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  2. FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

    This is a good game for any number of players, and all you require for it is a long piece of tape and a small ring. Thread the ring on the tape ...

    Article : 172 words
  3. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

    In most of the Chilian cities women are employed as tramcar conductors. About 1000 servants are attached to King George's Royal household ...

    Article : 745 words
  4. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it. She: "I'm going to cook dinner [?] day myself. What would you like ...

    Article : 925 words
  5. WHY POTTS WAS ANGRY.

    John Potts, the rich sugar refiner, was fuming, over his breakfast eggs. "What is the matter, John?" inquired his wife. ...

    Article : 386 words
  6. HE LIKED OYSTERS.

    "When I was in the produce business years ago," said an old merchant, "I had, among my country shippers, a German by the name of Jacob Snyder. ...

    Article : 389 words
  7. RANDOM READINGS.

    A German paper points out that many so-called modern inventions arc possessed of considerable antiquity. In the matter of submarines it is of ...

    Article : 227 words
  8. DIPLOMATIC WOMAN.

    She was young and fair, and a tear glistened in her eye as she laid her curly head upon his shoulder, and exclaimed:— ...

    Article : 307 words
  9. WHAT MAGGIE KNEW.

    School Inspector (to the infant class): "Now, talking of hens, can a hen swim?" "Yes," said Maggie, with a ...

    Article : 141 words
  10. POSTCARD HISTORY.

    It was about forty years ago that M. Raymond Louis Wolowski, a well-known French politician who was by birth a Pole, proposed in the National ...

    Article : 267 words
  11. PETTY COMMERCE.

    Trade was bad, very bad; and Mr. Buggins, the chief grocer of the district, found his takings becoming smaller every day. AH his old customers ...

    Article : 140 words
  12. THE HAPPY MAN.

    Once upon a time there was a King who fell ill, and as none of his doctors could cure him he cut off their heads and sent for more. Two famous ...

    Article : 294 words
  13. THE TEACHING OF MODERN LANGUAGES.

    At Columbia University a now course in "Spoken Languages" has been organised to eliminate defects in the methods of teaching modern languages ...

    Article : 162 words
  14. SURGICAL PATCHWORK.

    Modern surgery has come to the point of being a fine art. The surgeon of to-day has progressed far beyond the wildest dreams of the surgeon of ...

    Article : 199 words
  15. DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

    Father was of an economical turn of mind, and hated extravagance with all his heart. He had since the earliest days tried to instil ideas of a ...

    Article : 136 words
  16. INVENTOR OF THE THERMOMETER.

    It seems strange to think that a little over 200 yours ago the only way there was to toll of the weather, or the atmosphere of a room, or to speak ...

    Article : 454 words
  17. LYNCH LAW.

    That which is called "Lynch Law" in America originated in the action of private individuals who took into their own hands the punishment of ...

    Article : 185 words
  18. WHY HE OBJECTED.

    A parson and it leading parishioner were not on good terms, and there was much speculation in the village as to the reason. ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. A JAPANESE TRADITION.

    Segitera Temple, in the province of Ise, Japan, is the scone at a certain period in each year of a peculiar rite dedicated to the worship of ...

    Article : 153 words
  20. THE LABYRINTH.

    When the world was quite young and a great many very strange things happened in it, there lived a King of Crete, called Minos, who kept a ...

    Article : 343 words
  21. DROPPED ON.

    An ingenious young mom once took his fiancee to church in a small country village, and when the time came for the collection he rather ...

    Article : 139 words
  22. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.

    Kelly was brought into the dock charged, by his wife, with assaulting her. Mrs. Kelly, who had given her ...

    Article : 151 words
  23. HIS MAJESTY'S VISITING CARDS.

    Fow people, perhaps, are aware that the King has his own visiting cards, like anyone else. It is etiquette when the Sovereign is abroad that he should ...

    Article : 150 words
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