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  2. Advertising

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  3. Short Story.

    Ilberim Abbas was surrounded by mysteries—nay, he was a mystery. How be got to Egypt was a mystery to all but himself: how be quitted his mud but ...

    Article : 2,186 words
  4. Kruger Could Dance.

    A correspondent sends to the Press what he calls a delightful, touching, and truthful story of President Kruger. Many years ago, when in England ...

    Article : 215 words
  5. Short Story.

    [?] the of the 84 Transvaal War uncle is a particulary bright spot which we know as the defence of [?] Long, with ...

    Article : 3,474 words
  6. Household Hints.

    Soap purchased in bars in quantity should be cut with a piece of strong twine in portions for service, and placed on a high shelf in a cool portion of the pantry to harden ...

    Article : 263 words
  7. To Get Bid of Cockroaches.

    Mix one teacupful of plaster of Paris, half-a-pound of oatmeal, and a little sugar together. Roll into little pills, which place In the hides. Then fill the holes with ...

    Article : 50 words
  8. More Stingy Than [?] Excellency.

    An officer at present ob General Roberts's staff is noted for his ready wit and quickness in repartee. In the very early days of bis career he was ordered ...

    Article : 148 words
  9. Heading Stockings for Tender Peet.

    Stockings mended with silk instead of the ordinary wool will not cnafe tender feet. The silk should be almost as thick as buttonhole twist, and as it lasts a long lime ...

    Article : 45 words
  10. The Storeroom.

    The storeroom is a department no longer, as in the days of our grandmothers, the chief pride of the housewifely possessions, when frugality and expediency taught tbe ...

    Article : 221 words
  11. General [?]ector Macdonald.

    Not a few of the stories in circulation regarding General Hector Macdonald are apocryphal, or should be received, at any rate, with the proverbial grain of salt. Several ...

    Article : 249 words
  12. Smoked His Pipe in Action.

    Letters written home by intelligent soldiers serving at the front give us perhaps, the most interesting accounts of our men's doings in South Africa. Says a private in ...

    Article : 367 words
  13. Criticises the Chinaman.

    A commercial man who has spent much time in China, and who is familiar with the political situation there, made some outspoken remarks on the character of the ...

    Article : 210 words
  14. A Boat in Himself.

    Raw recruits they were, and a regular awkward squad. After an hour of preparetory drilling the sergeant took them off the parade, and marched, them down a quiet ...

    Article : 133 words
  15. Came to Cure It

    At the autumn assizes in a certain Midland town a respectable-looking man was charged with an extensive series of thefts. The facts were admitted: and the only ...

    Article : 149 words
  16. The Dog's Turn.

    A gentleman, going to a friend's house, was met at the gate by a little dog all covered with mud, which ran to meet him, barklug in gladness. Thinking that the dog ...

    Article : 197 words
  17. Instanced.

    Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister at Washington, is a social favourite, because of bis genial humour and companionable ways. At a little dinner a few Weeks since ...

    Article : 126 words
  18. "Boiled or Fried?"

    A newly-married couple Went to a modest little restaurant for dinner the other day. "Will you hare oysters?" asked the man, glancing over the bill of tare. ...

    Article : 180 words
  19. Paused.

    Good puns are so rare the Columbs Dispatch" is entitled to thanks for recording an Eastern Railroad man's story of one of his brakemen who for special services ...

    Article : 211 words
  20. A Story of the Iron Duke.

    As an economist of time the Coke of Wellington would be hard to beat. Babbage tells bow be was one day driving home in a cab to drees for a dinner-party when be ...

    Article : 159 words
  21. Told by the Screw.

    It is customary among certain people to accuse Mr. Joseph Chamberlain of being a snob. His enemies declare that be is ashamed of his former business, which was ...

    Article : 141 words
  22. Without Doubt.

    A bright girl in a certain large school applied to her teacher for leave to be absent half-a-day, on the flea that her mother had received a telegram which stated that ...

    Article : 117 words
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