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  2. WISE AND OTHERWIES.

    Waiter: Are you ringing the bell for me, sir? Irate Customer: No, I'm tolling it. I thought you were dead! Did you get on your knees when ...

    Article : 906 words
  3. WHAT KINGS SMOKE.

    King George has the distinction of ardent devotees of the cigar or the being the only European Sovereign who smokes a pipe. All the others are ...

    Article : 457 words
  4. HOW TO SHAVE.

    Safety razors have been but a mixed blessing; they have made men forget how to shave. Apart from that, even a safety razor can only be used in one ...

    Article : 240 words
  5. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

    George Stophenson's engine, the Rocket, weighed 4½ tons, while a modtons. ern engine can weigh as much an 100 ...

    Article : 796 words
  6. ARE YOU A BAROMETER?

    Undoubtedly there is a great relation between the elements and cortain complaints, in the same mannor that some seasons of the year more than ...

    Article : 216 words
  7. RANDOM READINGS. TO RESTRAIN LUXURIOUS LIVING.

    In the reign of Edward the Third, laws were onacted to restrain luxury of living. No man, under a hundred pounds a year, was allowed to wear ...

    Article : 73 words
  8. FOR YOUNG FOLKS. HELD BY THE STEM.

    Henry was very proud of the new kittens, and went for them to show them to visitors. His mother heard them coming along the hall, and, ...

    Article : 57 words
  9. THE LAPLANDERS.

    You have all heard of the Queor little Lapps belonging to the Far North. They are dark and stunted, with prominent cheek-bones and flattened noses, ...

    Article : 195 words
  10. THE KILKENNY CATS.

    The legend of the famous Kilkenny cats, and the wonderful combat which resulted in their destruction—all but the tips of their tails—originated about ...

    Article : 185 words
  11. ALTOGETHER TOO OLD.

    The hostelry was very old and famous. Belonging to it were all manner of interesting memories. And on these the landlord traded. Really the place ...

    Article : 162 words
  12. IN DEEP WATERS.

    Two Irishmen decided to como to England to try their luck. Nearing Liverpool they noticed one of the giant dredgers at work, and looked enviously ...

    Article : 113 words
  13. THE MOUSE'S ESCAPE.

    "Oh, mother, mother[?]" cried Brownie, scampering down into his home, "do come quickly. Frisky's got caught in a great big box and can't ...

    Article : 299 words
  14. INFLUENZA IN EVERY LAND.

    Legion are the names that the dreaded "flu," has been called, by those that have fallen under its magic spell. No country will acknowledge that its ...

    Article : 174 words
  15. THE VANISHING SIXPENCE.

    The conjurer brings forward a tray lined with a shoot of white paper, upon which he has a glass tumbler upside down, also a cone made of paper ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 222 words
  16. A CURE FOR CORNS.

    Humanity has suffered with corns ever since shoes that pinched the feet have been worn, but there is no need of even those who will persist in ...

    Article : 200 words
  17. HE NEVER ERRED AGAIN.

    "Now, look for the colonel, because he's coming to inspect the post," said the sergeant, as he marched off, leaving O'Brien doing his first outpost ...

    Article : 149 words
  18. 44,000,000 STAMPS A DAY.

    Remarkable statistics regarding the output pf postage stamps in the United States have been given by Mr. Joseph E. Ralph, the director of the ...

    Article : 442 words
  19. KING JOVINIAN.

    In a far country there once lived a great and powerful king, named Jovinian. He had everything he desired, he was rich and young, he had & noble ...

    Article : 377 words
  20. POPULARITY COUNTS.

    Michelangelo beckoned to Rembrandt. "I see they're found another of your pictures, Remmy." ...

    Article : 111 words
  21. NAUGHTY: NAUGHTY!

    A certain blue-blooded family, in whose household there had been something in the way of a strike, were a short time ago perturbed to receive ...

    Article : 148 words
  22. HARD-WORKING JAMES.

    "Now, James," said the joiner to his apprentice. "I am going out. I don't expect I shall be long, and you can be planing up that ten-by-eight ...

    Article : 145 words
  23. THE DREAD OF EARTHQUAKES.

    The city of Mendoza, in Argentina, has not erected since 1861 a structure above one storey in height. In that year the greatest disaster which ever ...

    Article : 148 words
  24. A SILENCE CLUB.

    A new club has been formed in Moscow, the chief feature of which is the absolute silence imposed on its members within the club precincts. Any ...

    Article : 132 words
  25. ILLITERACY IN SPAIN.

    In many villages and small towns in the interior of Spain no one knows how to read or write. There are in Spain thirty thousand rural villages without ...

    Article : 77 words
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