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  2. Inherited Talent.

    That we are all victims to heredity is an indisputable fact, and we have it on the assurance of the best scientists and doctors of the day that without doubt we inherit the ...

    Article : 173 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 567 words
  4. A Prince On Trial.

    A trial, which has aroused great interest throughout Russia, was concluded yesterday. Prince David Dadiana, a young ...

    Article : 110 words
  5. Friends' Keepsakes.

    Washington Irving, who wrote the following lines on the value of trifles, evidently believed in them as emblems of friendship :— 'There is something after all in those ...

    Article : 121 words
  6. Had Served Him.

    It is easy for a judge to be a humourist. If you don't laugh at his jokes he can send you to another place for contempt of court, and it is. remarkable how the knowledge of ...

    Article : 170 words
  7. A Bid For Freedom.

    Our skipper was in a bad temper, so naturally we, the crew of the barque anchored off the west coast of South America, were made to feel it. ...

    Article : 438 words
  8. Gambling Saloon Fight.

    A sensational and desperate affray has occurred in a gambling saloon at Braga, 34 miles north of Oporto. The saloon, which is situated underground, ...

    Article : 151 words
  9. What He Got.

    Of course, it did not make the slightest difference. Nobody expected for a single moment that it would; but, still, the inhabitants of the delightful borough where ...

    Article : 193 words
  10. A Peer For A Minute.

    On one occasion a gentlemanly appearing individual walked boldly up the steps of St Stephen's passed the various officials, turned into the House of Lords passage. and, ...

    Article : 277 words
  11. Must Be Guilty.

    In a sparsely settled region of West Virginia a motor-car driver was once haled before a local magistrate upon the complaint of a constable. The magistrate a ...

    Article : 162 words
  12. Our American Cousin.

    One of the many interesting things in Mrs Charles Calvert's 'Sixty-Eight Years on the Stage,' which has just been published, is a page of extracts from Our American Cousin ...

    Article : 305 words
  13. Unprofitable Philanthropy.

    An old gentleman, with very practical ideas of phila[?]thropy was wont to walk about the city and endeavor to do his share of bettering the world by means of street ...

    Article : 139 words
  14. 'Putting Off' Is Perilous.

    An old business man expressed the view that procrastination was one of the greatest of vices. 'People are for ever denouncing ...

    Article : 138 words
  15. Smart Boy.

    He was a most intelligent youth, and while going through the basement at the works, he noticed that something was wrong with the machinery. He at once gave the ...

    Article : 190 words
  16. It Was A Cavity.

    A well-known dentist tells the following story of his attempt to corner a Christian Scientist :— 'Every time we met, this scientist took ...

    Article : 151 words
  17. Neglecting His Business.

    A country doctor was recently called upon to visit a patient some distance away. Driving to where the invalid lived, he tied his horse to a tree and started to walk across ...

    Article : 135 words
  18. Doubly a Record

    The country stationmaster was walking up and down the platform with the air of a director. 'Wonderful flood !' he exclaimed as be ...

    Article : 127 words
  19. Misplaced Sympathy.

    A Yankee suffering from toothache went to a dentist to have the aching teeth out. The dentist pulled out a decayed tooth, and was then asked to pull out the double tooth ...

    Article : 65 words
  20. Reflected Glory,

    Mr Jones was an excellent man prosperous in his business and modest in his ways, but not distinguished for anything in particular. His wife, however, Mrs Smith-Jones, was a ...

    Article : 198 words
  21. A Comrade-in-Arms.

    A certain military camp in the north-west of Ireland was once the scene of a rather funny incident. A little boy who was taking a donkey to the market, had occasion to pass ...

    Article : 218 words
  22. Her Retort.

    A young Suffragette was eloquently ex pounding her views to a crowd of rustics, and incidentally 'trouncing' man for his numerous one failings, political and otherwise. ...

    Article : 105 words
  23. Women's Hair as Rope.

    In North Japan is an enormous heatben temple, the timbers of which were hauled from the mountains and put in place with ropes made from the hair of the women of ...

    Article : 78 words
  24. Fatal!

    Mr Chauncey Depew, America's greatest after-dinner speaker. has been staying in London recently. He had just delivered one of his famous orations at a large dinner ...

    Article : 135 words
  25. Clearing The Way.

    'Dad,' said his son and their, somewhat doubtfully, it seemed, 'would you be glad if' I saved half-a-sovereign for you ? His father looked surprised. ...

    Article : 88 words
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