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  2. Advertising

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  3. FROM ALL SOURCES.

    Owing to an unexplained deficit of L400,000 in an Amsterdam bank, two of the directors have been arrested. Mr. Roosevelt has been presented ...

    Article : 1,173 words
  4. FRAM AND FIELD.

    Philosophers tell us that weeds are only "plants out of place." The husbandman admits it, and finds the work of getting them into their place and ...

    Article : 616 words
  5. WIT AND HUMOR.

    Wife: That horrid man in the box has been staring at me for the last half-hour. Husband: How do you know? Gladys Beautigirl: Oh, but mamma objects ...

    Article : 852 words
  6. THE LADIES' COLUMN

    A cupful of strong, black coffee, with the juice of half a lemon squeezed in it will cure a sick headache. For a headache from biliousness, take the juice of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 898 words
  7. COMES BACK AGAIN.

    When W. D. Howells was the editor of "Harper's," a young fellow one day obtained an interview for the purpose of submitting a poem for perusal. He was young and of ...

    Article : 146 words
  8. EXPLORER AS DIPLOMAT.

    When Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who, it is understood, is designated as the new Norway's first Minister at the Court of St. James's, takes up his duties here, he ...

    Article : 342 words
  9. AN EASY TASK.

    Since the foundation of "Vanity Fair," remarks a writer in the "Windsor Magazine" there have been eight presidents of the United States. As the ...

    Article : 430 words
  10. THE PEACE OF EUROPE.

    On December 31st the Paris "Matin" gave prominence to the following:— In the course of a conversation which he had recently with a French statesman ...

    Article : 314 words
  11. UNIVERSITY OF HUMANITY.

    "I cherish the dream of a University of Humanity," said General Booth in an interesting speech delivered in Exeter Hall on the occasion ...

    Article : 381 words
  12. OLD WARSHIP FORTUNES

    With copper at yesterday's price per ton—L79 17s 6d—the old "wooden walls" of England, wrote the "Express" of 11th January, with their copper fastenings ...

    Article : 317 words
  13. Grain Elevators in America.

    The "Farm, Field, and Fireside," an agricultural journal published in Chicago, in an article on grain elevators, says that the elevators have ...

    Article : 334 words
  14. IN WRETCHED MOSCOW.

    A correspondent of a St. Petersburg paper describes what he says is a characteristic street scene in Moscow. In Kremlin Square, he writes, a man ...

    Article : 243 words
  15. A MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY.

    Lady on tourist coach: I say, driver, do serious accidents ever happen on these mountains? Driver : Oh, yes, ma'am. Do you see that ...

    Article : 77 words
  16. A CHEAP SAW-VICE.

    Easily made by anyone. It works on the same principle as iron ones. It should be made of hard wood, and can be fastened to bench or fence. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 32 words
  17. AWKWARD.

    A clergyman arranged on one occasion to take the services in a neighboring church, leaving his own congregation in the hands of a recently-acquired curate. ...

    Article : 104 words
  18. THE CHANCELLOR'S ROBE.

    A curious incident in the relations between Disraeli and Gladstone is recalled by Colonel Spencer Childers in the "Nineteenth Century" for January. It ...

    Article : 175 words
  19. PIG-KILLING APPLIANCES.

    Every farmer should keep a few pigs so that one could be killed occasionally for the use of the household, and thus secure a supply of meat of high quality. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 297 words
  20. TOEING THE LINE.

    It was the time allotted for physical exercise, at a certain day school not a hundred miles from Crook, and a line of little boys was ranged down the centre of the ...

    Article : 103 words
  21. A MYSTERIOUS CASE.

    On 3rd January the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote from New York:— The investigation into the death of Mr ...

    Article : 225 words
  22. IMPOSSIBLE.

    An Irishman had the reputation of being an inveterate drinker, but had promised the priest, whom he saw coming up the street, to abstain. Mike, with a jug, was saluted ...

    Article : 79 words
  23. INDIAN PRINCE'S SON ROBBED.

    PRISONER CONCEALS HIS NAME. On 2nd January, at Clerkenwell Sessions, a man who gave the name of Henry Shaw, and described himself as an ...

    Article : 150 words
  24. HOMELY FARE.

    Dressed Crab.—Required: A heavy crab, two tablespoonfuls of breadcrumbs, two tablespoonfuls of oil, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, white pepper, and ...

    Article : 594 words
  25. "NEED I SAY MORE?"

    A story is told of the late Baron Bramwell when sitting on the Crown side on the South Wales circuit. Counsel for the defence asked leave to address the jury in Welsh; tho case ...

    Article : 198 words
  26. A PHANTOM DEBTOR.

    A judgment creditor at the Shoreditch County Court recently told Judge Smyly, K.C., that the debtor was a round-the-corner man. The Judge: ...

    Article : 86 words
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