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  2. A WEIRD DETECTIVE EXPERIENCE.

    "Robin Goodfellow" tells an extraordinary and at the came time gruesome story of how two Birmingham detectives were duped. It was told to him by a ...

    Article : 216 words
  3. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    Tenant: "I have come to inform you," sir, that my cellar is full of water." Landlord: "Well, my good sir, you surely did not expect a cellar full of ...

    Article : 73 words
  4. NATURAL BENTS.

    In our attempts to explain ourselves we indulge in much vague talk about "natural tendencies," "a bent for mathematics," "a talent for language." ...

    Article : 475 words
  5. THE V.R.C. GRAND NATIONAL.

    If June is fraught to many with unpleasant associations of bank balancings and requests to at once adjust accounts, there is always in Victoria one pleasant ...

    Article : 1,168 words
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  7. HAD DONE HER BEST.

    In the waiting-room of a railway station the other day a woman had a great deal of trouble with one of her two children—a boy of seven or eight. ...

    Article : 106 words
  8. A GREAT POSSESSION.

    There is a cerain something which, for want of a better name, is called womanliness, and it is that which makes women attractive to men. A great ...

    Article : 285 words
  9. FUNNY SCENE IN A CHURCH.

    A drunken man staggered into a church in Philadelphia some years ago, and sat down in the pew of one of the deacons. The preacher was discoursing about ...

    Article : 142 words
  10. HE KNEW WHAT IT WAS.

    A certain minister while passing down the village street, observed one of his parishioners seated at his cottage door supping his broth. ...

    Article : 136 words
  11. A TIGER-CROCODILE ADVENTURE.

    "The Cornhill Magazine" tells a true tale, which night be called a tiger and crocodile story, and certainly affords a remarkable instance of a providential ...

    Article : 382 words
  12. ORIGIN OF DOMINOES.

    The game of dominoes is said to have originated through the ingenuity of two monks, who had been committed to a lengthy seclusion. They contrived to ...

    Article : 169 words
  13. LACK OF IDEAS.

    Many households fail to realise even a moderate ideal of happiness, not from a lack of love, or for a want of moral principle, but simply from lack ...

    Article : 211 words
  14. ONE WHO COULDN'T.

    "Yes, my friends," exclaimed a teetotal lecturer, "there are many excuses for the glass. The sick man says he must have his glass to make him well; ...

    Article : 145 words
  15. Heaviest Subject of the King.

    The twelve-year-old boy named Charles Law Watts, living at Woodchurch, on Romney Marsh, is believed to be the heaviest lad of his age in the world. He ...

    Article : 99 words
  16. TOLD BY A RAILWAY GUARD.

    One dark night a heavily-laden train of twenty-four waggons was approaching a station upon a single line of rail In its coarse the train had first to descend at ...

    Article : 612 words
  17. FORGET THEM.

    If you would increase your happiness and prolong your life, forget your neighhours' faults. Forget the fault-finding and give a ...

    Article : 129 words
  18. WORDS OF WISDOM.

    Due of the duties of to-day is to qualify yourself for to-morrow. Before you give way to anger, try to find a reason tor not being angry. ...

    Article : 191 words
  19. BIOSCOPE OF THE LONDONER.

    The cockney is filled with a belief that to hurry is God's chief mandate to the good citizen. He rushes through his breakfast, and rushes for his train; he ...

    Article : 494 words
  20. WISE UTTERANCES.

    Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. We must use no words that we are not prepared to back up with deeds. ...

    Article : 384 words
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  22. Heating Houses.

    The Ideal system is healthful—no soot, no dirt. It is not necessary to have chimneys, so, in public buildings about to be put up, the cost of these can be saved. There is one ...

    Article : 169 words
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