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  2. A FATEFUL MESSAGE.

    "How's it done?" Mr. Washington Whiffle was genuinely puzzled. Moreover he was ill at ease, perhaps because he was ...

    Article : 1,867 words
  3. A CLEVER PLOT.

    Mr. Edward H. Smith, writing on "The Criminal as an Inventor." in "The Scientific American," recalls a diamond robbery which took place in ...

    Article : 1,290 words
  4. HOW TO PLAY PARLOR GAMES.

    You can buy any number of books on how to play bridge, and chess and other simple games for children, but up till now I have never seen one on ...

    Article : 1,047 words
  5. INFLUENZA TIME.

    If I read the signs aright—and have just swept the sky very thoroughly with a stethoscope—the quinquen-quodrial equinox is about to cannon off ...

    Article : 535 words
  6. AMONG THE HEAD HUNTERS.

    Captain Frank Hurley, who became famous by his photographs of the Australian Antartic Expedition, has recently completed a tour of exploration ...

    Article : 534 words
  7. WHY HE WOULDN'T PLAY.

    The famous billiard player, Willie Smith, tells an amusing story concerning a man who was down on his luck. He had no work and no money and ...

    Article : 140 words
  8. PROVING IT.

    The man who had been pacing up and down the platform associated a porter. "Does the 9.20 stop at Wigan?" he ...

    Article : 163 words
  9. A FINE SIGHT.

    Eventide was wrapping the countryside in a mantle of peaceful delight. The hoy stood on the bridge, and the sweet smile upon his young face ...

    Article : 110 words
  10. FRIENDLY MICROBES.

    Most people know that there are friendly microbes as well as deadly ones, but it is not always realised that without the microbe there would be no ...

    Article : 138 words
  11. WEAK BACKS.

    He had taken his sweetheart to a football match, and found so much pleasure in describing the game to her as in shouting to the home team. ...

    Article : 110 words
  12. HOW HE KNEW

    "You naughty, cruel boy!" said the fashionably dressed young woman to the boy she had found despoiling a bird's nest. "How can you be so ...

    Article : 93 words
  13. WHY HULL?

    If the citizens of Hull were told, in the language of Betsy Prig, that "there ain't no such place," they would be polite indeed if they did not hint that ...

    Article : 174 words
  14. TROUBLE FOR SOMEONE.

    "What is your name?" asked an inspector of a girl at the Scripture examination. "Poll Shock," replied the girl. ...

    Article : 98 words
  15. ARTIFICIAL SUN CURES.

    Artificial sunlight is being used at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, with extraordinary success in the treatment of children with rickets and ...

    Article : 147 words
  16. TOO BIG A HANDICAP.

    A friend of mine who had taken his little boy to the zoo told me of an amusing remark he overheard there. "Look at those monkeys making ...

    Article : 109 words
  17. MORE IN HIS LINE.

    A young swell took his sweetheart to the seaside last summer, and was promenading on the sands, when a donkey lad accosted him: ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. POOR GROCER.

    Old Biddle was a prosperous tradesman, and, having retired from business, he wished to enter a higher sphere of society. ...

    Article : 193 words
  19. A CHANGE OF COLOR.

    Charming Betty Balfour made us all laugh not very long ago over a story she told about a man friend of hers who married a pretty little brunette. ...

    Article : 115 words
  20. NOT WHAT HE MEANT.

    A foreman over some navvies was fond of taking a rise out of his men, especially newcomers. Going his round one Monday morning, and ...

    Article : 189 words
  21. HADN'T MISSED MUCH.

    The recent correspondence in the newspapers regarding the way some modern actors and actresses mumble their parts recalls to mind a story Mr. ...

    Article : 158 words
  22. THEN THE SHOPKEEPER COLLAPSED.

    Into a shop the other day there entered a little boy, who, holding up a very doubtful-looking penny, asked the shopkeeper if it was a good one. ...

    Article : 114 words
  23. THE TABBY KIND.

    While giving in an order at the grocer's shop a customer was highly amused at a schoolboy customer, who came to the assistant, saying: ...

    Article : 67 words
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