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  2. PURE BUTTER.

    Professor James Long writes in the London "Daily Mail" of 19th March: Although a traveller in many countries, I know of none so backward as ...

    Article : 1,590 words
  3. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    If a lamp should be overturned, do not attempt to put out the flame with water, for it will simply spread it. Instead, throw down flour, sand. garden earth, or ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 438 words
  4. WIT AND HUMOR.

    Lady: I am so sorry your mistress is out Do you think she will be at home this evening? Maid: She'll have to be; It's my night out. ...

    Article : 756 words
  5. FARM AND FIELD.

    Tobacco Growing in Australia. Mr E. C. Cu[?]rin, the leaf tobacco expert of the British-Australasian Tobacco Company has supplied the "Tobacco ...

    Article : 758 words
  6. LABOR IN GOLD MINES.

    On 21st March the London "Daily Telegraph" wrote:-- If you keep on arserting an error often enough and strongly enough it stands a ...

    Article : 712 words
  7. NO NEED TO BLUSH.

    Old Sibby, high prien[?]ces of bathing rites in a Galway coast village, had a shanty where timorous maids might take sea-water shower baths. ...

    Article : 124 words
  8. A HINT FOR THE EXCHEQUER.

    A seemingly serious gentleman, named Gillard, has addressed a petition to Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman requesting him to bring in a Bill entitled "Government ...

    Article : 207 words
  9. WILLING TO OBLIGE.

    A little Cockney lad from one of the back slums in London was invited with about twenty others to a charity dinner given at the house of lady in fashionable society. When ...

    Article : 135 words
  10. JUST LIKE THEM.

    The electric tram car was Just getting under way, when two women, rushing from opposite sides of the street to greet each other, met right in the middle of the street and in front ...

    Article : 95 words
  11. THE IRRESPONSIBLE VOTE.

    "Memorabilia," in the "Globe" writes:--"May I draw your attention to the great evolution in business circles which has taken place during the last ...

    Article : 238 words
  12. HE HAD TOLD THE TRUTH.

    At a dinner in a small town in Scotland it was found that everyone had contributed to the evening's entertainment but a certain Doctor MacDonald. ...

    Article : 161 words
  13. MAGHERMISKLISK WOOING.

    The courtship of Randal MacMurtry, the middle-aged farmer of Maghermiskl[?]sk, and Sarah Johnstone, the Tullyballydonnell maid just out of her teens. ...

    Article : 372 words
  14. BARRACKS TRAGEDY.

    An "Express" correspondent wrote from Vienna on 22nd March:-- A sensational tragedy is reported from the Austrian naval station at ...

    Article : 203 words
  15. THE MUSICAL ENTENTE.

    On Saturday night, 17th February, the first of the promenade concerts to be given by the band of the Garde Republicane was held at Covent Garden ...

    Article : 238 words
  16. A BARBARIAN REFLECTION.

    "So your daughter has become a soloist." "Necessarily," answered Mr Cumrex, wearily. "Perhaps I ought to be thankful that the isn't a trio or a quartet." ...

    Article : 29 words
  17. POLICE AS KEY-HOLDERS.

    A novel suggestion, writes the "Daily Mail," of 23rd March, is being put forward by the City Police authorities to establish a scheme whereby the keys ...

    Article : 207 words
  18. TRAGEDY OF A FLAT.

    Miss Helena Mitchell (writes the London "Express' of 10th March), who was known in Bohemian circles as a famous theatrical hairdresser, was yesterday ...

    Article : 275 words
  19. NO VACATION.

    "You want to got away from your business," said the physician. "You are worrying too much "My dear sir," answered the Wall street ...

    Article : 47 words
  20. HOMELY FARE.

    Sausage Rolls.--One pound of raw beef (sileed), one pound of ham, one breakfastcuprul of breadcrumbs, one teaspoonful of pepper, one pinch of cayenne, one ...

    Article : 579 words
  21. A GRASS SEED CLEANER.

    This machine has been designed for treating rye grass and eliminating therefrom all weed seed, etc. The machine is constructed in two parts for easy ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 292 words
  22. CYNICAL.

    "After all." said the sentimental youth. "love is a lottery." "I don't know about that" answered the cynic. "You have some chance in a ...

    Article : 27 words
  23. COLLISION ON THE "DISTRICT."

    Serious, delay (writes the "Westminster Gazette" of 22nd March), was caused to passengers on the District Railway this morning at the busiest ...

    Article : 217 words
  24. BAYING GRACE

    "Come. -- it. do say grace and let's begin," sold George the Fourth, at a semipublic dinner to his chaplain. Barnum arranged to have music ...

    Article : 117 words
  25. PARIS IN LONDON.

    After a discussion of about five minutes' duration, the London County Council on 20th March decided to let the Strand crescent site to the syndicate ...

    Article : 347 words
  26. IN AID OF RECRUITING.

    An American officer, Colonel Larned, suggests in the "International Quarterly" a novel plan for making enlistment popular. His scheme is that the ...

    Article : 229 words
  27. AS IT SEEMED TO HIM.

    A Scotsman in Canada--"out" from Scotland less than a year--was bravely wearing his kilts in the dead of winter, and was asked why he did it. ...

    Article : 51 words
  28. A CONSCIENTIOUS COOK.

    An English resident at Shanghai, having made a good dinner from a tasty, but [?]cognised dish, celled his cock, Wun Hoo, and congratulated him on the excellent meal. ...

    Article : 78 words
  29. MODERN HUNTING.

    The "frolic home after a blank day," which formed the subject of one of Leech's best hunting sketches in "Punch," is now, as it ought to be, a ...

    Article : 125 words
  30. SMART.

    A famous French painter bad a fixed rate that none of his pupils were to be allowed to smoke in his studio. One day, however, he case into the room ...

    Article : 118 words
  31. PUZZLING NAMES.

    Young Tourist (to Scottish boy) : Where does that road lead to my lad? Boy: A'm no shair. Tourist: And that one? ...

    Article : 56 words
  32. AT A LIMELIGHT LECTURE.

    A chaplain or the English navy was giving a stereo[?]con lecture on the subject, "Scenes from the Bible." He arranged with a sailor, who had a phonegraph, to accompany the ...

    Article : 93 words
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