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  2. A NEW WAY TO PAY YOUR DEBTS.

    Some persons have a very curious idea of honour in regard to business and private transactions. The following”) related by a coal merchant, ...

    Article : 294 words
  3. VOICES FROM THE NEXT COMPARTMENT.

    The other day, in a restaurant, a listener happened to hear a man who was on the other side of a partition engaged evidently in a little friendly ...

    Article : 390 words
  4. TWO LOOKS AT A PRETTY FACE.

    “Every man has a right to at least two distinct looks at a pretty woman’s face without an infraction of the rules of courtesy or respect.” ...

    Article : 634 words
  5. EXCITING TOBOGGAN RIDE.

    On the edge of a northern New England town there is a long hill sloping down the side of a deepravine, which was pierced by a ...

    Article : 474 words
  6. A PIRATE CITADEL.

    Jamaica, the most Iamo[?]s and the most beautifully situated of the West Indian Islands, has a history which is as unenviable as it is unique. ...

    Article : 1,318 words
  7. PUBLISHED IN MID-OCEAN.

    Not the least interesting development of wireless telegraphy is the manner in which the invention has been utilised for producing ...

    Article : 478 words
  8. A PRACTICAL JOKE.

    When Sothern was acting in a piece—the name of which has slipped my memory—he one night noticed a lady and gentleman sitting alone in ...

    Article : 326 words
  9. OUR LATEST AND LARGEST BATTLESHIP.

    The monster battleship Colossus, which was recently launched at Greenock, will be the largest battleship to be added to the British Navy ...

    Article : 405 words
  10. THE STATUE HABIT.

    The common way of honouring a great man is to set up a statue of him, and it is so much the rule that no one ever asks whether it is the ...

    Article : 697 words
  11. COOL-HEADED IN PRESENCE OF DANGER.

    Up to Monday night (writes “Looker-on”) I thought the palm for calm self-possession at a time of stress lay with the Burton-on Trent ...

    Article : 537 words
  12. ATTEMPTED TRAIN ROBBERY.

    An express agent on an American railway tells of an exciting adventure he has had with train robbers. He writes:— My business is easy ...

    Article : 500 words
  13. READY WIT.

    An Italian organ-grinder recently escaped a fine by his wit. He had been playing before the house of an irascible old gentleman, who ...

    Article : 109 words
  14. THE UNTRUTHFUL SAILOR.

    During the battle of the Nile, a sailor had his leg shot off, and, crying out, “My leg is blown off ” he fell senseless to the deck. ...

    Article : 232 words
  15. WORSTED IN ARGUMENT.

    The late Mr. Herbert Spencer office had a little argument in which he got decidedly worsted. A small boy happened to be out walking with the ...

    Article : 182 words
  16. “WHEN THE SUN RISES TO LOOK AT YOU.”

    We got up early in the morning and walked to the theatre to see the sun rise on Etna, but the result, as is usual on such occasions, was ...

    Article : 208 words
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