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  2. FIRE AND FLOOD.

    The London Hippodrome claims to be better protected against fire risks than any other house of entertainment in the world, and shortly after the Chicago fire the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 303 words
  3. THE HEROINE OF THE MILL, OR A LANCASHIRE MAN'S REVENGE.

    False-hearted Mark Newman is inlatuated with handsome Maud Mostyn beloved of and loved by Dick Rathone. Maud refuses Mark's ...

    Article : 290 words
  4. EARLIEST PICTURES OF THE ASCENSION.

    Until the seventh or eighth century art [?]arely represented the Crucifixion, the Entombment, the Resurrection, or the Ascension. The earliest representation of ...

    Article : 308 words
  5. THAT FUNNY FELLOW.

    The local grocer was very proud when he put up the notice: J. BLANK HAS THE HONOUR OF BEING APPOINTED GROCER ...

    Article : 114 words
  6. A Little Exercise for Your Tongue.

    If you stick a stick across a stick, Or cross a stick across a stick, Or stick a cross across a stick, Or stick a cross across a cross, ...

    Article : 104 words
  7. CHAPTER II.—Continued.

    "Ah, well; and this girl, then, is the root of all evil to us," remarked the elder man, a peculiar smile on his face. ...

    Article : 932 words
  8. NO SIGN OF IT.

    "Are you sure that was a correct report shout the gentleman at the right of the chairman, Mr. Scadds, being born with a silver spoon in his mouth?" whispered one ...

    Article : 90 words
  9. THEY GOT IT.

    A good old West Country preacher, who had decided to leave an unremunerative charge, finding it impossible to collect his salary, said in his farewell ...

    Article : 68 words
  10. NOT EASY.

    "Didn't you say six months ago that if Miss Porritt wouldn't marry you you would throw yourself into thbe deepest part of the sea? Now, Miss Porritt married ...

    Article : 65 words
  11. CHAPTER III.

    Our friend Gommy had a very wholesome fear of the police, although he had never done anything to place himself in their power. ...

    Article : 2,375 words
  12. WHY FIRE MAKES US BLUSH.

    Blushing is the effect of the action of radiated heat on the nerves controlling the small blood vessels of the skin. These tiny vessels are normally in a state of ...

    Article : 175 words
  13. SILENCED HER.

    A little boy at the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens was carrying a patent yacht with a circular hull. As he walked along he was continually stopped by ...

    Article : 90 words
  14. WHAT THEY MISSED.

    Madame (after reading of the great case): "'And when I think, Henri, that you once wanted to take me to one of this Stainheil woman's receptions!" ...

    Article : 67 words
  15. READY FOR HIM.

    "Do you call this a pint ?" asked the sharp servant girl of the milkman. "Yes." "Well, it won't do. When we want ...

    Article : 35 words
  16. OUT FOR LUNCH.

    "May I see the proprietor, please?" was the question put to a rest [?]t waitress by a customer who had unsau[?] tried to eat the food provided. The [?] ...

    Article : 71 words
  17. LETTING THE CAT OUT.

    "Say, grandpa, make a noise like a frog," coaxed Tommy. "What for, my son?" "Why, papa says than when you croak ...

    Article : 33 words
  18. HOW TO MAKE THE OAKS GROW.

    "The following eccentric directions for his funeral are contained in the will of the late Sir Charles Hastings:—"I desire my body may be opened after my death, and ...

    Article : 163 words
  19. SHE KNEW.

    "May I ask how you earned your first salary?" inquired a reporter who was interviewing a celebrated statesman, "I earned it, sir," said the great man, "by ...

    Article : 75 words
  20. PUTTING HIM RIGHT.

    "Look before, butcher, this meat is half bone." "You are mistaken, sir. That is good meat." ...

    Article : 60 words
  21. THE NEW BOARDER.

    "What did you say your name was?" inquires the landlady in a hoarse whisper. "Camp." "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mr. ...

    Article : 209 words
  22. UNBLASSED ADVICE.

    "George," said his friend Jack, "I want to ask your advice. I have a chance to marry a poor girl whom I love, or a rich woman whom I don't love. What ...

    Article : 144 words
  23. HOW THE POSTAL SORTERS PAID THEMSELVES.

    "According to the statement of an hon. member in the House of Commons, the regulations of the Dublin General Post Office are of a very singular kind. The ...

    Article : 69 words
  24. KEEP IT QUIET.

    Daughter: " This is my very own piano, isn't it, dad?" Father: " Yee." Daughter: "And when I marry I shall ...

    Article : 269 words
  25. GAVE HIM A FALL.

    "I think I never saw Rymer so utterly crushed as he was when his first poem appeared in print." "What was the matter? Some ...

    Article : 58 words
  26. TAKING NO CHANCES.

    Borely: "I got rather a cool reception when I called at the Smith's Last night, but they warmed up finally. Why, when I was leaving the whole family came to the ...

    Article : 60 words
  27. UP TO DATE.

    Mr. Mold the undertaker was a hustler in his opinion even a funeral could be made a thing of beauty, if not a joy for ever. He stood on the kerb surveying ...

    Article : 75 words
  28. "BAGGED" ONE TOO.

    He: "I suppose you were fishing when you caught me?" "she: "Well, I used to think so, but now I know I must have been bear hunting!" ...

    Article : 37 words
  29. IN RETURN.

    She (sitting down): "I [?] you are regular traveller on these su[?] trams." He (standing up): "That is true. ...

    Article : 62 words
  30. QUITE ANOTHER TUNE.

    Von Blumer (roaring with rage): "Who told you to put paper on the wall?" Decorator: "Your wife, sir." Von Blumer: "Pretty, isn't it? " ...

    Article : 29 words
  31. ONE OF THEM.

    Cholmonndley: "I thought you intended to marry Miss Wealthington?" Dolmondley: "I thought so, too; but her family objected." ...

    Article : 42 words
  32. LOVE.

    Little germs of some one Growing o the mind. Make the heart Quite lov[?] And both the eyes sto[?] ...

    Article : 20 words
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