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  4. VARIOUS VERSES.

    I love these frosty mornings, When all the other air Is tingling with a freshness And vim beyond compare. ...

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  5. FACTS & FANCIES.

    There is A curious and almost startling contrast between the Speaker's dinners of our day and those of a century ago, when Pitt Fox and Sheridan drank the health ...

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  6. THE SKETCHER.

    For two years or more a certain r[?]table elderly man was an almost daily attendant at a free library in a big English town. Hour after hour he would seem ...

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  7. SPRAY.

    Wife: "How do you like my new hat?" Husband: "The idea of paying big prices for—" Wife: "Big prices! Why, I made it myself." ...

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  8. PITH AND POINT.

    Practically all the timber used for cigar-boxes comes from Cuba. The manufacture of artificial camphor by electrolysis is now assured. ...

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  9. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY.

    When they had gone Elsie [?]bled from her hiding-place into the lane and gazed long and earnestly after their retreating figures. She was trembling ...

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  10. AN INDOLENT IDEAL.

    Some people seek pleasure in such a hard way, That I much rather work than have their kind o' play. They're chasing a golf ball all over the ...

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  11. SOARING FLIGHT.

    Prof. Langley, by careful measurements of air velocities, has shown that all winds are extremely variable, his readings having indicated changes in velocity of ten ...

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  12. GALLANT LITTLE SOLDIERS WE.

    Gallant little soldiers we, Ready for the mimic fray, Disciplined and twined, you see, Smart and trim, in bright array. ...

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  13. SAVED BY A TURKEY.

    As a gift two turkeys and a pair of bantam fowls were sent to a gentleman in New York, who placed all four in his poultry-yard. One day a hawk on ...

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  14. BESIEGED BY CRANKS.

    The accessibility of the President of the United States [?] doubt explains the fact that the White House is the goal of hordes of cranks of every description. ...

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  15. EAT ONLY TWICE A DAY.

    One of the customs of the people of North China prohibits the use of food oftener than twice in twenty-four hours. Europeans seem to have yet to realise ...

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  16. SOMETHING NEW.

    The ingenuity of children in getting up new and extraordinary games has always been astonishing. Algy has been playing all the afternoon (says "Cassel's ...

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  17. TORPEDOES OF THE FUTURE.

    It is dangerous to prophesy, but nevertheless, there are few naval officers now[?]days who do not realise that we are faced to witness not only remarkable discoveries ...

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  18. THE GIPSY LIFE.

    Ah, give to me the sturdy soul Which ten commandments can't control!, Which tracks, whatever man may say, Its old primeval right of way. ...

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  19. MILLIONAIRE MUNIFICENCE.

    The American charity statistics for 1003 have just been published. They show a sum of well over £12,000,000 contributed to educational and humanitarian works ...

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  20. NATURE'S PARSIMONY.

    When they first showed Bismarck the phonograph he exclaimed. "Why this is Munchausen realised! Here are the notes frozen in the trumpet coming out afresh." ...

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  21. LOST, ONE ARMY.

    The blame which is being laid to General Sassulitch's account for the Russian disaster at the Yalu River is no worse than other Generals have incurred albeit the ...

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  22. THE LESSON OF GRIEF.

    "I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul."—[?]saiah, xxxviii., 15. "I shall go softly all my years"— ...

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  23. MUSICAL BONUS.

    Any diligent student of contemporary advertisements must have come to the conclusion that the tendency of modern trade is to give everything away. The crowning ...

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  24. THE ANCIENT ROMAN DECLARATION OF WAR.

    Ultimatums and declarations of war being very much discussed just at present, it may be appropriate to recall the ceremonial which was observed in the days of the ...

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  25. KILLED BY NEWSPAPERS.

    Some years ago, a Sheffield editor received a morning call from the Rev. Thomas Smith, [?]ear of Walkley, who denied the report of his death, and at the ...

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  26. DINNER WITH A DUKE.

    Never was the Iron Duke more gracious than on that day which the boy Kendall, son of his Grace's valet, spent with him, greatly to the lad's surprise. "We dine ...

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  27. AN AUTOMATIC SHOTGUN IN "SPORT."

    A deadly and unsportsmanlike engine of destruction is now on the market in the United States. It is the automatic shotgun, which works like a Maxim gun, ...

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