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  2. I BE AGWINE HOAM.

    First Old Man: Hoam be best. Ay that it be! I wer a straanger At Marlden. Now as Jean be dead, Union they said wer plaace for ...

    Article : 327 words
  3. EXCRUCIATINGLY SMART.

    They had come by a football excursion and were visiting the docks. "What is this vessel?" asked the visitor in search of information, ...

    Article : 137 words
  4. TRAPPING ANIMALS FOR ZOOS.

    "Elephants are easily trapped," said a zoo keeper. "Very easily trapped, very easily tamed. "The trapper chooses a spot what ...

    Article : 313 words
  5. STANDARD OIL COMPANY.

    "The conviction of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana on 1463 counts of the indictment charging the company with receiving rebates ...

    Article : 350 words
  6. CAN WE HAVE TOO MUCH FRESH AIR.

    Professor McHardy, the great London specialist says:—No, certainly not. My advice is, that if you try to kill people with ...

    Article : 746 words
  7. "GRANDDAUGHTER OF GOD."

    Once the ruler of the third largest island of the world, a country bigger than France, twice as large as Italy, and three times as big as Now ...

    Article : 2,324 words
  8. AND THE BILL WAS PAID.

    As the gas bill of the "portable" theatre had not been paid when it became due, a man appeared on the monday night following to cut off ...

    Article : 332 words
  9. TRAGIC HOURS.

    If one is murdered, the event, it appears, is most likely to happen between the hours of 10 p.m. and mid-night. This is no attempt at ...

    Article : 305 words
  10. ABSOLUTE OBEDIENCE.

    Army officers in India tell many amusing stories of the implicit obedience displayed by their Hindu servants. The trouble is that the latter ...

    Article : 151 words
  11. A £90,000 DIAMOND SOLD FOR TWO SHILLINGS.

    The Imperial Treasury of Austria contains one of the finest diamonds in the world—the Florentine—which is noted for its lustre and brilliancy. ...

    Article : 274 words
  12. MIRACLES OF BLINDNESS.

    "If you are blind," said the oculist "don't despair. What blindness takes away in one sense it gives back through the others. Why, I have ...

    Article : 350 words
  13. A TRAGIC STORY.

    The clock on the wall was muffled, its ticking, could not be heard, while the one that stood on the mantelpiece, a similar fate had shared. The ...

    Article : 134 words
  14. A LITTLE GIRL WITH GUMPTION.

    A child called at the head office of a life insurance company and asked to see the manager. She was taken into an inner room and ushered into ...

    Article : 216 words
  15. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    The Tiber is only 230 miles long. Queensland has 56 men to every 44 women. There are 376,000 "religious ...

    Article : 347 words
  16. TRY THIS TRICK.

    Two travellers were chatting in a tramcar. "I bet you a good cigar," said the first traveller, "that, without saying ...

    Article : 411 words
  17. GERMANY’S TRADE PROSPERITY.

    The present prosperity of German industry is pointed out by Consul H. Harriss-Gastrell in his Foreign Office report, quoted in the "Express." He ...

    Article : 374 words
  18. A TRAGEDY.

    Pale and trembling the grief-stricken wife met her husband at the door. "She is gone!" came from between ...

    Article : 236 words
  19. A STAGGERER.

    He was comparatively new at the business, and had already found out that the life of an insurance agent is not all a bed or roses, but he was ...

    Article : 228 words
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