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  2. Spray.

    A traveller meeting a settler near a house In the backwoods, the following colloquy occurred:--Whose house ?" ...

    Article : 88 words
  3. Spontaneous Combustion.

    The average man laughs at the notion that his solid flesh could set itself on fire and burn away to ashes. Yet that least credulous body of human beings-- ...

    Article : 561 words
  4. CAUGHT AND SAVED.

    "Ed, I am in a quaudary," said Funny Jessop to her husband. " Cousin Mollie is to be married on Tuesday, and wants us to attend the wedding." ...

    Article : 1,802 words
  5. LIONS AT CLOSE QUARTERS.

    Some exciting reminiscences of Hon hunting in Somaliland are given by Lord Delamere in the " Badminton Magazine " for May. Lard Delamere spent the winter of 1891-2 and the ...

    Article : 1,184 words
  6. A New Game.

    I had just crossed the street myself. That was the point. The street was muddy, and (a second point)) I had managed to keep my feet clean. Oh, the mud ...

    Article : 665 words
  7. DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON.

    The recent death of a colcurity, Colonel Robert A. Alston, has led a correspondent into a laugthened history of the distinguished line with which he was connected. Colonel Hob ...

    Article : 1,431 words
  8. What Did He Know About Cricket?

    Some time ago Dr. W. G. Grace was walking across one of the parks at Bristol, when he saw some small boys engaged in a game of cricket. ...

    Article : 95 words
  9. The Day Would Come.

    A funeral procession was slowly wending its way through the gates of a cemetery, and the crowd of spectators was very large. The policeman on duty had much ...

    Article : 96 words
  10. The Lesser Evil.

    "I have about decided," said Dowling, " to go to Cuba and Join the Insurgent army." "Oh, you take my breath away !" exclaimed Mrs. Dowling. "Going down ...

    Article : 113 words
  11. He Married a New Woman.

    Mrs. Strongmind : " And for what are you incarcerated here, my poor man ?" The Prisoner : " I married a new woman." Mrs. Strongmind (astonished): ...

    Article : 72 words
  12. DRAWING THE CIDER.

    To draw the cider we were sent. We two on mirth and mischief bent, She bore the candle flaring high : The old blue-flgured pitcher I. ...

    Article : 109 words
  13. Awkward.

    Host: "Now, old boy, make yourself comfortable, and let's talk over old times. Haven't seen each other since we were schoolboys together. I told you I had ...

    Article : 111 words
  14. How It Got Back.

    An astronomer was trying to explain, to an Irishman that the earth was round ; but Pal could not understand how it could be possible. ...

    Article : 110 words
  15. SIX MILES A MINUTE.

    An American inventor has just succeeded in completing the model of a submarine boat, which, it is claimed, will travel under water at the rate of six miles a minute, or about 360 ...

    Article : 134 words
  16. Jones Sinlled.

    " Did I ever toll you how I once made a friend of mine stop borrowing money from me ?" he said. " Well, he was a nice young fellow, but he didn't have any ...

    Article : 325 words
  17. " Died of a Broken Heart."

    When you hear of any one dying of a broken heart, does It ever occur to you to ask yourself whether you may take the news literally or not ? ...

    Article : 313 words
  18. All's Well That Ends Well.

    The little one had behaved badly, and a spanking had been the result. Now her vociforous expostulation had ceased. Only a throb and a cob showed now and then ...

    Article : 85 words
  19. MEN WITH ONE DREAD.

    " It is strange," said a doctor, " how many men one finds, not otherwise deficient in courage, who have one particular thing they dread. " I know one man, a doctor, who is so afraid ...

    Article : 229 words
  20. A Familiar Subject.

    Wife (after returning from church): "You should have been in church this morning. We had a beautiful sermon." Husband : "I dare say, but I guess you ...

    Article : 78 words
  21. He Knew All About the Lift.

    "Little boy," exclaimed the portly lady, "you ought to be at school, Instead of trying to work a lift." " I'm not trying to work it," was the ...

    Article : 296 words
  22. The Old and the New.

    In ancient days, when a lover woood And asked a girl to be his wife, The maiden fair Would make him swear ...

    Article : 77 words
  23. What Bothered the Cook.

    A lady had a cook who gave her every Satisfaction, and she was under the impression that the cook was equally satisfied with her place. But one morning, to the lady's ...

    Article : 229 words
  24. Frank Mayo.

    "In the early days of the Pacific Coast a youth appeared at the old Metropolitan Theatre in San Francisco and applied for an engagement as supernumerary." tells ...

    Article : 394 words
  25. THE QUEEN'S PRIVATE ROOMS.

    The Queen's bedroom, more than any other room, is, in this sense, her chief treasure house. For this reason imperative orders have been given by the Queen herself that on no ...

    Article : 319 words
  26. A LARGE HOUSE.

    Every European, American, and Oriental country his its scores of public and private mansions, yet Austria has the giant of them all. The Freibaus (free house), situated in Wloden, ...

    Article : 297 words
  27. He Didn't Know About Hairpins.

    "By Joye," exclaimed the bridegroom, as he sat down and tugged away at his moustache. "this is too bad." They had just arrived at Margate, and the ...

    Article : 216 words
  28. My Wife.

    And would you then, know whom I love? Well, I will tell pou true; I'll name the ones I like above The rest, and they are few. ...

    Article : 164 words
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