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  2. HUMOROUS COLUMN.

    The following story is told of a well-known author whose play was being produced for the first time: At the end of the second act there was ...

    Article : 116 words
  3. GENERAL NEWS.

    Pearls are sometimes found in shells. Champagne was first made by the monks in the seventh century. ...

    Article : 945 words
  4. A FAREWELL.

    Forget me not, Though distant be thy lot And never more our loving hands may twine ...

    Article : 107 words
  5. POULTRY NOTES.

    The first thing to be considered in penning birds to get fertile eggs is to see and be certain that they are all healthy, and the descendants of strong healthy ...

    Article : 217 words
  6. Days of Danger.

    For the succeeding week they were occupied in making additions to and improving their solitary home. The plants had taken root and were ...

    Article : 2,554 words
  7. He Dropped the Subject.

    'Did you ever stop to think, said the village storekeeper recently, as he measured out half a quarter of potatoes, that those potatoes contain sugar ...

    Article : 78 words
  8. Advancement of Science.

    The majority of men should live to be one hundred years of age,' is the opinion of a well-known London coroner and doctor (says a ...

    Article : 305 words
  9. Quite Dead.

    'Pat, is this true that I hear ?' said a landlord to one of his tenants whom he had accidentally met. 'An' what's that, yer honour ...

    Article : 74 words
  10. How to Get Eggs in the Winter.

    All poultry-raisers are anxious to have their hens lay in the winter when bring good price. Early-hatched pullets are the greatest certainties for ...

    Article : 202 words
  11. Incorrigible.

    One day last week a man was standing outside a public-house in Sydney, just before the hour for opening, when a kindly old gentleman approached him ...

    Article : 128 words
  12. The Penalties of Royalty.

    I suppose if one hundred well-to-do young misses were asked : " Would you like to be a queen ?" about ninety-nine of them at the very least would exclaim, ...

    Article : 406 words
  13. Gave the Whole Show Away.

    A certain friend of mine, a man who boasts that he knows a glass of wine,' Invited a few select friends to dinner one evening lately. In the midst of the ...

    Article : 96 words
  14. Great Men's Humble Birth.

    Columbus, the discoverer of America, was the son of a weaver. The eminent French humourist, Francois Rabelais, was the son of an ...

    Article : 250 words
  15. Stood Him in Good Stead.

    Put Macguire had been misbehaving himself, and appeared before his commanding officer, charged, for the third time, with the crime of drunkenness. ...

    Article : 94 words
  16. Too Mach Cake.

    At a children's party the hostess got up a panic known as 'The Menagerie,' which is similar to The Family Coach and other boring devices for amusing ...

    Article : 118 words
  17. A Boom in Soap.

    For a long time I had noticed how much cleaner my kitchenmaid kept the house than when I first engaged her. It was a welcome change, I thought ...

    Article : 127 words
  18. Advertising

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    Advertising : 169 words
  19. How Wireless Telegraph Signals Travel.

    Many inquiries have been made by correspondents as to how telegraph messages can be sent without wires, and the thing has been described over ...

    Article : 185 words
  20. NEW USE FOR THE BALLOON.

    One of the uses for which balloons may be employed is the investigation of the sea bottom. It has been found by aeronauts that frequently the ...

    Article : 140 words
  21. How He Would Spend His Time.

    On one occasion Judge Porter, a popular Irish magistrate, in pronouncing the sentence of the Court on an Irishman—a notorious drunkard—said ...

    Article : 162 words
  22. Disappearance of an Island.

    After a brief life of fourteen years Falcon Island has ceased to exist. The latest steamer to visit the place where it, was discovered in the Pacific says that ...

    Article : 99 words
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