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  2. OLD TIMES.

    On Saturday morning about 100 gentlemen, with gnus, ammunition, etc., assembled at the Phoenix Wharf, the occasion being the determination of some of the sporting friends of the ...

    Article : 2,035 words
  3. BURIED VOICES.

    A gift recently presented by an American to the French Government has attracted wide-spread attention, as it demonstrates the unlimited uses to which that wonderful modern ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,038 words
  4. SOME STORIES.

    A regiment of soldiers were recently drawn up one Sunday for church parade, but the church was being repaired, and could hold only half of them. ...

    Article : 93 words
  5. Advertising

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    Advertising : 411 words
  6. ART CRITICISMS.

    Several good stories arc related by Sigismund Goetz. He once painted his own portrait. "I designed it as a birthday surprise for my mother, but ono day left it exposed in ...

    Article : 112 words
  7. Parisian Tips.

    The fact (says the Paris correspondent of a London paper on December 14) that postmen and other classes of public servants have already begun to collect New Tear gifts is directing ...

    Article : 460 words
  8. MOST OBLIGING.

    "When you feel any temptations coming along," said the friend and adviser to the colored gentleman, "you mus' say, "Get the[?] behin' me, Satan." ...

    Article : 69 words
  9. A CERTAINTY.

    A lady in a Southern town of the United States was approached by her colored maid. "Well, Jenny," she asked, seeing that something was in the air. ...

    Article : 132 words
  10. TRUE ALL THE SAME.

    The teacher of one of the roods in a school in the suburbs had been training her pupils in anticipation of a visit from the school inspector. At last he came, and the classes were ...

    Article : 127 words
  11. ANYTHING BUT THAT.

    A Kansas man tells of a music hall in a town of that State which bore the unenviable reputation of possessing the worst band anywhere. On one occasion a "headliner" from Chicago ...

    Article : 159 words
  12. A FAIR WARNING.

    A new railway was being built, and the route including a small farm, officers of the line paid a visit to the owner, an old lady. "Madam," said the surveyor, "we understand ...

    Article : 102 words
  13. THE POET'S REWARD.

    Willy: The other day I found mother crying over your book of poems. His Sister's Fiance (delighted): Oh, is that so? (Aside) Ah, what glory! What fame awaits ...

    Article : 89 words
  14. FAST BALLOON TRAVEL.

    Three members of the British Aero Club—Mr. John Dunville, Mr. C. F. Pollock, and Mr. Philip Gardner—left Battersea, London, at 9.15 on the evening of December 11 in Mr. Dunville's ...

    Article : 134 words
  15. SAW THE JOKE.

    A hearty laugh had gone almost around over the story of the fisherman who, to locate the place on the lake where he had had good lock, cut a nick in the side of his boat. "Almost ...

    Article : 88 words
  16. PUTTING THE CASE.

    A colored woman in a United States court was on trial before a magistrate charged with inhuman treatment of her offspring. Evidence was clear that the woman had severely beaten ...

    Article : 98 words
  17. BRUTAL EXECUTION.

    Executions in Russia have, according to the latest reports, been proceeding apace, and some of them have been accompanied by terrible scenes. There were 17 executions on December ...

    Article : 93 words
  18. DUMMY BABY.

    A woman detected in Paris in the act of shoplifting concealed her booty in the interior of a baby which she was carrying in her arms. The "baby" was made of zinc and was hollow, and ...

    Article : 72 words
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