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  2. A NEW GAME FOR BOYS.

    He was a [?]e looking little boy of ange[?] countenance--by the look of him, one who could not hurt a fly. He sat in the train, and there was one other passenger in the opposite corn[?] ...

    Article : 175 words
  3. WIT AND HUMOR.

    Daughter: What is penury, mamma? Author's Wife: Penury, my dear, is what your father ca[?]s by his pen! "I'm down to my last shilling." ...

    Article : 1,627 words
  4. PERSONAL.

    An invalid girl who had been confined to bed at Chalons for a year has been cured as the result of a sudden shock. The house in which she lay was struck by lightning. ...

    Article : 1,201 words
  5. AUSTRALIAN SKETCHES.

    It was a queer, wandering sort of building, with small canvas rooms added at various angles, and rough outhouses of the kind that are constructed when sawn wood ...

    Article : 3,595 words
  6. ART THAT CONCEALS PART.

    "This," said the artist, "is a battle scene-- time, say, the year 2000 A.D. The defending force is on the extreme right of the canvas." "I can't see them," observed his friend. ...

    Article : 163 words
  7. PRESIDENT TAFT'S GYMNASTICS.

    President Taft is trying to reduce his weight. Every morning when most persons on their holidays are sleeping peacefully he reluctantly rises, dons athletic costume, and hastens toward his ...

    Article : 349 words
  8. THE THREE R's.

    A Fren[?]nan had been on a visit to England, in order to study at first hand the social manners of the English people. On returning to his native land he was asked ...

    Article : 61 words
  9. STRAINING HIS APPETITE.

    Mr. Green had been paying fifteen shillings a week for board and lodging, and his appetite constantly increased. Finally his landlady saw that she must either ...

    Article : 116 words
  10. THE TRAMP WHO KNEW.

    It was a good square building, so the tramp-- who hadn't tasted food for three days, strike [?] pink, mum, if he had:--thought he might get a good square meal out of it. ...

    Article : 166 words
  11. MARK TWAIN'S SPEECHES.

    Mark Twain possessed the art of racy speech, and he was never afraid to talk about himself. A volume of his lively delive[?]ances, rich alike in the saving sense of humor and in self ...

    Article : 464 words
  12. MADAME BERNHARDT'S FUNNIEST EXPERIENCE.

    During her long stage career Madame Bernhardt has met with many funny and strange experiences, but she says that the funniest of them all was the following, which is told in her own ...

    Article : 230 words
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