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  2. SUSANNA'S LEAP YEAR PROPOSAL.

    If there was one thing in all her experience that Susanna Morton was heartily tired of, it was the evident and continued purpose of mankind to permit her to remain a spinster. ...

    Article : 2,145 words
  3. REUBEN'S TRIAL.

    "Reuben, you'll make yourself round-shouldered and consumptive bending over your desk that way. Can't you sit up straight and write?" ...

    Article : 1,809 words
  4. TOM HARLOW SBURGLARY.

    The firm of Matthew, Taylor, and Company, stockbrokers and prominent member' of the Stock Exchange, had just emerged from a siege of bard times and mental worry which ...

    Article : 2,400 words
  5. PREMATURE BURIAL.

    The fear of premature burial is not altogether unknown in this country. To take the most recent prominent eate, it may be remembered that the late Mr. Edmund Yates left ...

    Article : 924 words
  6. STRANGE ADVENTURE IN A LIFT.

    "It was," said the Major, as he got a good forced draught established through his second cigar," the most startling experience which any man ever had with an elevator. The blood in ...

    Article : 1,026 words
  7. LENGTHY WORDS.

    Which is the longest word in the world? For some time Wales held the record on the strength of the "John Jones, of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogeryebwyindrobwllsanttysiliogogog ...

    Article : 263 words
  8. £5,000 WITH A POUND OF BEEF.

    Some months ago a labourer in Stafford, on returning from his work, found that his chimney was on fire, and that it was impossible for his wife to cook bis dinner as usual, so he fetched ...

    Article : 343 words
  9. A CRIMEAN INCIDENT.

    During the Crimean war, General Herbe who was at that time a captain, was in the trenches whilst a sharp musketry fire was being carried on between the French and Russians. Suddenly ...

    Article : 376 words
  10. TOO LITERAL.

    People who lake all things literally are apt to tread on other people's toes. The man who walked in where he saw a sign—"Walk in,' and who wan ordered nut was a literal man; ...

    Article : 213 words
  11. ROYAL MATCH-MAKING.

    When the King of the Belgians, after an absence of some years, paid a visit to bis former friend, the Duke of Orleans (Louise Phillippe), his Majesty of the ...

    Article : 120 words
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