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  2. PUSHED TO THE RIGHT.

    An entertaining writer, who modestly signs himself " Martello Tower," tells some good stories in a book just published by Mr. John Murray. with the ...

    Article : 249 words
  3. PRINTERS' PRANKS.

    "Speaking of typographical errors and newspaper bulls," said an old newspaper man and employing printer, "reminds me that the average printer is a weak ...

    Article : 831 words
  4. GOOD STORIES FROM IRELAND.

    An interesting article on "Humours of Irish Life " appears in the excellent January number of the "Cornhill Magazine." The writer says:— ...

    Article : 1,044 words
  5. (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.) THE MORGUE SLAB.

    [?] see that at a glace. [?] the grease-paint from her face, but all the vaseline or coacoa-butter in the world ...

    Article : 4,138 words
  6. A PLEASANT JOURNEY.

    It was Mr. Henry Savage Landon who told this story the other day to a writer in " Madame" anent some of his experiences in England since his return ...

    Article : 221 words
  7. ENGLISH VILLAGE ODDITIES.

    Undoubtedly the most extraordinary township in England is that of Skiddaw, Cumberland. It contains but one house, the occupier of which is unable to ...

    Article : 298 words
  8. MATRIMONY AND THE POSTOFFICE.

    Numbers of people are densely ignorant even of the functions of the Post Office. Very often it is confounded with a registrar's office. ...

    Article : 179 words
  9. THE YEAR'S WORK OF A LOCOMOTIVE.

    There me 19,914 locomotives at work on the railways of the United Kingdom, and each of these on an average runs 19,096 miles in it year, and earns for this ...

    Article : 277 words
  10. THE STRENUOUS LIFE.

    'A small son, aged three turned up the other afternoon with a black eye and crying piteously. What's the matter ?" asked papa. ...

    Article : 134 words
  11. TIPPED TO HOLLER.

    At a recent public meeting the speakers and audience were disturbed by a men who constantly called for Mr.—let us say—Smith. ...

    Article : 337 words
  12. A PIANO FINISHER.

    On board one of Her Majesty's ships a marine, who had said he was by trade a piano finisher, was employed with the carpenter's crew. One day the ...

    Article : 158 words
  13. THE SIZE OF THE SUN.

    The earth on which we stand is, no doubt, a mighty globe, measuring as it does. 8,000 miles in diameter ; yet what are Its dimensions in comparison with ...

    Article : 306 words
  14. ROYALTY AND QUAKERS.

    When Air, Fry was recently knighted by the Queen at Bristol it was noticed that the popular Quaker stood with his hat on before Her Majesty. It was a ...

    Article : 132 words
  15. GOING TO HELL.

    Captain J. W. Gabriel, when a midshipman in charge of a boat belonging to the Latona frigate, was upset in n gale of wind between Portsmouth and ...

    Article : 186 words
  16. A CRUSHING REJOINDER.

    A lady doctor, one of the pioneers of her sox In medicine, heard a young physician recently deliver a fierce diatribe against opening the doors of the ...

    Article : 88 words
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