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  2. Interesting Items.

    Spectacles were first used in 1993, Gold was first coined in Europe in 1320. The bullet which killed Lord Nelson ...

    Article : 689 words
  3. Humorous Column.

    Bishop Temple relates a good story of the inconvenience which he has experienced from his musical defect. Worshipping on one occasion in an ...

    Article : 163 words
  4. Life's Summer Time.

    While life's summer time goes by It will bring us many a dream: Hearts with love and hope float high, Drifting down the sunny stream. ...

    Article : 158 words
  5. Insect and Fungus Diseases.

    TREATMENT OF PHYLLOXERA .In dealing with phylloxera, the policy adopted by different Governments varies according to the stage reached by the plague in ...

    Article : 554 words
  6. THE FATAL LILIES, —OR— The Lady of Larchton Mere.

    Still the two went on, engrossed in each other. "Their conversation will last all the evening,' thought Lady Viola, ' if I ...

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  7. Guessed Their Fate.

    A judge who was celebrated for his heavy sentences, being on the western circuit of England, and wanting a pair of carriage horses, sent to Exeter, where, ...

    Article : 138 words
  8. People Who Life Like Cows.

    It is nasty to relate, but there are people who dwell among us and indulge in rumination or merycism like cows. The " British Medical Journal" tells us ...

    Article : 242 words
  9. Correcting the Teacher.

    A teacher at an evening school had before her a class in which were many rough lads. ' Suppose,' said the teacher,'I should ...

    Article : 81 words
  10. Breaking it- Gently.

    An accident had occurred in a quarry, and a man had been killed.' An Irishman volunteered to break the news gently to his wife, which he did in ...

    Article : 82 words
  11. The Torpedo- Boat.

    Before a torpedo boat can attack it must approach its prey within 500 yards. To do this and to remain undiscovered invisible torpedo boats are constructed ...

    Article : 194 words
  12. Stole His Fare.

    An Irishman landed in Liverpool when. the cholera was bad, and went to an undertaker for a job. The man of the sombre business said ...

    Article : 109 words
  13. An Election Incident.

    On the day an election in the North of England, a party of canvassers stood outside a polling -booth. One of their number, well known for ...

    Article : 97 words
  14. The Age of the Earth.

    It is extraordinary how people, and very clever people too, will remain in ignorance over simple facts, because they are too proud to ask those who could ...

    Article : 209 words
  15. Patrick Delane's Love-Letter.

    " Oh, Molly! my jewel, my father's so cruel, he won't let me marry the girl I adore; he says you've no posh, love, but that's all bosh, love; I know that you've ...

    Article : 195 words
  16. His Consolation.

    A druggist, who was aroused by the ringing of his night- bell, went downstairs, and had to serve a customer with a dose of salts. ...

    Article : 104 words
  17. Pat Laughed Last.

    An Irishman, on seeing a notice in a haberdasher's window one day, which ran as follows : ' Everything sold here by the yard,' entered and ...

    Article : 107 words
  18. WAR AND LOVE.

    War and love are strange compeers; War sheds blood, and Love sheds tears. War has swords, and Love has darts; War breaks ...

    Article : 327 words
  19. Heard in a Railway Train.

    First Passenger: 'Expect they had some fine pups up at the dog show, but I have a dog at home I wouldn't trade for the best of 'em.' ...

    Article : 197 words
  20. Hints About Drinking.

    I am not going to give a teetotal homily—by "drinking" many persons mean the imbibing of intoxicants only. I am now referring to drinking in the ...

    Article : 186 words
  21. A New Definition.

    Teacher: 4 What capacity is a zebra ?' All were silent, none of the scholars seeming to know. Teacher: 'Can any of you tell me ...

    Article : 57 words
  22. He Didn't Wait.

    A man one day went up to the Duke of Wellington's room in the Horse Guards. ' What is it, sir ?' asked the Duke. ...

    Article : 192 words
  23. Nut so Easy as it Looks.

    He was looking at a typo Piling letters in his stick, And each one seemed to fall in line So gracefully and slick. ...

    Article : 84 words
  24. The Requirements of Science..

    We must boil the hydrant water; We must sterilise the milk; We must strain the prowling microbe Through the finest kind of silk; ...

    Article : 53 words
  25. Gems of Thought

    No man lives without jostling and being jostled. In all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and taking offence. His life is a battle ...

    Article : 133 words
  26. The Old Clown.

    The chief inn at a small village had been known as the "Clown," hut the landlord, by the way of compliment to a certain bishop who had resided there for ...

    Article : 131 words
  27. Family Ties.

    I presume, said the talkative man to his meek- looking neighbour, ' from your manner and conversation, that you nave family ties.' ...

    Article : 54 words
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