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  2. FREIGHT JUMPING.

    To escape mutilation and possible death twice within a few hours is an experience not easily forgotten, and to-day, 25, years afterwards, the ...

    Article : 651 words
  3. FIRES THAT NEVER GO OUT.

    In Siam is a fire that not only lasts for. years, but has, what have been aptly termed "lineal descendants." It is to be found in a. ...

    Article : 414 words
  4. AT A DANCE.

    At public balls, and occasionally at dances given in private houses in the country, the, guests, are supplied with programmes, to each of which is ...

    Article : 569 words
  5. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Prisoners in the Montgomery City Jail, Chicago, are now permitted to go out and fish all day. A mail steamer with a speed of ...

    Article : 659 words
  6. A COLD CALL.

    In negro households, especially in communities where negroes form a large portion of the population, it frequently happens that the woman ...

    Article : 194 words
  7. HOW TO TACKLE A VICIOUS HORSE.

    It, was at my own home in Proser pine, Queensland, that I first put a leg over a horse, and after some years spent helping to drove mobs of ...

    Article : 1,439 words
  8. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES

    In the year 1881 I was employed at one of the principal Loco. Stations in' the Eastern Counties as an engine fitter. One day I had been repairing ...

    Article : 372 words
  9. THE LAST SWALLOW.

    All day he had heard the twitter of the gathering swallows on the telegraph-wires outside, but his mother and fed him just the same; ...

    Article : 793 words
  10. LEGAL TERMS.

    The lawyer is a person who habitually talks In legal phraseology, and I quite believe he walks ...

    Article : 313 words
  11. A NERVE SHAKING BATH.

    Towards sundown, after a sweltering day, I was one afternoon wearily tramping along the banks of the Vaal River, Transvaal, 'when coming. ...

    Article : 230 words
  12. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    There is at least one country in the world where it costs nothing to die. In some of the cantons ol Switzerland all the dead, rich as well ...

    Article : 433 words
  13. KNOWS HOW HE LOOKS.

    A man, but lately married, went out to post a letter, and as the lamps bad not been lit in the sub[?]irban road in which he dwelt, he ...

    Article : 290 words
  14. A FAMOUS MILLAIS.

    We all remember the joke in "Punch," where 'Arry, face to face with a gorgeous sunset, exclaims to his friend, "What a crib from ...

    Article : 481 words
  15. NINE LIVES.

    He sat him down with a fountain pen, And of paper a ream or two ; And started a story of three bad ...

    Article : 174 words
  16. THE GAMP LANGUAGE.

    There is a language of umbrellas as of flowers. For Instance, place your umbrella in a rack, and it will often indicate that it will change ...

    Article : 364 words
  17. NO KEY FOR TIMMINS.

    "The other night," remarked Mr. Timmins, deferentially, after he had waited two hours for an opening, "Brown was going home when he ...

    Article : 373 words
  18. THE MASTER MIND.

    "What I want to know is," said the proprietor of the Village Arms to the great lion tamer, who was in the bar, "how you have the nerve to ...

    Article : 242 words
  19. HANDED HIM THE LAUREL.

    The Prevaricators' Society at Ballarat and Woolloomooloo was proceeding in peace and harmony, till the snake-story man spoke. "Some ...

    Article : 203 words
  20. NO WONDER.

    Mr. Brown having bought a new bicycle of the most Improved pattern presented his old one to Dennis O'Hara, who did errands and odd ...

    Article : 168 words
  21. A BATTLE OF WITS.

    A city clerk with a reputation for wit, while passing 'along a crowded thoroughfare, accompanied by some friends, noticed an oyster stall ...

    Article : 138 words
  22. A DEAR STORY.

    Jinks was wearing a huge patch over his right eye, a bandage across his face, one arm in a sling, while a crutch under his left arm helped ...

    Article : 103 words
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