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  2. Gathered Grain.

    The Eiffel Tower is 8 inches shorter in winter than in summer. The national drink bill of Great Britain last rear amounted to £160,891,718. ...

    Article : 771 words
  3. Funny Fragments. Excellent Character.

    Lady: "Who is the agent for these flats?" Man at Door: "I can let the flats, mum." "Are the rents reasonable?" "Yes, mum." ...

    Article : 115 words
  4. Confused.

    A benevolent old gentleman, passing through a subway in a North of England town, came across a beggar posted at the corner, with the usual "Deaf and Dumb" ...

    Article : 106 words
  5. Inferiority of Shakespeare.

    "There's nae use in sayin' ony mair aboot it—Shakespeare's no' to be compared wi' Burns." So said an old Highlander, who had been ...

    Article : 138 words
  6. Growing Youth.

    The other evening, after examining the exercise-book of his twelve-year-old boy, the said boy having gone to bed some time previously, Perkins expressed himself as ...

    Article : 158 words
  7. All a Mistake.

    A witty priest is old Pere Monsabre, whose fifty rears' service in the priesthood has been appropriately celebrated in France. One of the stories told of him concerns a ...

    Article : 141 words
  8. How Jim Jones Captured Pretoria.

    "Could I come agen? Well, as you're! kind enough to suggest it, another sensation of Irish, an' thank yer. "It was this way, Colonel. On the ...

    Article : 819 words
  9. Chips and Chaff.

    "It's a beautiful thing to see a young girl growing into womanhood." "That's right. So many of them seem to want to grow into manhood." ...

    Article : 590 words
  10. Minister's Experience.

    A minister of the late New South Wales Methodist. Conference, at Sydney related the following back blocks experience: Riding up to the homestead of a certain station for the ...

    Article : 203 words
  11. Some Mistakes We Make.

    It is a mistake to work when you are not in a fit condition to do so. To take off heavy underclothing because you have become overheated. ...

    Article : 179 words
  12. Dream That Came True.

    An old gentleman, residing in a semidetached villa, dreamt one night that there was concealed about the house in which he lived a quantity of silver plate. Another ...

    Article : 200 words
  13. Why He Fretted.

    It is part of the creed of the men who work at a West Riding factory to appear correctly dressed at weddings and other important ceremonies. They discard their ...

    Article : 207 words
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  15. What Clara Found.

    "If you were a—a jury, Clara," said the embarrassed young lawyer hesitatingly, "I could plead my cause with more self-possession. In the courts of—er—of love I don't ...

    Article : 192 words
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