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  2. "DOIN' YARRUP."

    "Say ! How do I get to the deepot ?" I turned l and saw a clean-shaven, middle-aged man in a short ...

    Article : 1,458 words
  3. ROGUES AND THEIR LANGUAGES.

    Burglars. street impostors, and criminals in general have at all times indulged in a language of their own, as well as in certain cabalistic signs, ...

    Article : 791 words
  4. DEATH OF THE "SWEET KING."

    A man who has pleased the palates of millions of children and who will tickle the palates of millions yet to come is dead. ...

    Article : 258 words
  5. FINNIGAN TO FLANNIGAN.

    The following quaint verses written nearly ten years ago by Strickland W. Gillilan had enormous popularity in the States, where they exactly hit the national humour. The poem first ...

    Article : 338 words
  6. OUR COOKERY SCHOOL.

    In hot weather, when one instinctively turns away from joints and stews some of the palatable and nourishing dishes that are made from ...

    Article : 1,276 words
  7. 2,000,000-HORSE POWER.

    Twelve years ago the first marine turbine of 980-h.p. was fitted into a ship. which was appropriately named "Turbinia." Improvement has ...

    Article : 131 words
  8. IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE.

    He came into the office looking greatly worried. "I wish," said he to the advertising clerk, "to advertise a lost dog, and I want you to ...

    Article : 183 words
  9. HOW THE FLY CAUSES FEVERS.

    Flies carry the germs of small-pox, scarlet fever, cholera, measles, consumption, blood poisoning, erysipelas, and many other diseases. In fact ...

    Article : 298 words
  10. DIAMOND SEEKERS FOILED.

    Intelligence was received recently at the offices of the Collis Diamond Syndicate to the effect that the Cape (Government has disregarded Dr. ...

    Article : 423 words
  11. A JEALOUS SERVANT.

    Sarah Jane was a model of every thing that a domestic servant should be save for this one fault, a fault which alas human flesh is heir to ...

    Article : 236 words
  12. DEATH IN THE AIR.

    Lieut.-Colonel J. E. Capper, R.E., when addressing a large audience at the Royal United Service Institution on the subject of Military ballooning ...

    Article : 508 words
  13. AN HONEST DOG.

    "I reckon I've got the smartest dog of any," declared young Jenkins enthusiatically to a doggie friend who hailed from the land of cakes ...

    Article : 145 words
  14. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Over sixty miles of tunnel has been cut out of the rock of Gibraltar. The average life of an elephant is 105 years. ...

    Article : 342 words
  15. NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.

    "Can't you see that there board?" demanded the railway official angrily of two sailors who started to cross the line. ...

    Article : 132 words
  16. LESSONS IN HUGGING.

    The old gentleman wondered where the young couple had got to, for it was getting late. He rather suspected that they had wandered out ...

    Article : 328 words
  17. MYSTERY OF A LOST WARSHIP.

    Despatches received at Queenstown from British Columbia contain particulars of the finding of a lifebuoy at Heriot. Bay belonging to H. M. ...

    Article : 320 words
  18. NESTS IN THE SEA.

    Modern investigation has shown that there are many curious resemblances between the creatures of the land and sea. The ocean contains ...

    Article : 304 words
  19. A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.

    She was a stern, hatchet-faced woman, and, from the confident way in which she demanded to see the proprietor of the establishment, the ...

    Article : 111 words
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