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  2. HUMOROUS COLUMN.

    James started courting, and as It was Polly's birthday be thought be would buy her a pair of boots. So he took her to the boot-shop, and out ...

    Article : 170 words
  3. ROUND THE WORLD.

    Newspapers are not allowed to go out of the Transvaal. The sense of touch is dullest on the back. ...

    Article : 880 words
  4. [Copyright.] THE WIZARD OF WHITE CLIFFS.

    The locality where the search was now being made was not so well known to Fitzgerald as other parts of the district, though he had been ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,367 words
  5. "WHERE'S MOTHER?"

    Bursting in from school or play, This is what the children say; Trooping, crowding, big and small, On the threshold, in the hall— ...

    Article : 150 words
  6. THE LAND.

    Onions, like some other farm crops, require a large amount of labour to give the best results. But if given good cultivation and the weeds are kept down, ...

    Article : 531 words
  7. The Judge and the Boot-Black.

    A judge, who need to wear very long, waving hair and a heavy heard, one day was on his way to court, when he was accosted by a little street bootblack with an ...

    Article : 156 words
  8. Is Cronje a Scotchman?

    The Glasgow "Herald," of May 28, 1900, contains the following interesting reference to Cronje, who is now cooling his head at St. Helena:— ...

    Article : 415 words
  9. A New Definition.

    In a certain school the other day a class were having a lesson on history. The teacher had been explaining to them about the execution of King Charles, and ...

    Article : 109 words
  10. Settled the Argument.

    Mies Elder: 'Well, I maintain that women can do anything men can.' Mr. Gazzam: 'Oh, no. The auctioneer's business is one women cannot go into.' ...

    Article : 70 words
  11. The Deadliest Acids.

    The discoverer of prussie acid was instantly killed by inhaling one whiff of his own handiwork. Pure prussie acid is never sold or handled. It kills not ...

    Article : 235 words
  12. "Kitchener's Horse."

    Mrs. Noodle (laying aside morning paper): 'That man Kitchener must lire a charmed life.' Mr. Noodle: 'How so, my dear?" ...

    Article : 108 words
  13. General Louis Botha.

    Louis Botha, Commander-in-Chief of the Boers, is a comparatively young man—not more than forty-two—and was little known outside of his district till the present war. ...

    Article : 184 words
  14. Rough on the Masher.

    'This animal, ladies and gents,' said the showman, 'is the chimpanzee. The remarkable thing about the chimpanzee, ladies and gents, is that it comes nearest ...

    Article : 84 words
  15. What Are We Coming To?

    Those who think that in telegraphy without wires we have reached the end of human invention are mistaken. Professor W. E. Ayrton says:—"There is no doubt the day ...

    Article : 196 words
  16. The Late Mr. Moody.

    A famous man has died in Mr. Moody, the front evangelist, and there are many atones told of him. He was rather fond, so to speak, of "taking in" his audiences, ...

    Article : 244 words
  17. Thought It Was The Factory Horn.

    As the dawn broke over the Natal hills, the bugle sounded loud and clear, and its last prolonged note roused from slumber Michael Doyle, Reservist. ...

    Article : 82 words
  18. Children of the Nineteenth Century.

    They say that children are born old nowadays. Here is an instance in point —Transatlantic, of coarse:—[?]Papa, said the little four-year-old ...

    Article : 71 words
  19. Alcohol and Plant Life.

    An ingenious Frenchman, M. Fouis Levat, recently administered alcohol, through the soil, to a geranium plant for the purpose of observing the effect. It was sufficiently ...

    Article : 88 words
  20. Great Thoughts on Labour.

    Observe: without labour nothing prospers.—Sophooles. From labour health, from health contentment springs.—Besttie. ...

    Article : 102 words
  21. What He Meant.

    'I would I were a bird!' waited the fair girl at the pieno. 'I would you were a box of axlegrease!' hissed the dark man under the ...

    Article : 80 words
  22. Accepted.

    Amateur Photographer (touring in the country): "Pardon me, sir, but would you object to me taking your daughter just as she is?' ...

    Article : 63 words
  23. Chinese Patience.

    The Chinese are a plodding, patient race of people, never hurrying bat always "arriving" with work perfect in every detail. An example of patient industry is ...

    Article : 89 words
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