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  2. DOCTOR AND PATIENT.

    Mr. Finnigan was out of sorts, and Mrs. Finnigan sent for the doctor, who came, examined the patient wrote a prescription and said "Just ...

    Article : 137 words
  3. OUR COOKERY SCHOOL.

    Fish is a food of great value, and being light and easily digested, it is particularly suitable for summer diet. This remark applies more ...

    Article : 1,316 words
  4. TWILL NEVER RETURN.

    It was a pitiful [?]mistake, an error sad and grim; I waited for the railway train, the light was low and dim. ...

    Article : 125 words
  5. A FANTISTIC STORY.

    A very fantastic story is that which is told of the strange and slow suicide of the Baron Bela Olny at Pesth, some years ago. ...

    Article : 343 words
  6. CURE FOR CHILD CRIMINALS.

    "Spare the rod and spoil the child" is no longer to be recognised as good common sense. Scientific surgery has abolished the rod in favour of the ...

    Article : 654 words
  7. £50,000,000 COMPENSATION

    The total loss of property caused by the disastrous fire which followed the earthquake at San Francisco has now been arrived at with a near ...

    Article : 233 words
  8. RUSSIAN POLICE STORY.

    Some years ago one of the leading Russian diplomatists found, on his return home from a great dinner party in St. Petersburg, that his ...

    Article : 250 words
  9. A GRUESOME PRACTICAL JOKE.

    "Just imagine Danger or Harry Richmond playing one of their dummy figure gags nowadays," said an old actor to a reporter recently. ...

    Article : 826 words
  10. MAKING RUBIES AND DIAMONDS.

    In "Harper's Magazine" for October, Mr. Robert Kennedy Duncan, professor of industrial chemistry in the University of Kansas, writes on ...

    Article : 1,193 words
  11. THE NOISE OF THE SILENCE.

    The youth was in danger of drifting into bad courses, when one of the noble people who interest themselves in such cases persuaded him to ...

    Article : 129 words
  12. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    Coal was not used in Europe for fuel until about 850 A.D. The first striking clock was made in Persia about 800 A.D. ...

    Article : 439 words
  13. FLEWED.

    A bishop was asking a class of boys some questions in mental arithmetic. "Now, my little man," he said to ...

    Article : 100 words
  14. CHEMICAL LOVE SCENES.

    If, as the cynics tell us, we are losing our capacity for emotion, the modern druggist can give us back all the outward signs of love. grief, ...

    Article : 463 words
  15. AT THE SEASIDE.

    A good story is told of an old sea captain who keeps a little hotel in a northern village on the seashore, celebrated for its sands. His ...

    Article : 305 words
  16. A LARGE PARTY.

    The American diplomatist Mr. Reed was not a small man either in mind or body. A story of a visit paid shortly before his death to ...

    Article : 151 words
  17. HER OWN CAPTAIN.

    She was a widow coy and sweet, and he was a bluff old sailor, who thought the world of her. But not trusting to himself to make a direct ...

    Article : 117 words
  18. INDIGNITY FOR TRAVELLERS.

    A vexatious inquisition under the new immigration laws which have recently come into force for first- class passengers landing in the ...

    Article : 282 words
  19. NEARING UTOPIA.

    There are no chieftains in the Esquimaux comminity. They all regard themselves as free men, with an equal right to hunt, fish, sleep, and ...

    Article : 295 words
  20. CROWDED.

    The sick man had died very suddenly, and some of his friends from a distance had telegraphed to the local undertaker to get a wreath made ...

    Article : 105 words
  21. IN A HURRY.

    "My brother bought a motor-car here last week," said an angry man to the salesman who stepped up to greet him, "and he says you told ...

    Article : 80 words
  22. IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE.

    John Jones was infuriated, but the editor shut him up in two seconds. "Is this the newspaper office?" inquired John Jones. ...

    Article : 115 words
  23. A BOOK FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

    Lady (at book store) : "I want to get a good novel to read on the train--something rather pathetic." Salesman : "Let me see. ...

    Article : 72 words
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