The people of Holland have an imaginary character—La Guerliche, they call him—of whom they tell all manner of stories, a bantering, ...
Article : 384 wordsThe oak has been adopted by various tribes and nations. In Greece, the oracle of Dodona was revealed by the swaying oak trees. Metal vessels ...
Article : 393 wordsIt sometimes happens that confined fowls will look stale and seedy, although exhibiting no signs of actual disease. They will eat satisfactorily, ...
Article : 232 wordsIf you put your arm overboard from a hydroplane running fifty miles an hour and strike a wave crest the probability is that you will break your ...
Article : 119 wordsOne of the operations a naval officer dislikes more than anything else is docking a big warship to undergo repairs. It is one of the most ...
Article : 218 wordsThe modern bridegroom led the modern bride to the altar. The modern clergyman was waiting for them with his modern wedding ceremony. ...
Article : 237 wordsSome of the most ephemeral of insects show a genius for taking advantage of their colouring. One of the most beautiful of the butterflies ...
Article : 877 wordsThose of you who have seen films in which a player taking two parts appears in those parts at one and the same time, in the same scene, will ...
Article : 124 wordsA man on a holiday trip arrived at a seaside resort and went to the hotel. Shortly after a friend called and was shown up to his room. He found ...
Article : 181 wordsBeppo Bruzoni, a Neapolitan sailor, is a proof of the fact that a man can be his own grandfather “I married,” he said, “a widow, and ...
Article : 182 wordsHere is something to think about and to act on, too. The light breed hens want more meat than do the heavy want more meat than do the heavy breed hens. It is the way they ...
Article : 501 wordsA violin constructed throughout of metal, played with a bow of wire, is a novelty devised by Joseph Prouix, an American. The instrument has a ...
Article : 126 wordsIn 1543, Blasco de Garay, a sea captain of Spain, exhibited in the harbor of Barcelona, in the presence of Charles the Fifth and his Court, a ...
Article : 132 wordsHe was a nervous man. Most men are when they find themselves in a dentist’s chair, but he was exceptionally so. The tooth that had to come ...
Article : 165 wordsSugar, states a medical authority, is of all the foods our quickest source of energy, and almost our cheapest. Only the cereals in their coarsest form ...
Article : 172 wordsMr. Edison has always been very jealous of his time, and expects his employees to be equally careful lest a single minute that might yield an ...
Article : 153 wordsThe little man who was the meek escort of the big woman, in her rambles through the shopping establishment had finished. ...
Article : 109 wordsWhoever has looked inside an elephant’s mouth has seen a strange sight. Elephants have no front teeth, and they never eat flesh or any food ...
Article : 161 wordsA noted music-teacher was giving a music lesson to a talented but careless pupil, and was rapidly becoming impatient with her. Finally, at a most ...
Article : 105 wordsWhen Mark Twain in his early days was editor of a Missouri paper, a superstitious subscriber wrote to him saying that he had found a spider in ...
Article : 110 wordsLittle Bilderson prided himself upon on his good appetite and his capacity for amusing. He was dining with a friend a few nights ago, and he did ...
Article : 108 wordsThose acquainted with American Indian customs know of the prominence that feathers hold in the religious and social ceremonies of the red man. ...
Article : 145 wordsThe new baby had proved itself the possessor of extraordinary lung powers. One day little Johnny said to his ...
Article : 65 wordsThe common idea is that the diet and climatic conditions of the negroes are the cause of their having beautiful teeth, but some authorities dispute ...
Article : 190 wordsA bachelor friend of the young couple was being entertained at dinner, and during the evening he was presented by the proud mother to her ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is good business to keep one breed or kind of poultry—and that a pure breed—as they will lay eggs of one colour and of a more even ...
Article : 182 words“I presume, my good fellow, you’re a laborer?” said a lawyer to a plainly dressed witness. “You are right; I am a workman, ...
Article : 96 wordsMaster: “How do the dogs like the new food, John?” John: “They don’t seem to take very kindly to it, sir!” ...
Article : 71 wordsA carpenter sent to make some repairs in a private house entered the apartment of the lady of the house with his apprentice and began to work. ...
Article : 84 words“You seem to be rather busy.” “Yes; I’m writing a love-letter. I’ve been working on it for more than an hour.” ...
Article : 78 wordsMagistrate: “I am told that you have already been convicted fourteen times on this same charge. Aren’t you ashamed to have to acknowledge ...
Article : 41 wordsMrs. Owens: “I wonder if the doctor’s wife meant anything personal now?” Owens: “What did she say?” ...
Article : 31 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Border Chronicle (Bordertown, SA : 1908 - 1950), Fri 27 Oct 1916, Page 3
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: