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  2. Comic Cuttings.

    Mr. Jones: "Our youngest child talks at the time." Mr. Brown: "Is it a boy or a girl?" Mr. Jones "Didn't I say it talked all the time?" ...

    Article : 691 words
  3. Short Story.

    Jake took up his fiddle and begun to play. He was net a great player, but, in a community where strength and ...

    Article : 1,444 words
  4. Queer Claims.

    The other day one of the best-known accident insurance companies received a claim for £10. The insurer had received a blow in the eye, which compelled him ...

    Article : 684 words
  5. Household Hints.

    A while marble mantelpiece is best cleaned with a preparation obtained by sifting through a fine sieve two parts of soda, one of pumise-stone, and one of finely powdered ...

    Article : 590 words
  6. The Home.

    When a girl is invited to stay with friends for a few days, or for a Saturday to Monday visit, the letter of invitation be replied to at once, whether it ...

    Article : 760 words
  7. Cricket Stories.

    One of our readers suggests a method of getting out a stone-wall cricketer. He writes:—The method I would suggest is strictly lawful, but not exactly sportsman ...

    Article : 885 words
  8. Blunders by Architects.

    There is an old joke that when the architect commits a blunder be calls it a feature. Many an oversight has in fact been explained away in this ...

    Article : 861 words
  9. Mahogany in England.

    The introduction of mahogany into this country is commented upon by a writer in the "Globe":—The common story goes that, about the year 1700, a certain Captain ...

    Article : 279 words
  10. Lord morris.

    Lord Morris, who has just vacated his seat as a Lord Justice of Appeal, is credited with being the author of a number of stories, most of which are ben trova[?]. ...

    Article : 588 words
  11. A Minister's Stories.

    The Rev. H. R. Haweis, inc[?] of St. James's, Marylobone, tells a number of stories in the June number of the "Temple Magazine" about his congregations: ...

    Article : 417 words
  12. Unexpected.

    In Bishop Walsham How's recently issued "Lighter Moments" it is stated that the bishop, in company with his archdeacon, once paid a visit to a parsonage ...

    Article : 217 words
  13. "Mr. Burens."

    An incident that once happened, to him in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is thus related by Mr. Sutherland Edwards: ...

    Article : 253 words
  14. Mr. Carson's Tip.

    Here is a rather good Parliamentary story of the new Solicitor-General, Mr. Carson, Q.C., which is going the rounds just now, and which has never before been given ...

    Article : 392 words
  15. Ladies' Clubs in Paris.

    The women of France are only just beginning to discover themselves to be "clubbable." Whilst clubs for women have for many years flourished in London ...

    Article : 248 words
  16. The King of Sweden.

    The King of Sweden, who is now in England, is said by those who know him to be a truly delightful man. Of course, the descendant of a Bernadotte is only a sovereign of second rank; but, as Burns ...

    Article : 488 words
  17. Bantam Cock v. French Fleet.

    In the desperate action in which Lord Howe defeated the French off Ushant no British vessel sustained such a terrific buffeting as did the Marlborough battleship ...

    Article : 273 words
  18. The Contrary Irishman.

    What Irishman even was over known to conceive an original idea in one direction until somebody tried to push him into something diametrically opposed to it? ...

    Article : 243 words
  19. Pests of the Veldt.

    The veldt of South Africa is far from being uninhabited, for Africa is the home of more than a thousand different kinds of insects. The ant destroys everything in ...

    Article : 212 words
  20. Temperature of the Ocean.

    Sir John Murray, in his presidential address before the Geographical Section of the British Association, brought out some interesting facts as to the temperature of ...

    Article : 210 words
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