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DEATH'S QUEER GUISES.
Men and women die every day in ways as peculiar as incomprehensible. The story of the man who, having travelled the world over, braved tropical dangers and Arctic ...
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THE MAN BEHIND THE BOULDER.
Britain's heart is sad to-day O'er her army's brief reverses, Bloodier still must be the fray Ere the cloud of war disperses. ...
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SOME V.C. FACTS.
The "London Mail" publishes the following:— The Victoria Cross was instituted by her Majesty at the close of the Crimean War, ...
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HUMOROUS COLUMN.
A young man, hearing that the local joiner had jilted his sister, rushed off to give him a good thrashing, but came back again in ten minutes, obviously ...
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CONTRA PORRAZO.
The winter climate of California is very delightful, especially at the great Hotel Balboa, but even there clouds are not unknown and storm occur at times. Similarly ...
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Them Soldier Fellows.
A young Australian who did not volunteer for service in the Boer War is troubled by the enthusiastic way in which his best girl speaks of the soldiers, ...
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HEROES WHO WON, BUT NEVER WORE THE V.C.
Three instances are on record of brave soldiers who, though gaining the coveted cross for valour, yet never bore the decoration. ...
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THE SAD STORY OF A BOUQUET.
A lady at Durban writes:—"In seeing the troops off down here we do all we can to give them a happy send-off—throw them flowers, cigarettes, fruit, and cakes. The ...
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On the Rail.
Dick, a darky in Kentucky, was a notorious thief, so vicious in this respect that all the thefts in the neighbourhood were charged to him. ...
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MARVELS OF THE MOON.
Sir R. S. Ball has been telling a crowded audience at the Royal Institution his story of the Evolution of the Moon. The subject is a difficult one, but was made clear by ...
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COST OF BIG GUNS AND AMMUNITION.
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Cecil Rhodes Snubbed.
Cecil Rhodes is not modest to excess. He is not used to standing in line and waiting. Yet he had to do it in Johannesburg on one occasion at the ...
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SNAKE BITES.
Snake bites are most dangerous when the naked flesh is exposed. If a snake bites a person, not on the naked skin, but through a fairly substantial garment, the ...
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Absent-Minded.
An amusing story is told of a minister who was inclined to be absent-minded. While walking one day he encountered a young lady whose face seemed familiar ...
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WHAT LIQUID AIR CAN DO.
Liquid air will be the exploding and propelling force of the future. Liquid air is merely air compressed by powerful machinery. ...
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DR. CHARLES GATLING.
Dr. Charles Gatling, the inventor. of the famous gun, is a remarkably mild-looking man, and about the last person one would be inclined to credit with the ...
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TOO LITERAL.
" It's terrible," said Senator Sorghaun, as he looked at the paper, " to see how some of us public men suffer at the hands of these interviewers." ...
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
The rifles captured from the Dervishes at Omdurman were found to be, most of them, of English make. They bear the name—in nearly every case—of a ...
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A Waste of Money.
A Parliamentary candidate was being 'heckled' in a Scotch village. An old man stood up and asked if it was true that Scotland get £40,000 for an ...
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PATSY WOULD PLAY IT.
Over the doorway of the Jewish synagogue, Cardiff, is a sentence in bold Hebrew type, Two Irishmen, passing by, noticed it. ...
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Tommy Had Him.
'This is your little sister, Tommy,' said his father, showing him the newly-born baby; 'you will love her dearly, will you not ?' ...
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GOLD, GOLD, GOLD !
Henry III. issued the first current gold coin in England in 1247. It was of pure gold, passed for twenty pence, and was called a gold penny. The next ...
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SHORT OF "ETHETH."
" We are thorrv to thay," explained the editor of the Skedunk "Weekly News," that our compothing room wan entered lath night by thome unknown thcoundrel, who ...
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HE FAILED.
Mrs. Rambo (on the inside of the front door): Absalom, you have been drinking again! Mr. Rambo (on the outside): No, ...
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Wanted Another.
Tramp (to mistress of the house): 'About three months ago I called here, and you were good enough to give me a waistcoat. Madam, you may not be ...
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NEW VIEW OF IT.
"Your friend Groome boasts that his wife is college bred. What's meant by college bred, anyway ?" " Mebbe it's the stuff they learn to ...
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