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  2. KING PETER.

    The troubles of King Peter, the ruler of Servia, who come to his Throne but a few months ago, are many. The cable almost daily has some fresh story ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 513 words
  3. AMONGST THE KIDDIES

    Twenty-five thousand eager baby eyes scanned the unclouded heavens in the early morning, and half as many joyous child-voices declared that the weather had been ...

    Article : 708 words
  4. SNAPSHOTS.

    It was well known in staggeringly high society that the beautiful Lady Violet had never been kissed before, and as the athletic young Earl of Mountararat released his hold ...

    Article : 654 words
  5. WHAT THE CZAR FEARS.

    London, September 15.--At the instance of M. Pobedonostzeff, the Procurator-General of the Holy Synod, M. von Plehwe, Minister for the Interior, and M. Galetzin, Governor of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 530 words
  6. IN THE TOBACCONIST'S

    'Twas just a few days before hla birthday. She walked into the smokers' emporium with nervous diffidence. "I would like to get a skein of cigars," ...

    Article : 515 words
  7. THE PRETTY WIDOW.

    "I've brought your tea." It was the voice of the dragoon that roused me from my siesta, as he stood by my deckchair, tea-cup in hand. His face showed that ...

    Article : 1,072 words
  8. "RACE SUICIDE."

    Some time ago we reproduced a letter sent to an American paper, in which "One Who Loves Her Sex" made an attack upon President Roosevelt for his utterances on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 846 words
  9. A SEPTEMBER SAIL.

    own the whole of New South Wales, I'm boss of Vic, and Q., Mine, mine are S. and Doubloo A., And mine is Tunny, too! ...

    Article : 367 words
  10. HIS HUMOUR FAILED.

    When Mr. Samuel Clemens recently undertook to put beyond doubt hla reputation as a genius by forgetting a dinner engagement with some of the most famous men in ...

    Article : 271 words
  11. THE UGLIEST BEAST.

    An amusing incident was witnessed in a menagerie in Dumfermline a short time age. Here and there between the cages a number of "trick mirrors" were placed. An Irish ...

    Article : 211 words
  12. PURPLE VERSE.

    It would be interesting to know why magazines of a so-called literary character should he the repository of purple poems of passion (say an American writer). ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 272 words
  13. THE KING AT THE PLAY.

    King Edward has inherited to the full his mother's regard for the drama, but his taste is a good deal more catholic than was that of the late Queen. ...

    Article : 345 words
  14. IS THERE ANYTHING IN A NAME?

    "The thing to do," said a member of an Authors' Club, "is to call your novel after the name of the leading character--to call it "John Smith,' or something of that sort." ...

    Article : 197 words
  15. UNRECOGNISED GENIUS.

    Almost every writer of fiction cheerfully assumes that the world is ringing with his or her fame; and this sometimes leads to embarrassing situations. ...

    Article : 160 words
  16. HER GIRL WORE BLOOMERS.

    An old lady herbailst who keeps a shop in the principal street of a provincial town has caused much amusement by exhibiting in her window a neatly-printed card, bearing the ...

    Article : 142 words
  17. CLEARING THE ATMOSPHERE.

    Some of the rain which fell in the Strend in London recently was caught and a[?] with a view to ascertaining how much solid matter it had absorbed during its fall through ...

    Article : 160 words
  18. GLADSTONE FOUND A WAY.

    Canon Cattley, who died lately, used to tell a good story of how on one of his visits to Gloucester Mr. Gladstone kept a rule of the Cathedral in the letter while breaking it in ...

    Article : 121 words
  19. TENNYSON'S GARDEN.

    Throughout his life Tennyson carried with him the memory of a garden. It belonged to the quiet rectory at Somersby, in Lincolnshire, where he was born. It was his ...

    Article : 161 words
  20. HE WAS SATISFIED.

    "Young man," said the stern parent to the applicant for a job as, son-in-law, "I want you to know that I spent a thousand pounds un my daughter's education." ...

    Article : 57 words
  21. THE LAST AND ONLY CHANCE.

    A Yankee stood on the stem of a steamer as she swung out from Liverpool, and, holding a shilling aloft, cried out: "If there's a man, woman, or child on this ...

    Article : 53 words
  22. DISCOVERED AT LAST.

    A crofter, meeting a friend whom he had not seen for some time, said, "Hallon, Archie, whaur hae ye been this while back? "Man," replied Archie, "did ye no ken I ...

    Article : 122 words
  23. IT WASN'T ALL RIGHT.

    There is a story told of a young physician of Washington who was connected at one time with the accident ward of a large hospital. ...

    Article : 112 words
  24. POWER OF THE PRESS.

    "Once again," triumphantly said the able editor of the Slopton-on-Slush "Herald," "has the power of the press made itself felt. For more than seven years we have been ...

    Article : 85 words
  25. SOMETHING TO SHOOT.

    The other day a solitary sportsman, his gun under his arm, was wandering down a country lane in Invevness-shire, when he met a small boy making for school. ...

    Article : 64 words
  26. THE RUSSIAN WAY.

    "Michael," said the Czar, "have you assured Uncle Sam that the open door is to be established in Manchuria?" "Yes, your Imperial Majesty." ...

    Article : 55 words
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