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  4. FACTS & FANCIES.

    An interesting romance connected with Senator Clark, a popular American millionaire, was unfolded in New York recently. Mr. Clark was generally ...

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  5. SPRAY.

    Lady: "Have you had much experience as a cook?" Applicant: "Oh, indeed I have. I was the cook of Mr. and Mrs. Peterby for three ...

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  6. JOKELETS.

    A serious case—A doctor without one. In Training.—Mabel: "Why do you think she is so anxious to get married ?" Sibyl: "Why, she's attending a cookery ...

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  7. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY.

    Gervais sat on the step of the railway carriage that was all the home he had now, and watched his mother making soup at a fire that burned on the ground. There ...

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  8. THE SKETCHER.

    All insurance offices—life, accident, fire, burglary, marine, and the rest, are, of course, bound by law to meet claims And very rarely are these claims disputed— ...

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  9. WHEN WEALTH HAS NO CHARMS.

    Fred: "There are times when I care nothing for riches—when I would not so much as put forth a hand to receive millions." ...

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  10. ADDING INSULT TO INJURY.

    "That is what I call downright humiliating, said Mrs. Biggins. "What has occured?" inquired her husband. ...

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  11. IT HAD A HISTORY.

    A: "That's rather a unique ash-tray of yours, old man. Where did you get it?" B: "Well, there's a little history attached to that. You remember an ...

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  12. ONLY ONE CONDITION.

    Fashionable Hostess (engaging eminent musician): "I shall want you to play three or four peices at my reception next week." ...

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  13. PULLING WAS CHEAPER.

    A farmer and his wife went into a dentist's. "How much do you charge for filling' teeth ?" asked the farmer. "Five shillings ...

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  14. FOODS FOR BEAUTY.

    It is, unhappily, a fact that while many a girl will spend more than she can afford on cosmetics and other things for the complexion, while totally ignoring the ...

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  15. ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE.

    Jack: "Why wouldn't she marry you? She loves you to distraction. I know it, because she told me so." George: "She insisted on my proving ...

    Article : 71 words
  16. GOING TO BURN 'EM.

    The officials of a certain lunatie asylum in Somersetshire were about to give some of their less dangerous lunatics a day at the seaside, and therefore chose a small ...

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  17. WHY WOMEN GO TO PARTIES.

    It is no uncommon thing to hear a society lady say she is "simply dead" long before the end of the London season comes. ...

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  18. 819 TIMES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

    Dr. Furness Brice, of the Cylnric, holds the record for crossing the Atlantic the greatest number of times. For over ...

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  19. IN COURT.

    The following is told of a Judge before whom a man was being tried for stealing the gold watch of a woman as she was entering a 'bus. The man declared that ...

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  20. AGAINST THE SIDE SADDLE.

    A clever horsewoman is strongly of opinion that women riders should discard the side saddle and ride their horses man [?]ashion. ...

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  21. ON THE TELEPHONE.

    Under the heading. "Over the Telephone:, The Feminine Vernacular in Chicago," a Chicago paper publishes the following paragraph:— ...

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  22. WHAT "SNAPSHOTTERS" HAVE DONE.

    Amateur photography is really only about twenty years old. From the few crude and unwieldy ."outfits", first put upon the market, the pastime in the hands ...

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  23. THE FIRST V.C.

    The first victoria Cross was presented by the late Queen on 26th June, 1857, to Rear Admiral Charles Lueas. The gallant officer thus relates the story of his ...

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  24. PIECE OF THE EQUATOR SOLD.

    "At the late fair at Torrington, a wealthy farmer, whose spirits the barley broth had elevated above the level of his understanding, was prevailed upon by a ...

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  25. BECAME QUEEN "VICTORIA" BY ACCIDENT.

    "When the Queen ascended the throne she was proclaimed as Queen Alexndrina, and no two historians agree as to the origin of the change to 'Victoria.'What ...

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  26. WAS HE THE FIRST SEA-SERPENT?

    " On 19th June, 1813, several sailors made affidavits at New York of having on a long voyage form Lisbon, seen a fish apparently 200ft. in length, about 30ft. broad. ...

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  27. KEEPING FOWLS.

    "Do you find that poultry Keeping pays, Mrs. WilkinS ?" inquired A neighbour. " Well. no. I can't say that it pays me. But I think that it pays my boy, Johnny." ...

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  28. WAR AGAINST THE WAVES.

    Galveston, Texas, at a cost of about £20 to each man, woman, and child of the city, is building a prodigious sea-wall as a protection against the repetition of the ...

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  29. A FASHIONABLE CRUSH IN 1811.

    "Yesterday being the last day that the public were permitted to view the interior of Carlton House, the crowd, from an early hour in the morning, was immense. ...

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  30. DOGS NOT AFFECTED BY THE MOON.

    "Lord Fitzwilliam has extensively circulated handbills this week to inform the public, that from his own experience he has ascertained that dogs have gone mad ...

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  31. IN A HOTEL.

    Clerk: "The hotel is so crowded, sir, that the best we can do is to put you in Guest: "That will be satisfactory. Will the same room with the proprietor." ...

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  32. OLD AT BIRTH.

    A Chinese child is considered a year old at its birth, and its age is reckoned but from its New Year's Days. If it happens to be born on ...

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  33. SCARCELY ENCOURAGING TO BILL SIKES.

    "In pronouncing sentence on Richard Gould, found guilty of burglary, Baron Pike said, after reviewing his crime, under these circumstances the (the learned ...

    Article : 132 words
  34. AGITATION AS A BAD TRADE.

    "It is an extraordinary proof of the zeal of the Irish peasantry in behalf of the Repeal movement, and of their anxiety to attend Mr. O'connell's meetings, ...

    Article : 109 words
  35. NOT NECESSARY.

    A woman who unexpectedly came into a fortune purchased an extensive estate, and became lavish in her expenditure. One day she was showing some of her ...

    Article : 87 words
  36. HAVE WE ADVANCED MUCH ?

    "Wanted, a young person of decided piety, about 22 years of age, to take charge of and educate three children under 12 years of age. She must be capable of ...

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  37. FROM THE JAPANESE.

    Human life io like the dew of the morning. There is no shore to the bitter sea of birth and death. ...

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