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  2. AN ACROBAT'S FEAT.

    A Scottish acrobat was responsible for a remarkable exploit, recently at Pontypool-road station, on the Great Western Railway. The man was ...

    Article : 268 words
  3. ON “MAKING IT A RULE." By Strickland Gillilan.

    There are people in this world who, even after having lived many, many years, still say, “I make it a rule.” There is no hope for such people, I ...

    Article : 827 words
  4. AMUSING INCIDENTS.

    He Wouldn’t Work Overtime. On entering a lunatic asylum some short time ago, I found one of the inmates had just finished ...

    Article : 91 words
  5. On the Brink of a Chasm. A RECORD OF PLOT AND PASSION.

    "four Eyes Are Big and Bright.” When the boy was sound asleep Clara went into the room where her mother was waiting for her. ...

    Article : 2,235 words
  6. Just Like a Woman.

    "That letter I gave you this morning —did you post it?” asked a wife of her husband on his return from town. “No, dear, I did not!” said the man ...

    Article : 89 words
  7. Rotten!

    In one little town business was very bad, and the manager, standing at the door, was prepared to do anything to entice an audience into the little ...

    Article : 94 words
  8. LUNG TROUBLE HORSES.

    With horses, congestion of the lungs —that is to say, partial or complete stoppage of the circulation of the blood in the lungs—is caused by ...

    Article : 330 words
  9. No Chance for the Twins.

    When the minister praised the raspberry jam at Mrs. Green’s bountiful Saturday night supper he could not understand why Angie and Horatio ...

    Article : 116 words
  10. Quite Willing.

    It was a peaceful neighbourhood, and P.C. Brown felt bubbling over with, duty. Suddenly from round the corner burst the agonising strains of a ...

    Article : 99 words
  11. Candid.

    A bachelor farmer, a little past his prime, finding himself hard up, thought the best thing he could do would he to marry a neighbor of his ...

    Article : 109 words
  12. THE GIRL AND THE PANCAKE.

    During the World5s Fair at Chicago, when President, and Mrs. Cleveland arrived their appearance was a signal for flowers being thrown into their ...

    Article : 201 words
  13. An Unfortunate Example.

    To a young man who stood smoking a cigar the other day there approached the elderly and impertinent reformer of immemorial legend. ...

    Article : 109 words
  14. “AN AXE TO GRIND.”

    This phrase has frequently been attributed, to Benjamin Franklin, but it was first used by Charles Miner— born in 1780, died in 1865—and ...

    Article : 230 words
  15. A STORY OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

    President Lincoln and Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, were often at variance when it came to matters of discipline in the army. On one occasion ...

    Article : 245 words
  16. Lucky To Have a Small Part.

    Last year, when he married her for her money alone, everyone frankly foretold exactly what would happen. As the wayward young husband stood ...

    Article : 116 words
  17. CHAPTER XXIV. The Little Woman in Black.

    About a fortnight after the Pelhams had taken up their residence at Pelham Towers a little old woman might have been seen making her way ...

    Article : 2,966 words
  18. CHAPTER XXIII. With the Doctors.

    Barbara received Mrs. Tarbot’s letter by the first post in the morning. She read the contents and determined to act on it at once. Pelham was ...

    Article : 1,206 words
  19. Better Dead.

    A couple of men were strolling along the bank of a canal. Suddenly they saw a notice-board stating that five shillings would be paid to ...

    Article : 133 words
  20. IT ISN’T EASY—

    To apologise. To take advice. To be unselfish. To be charitable. ...

    Article : 77 words
  21. Valuable Suggestion.

    In a provincial city the General Post Office is in a side street and very difficult for strangers to find. A youth whose propensity for practical joking ...

    Article : 146 words
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  23. A MARVELLOUS WATCH.

    A foreign journal describes a wonderful mechanical contrivance—a watch made in Switzerland that calls out the hours in a voice like that of a ...

    Article : 102 words
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