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  2. CUTTING A TIGER'S CLAWS.

    Mr. H. S. Ferguson, hon. secretary of the Public Gardens, Trevandrum publishes an account of an operation performed upon a tiger :-- ...

    Article : 646 words
  3. LONE MEG.

    "Who'd the' like to stay wi' the' to-night, Meg? Owd Nat's wife, or Granny Rorke m[?]bee?" " Nay, bring little Ruthic--Ruthic Dale--if ...

    Article : 1,976 words
  4. DULCIE EVERTON.

    'Well! "Well! I suppose I must do as you wish,' said Mr. Everton, yielding with, pretended reluetance, but inwardly not sorry to have his sterner notions set ...

    Article : 3,405 words
  5. A DEAD MAN'S DINNER

    They found him sitting bolt upright on a pill of beards just back of the little [?]oolhouse where the [?]n were building, holding in his stiff, dead band a lunch box, like those that children of ...

    Article : 968 words
  6. NEXT TO GODLINESS.

    Cut off my cars, the hermit cried, Hang, torture, rack, and flay me, Pall out my nails, my teeth, my hair, And subsequently slay me; ...

    Article : 56 words
  7. AN UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIAL.

    "Dear Sir,--My wife was struck down with the fever about four months back. The fever mode her so weak that she could hardly apeak. I saw in the paper an advertisement of yours ...

    Article : 80 words
  8. TOO KIND.

    My friend Mrs. B. is one of those goodnatured women who are always wanting to make other people comfortable. She happened to be in a railway station the other day ; a man she ...

    Article : 180 words
  9. A CYCLIST'S FUNERAL.

    A well-known Rochdale athlete, who died recently, was accorded a cyclist's funeral. The coffin was placed upon two tandems braced together, and wheeled through the town to the ...

    Article : 148 words
  10. HOW A BEE STINGS.

    The sting is a bee's only weapon. It is not the single spear that it appears to the naked eye, but consists of three prongs each beautifully grooved into the others, thus farming a sort of ...

    Article : 192 words
  11. TURNED HIMSELF EDGEWAYS.

    Gen. Sherman and Gen. Thomas were warm, and intimate friends. In their familiar intercourse they were to each other usually Bill and Tom, after the free and easy fashion of ...

    Article : 151 words
  12. HIS STRING.

    "How does your father manage to-catch s[?] big fish as he talks about? " "Oh, it's easy enough," replied the boy who was with him on the vacation trip. ...

    Article : 65 words
  13. SWIMMING.

    A curious incident took place in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in the summer of 1882. A boy, aged fourteen, and a large retriever dog were matched to swim 100yds. for a small bet. ...

    Article : 254 words
  14. MISTRUSTED HIS SEX.

    A Durham miner aged 73, visited a Newcastle lawyer--a bachelor--for the purpose of making his will. The old man's property consisted of two small cottages, which had cost him £150, ...

    Article : 195 words
  15. SHARP REPORTING.

    An amusing story is told of the editor of a go-ahead evening newspaper, who, in the eternal rushing to press to get ahead of the opposition, was constantly impressing upon his reporters ...

    Article : 150 words
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