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  2. SHOPMEN'S SECRET SIGNALS

    Did it ever strike yon that on entering certain shops you were being "signalled" as surely as any train entering a railway station? Most probably not; ...

    Article : 682 words
  3. MRS. JACK JOHNSONS WEEKLY COLUMN.R

    It requires a daring person to sit down to pen an article on hot weather possibilities on even the most blazing day in England, with the knowledge that by the ...

    Article : 1,738 words
  4. THE JOKER WAS ACCEPTED.

    He was a comic writer and asked her to be his wife. He proposed as a humourist could and she laughed. He looked blue. Then she smiled ...

    Article : 369 words
  5. A ROMANCE OF THE MAIL COACH DAYS.

    The Earl of Aberdeen proposed the toast of "The Postal and Telegraph Service" at the complimentary dinner given to the delegates to the United ...

    Article : 806 words
  6. CONSERVATION OF FODDER ON A WHEAT FARM.

    Mr. A. F. Noll, in a paper read be ore the Quorn Branch Bureau of Agriculture, South Australia, drew the attention of farmers to the ...

    Article : 365 words
  7. ROBERTSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND.

    According to Mr. Herbert Vivian, who writes in the "Royal Magazine" Juan Fernandez, five hundred miles of the coast of South America, was ...

    Article : 231 words
  8. DYNAMITE PNUMATIC GUNS.

    A successful dynamite gun has finally been constructed according to report from America, where tests wore recently held in the presence of ...

    Article : 202 words
  9. MR. CHAMBERLAIN AS A SPEAKER.

    Full of distinctive characteristics is Mr. Joseph Chamberlain—unquestionably the most interesting personality in Parliament. Watch him ...

    Article : 518 words
  10. FISHY SEA-SERPENTS.

    Somewhere at the bottom of the deep have blue sea at an unknown distance from the surface, dwell some weird fish-like animals. One of these ...

    Article : 128 words
  11. A CRAZY HONEYMOON'S TRAGIC SEQUEL.

    Our loaders are acquainted with the personality of Captain Andrews, the "lone navigator," who achieved fame by crossing the Atlantic from ...

    Article : 487 words
  12. RICE V. POTATOES.

    If the value of food is judged solely by its chemical composition, a wrong impression may be obtained, for instance, potatoes as purchased ...

    Article : 235 words
  13. HIS ONLY OBJECTIONS.

    Merchant: Yes, I sold you that key of white lead, what's the mutter with it? Customer: Well, it isn't while, and it isn't lead. Otherwise it's all right. ...

    Article : 31 words
  14. HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.

    Dennis O'Neill met his friend Harrison Conroy a few days ago, at Small-bridge, and after the usual preliminary greetings, an adjournment was made to ...

    Article : 120 words
  15. BETWEEN THE TWO.

    Hoax; De Jones claims to be very swell, but he's rather ordinary, isn't he? Joax: Yes; he's like the meat in the sandwich. He's just between the upper ...

    Article : 36 words
  16. PLENTY OF THANKS.

    Minnie (to Effie): Doesn't he find that writing for the papers is rather a thankless task ? Effie: Oh. no, not at all. Almost ...

    Article : 35 words
  17. A POSTSCRIPT.

    Mick Murphy nearly cot into a serious row in the market. He had taken too much drink, and disputing with a neighbour about the price agreed upon for ...

    Article : 145 words
  18. DON'T CONTRADICT YOUR SOLICITOR.

    A well-known eccentric Irish lawyer has a client very much given to contradiction, and resolved to cure him of that annoying habit. One day the client ...

    Article : 137 words
  19. IMPROVING THE OPPORTUNITY.

    Regular patron: That was a frightful bill you presented to that man—even for you. Denitst: Yes; he's the man we buy ...

    Article : 37 words
  20. HENCE THESE TEARS.

    "The Slate " tells an amusing story of a poor old Scotchman who could no longer till "his wee bit land," and was obliged to accept the ...

    Article : 204 words
  21. WASTED ORATORY.

    "What did you think of that farewell speech of mine ?" asked the orator. "Well." answered Miss Cayenne, "to be candid, I couldn't quite make up my ...

    Article : 53 words
  22. NOT A GOOD TIME FOR BIRTHDAYS.

    "Pears to ma rather s'picions," remarked old Uncle Remus. as he wined his spectacles with his red bandanns, "that Massa Washington and Massa ...

    Article : 47 words
  23. IT WAS NO USE

    The late Dr. Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, could tell a good tale as well as any man living. Once when quite a young man bis Lordship related that he was trying ...

    Article : 110 words
  24. LIONS AND THEIR GOOD.

    It is a common assertion in works on natural history that the lion in a stale of liberty, trill not cat what he has not killed himself—no noble ...

    Article : 125 words
  25. AFTER MANY YEARS.

    He was too modest to be successful lover, and he had let forty years of his life go by without ever coming to an emotional point. He was in love with a fair being of suitable ...

    Article : 194 words
  26. LOGICAL SPELLING.

    An impudent fellow in Hawarden Inquired, without asking his pawarden. Of the loaned Colquh[?]on if the maintain the [?] ...

    Article : 60 words
  27. COULDN'T AFFORD IT.

    Simpkins: Going to the exhibition? Snifkins: Nope: can't a afford it. Simpkins: That will be a great disappointment for your wife. ...

    Article : 39 words
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