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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 48 words
  3. New Roman Cathotic Cathedral.

    The building at this vast and stately cathedral, undoubtedly the largest built in great Britain since the Reformation, originated with Cardinal Manning. After ...

    Article : 549 words
  4. Pith and Point.

    You con buy tea in China 1½d. per [?] A Russian does not become of age until be to 2s. The life of an Australian native rarely exceed ...

    Article : 989 words
  5. Short Story.

    Perhaps it would never have happened had a comrade given him a word of encouragement. But the men were too intent on the grim work ...

    Article : 1,565 words
  6. The Sketcher.

    Eliza (washing up tea-things with coquetry aud a smile): Law, Mr. Thomas, how you take a girl back to be sure! A creeping in so quiet when she's a ...

    Article : 1,039 words
  7. Spray.

    Him was an Irishman, and was employed as a carter by a corn merchant in Cardiff. One day he was sent with a load of corn to a gentleman's stable. He was given a ...

    Article : 113 words
  8. A Great Difference.

    A visitor to an insane asylum saw one of the patients seated gravely before a chaff harnessed up with a bit of string, and which the patient was pretending to drive. "A ...

    Article : 92 words
  9. Would Lose No Time.

    A certain popular novelist, who is well known for his kindness to literary apprentices, is said to have received not long ago from an ambitious young author a volume ...

    Article : 81 words
  10. In a Fix.

    Sir William MacCormac, the president of the Royal Collge of Surgeons, who is now with our soldiers at the front, is an indefatigable worker. Often, to save time ...

    Article : 102 words
  11. Curious Wounds.

    A very eminent medical authority has been assuring us recently that the term "wounded" will soon cease to have the fearful significance which it once ...

    Article : 932 words
  12. Past Curing.

    Two old Scotch friends met and spoke of the days when they had been sweethearts. At last he said: "Ah, Jennie, an I hae na loved ...

    Article : 70 words
  13. Appreciated.

    Old Hardcash: "I've decide to lake young Sharpleigh into business with me as soon as he and my daughter get back from their honeymoon." Bullion Bonds: But I ...

    Article : 105 words
  14. An Embarrassed Missionary.

    "Soon after my arrived in Ugand[?] says a young [?]ssionary who went to Africa in his early manhood, "a most emba[?]ssing accident happened through my wan of ...

    Article : 241 words
  15. His Lucky Bags.

    A countryman travelling by train came [?] a large, station. Looking round, he saw some automatic machines. He put penny in one, and got a cigarette, then on other ...

    Article : 114 words
  16. Too Much Reformation.

    "Poor Mrs. Wylie She's perfectly miserable. Her husband has turned out a terrible disappointment." "What Wylie? Why, he's reformed! I ...

    Article : 71 words
  17. A Mean Man.

    Robert Carrick, one of the richest [?]ers of Scotland, a few generations ago, was as mean as he was wealthy. Being one day visited by a deputation collecting ...

    Article : 225 words
  18. His Best Wishes.

    Some procrastinating customers of a London merchant last Christmas received cards with the usual words "Wishing you a Happy Christmas" printed thereon, to ...

    Article : 67 words
  19. Wilfully Dense.

    When the relics of the troops camp back from the Crimea they were reviewed by the Queen, and some of the veterans were decorated, After the ceremony Mrs. Norton, ...

    Article : 108 words
  20. Snakes in South Africa.

    One thing in Natal will surprise New South Welshmen at least (says a writer in the "Sydney Sunday Times"). That is the abundance of snakes, and the carelessness ...

    Article : 380 words
  21. No Place for Irishmen.

    There is one country in the world, and probably only one, which gets along with a single policeman--that is Iceland. Iceland is peopled by the descendants of the ...

    Article : 123 words
  22. Kitchener's Work in South Africa.

    When Lord Kitchener and his chief of the staff reached Capetown, we had troops of all arms in South Africa, but we had no field army, and until we had a field ...

    Article : 197 words
  23. The End of the Earth.

    An amusing incident was the result of as argument between two travellers. Each wished to inter that he had travelled farthest in the world. So to settle the ...

    Article : 111 words
  24. Mr. Bowser's Tribulations.

    There was a sort of three-ply, back-action double combination look on Mr. Bowser's face as he entered the house the other evening, and for the life of ...

    Article : 1,553 words
  25. Too Many for the Judge.

    An eminent lawyer was arguing a case before the Judge, who grew impatient and by the court; please make your argumet ...

    Article : 117 words
  26. Too Expensive.

    Peter Sykes was engaged to paint aud whitewash a certain country vicarage in Yorkshire. When the rector came in to see how he was getting on Peter was ...

    Article : 170 words
  27. Sounds Heard in a Balloon.

    Mr. J. M. Blacos the Englishman who with his daughter, made a lofty balloon ascent to observe the m[?] shower last November, tells some interesting things ...

    Article : 149 words
  28. Most Ungallant.

    It was as a recent bazaar, of which the profits were to go to the Reservists' Fund, that two noted society beauties were in charge of a tea-stall. One of these, ...

    Article : 85 words
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