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  2. A THOUGHTFUL CORRECTION

    He was an acute-looking old-young man, and when the train started he remarked pleasantly it was a Hades of a day and he asked me how long it was before we reached ...

    Article : 1,771 words
  3. THE WIDE WORLD.

    Electricity is now used in 300 mines in the United Slates, and proprietors perhaps as many others are considering its utilisation. A high Western authority, in ...

    Article : 1,291 words
  4. JOURNALISM AT HONG KONG

    Doubtless most readers of Mark Twain will remember his lurid experiences as associate editor on a Tennessee paper. He had taken the situation as he was ordered south ...

    Article : 564 words
  5. AT MARKET VALUE.

    It was true, quite true; so far as those two young people wore capable of loving, they were actually in love with one another. The human heart, that very incalculable factor in the ...

    Article : 1,238 words
  6. HERE AND THERE.

    Wilkins, of the Wimmera, has written to me, and Wilkins is angry. Not to put too fine a point upon it, 1 should say that Wilkins was damnably angry. Thus he ...

    Article : 1,446 words
  7. The Glass on the Bar

    Three bushmen one morning rode up to an inn; And called for their glasses of whisky and gin; They'd only returned from a trip to the North, And eager to greet them the landlord came ...

    Article : 300 words
  8. PLAYS AND PLAYERS

    Mr Alfred Dampier produced at the Princess's Theatre, London, on Monday, 2nd October, the Australian drama Robbery Under Arms. The part of Aileen was played ...

    Article : 893 words
  9. The First Commercial Travellers.

    The rapid development of the commercial traveller system specifically belongs to our own days ; but as to the origin, there is some difference of opinion. One authority lays it ...

    Article : 267 words
  10. A Parisian Tragedy.

    The return of wintry weather has coincided with one of those dramas of poverty which from time to time (says the Paris correspondent of the "Daily News," ...

    Article : 386 words
  11. Lady Bicyclists and Calves.

    The great demand at the present time is, says the London "Daily Telegraph," for well-shaped calves for the legs, and for some time the purveyors of these embellishments ...

    Article : 233 words
  12. CHAPTER XVIII.—PRECONTRACT OF MATRIMONY.

    That night was the moat eventful of Mr Reginald's life. For some weeks beforehand, indeed, he had lived in a perfect ferment of feverish excitement, intending, in his own ...

    Article : 1,692 words
  13. Poisoning in India.

    Poisoning in India is very prevalent, judging from the report of the chemical analyser to the Government of Bombay. Some abort time back, one gentleman, the son of a ...

    Article : 227 words
  14. Political Wit.

    " A curious thing about political oratory and wit is the side-light I got upon one aspect of it years ago, "said prominent politician to me the other day. ...

    Article : 394 words
  15. The French Army.

    The French army, judging from the first letter of the "times" correspondent at their recent manœuvres, appears to have of late years vastly improved in organisation. Their ...

    Article : 305 words
  16. Men of Genius.

    Dr. James Weir observes that mechanical geniuses or those who deal mainly with material facts, do not, as a rule, show any signs of mental degeneration. ...

    Article : 225 words
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    Elderly Gentleman to little boy who is buying toffee : " My young friend, don't you think that instead of spending all the pennies you get it would be better to put some of ...

    Article : 168 words
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