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  2. Facts and Fancies. NO MORE CHALKING UP.

    Milkman (to small boy): "Tell your mother she'll have to pay ready money for milk after this; I ain't going to chalk up any more." Small boy: "What are you going to use instead of chalk, Mr. Grange?" ...

    Article : 62 words
  3. Pastime Page. Puzzles, Enigmas, &c.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 words
  4. Somebody's Coming.

    A foot on the king's highway, A hand on a garden gate, Oh why should a heart From its dreaming start, ...

    Article : 169 words
  5. SAILOR'S WIT.

    A lady at sea, fall of delicate apprehensions in a gale of wind, cried out among other pretty exclamations: "We shall all go to the bottom. Mercy on us! how my head swims!" "Madam, never fear," ...

    Article : 74 words
  6. HIDDEN RIVERS IN EUROPE (BACKWARDS).

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 179 words
  7. WHAT WAS THAT?

    What to him was love or hope? What to him was joy or care? He stepped on a plug of mottled soap the girl had left on the topmost stair, and his feet flew out like wild fierce wings, and he struck each stair with ...

    Article : 101 words
  8. Fire o'Clock Tea.

    What chatter of names that have handles, What cackle of those that have not, What keen repetition of scandals. Served up, like the muffins, all hot! ...

    Article : 215 words
  9. NOT BIG ENOUGH.

    "Ah, you young rascal!" cried a policeman, as he seized by the collar a little street Arab who had just stolen a fowl from a poulterer's shop, "why did you take that chicken?" "Oh sir, because I was not big ...

    Article : 87 words
  10. FRENCH AND BRITISH POSSESSIONS ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 words
  11. CONUNDRUMS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 words
  12. NOT WRINKLED!

    A gentleman admires a charming woman over whose head the seventeen summers have passed at least thrice. "But, I say," says one of his friends, "she's very charming, I know; still, you must admit that ...

    Article : 88 words
  13. HIDDEN TOWNS IN QUEENSLAND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 words
  14. BREED ENOUGH.

    "What is the breed of your calf?" said a would-be buyer to a farmer. "Well," said the farmer, "all I know about it is that his father gored a Justice of the Peace to death, tossed a book agent into the fence ...

    Article : 103 words
  15. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES, ENIGMAS, &c., NOVEMBER 22.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 192 words
  16. TWELVE EUROPEAN RIVERS BACKWARDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 words
  17. HIDDEN TOOLS USED ON RAILWAYS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 78 words
  18. Anecdotiana. AN APOLOGY.

    George the Third was popular with the English people. They respected him for the purity of his domestic life, and called him "Farmer George" on account of his plebeian ways and his good nature. ...

    Article : 225 words
  19. "AUNTIE, KISS ME TOO."

    A young lady was sitting with a gallant captain in a charmingly decorated recess. On her knee was a diminutive niece, placed there pour les convenances. In the adjoining room, with the door open, were the ...

    Article : 111 words
  20. HIDDEN JEWELS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 words
  21. THE MINISTER AND THE WIDOW.

    The following conversation is reported to have taken place between a minister and a widow—both of Aberdeen. The widow, who called upon the minister, seemed desirous of relieving her mind of ...

    Article : 296 words
  22. HIDDEN AUSTRALIAN RIVERS (BACKWARDS).

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 149 words
  23. ANSWERS TO CONUNDRUMS, NOVEMBER 22.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 words
  24. STAN' OOT O'THE ROAD, 'OOMAN.

    One day, some years ago, when the Queen was standing on the public road near Balmoral, sketching the castle from a particular point, a flock of sheep approached. The Queen being intent on her work, ...

    Article : 225 words
  25. PUZZLE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 134 words
  26. TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 256 words
  27. Don'ts in Speech.

    Don't say "blame it on him," but simply "blame him," The first form is common among the uneducated. Don't use "got" where it is unnecessary, "I have ...

    Article : 184 words
  28. The Corner. THE CHARACTER OF A MAN.

    A man is no better than the picture he loves to look at. If your eyes are not pure your heart cannot be. One can guess at the charicter of a man by the kind of pictorial he purchases. When the devil fails to ...

    Article : 77 words
  29. CHARADES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 336 words
  30. TALKER AND LISTENER.

    Good conversationalists are comparatively few. Some of the best writers have been very poor talkers. By reading, however, one may acquire a familiarity with current events and opinions, and need not be at ...

    Article : 100 words
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