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  2. FERRY BOAT CAPSIZED.

    The pretty little village of Sandside, on the banks of the rivets Kent and Bela, at the top of Morecambe Bay, was on Saturday afternoon. ...

    Article : 590 words
  3. NEW SERIES OF STORIES.

    "Can you get on a little farther, Cecily ? There's a village over there, and I can't bear you to be out in this rain." "I'll try." ...

    Article : 3,152 words
  4. VARIOUS VERSES.

    Seated one day at the—pinola, My sweetbeart was aiding for me, And her voice had all plain sailing THE it str[?] a very high C. ...

    Article : 113 words
  5. THE JESTER.

    "Why do you always refer to your valued as your "retainer!" "Because at always keeps everything he finds." "What id the name of your eat ?" one ...

    Article : 649 words
  6. SPRAY.

    Edward had just returned from foreign service, and his brow was troubled. "I gave you that parrot as a birthday present, did I not, Amelia ?" be asked. ...

    Article : 116 words
  7. THE ARMCHAIR.

    Mr. Douglas Sladen, writing in the "Girls' Own Paper" on the women of Tunis, gives some interesting details as to the wedding customs observed by various ...

    Article : 649 words
  8. THE PARSON EXPLAINED.

    A Scots minister had forgotten to bring his mamiscript to the church, and on going into the pulpit gave his congregation this explanation: "I am very sorry, my friends, ...

    Article : 71 words
  9. LITANY OF A SINNER.

    Now my time has come to die, Good, my masters, hear This, a sinner's litany, Daring to your ear; ...

    Article : 175 words
  10. PUNISHMENT.

    Two Jews were walking together into the country, and stopping at a farmhouse went in to have something to eat. When they had finished the farmer came and ...

    Article : 134 words
  11. A FOOTBALL DILEMMA.

    It was the Ramcastle Rovers' first football match of the season, and they were billed to met the redoubtable Winkle-borough Wanderers. Admission, 6d. Just ...

    Article : 149 words
  12. A TERRIBLE VENGEANCE.

    Underwood's hens certainly were a nuisance. Slingsby, who lives next door to Underwood, said there were various things which the editor of a family paper always ...

    Article : 255 words
  13. METHOD IN HIS MADNESS.

    During the South African war one of the privates in a British infantry regiment performed a very gallant deed. He dashed forward from the trenches across the veldt, ...

    Article : 90 words
  14. APPRECIATING CHILDREN.

    To appreciate a child it is necessary to understand it, yet many a parent fails to make a discriminating study of the characteristics of his child. The baby's actions, ...

    Article : 489 words
  15. THE IMPORTANCE OF A SUFFIX.

    A British officer in his expense list on Government service put down, "Porter, twopence." The War Office, in a verbose letter, pointed out that refreshments while ...

    Article : 100 words
  16. THE FRENCH RIOTS.

    An English girl studying in one of the convents near Lille, France, gives in a personal letter home an interesting account of the resistance offered to the ...

    Article : 356 words
  17. THE KAISER AS HE IS.

    In the " Windsor Magazine," Mr. Pulteney Bigelow, the American writer, who was an occasional playmate of the Kaiser during his boyhood, strives to counteract ...

    Article : 144 words
  18. IN CASE OF WAR.

    In an article entitled "The Advantages of the Alliance with England," the "France Militair[?]" says that in case of war England could render ...

    Article : 505 words
  19. WHAT PUZZLED THE CHILD.

    A gentleman whose nose had been lost in an accident was invited to tea. "My dear," said the good lady of the house to her little daughter. "I want you to be ...

    Article : 98 words
  20. A STORY FROM BERLIN.

    When Sir Frank Lascefles was British Ambassador at Berlin he was invited by the German Emperor to lunchvon at Potsdam on the occasion of the birthday of ...

    Article : 143 words
  21. THE OTHER GENTLEMAN.

    An old Irishman who had recently recovered from a severe sickness changed to meet the parish priest, who had been summoned during his illness to administer ...

    Article : 87 words
  22. NO FOLLOWERS.

    A dignified Birmingham clergyman interested himself in getting employment for poor girls in his pariah. Having satisfactorily placed one of his proteges in the ...

    Article : 78 words
  23. AT THE THEATRE.

    The folkwing was told by a manager of a touring theatrical company, then playing a well-known drama. One scene was the interior of a drawing-room, with ...

    Article : 157 words
  24. GREAT THOUGHTS.

    There is no policy like politences—Magoon. Conduct in three fourths of a life.—Matthew Arnold. ...

    Article : 2,582 words
  25. THE SILVER LINING.

    Mr. Dobson has lately been suffering from a very bad bout of influenza, but under the circumstances Mrs. Deboon has borne up remarkably. ...

    Article : 94 words
  26. POLITENESS AT HOME.

    There is nochning which will so quickly restore the beautiful, old-fashioned of courtesy husband to wife, brother to sister, and children to parents as intellectual ...

    Article : 142 words
  27. MAKING SURE OF HER.

    Young Jones married the lady of his (choice, and after the usual honeymoon settled down to a life of serene content. But [?]las ! one dark day there came a visitor ...

    Article : 207 words
  28. THE HEAD OF FLIPKINS.

    "Flipkins came down to his club with a great weight on his mind. "Boy," he said, "if I were to stand on my head all the blood in my body would rush into my ...

    Article : 99 words
  29. A DREAM-FORTUNE.

    Elras Howe, the man who made the first practicable sewing-machine, could never We imagined when he stuck last for a needle that the day would come ...

    Article : 165 words
  30. HE DUG 'EM.

    The late John W. Mackay was attending to business at the great Opmstock Mine one day, when a party of tourists approached and asked if he know of a ...

    Article : 138 words
  31. PATSY'S KNOWLEDGE OF WAR.

    An old woman recently entered a country shop in Ireland, and asked for some farthing dips, putting down the usual coin. The shopkeeper seeing it told her that it ...

    Article : 295 words
  32. AUTOMATIC SIGNALLING.

    An interesting system of automatic railway signalling is now being subjected to practical test. With the object of enabling the signalman t see at a glance the exact ...

    Article : 93 words
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