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  2. Advertising

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  3. LORD KITCHENER AND THE ARMY SURGEON.

    A sergeant of the Royal Engineers who has just returned to England from the front tells the following story of Lord Kitchener's stern sense of ...

    Article : 336 words
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  5. THE CITY OF CAIRO.

    The largest city in Africa is Cairo, the capital of Egypt. It has a population of 570,062. It is situated on the right bank of the Nile, 131 miles ...

    Article : 185 words
  6. SUICIDE AND THE LAIZ

    By the law of England suicide is a mine called felonia de se (self-felony) ; and at common law, which in that respect followed, the canon law, a ...

    Article : 325 words
  7. Welbeck Abbey.

    One of the curiosities of Welbeck Abbey, the Duke of Portland’s home near Worksop, is the celebrated underground ballroom and ...

    Article : 175 words
  8. The Witty Canon of St. Paul’s.

    A Prebendal stall in St. Paul’s, London, was given to Sydney Smith, the well-known wit, by Lord Grey in 1831. “It is, I believe,” he wrote, ...

    Article : 294 words
  9. Didn’t Get the Job.

    A few weeks ago a man was standing at the gates of a large ironworks, He was waiting to see the foreman to ask him for work. ...

    Article : 123 words
  10. Wheat Stored in Malta.

    The huge granaries at Malta form one of the most interesting sights of the island. The annual crop of grain grown at Malta is hardly sufficient to ...

    Article : 182 words
  11. A Big Dose.

    One day a Lancashire physician, on his visiting day, called at the house of a certain patient, and, after seeing the man, said he would send him a box ...

    Article : 119 words
  12. The Chinese Standard.

    The Chinese standard is composed of a ferocious looking dragon, and a little red sun, in the corner of the flag, which the dragon appears about ...

    Article : 152 words
  13. At the Lunatic Asylum.

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  14. How Trades Kill and Injure.

    We have all of us heard of lead-poisoning and consequently know that most of the afflicted have been people working in certain trades in ...

    Article : 146 words
  15. What Could She Expect?

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  16. At the Garden Gate.

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  17. Peculiar Welsh Custom.

    A very strange custom used to prevail at Witchurch, a small village some three miles north of Cardiff. Every Easter Monday such married women ...

    Article : 111 words
  18. Anecdote of King Humbert.

    The late King Humbert was one of the most. unconventional of rulers. About twelve years ago the Princess Louise (Duchess of Argyll) was on a ...

    Article : 259 words
  19. Money Wasted.

    An amusing story is told about a prisoner who was charged with felony the other day at the Sydney Central police-court. ...

    Article : 128 words
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