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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 77 words
  3. SHOULD MEN CONFIDE IN THEIR WIVES?

    "My husband tells me nothing of his affairs, he seems to think I understand business no better than a baby, and when I ask him, gives me a kiss and laughingly tells ...

    Article : 736 words
  4. CROSS PURPOSES.

    "WHEN do these two Nimrods arrive Cissy?" "This afternoon," responded Mrs. Nevil, looking up from her writing-table to answer ...

    Article : 2,357 words
  5. ODD BEQUESTS.

    MANY charitable bequests remarkable for eccentricity are equally remarkable for their munificence. David Salter, of Farnham Roval, in a ...

    Article : 981 words
  6. PUNTING THE BUFFALO.

    WRITING in Scribner's Magazine, Mr. G. B. Grinnell graphically describes the exhilarating sport of hunting the buffalo in the days when the game was more ...

    Article : 724 words
  7. CURIOSITIES OF BEGGING.

    SURRELY the kindly shade of Elia must have beamed approval on the efforts of Mr. Gilbert, and those of metropolitan magistrate, which have lately rendered the ...

    Article : 1,487 words
  8. OLD FAMILIAR SAYINGS.

    MANY of our common sayings, so trite and pithy, are used without the least idea from whose pen or mouth they first originated. Probably the words of Shakespeare ...

    Article : 475 words
  9. A BALANCE DUE.

    MR. CHOKE, of the law firm of Bardwell Hempstead, Jones, Choke, and Feeling ton, was sitting in his office and dictating a brief of eleven thousand words or so to a ...

    Article : 333 words
  10. WHAT THE EXECUTED SUFFER.

    In reference to the awful question of whether a severed head can think, an anonymous correspondent contributes the following:-- ...

    Article : 406 words
  11. A PIG-STICKING ADVENTURE IN INDIA.

    A correspondent of Land and Water gives the following account of an incident which occurred at a meeting of the Nagpore Hunt:-- Our next meet was at Warrce, and ...

    Article : 569 words
  12. DIDN'T KNOW HIS OWN WIFE.

    MANY instances are on record of men who through illness or accident have completely lost their identity. A young workman newly married, was knocked down by ...

    Article : 197 words
  13. LITTLE GUY'S STROKE OF POLICY.

    LITTLE Guy had a very pronounced sweet-tooth, and, as a consequence, dearly loved puddings of every description. On the contrary, he did not care for presaic ...

    Article : 202 words
  14. AND THE DOG WAGGED HIS TAIL.

    THE woman with the dog was making herself obnoxious to everybody by her silly fondling of the animal, which, by the way, was a fine one, as dogs go. Finally a man ...

    Article : 116 words
  15. DISCOUNT FOR SECOND HAND

    FOR a week she had felt an exalted assurance that the titled foreigner would ask her to be his wife, and when she finally saw him at her feet in the attitude of supplication ...

    Article : 282 words
  16. PLEASANT.

    BRIDGET was a " hired girl" who was too amiable to believe in a scolding. A story of her should be remembered as an item on the credit side when the delinquencies of ...

    Article : 206 words
  17. HOW HE WAS SAVED.

    REPORTER (excitedly): " Is it true, sir, that you fell from a fifth-storey window of this hotel to-day?" Stranger: "Such is the fact, young ...

    Article : 158 words
  18. SELDOM AT HOME.

    STRANGER (on train): "A man in your business can't get home very often, I presume." Drummer: "Home? I should say not. ...

    Article : 138 words
  19. A DEAD HEAT.

    At a recent concert a duet on the piano and violin was being played when some gentlemen entered the hall. Among these was a bookmaker, who ...

    Article : 127 words
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