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  2. FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

    Wailie, aged six, found four little [?]ttens. in the cellar. A visitor, being [?]old of them, expressed a desire to have a peep at the new baby pussies. ...

    Article : 76 words
  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    Lawyer: "Has your wife made hes will?'' Client: "No; she's merely developed it." She (coyly): "Can you guess my ...

    Article : 925 words
  4. WHAT THE EYEBROWS TELL.

    Every one of our features, it has been said, tells its story of our character. Even our manner of walking, too, discloses. traits in our nature. But ...

    Article : 405 words
  5. SAVING THE VENUS OF MILO.

    During the war of 1870, when the German army drew near the French capital, one of the first, measures the Parisians took was to place the art ...

    Article : 313 words
  6. RANDOM READINGS.

    A certain colonel, on returning victorious from one of those difficult frontier expeditions which attract small notice at home, came into the chief's ...

    Article : 227 words
  7. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

    A shipbuilding yard in Japan still in operation was established nineteen hundred years ago. Sixteen varieties of palms from which ...

    Article : 769 words
  8. WHAT FOOTSTEPS TELL.

    By their walk you shall know them. Here is a professor who has invented a machine for recording the human gait. ...

    Article : 282 words
  9. THE LEVEN OF THE PHARISEES.

    "Bobby," asked his Sunday school, teacher, "do you know how many apostles there were?" The little boy promptly said that he did, and ...

    Article : 91 words
  10. LIKE OTHER LITTLE GIRLS.

    When Princess Henry of Battenberg was a little girl she and her nurse used to he allowed to visit the tenants on the Balmoral estates, and ...

    Article : 139 words
  11. THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD TOYS.

    Ages ago infantile Egypt played with dolls, boats, balls, dishes, wagons, miniature horses, and other animals, just as twentieth-century ...

    Article : 305 words
  12. SEAWEED PIE.

    According to some French scientists seaweed will become one of the popular foods of the future. Already Japan uses it in a number of dainty table dishes, ...

    Article : 142 words
  13. TRUE, AFTER ALL.

    "What the dickens is the matter with you?" furiously demanded the warder of Patrick O'Brien. "Kicking up a row like that at this time of night!" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 137 words
  14. BLESSINGS UNRECOGNISED.

    A pin and a needle, neighbours in a work-basket, both being idle, began to quarrel, as idle folk are apt to do. "I should like to know," said the ...

    Article : 277 words
  15. COULDN'T STAND TREAT.

    A special constable, one bitter night, tried to restore his circulation by slipping into a private bar which happened to be on his beat and digesting a ...

    Article : 107 words
  16. THERE'S A REASON.

    Young Adolphus de Milyuns was out driving his own car. He was a scorcher, and believed in going straight ahead. ...

    Article : 164 words
  17. ICELAND'S SOLITARY POLICEMAN.

    There is one country in the World, and probably only one, which gets' along with a single policeman--that is Iceland. Iceland is peopled by the ...

    Article : 120 words
  18. THE PRECISE MAN.

    Never speak to the precise man in a railway-station. For this reason: "It looks like rain!" "I beg your pardon." ...

    Article : 192 words
  19. FRANCE'S FLAG.

    It was on February 15, 1794, that the National Convention adopted. the Tricolor as the national standard of France. Until that date no real ...

    Article : 371 words
  20. WALKING STICKS AND CANES.

    The general use of canes or walking sticks was at one time forbidden in Roma by Imperial edict, except to persons of patrician rank, thus making ...

    Article : 164 words
  21. UMBRELLA THAT SAVED A LIFE.

    Did you over hear tell how an umbrella once saved a good man's life? This good man was called Bishop Hannington, and he went out to Africa ...

    Article : 343 words
  22. HIS WAY OUT.

    Aunt Priscilla was endeavouring to teach manners to her twelve-year-old nephew, Tommy. Tommy was a very up-to-date young gentleman, and had ...

    Article : 92 words
  23. RUBBED OFF, PERHAPS.

    An English colonel, at kit inspection, said to Private Flanigan: "Hal Yes, shirts, socks, flannels, all very good. Now, you can assure ...

    Article : 60 words
  24. A POOR BARGAIN.

    Two Highland soldiers had been left behind after an attack. They lay flat for hours in order to escape the hail of lead. At length dusk came. ...

    Article : 98 words
  25. CAUSTIC COMMENT.

    Coming out of church after listening to a sermon on "Married Life and Its Duties," two old Irishwomen commented on the address. ...

    Article : 62 words
  26. THE CLEANEST TOWN.

    The cleanest town in the world is said to be Brock, in Holland. It has been famous for its cleanliness from time immemorial. The yards and streets are ...

    Article : 65 words
  27. THE OTHER "MARK."

    "Ah," sighed the man who was revisiting his native village after many years. "It makes me feel sad to see all the old landmarks disappearing. ...

    Article : 59 words
  28. NO LOSS!

    Miss Flynn: "I wonder if I shall lose my looks, too, when I get to be your age?" Miss Elder: "You will be fortunate ...

    Article : 31 words
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