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  2. CHINESE COURTS.

    The present trouble in the Far East will tasks the mixed Courts a feature of every big Chinese city. They will be established to try, all disputes between foreigners and ...

    Article : 3,110 words
  3. THE LOST CITY.

    Tradition has it that somewhere in Central Western Mexico there exist the ruins of what was once a populous, Aztec city. It was there that Montezuma was reported to ...

    Article : 1,800 words
  4. AN ACTRESS FORCOTTEN.

    She hesitated, a moment before entering the manager's office. She looked at the smart sign, brilliant, with gilt lettering; at the splendid, negro flunky at the door, who ...

    Article : 1,383 words
  5. HE FOUND HER.

    Stranger (at the door): I am trying to find a lady whose married name I have forgotten, but I know she lives in this neighbourhood. She is a woman easily ...

    Article : 78 words
  6. SPORTSMEN'S SUPERSTITIONS.

    It has been said that sportsman are not, as a rule, either superstitious or eccentric. I (remarks Basil Towzer in "Fashion") do not at all hold with that idea. If they are not ...

    Article : 1,224 words
  7. WHAT MADE HIM DOUBT.

    It was a mean advantage he took of her, but of course when a family is divided on politics no mercy is shown. "It is useles to argue," he said, "I ...

    Article : 79 words
  8. MACHINE MADE.

    The "World " some years ago recorded a very happy bon-mot. The Duchesse Decazes, who was a Miss Singer, had been taking part in some theatricals at ...

    Article : 59 words
  9. HE DIDN'T CATCH THE TRAM.

    "I was out in the western part of the state the other day on a matter of business," said Brown. "I expected to get back the same day, but I missed the train and was forced ...

    Article : 293 words
  10. HAD THE BEST OF THE DIALOGUE.

    "'Olloway-road—all the way for tup-pence!" bawled an energetic 'bus conductor. "You have dropped something," said a humorous passenger, with ...

    Article : 52 words
  11. ALMOST A HINT.

    "It's a beautiful day for a walk." she said, looking out of the window. " Indeed it is," he said, doing likewise. "Would you like to take a walk?" she ...

    Article : 52 words
  12. A PERFECT SHAME.

    Mrs. Goodsoul: I think it's a perfect shame that the early settlers killed off the Indians the way they did. Miss De Pretty: Indeed it is; just ...

    Article : 43 words
  13. HAVE YOU EVER MET HIM.

    In a certain skirmish, a Colonel (General he came to call himself) got a slight-scratch on his leg. The wound was a matter of great glory to him and he nursed it through after ...

    Article : 197 words
  14. INJUSTICE.

    "Won't you give a veteran something to eat, mum?" said Tired Thompson to Mrs. Whiflet., unbelievingly. "You were never a soldier, I'll be bound." ...

    Article : 48 words
  15. THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

    He: Do you understand the language of flowers, dear? She: Oh, yes, a little. He: Do you know what those dozen ...

    Article : 44 words
  16. THEY WERE ALL THERE.

    Professor (to student of surgery): Please inform the class the names of bones forming the skull. Student: Ah—er—I do not at the ...

    Article : 44 words
  17. SHE DIDN'T PROPOSE.

    "John,' she said, as she toyed with one of his coat buttons, " his is leap year, is it not?" "Yes, Mamie," he answered, as he looked ...

    Article : 164 words
  18. A PIOUS HOPE.

    The Professor's wife: The professor is in the laboratory conducting some chemical experiments. The professor expects to go down to posterity— ...

    Article : 40 words
  19. THE GRAND SECRET.

    Mrs. Youngwife: I have at last discovered how to receive guests properly. Mr. Youngwife: ? ? ? Mrs. Youngwife: I have everything ...

    Article : 36 words
  20. SOLDIERS IN PETTICOATS.

    There recently lived in a cottage on Caithness Moor an old lady who took a prominent part in the Crimean War. Elizabeth Coull was her name, and she was the wife of John ...

    Article : 182 words
  21. THE REASON WHY.

    Jackson; No, I never take the newspaper home. I've got a family of grown up daughters, you know. Friend: Papers too full of crime? ...

    Article : 36 words
  22. FAMILY PRIDE.

    Miles: My grandfather celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth one day last week. Giles: That's nothing. If my ...

    Article : 36 words
  23. THE JEWS' HARP.

    Among humbler instruments of music the Jews' harp has an ancient and honourable history. In more modern days no one excelled Koch, the famous ...

    Article : 106 words
  24. EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM.

    Shrewd Deacon: Go ahead. I guess you'll not catch me napping. Trader: I don't know about that, if I'm to judge of what I saw in church ...

    Article : 32 words
  25. THE VERDICT.

    The most popular man in a Western town once got into a difficulty with a disreputable rough, who was the terror of the place, and did him up in a manner entirely satisfactory ...

    Article : 142 words
  26. A VENTRILOQUIST.

    Pat: Say, Phalim, phat's a ventriloquist? Phalim:He's a lad phat stands on one side av of the room and talks to himself ...

    Article : 30 words
  27. ODIOUS COMPARISON.

    "Tell me," said the seeker after knowledge," wasn't, it Shakespeare who said, 'The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their ...

    Article : 112 words
  28. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 59 words
  29. NOT A BARGAIN.

    They were seated on the sofa, And the lovely maiden fair Seemed lost in a deep reverie—in her eyes a vacant stare. ...

    Article : 52 words
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