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  2. THE SKETCHER.

    The number of letters annually dealt with by the British G.P.O., inclusive of those handled by the T.P.O., as the Travelling Pose Office is technically known, is over ...

    Article : 764 words
  3. SPRAY. WHY GUNN WAS DISCHARGED.

    This is a good specimen of unconscious humour. An excise officer named Alexander Gunn having been dismissed for misconduct, the entry in the book was ...

    Article : 45 words
  4. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY.

    "Confound it! That's the second time I've left it unlocked." Arty Clay withdrew the key, stepped inside, and reached his hand for the switch. ...

    Article : 2,131 words
  5. FACTS & FANCIES. CONCERNING FRUMPS.

    As things are, women must take the language and the inventors and patentees thereof as they find them. And so they must bear patiently the unmusical sound ...

    Article : 439 words
  6. IN THE ARMCHAIR. DON'T HESITATE.

    Have you a strong will? The great demand of to-day is for the strong, vigorous, positive man—the man who not only makes up his mind, but does ...

    Article : 737 words
  7. PITH AND POINT.

    The risk of being struck by lightning is five times greater in the country than in cities, and twenty times greater at sea than on a railway. ...

    Article : 571 words
  8. NOT IN STOCK.

    A yeuth while stro[?]ng through an American town saw a notice in a shop window:—"If you, don’t see what you want, ask for it." Wishing to show how ...

    Article : 173 words
  9. AT THE SEANCE.

    "I’m sorry," said the medium, but the spirit of your deceased wife does not seem to materialise." "How is that?" asked the searcher after ...

    Article : 63 words
  10. HE TOLD HER AT LAST.

    "There is something." he said, "that I have wanted to tell you for a long time, but—" "Oh, Bertie," she said, blushing sweetly, ...

    Article : 75 words
  11. ALMOST HEROIC.

    A farmer went into the office of a [?] ford (Me.) dentist the other day and inquired what the charge was for pulling a tooth. ...

    Article : 87 words
  12. BRUNETTE OR BLONDE?

    A woman who is noted for her beauty —she is a brunette—says that blondes are rarely beautiful, though they are often pretty. The reason would seem to be ...

    Article : 397 words
  13. THE FIRST RULE.

    "This health food doesn't do any good," asserted the irate customer. "Perhaps you overlooked the first rule relating to its use." suggested the grocer. ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. THE SILENT MAN.

    I like to think of old Bismarck, as he sat by the window that opens on the windy park of Friedrichsruh, in an old gray shooting jacket, a rug over his knees, a pipe ...

    Article : 305 words
  15. FEASIBLE.

    Parke: "Business must be good! Did you ever stop to count the number of delivery waggons there are in town?" Lane: "No. But it would be easy to do ...

    Article : 57 words
  16. DISILLUSIONED.

    "What sort of impression did the New York horse show make on you?" "Why, it shocked me." "What shocked you?" ...

    Article : 47 words
  17. TIME THIEVES.

    The right sort of man always keeps time. He arrives at the office punctually, and he leaves punctually. When there is special work to be done, he will stay as long as ...

    Article : 724 words
  18. A CRAB FIGHT.

    A correspondent of the "Spectator" gives an account of a curious battle which he once witnessed at the Brighton Aquarium. He was watching some young ...

    Article : 228 words
  19. THE OLD AND THE NEW PIRATE.

    O, William Kidd was a pirate big. Yo ho, my lads, yo ho. He feared no frigate, bark, or brig. Yo ho, my lads, yo ho. ...

    Article : 106 words
  20. INSURANCE FOR WOMEN.

    The gentlewomen of England are penalised unjustly for their sex on nearly every life assurance policy they hold; every premium they pay is higher than it should ...

    Article : 176 words
  21. INSECTS AS FOOD.

    The "Royal Magazine" contains an in— teresting article upon edible insects, in which are described some dishes thoroughly appreciated by the inhabitants of ...

    Article : 206 words
  22. A NIGHTMARE.

    "What's the matter Lew, asked Fatigued Frederick. "Why don’t you lie down and get some sleep instead of hopping around and keeping awake all the ...

    Article : 36 words
  23. REVISED WISDOM.

    The Wages of Gin is Debt. You may lead an Ass to Knowledge—but you cannot make him think. Actresses will happen in the ...

    Article : 129 words
  24. AN ASTROLOGIST’S PROPHECY.

    In April last Mr. Alan Leo, editor of "Modern Astrology," predicted disaster for the Czar. He worked upon the hypothesis thht nations and individuals are ...

    Article : 231 words
  25. THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK OF MOSES.

    As regards the treasures still hidden in the Tiber, there is one that is of the greatest interest to the whole world. According to an article which Professor ...

    Article : 201 words
  26. THE CYNIC’S REVISED WISDOM.

    Look before you sleep. Many are called but few get up. It’s a strong stomach that has no turn ing. ...

    Article : 147 words
  27. A PROSY PREACHER.

    "The Book of Days" gives an interesting account of the use of the hour glass which was attached to pulpits in order to regulate the length of sermons. L’Estrange ...

    Article : 114 words
  28. ONE FOR HIM.

    At a certain ball in the country the other evening a gentleman undertook to introduce a companion to a young but somewhat stout lady, who seemed to be ...

    Article : 132 words
  29. HE NEVER SMILED AGAIN.

    All: signed the [?] [?] "I could sit and gaze at the moon for hours." "Would I were the man in it," said the ...

    Article : 59 words
  30. LIKE MISTRESS, LIKE MAID.

    A lady had in her employ an [?] maid who had but one fault-her face was always smudged. Her, mistress tried to tell her without causing offence to wash ...

    Article : 67 words
  31. WHY WAS THE WINDOW OPENED?

    Lord Odo Russell (Lord Ampthill), for years our Ambassador at Berlin, used to tell the following story, which is related in the "Revue Hebdomadaire":—One day ...

    Article : 170 words
  32. THE WOMAN WITH A LARGE NOSE.

    A large nose in a man is the nose of a potential hero; but in a woman (says a writer in the "Cosmopolitan Magazine") it is not only a blemish upon beauty, but ...

    Article : 147 words
  33. BALLOONATICS.

    The Rev. J. M. Bacon the well-known aeronaut, in company of others, made an unexpected descent in the ground of Claybury Lunatic Asylum. The gate porter ...

    Article : 130 words
  34. CAT FARMING.

    The possibilities of fur farming in England are alluded to by a writer in "The County Gentleman." who describes a cat farm in the United States. This farm was ...

    Article : 131 words
  35. NOT GREEDY.

    Mother of Two (with a sense of justice): "Now, Tommy, dear, don't be greedy; give dear Billy a bite at your apple." Tommy reluctantly obeys, and Billy bites ...

    Article : 50 words
  36. BURIED 19 OUT OF 24 CHILDREN.

    In a report in which she alludes to the abnormal infantile mortality at Burnley, Miss Harrington, one of the corporation’s lady health visitors, says: "When ...

    Article : 83 words
  37. HIS SELF-SACRIFICE.

    She: "But, Clarence, I can't marry you at once. You see, if I did I should have to give up my situation, and I'm getting £4 a week there!" ...

    Article : 56 words
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