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  2. Short Story.

    When I went out in '82 to the Gulf of Carpentaria it was undoubtedly a wild and unsettled place. Burketown, a resurrected township smelling of ...

    Article : 3,656 words
  3. Spray.

    The manager of a great local company was noted for his dilatory and hesitating policy. On one occasion, however, when he was anxious that the board of ...

    Article : 82 words
  4. Household Hints.

    To Clean Pearl Handles.—Rub with a soft rag dipped in fine salt, then polish with chamois leather. To Clean Bottles.—Crushed egg shells ...

    Article : 520 words
  5. Comic Cuttings.

    He: "Are you going to the opera? She: " No; I have such a cold I can't speak above a whisper." Dusby : "What's in that bottle ...

    Article : 832 words
  6. The Sketcher.

    Toast Master, (rapping on the table). " The hour has arrived, gentleman of the Windup Club, for beginning the in tellectual exercisce of the evening. We ...

    Article : 540 words
  7. He Was the Man.

    Mr. Harry Webb, one of the "Two Dromios," like Shakspeare, acted on the stage and looked after "the front of the house," and was very energetic in both ...

    Article : 115 words
  8. An Awkward Mistake.

    Senor Zeballos, formerly Minister to the United States from Argentina, did not speak English very fluently. "I make often many meestake when I speak ...

    Article : 132 words
  9. A Little Lotion.

    " Will you take anything for the hair?" queried the barber as he insinuatingly waved his hand towards a shelf laden with various improvers and beautifiers ...

    Article : 95 words
  10. Tactlessness.

    The underlying principle of tactlessness is nothing more nor less than self-absorption. The blunderer is looking at things simply from his own side, and is not ...

    Article : 160 words
  11. The Cause of Earthquakes.

    There are few men who have studied earthquakes more thoroughly than Professor John Milne, and the Society of Arts were very fortunate in securing him ...

    Article : 359 words
  12. Flowers and Their Effect Upon the Voice.

    Miss May Yohe has confided to an interviewer the interesting fact that she cannot bear to have flowers near her when singing, as their perfume utterly ...

    Article : 502 words
  13. The Age of Love.

    Wifey (at breakfast): " Here's a lot more rot about the 'Age of Love' in that 'Dally Telegraph' this" morning. Fancy those wretched creatures saying that ...

    Article : 109 words
  14. Pleasure of Mind.

    Mrs. Greemwife: " Mr. Lupin, those hyacinths that you sold me last year came up onions!" Mr. Lupin (a nurseryman, guilty, but possessed of ...

    Article : 92 words
  15. The First Fan.

    The following Chinese legend, we are told, accounts for the invention of the fan in a rather ingenious fashion:—The beautiful Kan Si, daughter of a powerful ...

    Article : 101 words
  16. How the Condor is Captured.

    There were eight in the party, all well mounted on fast bronchus that, in spite of the long ride, were in good condition. The eight wore lined up on the ...

    Article : 452 words
  17. Ben. Franklin's Thirteen Rules.

    According to Benjamin Franklin, there are thirteen rules which must be observed by any one who would lead an upright, honest life. They are: ...

    Article : 216 words
  18. Paternal Grief.

    " Augh-waugh!" It was the baby. He had repeated the remark sixty times in the last hour. Mr. Newleigh's hair, such as it was ...

    Article : 84 words
  19. A Question of Age.

    "You wheelmen will have to pay a city tax on your bicycles now," said one Pittsburger to another. "Indeed?" ...

    Article : 93 words
  20. A Mean Husband.

    "O, by the way, Tom." said, a lady to her husband just after breakfast, " be sure.' and bring home that new silk dress I selected yesterday—crushed ...

    Article : 74 words
  21. Pasteur's Grave.

    No cypress-shadow'd churchyard, nor the gloom Of haunted cloisters, doth immortalise The dust of him whose patience proved ...

    Article : 180 words
  22. Scott and Schiller.

    Every one knows how, when Sir Walter Scott was a boy, the future novelist was lost during a thunderstorm, and found by the alarmed searchers ...

    Article : 174 words
  23. Professor anil Colonel

    Here is an interesting extract [?] a hitherto unpublished letter written by Professor Blackle last year to a correspondent who forwarded to him a copy ...

    Article : 195 words
  24. Not Always Easy.

    "After all," mused the girl from whoso hand had slipped a copy of Ibsen, "It is very easy to lose one's good name." ...

    Article : 109 words
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