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  2. AN ELEPHANT ON STRIKE.

    An Indian Bishop tells a story of a civilian elephant who was employed in a timber-yard. A number of logs had to be moved by him, and ...

    Article : 192 words
  3. A LAND OF PEPPER.

    Sumatra is a land of pepper and in a good year exports about 400,000lb. or about two-thirds of the spice that tickles the palate of mankind. ...

    Article : 312 words
  4. CURIOUS INCIDENT ABOARD A MAN-OF-WAR.

    The first thing that strikes a lands man on a man-of-war is the rigid dicipline observed everywhere On some of the ships belonging to the ...

    Article : 200 words
  5. SPARKLETS.

    "Papa, what do the papers mean when they speak of the 'aggressive policy? ' "Ask your mother." "He has, a breezy manner, don't ...

    Article : 675 words
  6. FROM SOUTH AFRICA.

    Now that the Boers have no heavy artillery to speak of, blockhouses are invaluable in the conduct of the guerilla fighting that is going on. ...

    Article : 527 words
  7. BURIAL FOR HUMAN ASHES.

    Cremation is a common method of disposing of the dead in Japan, and burial grounds for human ashes are to be seen near every town. There is ...

    Article : 303 words
  8. SOME HINTS ON ETIQUETTE.

    The subject is a large one and. by no means beneath serious consideration, since, more at table than anywhere else. does the gentleman or ...

    Article : 768 words
  9. SHE FELT INSULTED.

    After returning from a ball in a Scotch country town, a servant girl was asked by her mistress, how she had enjoyed herself. ...

    Article : 56 words
  10. THE TRAMS OF THE WORLD.

    The first man, curiously enough, to introduce the trams into England, was a Mr. Train. That event occurred in the streets of Birkenhead, ...

    Article : 406 words
  11. MOSQUITOES LIKE MUSIC.

    A mosquito's delight in music seems now to be clearly proved. Dr. Joly, a French naval surgeon, who has been experimenting at ...

    Article : 138 words
  12. AN ART STUDENT'S STRATAGEM.

    A famous artist who is just now very much in the public eye, and lives in a palatial house in Chelsea, had a very severe struggle in his younger ...

    Article : 275 words
  13. WILLING TO OBLIGE.

    An Englishman at a dinner once told a tale of a tiger he had shot which measured twenty-four It. from snout to tail-tip. Everyone was ...

    Article : 251 words
  14. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    It is nonsense to say that a man is inclined to be bald. When a man is becoming bald it is quite against his inclination. ...

    Article : 244 words
  15. WHY THEY LAUGHED.

    Lawyer to witness: "You're a lady's maid, I presume?" Witness: "Yes, sir." Lawyer: "And you were in the ...

    Article : 117 words
  16. OTHER LANDS.

    The world's output of copper last year was 160,000 tons. About 616,000,000 telegraph messages are sent yearly in Great ...

    Article : 306 words
  17. THE FATAL ALBUM AND A LEAP FOR LIFE.

    Here is one of Aesop's Fables (new series):—One evening a girl named Eclair had her Steady in the parlour and was trying to keep him from ...

    Article : 357 words
  18. MIDDLE-CLASS SOCIETY IN PARIS.

    I have often mused upon the unhappy lot of a British policeman were cruel necessity to put him down suddenly in Paris; he would ...

    Article : 313 words
  19. IN A WESTERN MINING CAMP.

    "Some of you know, probably," said the man in the mackintosh, "that I spent a summer out West. some years ago, in a mining camp. ...

    Article : 325 words
  20. ON SENTRY GO.

    The "Regiment" tells a funny story about a Volunteer camp in the west. The adjutant was one of the old school and a bit of a martinet ...

    Article : 237 words
  21. A CONUNDRUM.

    Why is the Isle of Wight a fraud? Answer:—Because. there are— Needles you cannot thread. Cowes, you cannot milk. ...

    Article : 168 words
  22. BIG CIGARS FOR ROYALTY.

    Two crowned heads of Europe have their cigars made expressly for them by the largest factory in Havana (according to the "Cigar and ...

    Article : 201 words
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