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  2. ONLY A LITTLE.

    A little six-year-old could not be Induced to go into the ocean. One day his father offered him 2s. if he would put on his bathing suit, and get wet all over. Clasping ...

    Article : 71 words
  3. TWO TERRIBLE THINKS.

    Little Ruth was spending her first night away from home. She was a bit restless, and in the morning she was asked how she had slept. ...

    Article : 66 words
  4. BEST WATER HE EVER TASTED.

    Down in Kentucky there was a farmer who, strange to say, did not know the taste of whisky. One day, at Christmas time, he was at a neighbour's house, and ...

    Article : 132 words
  5. Flotsam and Jetsam.

    A lady returning home from Barmouth unexpectedly found her servant using the drawing-room for the purpose of giving a select party to her friends. ...

    Article : 56 words
  6. SATISFIED THE DUTCHMAN.

    A Dutch citizen of Bloemfontein, when he read of Lord Kitchener's elevation to be a viscount, could not understand it at all. " Lord Kitchener is to be made a viscount," ...

    Article : 153 words
  7. NO NEED TO WORRY.

    " Where have you been, Dorothea?" asked her mother. "What are you eating?" "Cheese," said the young lady calmly. ...

    Article : 82 words
  8. NOT WORRY, BUT SLUMBER.

    They were discussing suicides and the proneness of different peoples to depart in that way, when one of those encaged in the conversation turned to a coloured man ...

    Article : 80 words
  9. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    To remove weeds—marry a widow. A man who sits with his hands in his pockets usually hasn't much else there. When are gloves unsaleable?—When they ...

    Article : 903 words
  10. DIDN'T TAKE!

    The prominent question of vaccination is influencing the infant mind in novel form. A little girl was much offended with the screaming propensities of a new baby ...

    Article : 86 words
  11. LOOKING FOR A WIFE.

    A man sent the following letter in answer to a matrimonial advertisement:— "I Inclose my photograf with My Full Descriptions. It shows the features as ...

    Article : 189 words
  12. VARIED PRISOM EXPERIENCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 87 words
  13. THE NEW BUSY.

    Paderewskl was recently invited to an "At Home" given by a popular lady vocalist. The central figure of the function was. ...

    Article : 76 words
  14. TEN MILES AWA'!

    An English tourist on a walking tour through Scotland fell in with an old man breaking stones on the roadside. After having a talk with him regarding the ...

    Article : 109 words
  15. A THING LIKE THAT!

    The " New York Times" prints this:— Will Moody, son and successor at Northfield of the late Dwight L. Moody. tells the following story, apropos of recent ...

    Article : 157 words
  16. A PAJAMA HAT.

    A well-dressed man, wearing a fine Panama hat, was seated in the [?]ekingcar of a Chestnut Hill train the other day, and in the seat behind him were two ...

    Article : 135 words
  17. DIAMOND DUST.

    It's easier to make records and wills than it is to break them. If a man finds that marriage is a failure, he puts it all in his wife's name. ...

    Article : 154 words
  18. A BIT MIXED.

    Baroa Mikoach, the Hungarian nobleman who became famous throughout Europe by his endless series of blunders, was prouder, perhaps, of his knowledge ...

    Article : 416 words
  19. APPETISING.

    A clergyman entered a parishioner's cottage the other day, and was invited to partake of some "Jump-short" pie, on which the family were about to dine. ...

    Article : 142 words
  20. GRIM CONSOLATIONS.

    The following unique advertisement appeared in the columns of the Barbados "Bulletin":— A. E. GOODRIDGE, ...

    Article : 134 words
  21. COMEDY ON THE RACECOURSE.

    That some of the less reputable among the bookmaking fraternity are in league with that section of "the boys" which gains a precarious. if not too honest, ...

    Article : 282 words
  22. A JOKE POT COULDN'T STAND.

    At a recent corner-stone laying in a provincial town the stone was swinging in the grasp of a powerful crane above the hole left for it to fit in. Down in the hole ...

    Article : 209 words
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