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  2. TRAVELLER.

    'A day or two after I started back, a mob hanged me in effigy, 22 miles out from Wyndham. I had to travel very slowly, as my pack-horses were heavily loaded, and in ...

    Article : 494 words
  3. A NEW ENDING.

    Merritt: 'I had an awfully embarrassing thing happen to me this afternoon. I was walking with a girl when a sudden gust of wind blew on my hat and sent it flitting up ...

    Article : 205 words
  4. ATHLETIC SPORTS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

    In 1569 Queen Elizabeth issued a special warrant to all mayors, 'shereffes,' magistrates, &c., in Middlesex, to see that the games organized by J. S. Powlter were was ...

    Article : 211 words
  5. THE OLDEST CITY IN THE WORLD.

    Far away in the Chaldean plain there is a round hill, called 'The Son of the Prince' by the Arabs, which has just been excavated by Professor Hilprecht, the eminent ...

    Article : 205 words
  6. VARIETIES.

    A rich scene occurred in an hotel recently. A traveller who had been on a spree the previous evening, arose in the morning and rung the bell violently. Boots appeared. ...

    Article : 106 words
  7. THE CAPE PARLIAMENT.

    Roughly speaking, the Cape Parliament consists mainly of lawyers, doctors, and farmers, with a sprinkling of merchants, three journalists, and two or three ...

    Article : 936 words
  8. AN ANGRY MOB OF WELSHMEN.

    An old commercial traveller, Mr Charles Cahill, tells the following story in a book of reminiscences of the road which he published a few years ago. In the old driving ...

    Article : 330 words
  9. HUMOUR.

    It was in a Malaga hotel, where they had just arrived from Granada, and there were sights innumerable on every side to allure the eye and furnish an unlimited scope for ...

    Article : 70 words
  10. PUNKAH COOLIES.

    In the plains of India during the summer months the soldiers', barracks are supplied with punkahs (fans), suspended from the rafters or beams of the roof, and several ...

    Article : 108 words
  11. SCRIBBLER KNEW HIM.

    Scribbler: 'There goes the snubeditor of the 'Weekly Ha-Ha.' Dauber: 'You mean the snubeditor?' Scribbler: 'No, I don't. He is the man ...

    Article : 37 words
  12. HE KNEW BETTER.

    'I say, there,' he asked, as he stood in the streets, of New York for the first time and watched two sisters of Mercy pass along, what kind of wimmen is them I see go ...

    Article : 95 words
  13. THE UNITED STATES NAVY.

    There is a great scarcity of capable seamen for the United States fleet, no fewer than 3,000 men being needed to complete its present equipment. This is owing to the ...

    Article : 139 words
  14. THE ONE WHO SHOULD.

    Pat—came home for his breakfast one morning, but instead of having it ready his wife was sitting by the fire sobbing bitterly. ...

    Article : 135 words
  15. ALLEGED CURES FOR SEASICKNESS.

    While it is doubtful which of the two— the seaside landlady or seasickness—is the bigger bugbear of the holiday season, it is beyond dispute that one of the commonest ...

    Article : 482 words
  16. A SEA WILL O' THE WISP.

    The ourlons and eerie light known as 'Jack o' Lantern' or 'Will o' the Wisp' is usually seen in marshes or in graveyards as a bluish flame. This is in reality produced ...

    Article : 151 words
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