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  2. FIELD-MARSHAL LORD ROBERTS.

    Among the passengers on board the p. and O. steamer, Ritpon, which left Southampton, England, in February, 1852, to perform the first stage of the so-calied ...

    Article : 1,150 words
  3. HAVE HOPE.

    I yet shall see your smile again, As you were wont to smile Before the heart was crushed by pain, Or bow'd by toil awhile. ...

    Article : 104 words
  4. HUMOROUS COLUMN.

    A colonel, on his tour of inspection, unexpectedly entered the drill room, when he came across a couple of soldiers, one of them reading a letter aloud while ...

    Article : 135 words
  5. BOB BLIZZARD IN AFRICA.

    We crossed the Luapula in canoes, which had been ordered to be ready, and found on the opposite side a body of two hundred men, who appeared ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,009 words
  6. NEWS IN BRIEF.

    There are no boot factories in China. Smelling-salts are said to be a prolific cause of deafness. On very dark nights a white light can ...

    Article : 946 words
  7. THE WAR AND JAMESON'S RAID.

    I do not think Englishmen have ever realised the injury done to British .prestige in South Africa by the attitude of the British public after the collapse of the ...

    Article : 335 words
  8. A Little Problem from Life.

    He begged a kiss. She frowned meditatively. 'A kiss,' she said, 'is an expression of sentiment. Placed upon the hand it ...

    Article : 139 words
  9. Taking Precautions.

    A young man from the country went to have a tooth stopped. The dentist- advised him to have the tooth out, and assured him that he would have no pain ...

    Article : 135 words
  10. RUSH FROM JOHANNESBURG.

    When the rush from Johannesburg commenced, many of the Boers sent their families to the Gape to be taken care of by their enemies, the British, a certificate of ...

    Article : 245 words
  11. The Parson Had Washed.

    A young minister had obtained a kirk in a mining district, greatly to his joy-- not because of the locality, hut because of the kirk. After a deal of difficulty he ...

    Article : 110 words
  12. Why He Returned It.

    A non-commissioned officer entering a barrack-gate in Dublin was mistaken by the new recruit on sentry, who immediately saluted him. ...

    Article : 122 words
  13. Reduced the Name to "Ma."

    Her mother named her "Mary," that good old-fashioned name" And all through school she wore it, contented with the same. ...

    Article : 78 words
  14. DODGING A LYDDITE SHELL

    A correspondent writing from the Modder River, says:--The most peculiar object of all that we can discern is the gunner who works "Long Tom" high up in the kopje. ...

    Article : 200 words
  15. Very Touching.

    First Pickpocket (who had been attending church for professional purposes, to his mate): 'That was a mighty touchin' sermon which that old toff in ...

    Article : 75 words
  16. More Fireworks For Him.

    An amusing story is told of the widow of a manufacturer of fireworks.. When about to erect a monument in memory of her husband, she visited ...

    Article : 132 words
  17. The Coward.

    A certain wild beast tamer has a tartar of a wife. The other day, as the result of a violent quarrel, she gave him a generous hiding, and the poor fellow, at ...

    Article : 88 words
  18. SERIOUS JOKE.

    Many years ago a harum-scarum young officer in a provincial town was drinking in the smoke room of an hotel. A local tradesman sat doubled up in a ...

    Article : 203 words
  19. Payment Demanded.

    At a ragged-school feast one of the teachers asked the children : 'Are you not thankful to receive so much instruction, without being asked ...

    Article : 62 words
  20. The Copper Wanted a Case.

    This was the defence of a costermonger accused before a magistrate of obstructing the traffic in the city: "I went into a public-'ouse to light ...

    Article : 96 words
  21. Looked Suspicious.

    Mrs. Cowper (the next morning): 'Do you know what time you got home last night ?' Mr. Cowper: 'I must have been ...

    Article : 70 words
  22. Must Be Exciting.

    'Life must be very monotonous for you,' said the sympathetic friend. 'Not at all,' answered the Chinese Emperor. 'I find a great deal of ...

    Article : 48 words
  23. WOULD LIKE TO BE THERE.

    There are some curious customs connected with marriage in the Torres Straits Archipelago, where it is almost universally the woman who proposes. ...

    Article : 138 words
  24. Tongue Twisters.

    Say each of the following lines six times-- Six thick thistle sticks. The sea ceaseth, and it sufficeth us. ...

    Article : 62 words
  25. Experienced.

    A district visitor who thought herself justified in gently remonstrating with a Yorkshire mother who was feeding her ten-months child with' red ...

    Article : 49 words
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