. Our utmost knowledge is ...

    Article : 311 words
  9. "VERBADL" ALL ROUND.

    Here in a story which a theatrical manager veils against himself. An actor came to him and applied for an engagement. There did not seem to be much need of him, ...

    Article : 126 words
  10. AN ESTIMATE OF ORATORY.

    The candidate for Parliament had been making a speech in one of the towns of the district where he was not well known personally, and in the evening, while ...

    Article : 131 words
  11. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    In New York there are 6,919 acres of public parks. The German Army has the healthiest troops in the world. ...

    Article : 426 words
  12. LORD WOLSELEY ON TEMPERANCE.

    Lord Wolseley and other guests of the Master Cutler of Sheffield recently visited the Cyclops Works of Messrs. Cammell and Co., and witnessed the ...

    Article : 212 words
  13. WHY DIDN'T HE SAY SO.

    There was once a mathematical tutor in one of our great universities who was in the habit of boasting that he neither knew nor cared to know anything about poets or ...

    Article : 119 words
  14. SHEARERS OF AUSTRALIA.

    The shearers of Australia are a large and important class, and responded loyally to the calls of patriotism. They are a nomad race, who, during the year, ...

    Article : 303 words
  15. BY CONTRARIES.

    'It's a fine morning, Biddy,' said the squire. 'It is a foine morning, yer banner and ladyship. And shure I had a foine drame ...

    Article : 99 words
  16. THE DUKE OF YORK AND THE CZAR OF RUSSIA.

    The likeness between the Duke of York and his cousin the Czar of Russia has been often remarked upon, and is quite extraordinary. Some years ago ...

    Article : 187 words
  17. FAMOUS JOCKEYS.

    The wonderful success achieved by the brothers Reiff, the famous American jockey's, has been the means of swelling the banking account of at least one ...

    Article : 263 words
  18. CUPID'S DART.

    When Jolnnie Jones and Jennie Smith First felt young Cupid's dart They were upon the ottcman, And sat thus far apart. ...

    Article : 41 words
  19. NATURE LOSES NOTHING.

    'Strange how Nature equalises all things,' said the philosopher. 'I mean to say that nothing is lost in Nature. What may be lacking here is given twofold ...

    Article : 72 words
  20. RICHNESS OF TASMANIA.

    It will come as a surprise to many people who believe the geographical possibilities of the world to be exhausted to find that a considerable part of ...

    Article : 95 words
  21. UP-TO-DATE SURGICAL OPERATION.

    A Chicago surgeon has discovered a way of performing operations upon persons without pain and without sending them to sleep. It is to inject ...

    Article : 128 words
  22. A MISLEADING ANALOGY.

    'When you cat, be careful to leave off hungry,' is advice often given at a dinner table, but seldom received in an obedient spirit. ...

    Article : 85 words
  23. CURE FOR INSOMNIA.

    Mrs. Jingle: 'Doesn't your husband's insomnia get any better?" Mrs. Henpeck: 'No; the only sleep he ever gets is when I think I hear a ...

    Article : 34 words
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