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  2. Comic Cuttings.

    If thirty-two is freezing, then [?] squeezing?--Two in the shade. When does a baby remind one [?] the month of March?--When it [?] ...

    Article : 883 words
  3. Penny Papers [?]oomed.

    "My impression is that the penny paper is doomed. Prejudice and the conservative instincts of Englishmen may keep some of the going for a few years longer, but for all ...

    Article : 657 words
  4. The Home.

    These must to a certain extent [?]end on the style of cooking you contemplate. If you intend to carry out such re[?] as are given in these columns, you would need ...

    Article : 675 words
  5. His only Chance

    A well-known [?] explorer went out one morning in pursuit of a buffalo which had been wounded the day before. Such wounded animals are always dangerous, as ...

    Article : 324 words
  6. The Table.

    Have fourteen or fifteen pounds of the brisket of b[?] r[?] it over with common salt, and let it lie for three days, put it in the above p[?]ckle with a heavy weight upon ...

    Article : 757 words
  7. Short Story.

    A man mounted on why [?]g pulled up sharp before [?] door. The horse was foaming, the man p[?]. He was roughly dressed--red ...

    Article : 1,330 words
  8. Sympathy Doesn't Pay.

    "Fare, please!" said the conductor of a [?], one day last week, to a passenger who was changing to a strap. The passenger took out his ...

    Article : 421 words
  9. A Business Governor.

    Sir H. A. Blake, the Governor a Hongkong, is essentially a business Governor, in distinction to the merely ornamental members of his profession. He loves hard work, ...

    Article : 316 words
  10. Should Think He Did.

    At a certain military hospital in India it is customary to have a soldier patient to superintend the m[?] of the cows which supply the hospital. It is also the custom ...

    Article : 416 words
  11. Curious Hair.

    It is not often that a head of hair will carry fortune in its [?]n, but in this respeci[?] a Swiss watchmaker not many years ago excited world-wide [?]ion. Brown, ...

    Article : 295 words
  12. How "Bobs" Fills the Theatres.

    "We are all blessing the name of 'Bobs,'" said a well-know London manager recently. "His successes wiil put something likes £500 into the treasury this week, and ...

    Article : 289 words
  13. Hard Things About a Boy.

    Two Ha[?] men were coming down town the other morning i[?] a [?] car, one of whom has a state reputation for his plainness of person. He [?] it an absence ...

    Article : 343 words
  14. A Financial Star.

    They haven't been married long, and they are as loyal and devoted a young couple as ever made the confirmed bachelor search for a new argument against matrimony. ...

    Article : 253 words
  15. In the House of Commons.

    Here is a tale going round what are known as political circles. A Conservative member [?] of the new [?] looked down upon the old [?] as a [?] an [?] ...

    Article : 375 words
  16. The Oldest Actor in England.

    To Mr. James Doel, of Stonehouse, Plymouth, belongs the proud distinction of being the oldest actor in England. Mr. Doel, who has just celebrated his ...

    Article : 363 words
  17. As Many as Four.

    A squire from the Principality brought with him to London a little time since a man-servant whom he had recently engaged and who had never previously been ...

    Article : 229 words
  18. What the Queen Drinks.

    The Queen rises early and goes to bed late. When she first awakens a cup of cocoa, which has been prepared by the "Chocolate Woman" of the Royal ...

    Article : 374 words
  19. His Treasure.

    Vanity seems to spring eternal in the masculine breast, and the less it has to feed upon the more it thrives, apparently. On Saturday a tramp of high degree in ...

    Article : 215 words
  20. A Bad Break.

    "Well, they all break," said the bride of a few weeks, "and I don't know what you are going to do about it." "But why don't you get a better brand?" ...

    Article : 225 words
  21. "No Hinglishman!"

    The average newspaper seller is as keen as a coal-owner in these days, and the price of his good is a[?] to fluctuate. One evening some little time back a smart ...

    Article : 170 words
  22. The Reason Why.

    "I didn't tell you, did I, Mildred," said Mr. Cavil to his wife, "that I saw your sister Jane down town this day week?" "No, you didn't, Charles Augustus ...

    Article : 289 words
  23. His Way Out.

    An old fellow, a keen disciple of Izaak Walton, was staying at the seaside last summer, and started off one morning for a few hours' fishing off the pier. On the ...

    Article : 244 words
  24. Still in haken.

    One of the Gay Gordons wounded at Dargal recently related the following incident-- illustrative of the native faith in the mullah (a kind of native priest)--in the writer, ...

    Article : 220 words
  25. He came at Last.

    "John," exclaimed the nervous woman, "there's a burglar in the house; I'm sure of it." John rubbed his eyes, and protested mildly ...

    Article : 165 words
  26. Edison a Joker.

    Edison was always a great joke player. Those that he seemed to enjoy most were like the one he worked on one of the laziest operators in the office where he was once ...

    Article : 197 words
  27. Making it Up.

    In a village near Lincoln the landlord of a certain i[?] refused to serve a man with beer on account of his already owing for some, which he made no effort to pay. ...

    Article : 173 words
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