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  2. GLEANINGS OF HUMOR.

    Teacher—"Why are the days so short in the winter?" Dull Boy—"Spose it's because the nights are so long." Augustus—"Do you know, I don't like ...

    Article : 1,537 words
  3. CURIOSITIES OF ETIQUETTE.

    Handshaking is now etiquette all the world over when friends meet, hut the Chinaman (writes a contributor to the Edinburgh "Scotsman") shakes his own ...

    Article : 1,747 words
  4. LEGAL MISTAKES IN FAMOUS NOVELS.

    "Legal fictions," says one of Gilbert's "Gondoliers," "are solemn things." Yet it is curious how seldom a novelist ventures into a law court without driving his quiil ...

    Article : 764 words
  5. ALTERING THE MARRIAGE SERVICE.

    There is now a strong movement in France in favor of a revision of the marriage laws (writes the "London Daily Mail" of January 31. An extra-Parliamentary ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,033 words
  6. A COMPLETE STORY. DICK DARRELL'S VICTORIA CROSS.

    "By Jove! It's hard that it should come to this. But I shall have to part with the near old cross, after all." Five years ago, when Dick Darrell had ...

    Article : 1,649 words
  7. PECULIARITIES OF PROPER NAMES.

    "If the cultured Englishman wants to realise how ignorant he really is," said Mr. Andrew Lang the other day, "let him try to pronounce a selected list of, say, a ...

    Article : 764 words
  8. WHY THE STARS DON'T FALL.

    Miss Martha Craig, a lady of Irish birth, cosmoplitan education, and American sympathies, claims to have made scientific discoveries which entirely upset all the ...

    Article : 758 words
  9. THE SONGS OF LABOR.

    The Greeks of old had their Tyrtaeus, but who is the poet of this new Army of Labor? Is the literature that seems at last to have moved the battalions ...

    Article : 781 words
  10. UNDERTAKER'S WOOING.

    "It was purely a platonic friendship, and I declared all along that I never intended to marry her." Such was the defence put forward by Air. Frederick William Paine, ...

    Article : 1,202 words
  11. A PEER'S PREROGATIVE.

    As Master of the Horse Lord Sefton draws the highest pay and holds the highest rank of all the great officers of the Royal household, having under his ...

    Article : 544 words
  12. FOR SUCH AS GOSLIN.

    "I find young Mr. Goslin 'as paid that fifty pounds he owed us twice over. What 'ad I better do about it?" "Do, you Juggins! Why, go an' ask 'im for it again." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 38 words
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    Onlooker—"An' 'twere only t'other day as Jarge said 'e didn't know nothing about Home Rule!" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 17 words
  14. GRIM DEEDS IN JAPAN.

    The Japanese mail brings particulars of a Tokio cause celebre, which, concerns the murder of a Japanese poet, whose nom de plume was Neisai (writes the London ...

    Article : 441 words
  15. A BATH OF CHAMPAGNE.

    The death was announced on January 2 of John Steel, of Franklin, Pennysylvania, who achieved notoriety by squandering a fortune of £600,000 within seven months. ...

    Article : 351 words
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