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  2. AUSTRALIAN ACTRESS.

    "Tall and most divinely fair" (writes the "British Australasian") would be a suitable description of Miss Mollie Ventry, the clover and beautiful young ...

    Article : 1,044 words
  3. THE LOST PATRIE.

    Our latest cable intelligence with regard to the French airship Patric was that she was been off the coast of Ireland, heading seawards. ...

    Article : 903 words
  4. BEGINNINGS OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

    A brief research, in which Mr J. M'Intosh, the secretary of the Royal Photographic Society, with the library, of the society at his disposal, has given ...

    Article : 548 words
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    Advertising : 126 words
  6. THE HUMORIST.

    The wisest man will gladly borrow, From wit and mirth surcease from sorrow. Lots of things are called human nature when they should be called cessedness. ...

    Article : 911 words
  7. OUR LANGUAGE.

    A Frenchman came to England with the eject of making himself master of the language and the following sentence was given him:— "The rough cough and blecough plough me ...

    Article : 97 words
  8. VERY PREVALENT

    Not long ago a certain doctor was called in to the house of a working-man whine wife was in. When he came downslairs seeing his patient, he was met by a friendly neighbour, ...

    Article : 61 words
  9. "WAR" IN THE ROCKIES.

    Another " war" in the Rockies (writes the " Daily Mail" on 7th December) is threatened by Mr Roosevelt's despatch yesterday of ...

    Article : 411 words
  10. HE WOULD TAKE HER ANYWAY.

    "Would you still want me to be your wife if my father was a poor man?" asked the beautiful heiress. "Yes," the duke replied, after a little ...

    Article : 23 words
  11. DEATHLINESS OF FACE POWDER.

    "The question is now being agitated," began Mr. Victimiser, folding his paper, "as to which is the more fatal to mankind, gunpowder or fare powder?" ...

    Article : 48 words
  12. THE GIRL AND THE BISHOP.

    This story in told by a woman who says she got it first hand. A bishop was walking in the country and met a growing girl tending some pigs. His ...

    Article : 49 words
  13. A ROYAL' CHRISTMAS.

    Christmas by the highest family in the land is, writes the "Westminster Gazette," observed very much as it is in other circles. From some interesting ...

    Article : 653 words
  14. TIME HE WAS OUR

    Canvaster: I've carat, ma'am, to rollclt four vote for Mr Sticklathemad. old Lady: Who's that, A dinna seem the ken that name. ...

    Article : 38 words
  15. SOLVING THE DIFFICULTY.

    Some navvies one morning, noticing by the town clock that they would be late for their work, came to a halt and discussed what they should do. They were coming to do ...

    Article : 24 words
  16. THE HEAT WAVE.

    Some time ago we had occasion to refer to the dangers that were looming ahead for " the man on the land " in the shape of bush ...

    Article : 427 words
  17. DELICATELY PUT.

    Weatwood: Funny thing about that stag. He was at least a mile away when I shot him, and I hit him within an inch of the spot I aimed for. ...

    Article : 27 words
  18. A GUID RECIPE.

    An Englishman spending a holiday in the Highlands of Scotland for the first time determined to take back home with him something for his friends which must be purely ...

    Article : 144 words
  19. RAGGING A PROCTOR.

    An extraordinary scene was witnessed at Cambridge the other day. The Junior Proctor appears to have gi en umbrage to the gownsmen by the manner in ...

    Article : 197 words
  20. NOT NEEDED AFTER SABBATH.

    The "meenister" of Gleed Parish was walking one misty night through the village street when he tell into a deep hole on the top of the water pipes which were in a state of ...

    Article : 62 words
  21. THE INSPECTOR WRIOGLED.

    A teacher was giving a lesson before the inspector. The subject was "Iron." The teacher was endeavoring to obtain the name of the subject lesson from the scholars by ...

    Article : 78 words
  22. "FULL PRESS."

    when one of Mark Twain's daughters was a small miss she gave evidence of unconscious humor that delighted her father. As a reward for being good she was allowed her first ...

    Article : 53 words
  23. HE MANAGED IT.

    He was the how office boy, and had just returned from the post with a beaming countenance. "Well, you succeeded in getting those two letters in all right?" Office Boy" "Yes, ...

    Article : 78 words
  24. AN IMPEDIMENT.

    "Why don't you marry Miss Kitty if you are so much to love with her?" "I would, were it not for an unfortunate impediment to her speech." ...

    Article : 29 words
  25. ACTRESS' SUICIDE.

    The " Daily Mail" correspondent wrote from New York on 6th December :— America's fashionable " star" ...

    Article : 471 words
  26. THE DRUCE-PORTLAND PHOTO.

    One of the many points of intercut (writes the "Westminster Gazette") that have arisen in the course of the police court proceedings before Mr ...

    Article : 147 words
  27. ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

    Not long ago one of the chief of the paid officials—the general manager, so it is said—of a certain important railway allghted at a little Junction station away in the heart of the country. ...

    Article : 575 words
  28. AN EXHIBIT.

    Sirs Sarah Lowe, aged thirty, a petite brunette, of Charlton, Massachusetts sued the manufacturer of a bath-tut for 1,5000. says the New York ...

    Article : 130 words
  29. SOMETHING FUNNY TO LOOK AT.

    A waitress in a certain restsurant is well -known to the patrons of the establishment for her ready wit. An occasional customer went in the order day for a dinner. After writing ...

    Article : 95 words
  30. MORTAL ENEMIES.

    Once upon a time there were in Paris two papers, the "Razor" and the "Scorpion," which were always going for each other with great ferocity. Every week people bought the "Rator" ...

    Article : 117 words
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