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  2. WIT AND HUMOR.

    "Here, Hold mY horse a minute, will you" "Sir! I'm a member of parliament!""Never mind. You look honest. I'll take a chance". "You say that your friend was utterly ...

    Article : 740 words
  3. THE LADIES COLUMN.

    Hald a lemon dipped in salt is excellent [?] cleaning copper articles. Oxalic acid [?] is equally successful both for copper and brass, but is a poison. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 601 words
  4. PUTNEY DOUBLE TRADEDY.

    An extraordinary story was told at the inquest yesterday (12th July) at Wandswarth on the victims of the, double tragedy at a house in ...

    Article : 932 words
  5. THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

    The London Express" at 10th July wrote:— The South African war ended on the 31st May,1902. To-day, after a ...

    Article : 1,046 words
  6. TRANSVAAL CHAOS.

    Mr E. P.Solomon, president of the Responsible Government Association, made a sensational allegation at the meeting held last night (says the ...

    Article : 427 words
  7. THE GIRL WHO DID NOTHING.

    "And what do you go in for, Sir John?'said Mrs Mildmay across the lunch-table. "Oh, I'll take claret, thanks!".I said. ...

    Article : 612 words
  8. EASILY ACCOUNTED FOR.

    An Irishman, upon arriving in America, was asked his name at Ellis Island. He gave it. "Speak louder," said the officer. He repeated it. ...

    Article : 59 words
  9. TRAMP LEAVES L11,000.

    A considerable sensation was a few Weeks ago caused in the Peak District of Derbyshire by the publication of the will of Alfred Booker, at one ...

    Article : 312 words
  10. ACTORS.

    I [?] never been able to under [?] him, so absolutely that he has no interest to spare for any ...

    Article : 500 words
  11. CONDEMNED AT LAST.

    The "Express" New York correspondent writes on lOth July:— A remarkable case of feigned insanity, which deceived a number of expert ...

    Article : 208 words
  12. THE LANGUAGE OP COURTSHIP.

    "Jane," said a kind-hearted and sympathetic mistress, "I take a real interest in your wel-fare. Now, tell me. is there anything serious between you and the grocer's man?" ...

    Article : 73 words
  13. FAIR PLAY.

    A group of American commercial travellers were telling yams on the subject of hos-pitality, when one of them took up his parable thus: ...

    Article : 273 words
  14. DWARF AND GIANT.

    "Prince" Colibri, writes the London "Express," the smallest man in the world, is now being exhibited at the Crystal Palace. He sometimes ...

    Article : 368 words
  15. HOMELY FARE.

    Curried Chicken—Cut the chicken in-to good-sized pieces! put them into a saucepan with a few little pieces of salt pork, an onion, and a little salt. ...

    Article : 440 words
  16. PAGAN LONDON.

    At the annual meeting of the London Diocesan Home Mission the Bishop of London said that but for the Home Mission and the Bishop of London's ...

    Article : 163 words
  17. MYSTERY OF BIRTH.

    At Woolwich Police Court yesterday (12th July). Corporal William Mallard. R.A., was summoned for making a false declaration at his marriage, this being ...

    Article : 190 words
  18. ONE SURE TEST.

    A pale-faced woman came staggering up on deck, as the steamer ploughed through the storm. "Oh, captain" she exclaimed, "did you ever ...

    Article : 62 words
  19. "PATS" MUSIC ST00L.

    Patrick Mulhooly's daughter was within a few weeks at her 21st birthday, and her proud father decided that he would buy her a music stool, one of those that can be lowered or ...

    Article : 137 words
  20. THE WORD "DUMA."

    Mr A. L. Maybew, in "Notes and Queries, has an interesting note on the word Duma. It is, it seems, one of those interesting culture-terms which Russia ...

    Article : 128 words
  21. MUSICAL KNIVES.

    Complete sets of musical knives, remarks a writer in "Science Siftings,"forks, and spoons were common in France more than two centuries ago. ...

    Article : 96 words
  22. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. .

    "Don't you want to go to the better world, Tommy?" asked a London Sunday school teacher of the new scholar. 1 ...

    Article : 246 words
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