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  2. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    Mr. B: “My dear, your [?] gives you short weight for your money.” Mrs. B: But consider also, my dear, the long wait you give ...

    Article : 808 words
  3. RANDOM READINGS.

    The Serbians are among the most superstitious people in the world, and have especially peculiar ideas about animals. They have a practice or ...

    Article : 95 words
  4. MINDING CYCLES.

    The almost limitless methods of the poor to earn an honest penny are often interesting. A veteran In Paris seems to have struck out a lin[?] for ...

    Article : 160 words
  5. PEACOCK ON TOAST.

    It would be hard to picture our beloved simple living king and Queen sitting down to a meal of peacock for two yet peacock was a ...

    Article : 185 words
  6. The Man of Silence.

    That was exactly the Aspect of (affairs on this particular morning when Vincent sat at the window, and looked round the room, and ...

    Article : 2,519 words
  7. A SCHOOL OF WATCHMAKERS.

    The famous Swiss watch schools are said to be the most exacting industrial institutions in the world. In one of the most celebrated of these ...

    Article : 284 words
  8. A PAYING GAME.

    Scene: A suburban street, in almost complete darkness. Tommy is standing crying on the kerb, and Willie is trying to scrape up some ...

    Article : 111 words
  9. AUTOMATIC STOP FOR SPRING ROLLER CURTAINS.

    —It frequently occurs, in adjusting spring-roller curtains, that the cord slips through the hand and the curtain not only winds up to the top ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 120 words
  10. CAPTURED.

    An Irish gentleman, while walking through the poorer quarters of Dublin, noticed a small boy who was without boots. He went up to the ...

    Article : 122 words
  11. WHY ONLY ONE CAME.

    The chief enlivening element in the large but sleepy town was the animosity that existed between two local papers, the “Razor” and the ...

    Article : 137 words
  12. A GENTLE GIANT.

    There was an elephant named Pizarro, a great favourite with the people of Madrid. He was an enormous animal, but ...

    Article : 516 words
  13. HIS PLAN WENT WRONG.

    A noted miser, who felt obliged to make a present to a lady, entered a crockery shop for the purpose of making a purchase. ...

    Article : 119 words
  14. JOHNNY WAS ARTFUL.

    Johnny stood beside his mother as she made her selection from the greengrocer’s cart, and the latter told the boy to take a handful of nuts, ...

    Article : 100 words
  15. IT DID—AND IT DIDN’T.

    With a groan and a snort the express stopped at a wayside station, because the signal stood at danger. On the platform stood a number of ...

    Article : 86 words
  16. HOW TO GET RICH.

    Little Willie was always on the look-out for something good to eat, and did his best to coax money out of his relatives with which to buy ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. A HUGE FLOWER.

    The largest bloom known to botanists is the “bo-o.” It is found only on the island of Mindina the most southern of the Philippine group. Its ...

    Article : 71 words
  18. STRANGE.

    “That clock is two hours slow,” said the man of the house when he came home at his usual time and found the dinner not even started. ...

    Article : 102 words
  19. BOBBY’S WAY.

    Uncle: “So you go to school now, do you, Bobby?” Bobby- “Yes, uncle.” Uncle: “Let me hear you spell ...

    Article : 53 words
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