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  2. READING THE RIDDLE.

    An infinite number of years ago, when I was the chief weakness of a publisher's office, I remember that there was issued from that establishment a ...

    Article : 1,477 words
  3. BAXTER'S OLD SWEETHEART

    Baxter was our greengrocer—a stooped, gnarled old man of perhaps seventy. Had, in the pathetic parlance of the poor, "seen better ...

    Article : 1,654 words
  4. COMMON SENSE TALKS.

    When the Wise Man brought his wife an armful of red roses on St. George's Day, which falls on the 23rd of April, it set us talking of "Merrie England." ...

    Article : 1,035 words
  5. A TON OF PLUMES.

    "Arabella! Ababella!! Arabella!!! Where has that girl gone? I do declare if she ain't up in that apple tree along with that skid-e-me-ding of a French ...

    Article : 2,002 words
  6. FAMOUS BUDGETS.

    Perhaps the three most memorable Budgets of the last century were Sir Robert Peel's in 1842, imposing the income tax for the first time, the Free ...

    Article : 573 words
  7. OUTPORT FOR LONDON.

    While the outlook for the Port of London does not seem very clear, the prospects of its natural outport, Southampton, are brightening daily. It is ...

    Article : 318 words
  8. MORAL REFLECTIONS.

    It has been noticed that bald heads sometimes contain something beside bare facts. Of course it isn't much to a man's ...

    Article : 198 words
  9. THE SPORTIVE ROADSTER.

    The recent selection of a Rhodes Scholar as Captain of the Rugby Union at Oxford serves to show the remarkable way in which the "Rhodester" has ...

    Article : 336 words
  10. FUNIANA.

    Revenge is Sweet.—Swiss Walter (to himself): "That blase donkey! Our mountains are not high enough for him; our lakes are more pools. He shows no ...

    Article : 230 words
  11. AMBITION BAULKED.

    Salomone, the Sicilian bandit, who, as previously mentioned in "Lloyd's," was contributing his own memoirs to the "Glornale di Sicilla, has been captured. ...

    Article : 139 words
  12. BRIBERY IN BUSINESS.

    It is not to be denied that our commercial ethics need bracing up. The secret commission, the direct bribe, the many-headed monster "treating," the ...

    Article : 75 words
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