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  2. NOODLETON IN LOVE.

    Nicholas Noodleton was a member of Yabber Yabber Football Club, and was recognised as the best all-round player of the first twenty. He held that distinguished ...

    Article : 1,162 words
  3. PERSISTENT WOOING.

    One of the few .books that were read with pleasure by youth, about half a century ago (and is so still) was "Sandford and Merton." Its author, Thomas ...

    Article : 464 words
  4. WHAT SHE DID NOT SAY.

    “I wish to tell you, ”she firmly said, “Yes once for all”—here she caught his eye— “When faith is ended and hope it dead”— ...

    Article : 144 words
  5. WHERE METEORS COME FROM.

    In about 300 years ago a witness had stated that he' had seen a witch at mnid4 night riding through the air on a broomstick he would have been believed; but if he had ...

    Article : 940 words
  6. CURING A BAD MEMORY.

    memory is bad, perhaps, but 'I can tell two secrets that will cure the worst memory. 'One'' to read a subject when strongly interested. The ...

    Article : 1,165 words
  7. CURIOSITIES OF KLEPTOMANIA.

    Kleptomania is a disease which is recognised readily enough' in 'the case of the rich, but is not often accepted as a justiflyable plea when the accused person belong ...

    Article : 1,127 words
  8. Fun and Fancy.

    Seen, but nor heard—Barks at sea Perspiration never rains, but it pores The man most looked up to—The one in the moon ...

    Article : 1,293 words
  9. MODERN MENDICANTS AND THEIR DODGES.

    If there be any truth, and we fear there is only too much, in the common saying that there are tricks in all trades, then it would be natural to expect these tricks to ...

    Article : 995 words
  10. TURNING THE TABLES.

    Some years since, an Australian, who had been very successful at the gold diggings, was taking his nuggets and dust to Melbourne. He was walking along ...

    Article : 370 words
  11. Explaining a Proverb.

    PAPA, what does this mean: It is better to give than to receive 7"' asked Harlem boy to his food parent. It means my son, that your mother finds ...

    Article : 46 words
  12. Rather Fur Fetched

    PELTS are very cheap now," said country. man to De Fidgett yesterday. "Oh, I don't know. I got $50 for one the other day." ...

    Article : 51 words
  13. Got Him.

    A NEGEO boy, while walking along the street, took of his bat and struck at a wasp that had alighted on a tall shrub, hanging owl a fence. The boy pot an his hat, turned to a man and ...

    Article : 86 words
  14. A TWIG TO BE STRAIGHTENED.

    Mr. Bent: "I'm sorry to see, Maria; that our` Tommy is developing Anarchistic tendencies”Mrs. Bent Bless me ! What's he ...

    Article : 98 words
  15. Ransom Cheese.

    OLD Uncle Billy stokes, a colored individual. from one of the back counties in Mississippi, where old fashioned waggons with wooden axles are still in use, and where the primitive ...

    Article : 176 words
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