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  2. NO. 2 PLEASE.

    An American official received the following effusion from a war widow: —“ I want to thank you very much for your kind assistance in obtaining ...

    Article : 96 words
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    Advertising : 230 words
  4. ELECTROCUTING WHALES.

    The process of attaching your boat to fifteen or twenty tons of thrashing fury—a harpooned whale—with a scant four hundred .fathoms of line ...

    Article : 457 words
  5. WERE THEY SPIRIT VOICES?

    The enthusiastic support lately given to the claims of spiritualism by such eminent men as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge again ...

    Article : 970 words
  6. DON’T WEIGH THE BABY,

    only natural that there are number of beliefs about baby, [?] like [?] about marriage or [?] popular and ...

    Article : 512 words
  7. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

    The proprietors of the undermentioned Australian patents are producing the goods in America, Great Britain, or so on, abroad. In some cases ...

    Article : 408 words
  8. “CAPTAIN KAISER WETTER.”

    A joyous return from sunny Spain to the Fatherland, undertaken by a German gentleman calling himself “Captain Kaiserwetter,” has been ...

    Article : 272 words
  9. COLLATED PARS.

    Bruges has had a Fryatt day. Smyrna has a British post office. London boot repairers now have a shop stewards' committee. ...

    Article : 706 words
  10. WAS IT A JOKE.

    Mr. Jones had recently become the father of twins. The minister stopped him in the street to congratulate him. ...

    Article : 45 words
  11. OVERWORKED.

    Student: “The more I read on the subject the less I seem to know about it.” Professor: ”I see you have been ...

    Article : 28 words
  12. HE WAS THERE.

    He was fond of bragging about the wonderful echo to be heard on his estate. One day, when expecting friends to dinner, he placed his ...

    Article : 63 words
  13. SALVAGE OF WAR.

    Huge quantities of goods of all kinds, representing vast sums of money, are being salved drily from battlefields, roads, highways, railways, ...

    Article : 401 words
  14. WHAT LONDON ESCAPED.

    Admiral Sir Percy Scott makes some remarkable revelations of Lon din's anti-Zeppelin " defences " in the May number of the " Strand Magazine." ...

    Article : 344 words
  15. SOUNDED RATHER SUSPICIOUS.

    Sally Sparkes [?] valued cook of an American family. One afternoon, not long ago, the mistress of the house visited Sally in the kitchen, ...

    Article : 90 words
  16. SELFISH MAX.

    “ She is a proud beauty. Last night we parted in anger.” “ Going to make up?” “ I guess so. But I think I’ll stay ...

    Article : 38 words
  17. BRITISH ACE OF ACES.

    “So far as can be ascertained,” the champion British airman during the war was the late Major Mannock, triple D.S.O. and triple M.C. ...

    Article : 197 words
  18. SPRING IS HERE.

    Wife (returned from overnight visit): “Did you get yourself a good dinner last evening, dear?” Hub: “Yes, there was a bit of ...

    Article : 51 words
  19. SALMON—THE LEAPING FISH.

    Scientific observations have proved that the Chinook (U.S.A.) salmen has climbed falls up to a height of fifteen feet. Some of the smaller ...

    Article : 338 words
  20. INTERESTED HER.

    “I find the professor’s statistic stupid.” “ I don’t. He told me there were 400,000.000,000 people in the world ...

    Article : 31 words
  21. IN THE SHELL.

    To a certain boarding-house in Western town came a cheerful young fellow, who, upon his introduction into to the dining-room, immediately put ...

    Article : 65 words
  22. GOLDEN GLASS.

    A London firm has obtained the contract for supplying the seven magnificent stained glass windows of the New York Cathedral of St. John ...

    Article : 202 words
  23. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    It is narrated of a certain princes that once, when a boy, being away from home, the receipt of a letter from Queen Victoria gave him much ...

    Article : 76 words
  24. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Scraps of toilet soap should be saved, and then melted down in a saucepan with a little milk. when thoroughly dissolved, stir in a little ...

    Article : 252 words
  25. KNEW HIS JOB.

    The new doorkeeper at the museum turnstile had learnt the book of rules heart before taking over the job. “Here, sir, you must leave your ...

    Article : 85 words
  26. ALREADY GIFTED.

    Old Farmer Horkins always would spring surprises on the village, and one day he bought a barometer. He was singing its praises to one of the ...

    Article : 80 words
  27. NOT A BAD IDEA AT THAT.

    It was a foggy morning in town when a farmer from up State came to New York for a brief visit. “I’ll be dinged,” said he to a city ...

    Article : 90 words
  28. WALTZ HYMNS.

    [?] music is any[?] [?] in the view of Sir J. [?] chairman of the Congregation of England and ...

    Article : 139 words
  29. TOO LATE.

    Jimson had barely taken his coat off when .his mother-in-law, pale of face, rushed up to him and grabbed his arm. ...

    Article : 133 words
  30. DEATH WARNINGS IN DREAMS.

    “ Can we in dreams receive me[?] sages and warnings?” asked Dr. M.` Lipinska, laureate of-the Academy of Medicine of Paris, in a lecture at the ...

    Article : 98 words
  31. CHANGE OF DIET.

    Doctor: “What you need most is change of diet.” Dyspeptic: “Come again, Doe I Why, that’s what made we what I am ...

    Article : 48 words
  32. FIGHT WITH MAD DOG.

    A brave Frenchwoman, Mme. Coudyser, living .in a village outside Parisfi risked a horrible death by mastering a mad dog which ran among ...

    Article : 82 words
  33. HOW TO BE GOOD TEMPERED.

    That people with tight collars do not drain their brains properly, and often suffer from bad tempers, is the opinion of Dr. Leonard Williams ...

    Article : 74 words
  34. PATTER AMD FLAPPER.

    His Girl: “I suppose you picked up a little French patter? ” Returned Anssie (earnestly):“ You know I wouldn’t do anything like ...

    Article : 29 words
  35. AN AWFU PEETY.

    Bailie McTavish: “An so ye leave Glesea on Monday. What are ye [?] the morrow night ? ” Mr Jarvis: “To-morrow, ...

    Article : 34 words
  36. AND THEN HE LEFT.

    Mabel: “No, Freddie, I cannot marry yon. The man who weds me must be a grand man—upright and square.” ...

    Article : 29 words
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