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  2. FROM SOUTH AFRICA.

    Now that the Boers have no heavy artillery to speak of blockhouses are invaluable in the conduct of the guerilla fighting that is going on. ...

    Article : 493 words
  3. SOME REMARKABLE INSURANCE FRAUAS.

    Among the most painful cases of fraud practised upon insurance Companies have been those in which the directors of the concerns have themselves been the guilty ...

    Article : 707 words
  4. CURIOUS INCIDENT ABOARD A MAN-OF-WAR.

    The first thing that strikes a lands man on a man-of-war is the rigid dicipline observed everywhere On some of the ships belonging to the ...

    Article : 138 words
  5. AN ELEPHANT ON STRIKE.

    An Indian Bishop tells a story of a civilian elephant who was employed in a timeber-yard. A number of logs had to be moved by him and ...

    Article : 92 words
  6. ROMANCES OF THE ROAD.

    In the month of October 1827 there appeared the advertisement of a gentleman entire independent whose disposition was not to be exceeded who had lost the chief of ...

    Article : 3,396 words
  7. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

    Lord Clive, the founder of our India Empire one day attempted to shoot himself at his office desk in Madras. He first carefully primed a double-barrelled pistol placed the ...

    Article : 937 words
  8. SHE FELT INSULTED.

    After returning from a ball in a Scotch country town, 9 servant girl was asked by her mistress, how she bad enjoyed herself. ...

    Article : 68 words
  9. THE TRAMS OF THE WORLD

    The first man, curiously enough, to introduce the trams into England, was a Mr. Train, That event occurred in the streets of Brikenhead, ...

    Article : 428 words
  10. MOSQUITOES LIKE MUSIC.

    A mosquito's delight in music seems now to be clearly proved. Dr. Joly, a French naval surgeon.' who has been experimenting at ...

    Article : 144 words
  11. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    It is nonsense to Bay that a man inclined to he bald. When a man is becoming bald it is quite against his inclination. ...

    Article : 312 words
  12. WHY THEY LAUGHED.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 words
  13. "SCOTS WHA HAE WI SERPENTS FOGHT."

    One afternoon, during fair time a farmer in Strathearn having got his friend the smith to sharpen his axe set off to a neighbouring town to get in shafted Being told that a ...

    Article : 484 words
  14. MIDDLE-CLASS SOCIETY IN PARIS.

    I have often mused upon the unhappy lot at a British Policeman were cruel necessity to put him down suddenly in Paris he would ...

    Article : 302 words
  15. IN A WESTERN MINING CAMP

    "Some of the you know, probably." said the man in the mackintosh "that I spent a summer out West. some years ago in a mining camp. ...

    Article : 326 words
  16. ON SENTRY CO.

    The " Regiment " .tells a funny story about a Volunteer camp in the west. The adjutant was one of the old school and a bit of a martinet ...

    Article : 330 words
  17. HE MEANT TO HAVE "HER."

    A good story is being told at the expense of a young curate who has recently been appointed to a Black Country parish. It was his first wedding and he was terribly ...

    Article : 197 words
  18. TOO LAZY TO LIVE,

    The laziest man in Scotland is said to bare been the joiner who, after repeated dismissals from his employment by his master, was at length forcibly laid in his coffin by his ...

    Article : 135 words
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