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  2. SHORT STORY.

    ONE golden September afternoon, a brig called the 'Alice,' of London, was running towards the land, bound tor the little port of Fordhsm on the southern ...

    Article : 2,052 words
  3. Science and Invention.

    ZIMALIUM is the name of a new alloy of aluminium, magneeium, and zine, The specific weight is 2,65 to 2.75; in casting it is 2 68 as against 2.65 for ...

    Article : 130 words
  4. THE WORM WILL TURN.

    Cheery Porter 'My eye, mister, 'ow long did it take you to growthem whiskers?' Alion (m[?]): "I no dell, I goom to do station, I vait for de train, and de viskers ...

    Article : 38 words
  5. THE [?]SOPHONE.'

    The new telephone microphone of M. Scheer, of Brussels, is to be known as the 'Isophone,' and it is claimed to give a much softer and more aoourate ...

    Article : 131 words
  6. AS HE HEARD IT.

    'There is a strain of sadness about wedding bells,' said the cynical bachelor. 'They always affect me like the moan of the lied.' ...

    Article : 30 words
  7. FACTS.

    The Magistrate: 'You plead an alibi, but the prosecutor swear a that he recognises you as the man who broke into his house[?] What have you to [?] ...

    Article : 75 words
  8. THE WORLD'S LARGEST FER LEGS.

    The sheer logs which have been erected at Chatham Dookyard, in London, have been tested upto 180 tons at the maximum overhang ot 64ft. from the perpendioular, These ...

    Article : 161 words
  9. HE KNEW.

    Nervous Lady Passenger (to deck hand); 'Have you over seen worso weather than this, Mister Sailor? Deck Hand: Take a word from an old ...

    Article : 46 words
  10. ONCE BITTEN

    'What would you do if I were to die?' asked Mrs Enpeck, who was under the doctor's care. 'It would almost drive me orazy,' [?] ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 59 words
  11. A NEW MARINE ENGINE.

    The idea is the application of power to a direot inoving propeller, being a straightforward tbruet from the ship, this propeller being a shaft having a concave surface ...

    Article : 326 words
  12. SOFT.

    The old gentleman had just stepped into the crowded tram, and bad accidentally trodden on Algy Fitzgerald's foot. 'Confound you, you careless old buffaw[?] ...

    Article : 52 words
  13. A Love Story.

    MAYME CURTIS was a girl of the period. She had few of the weaknesses formerly supposed to he exclusively the property of her sex, and had proved to her family and ...

    Article : 1,608 words
  14. THE RIGHT AGE.

    Sarah: 'She's worth a million, and just the right age for you.' Jerry:[?]Any girl worth a million is the right age for me.[?] ...

    Article : 29 words
  15. CURIOUS.

    Stranger:'I noticed your advertisemen in the paper this morning for a man to re tail imported canaries.' Proprietor of Bird Store: 'Yes, sir Are ...

    Article : 52 words
  16. Odds and Ends

    IN a New Zealand school recently the teacher asked his pupils for the names of precious stones. One brilliant youth responded 'bluestones,' another 'grindstones,' ...

    Article : 36 words
  17. A QUESTION OF SIZES.

    There was a young man of Devizes, Whose ears were of different sizes; The one that was small Was no use at all, ...

    Article : 33 words
  18. AN OBVIOUS CONCLUSION.

    The drees reformers tell us that, so long as women wear The awful, dreadful, dragging skirts, they can't get anywhere ...

    Article : 49 words
  19. A TOUCH OF HUMOUR.

    'Always,' says the astute news editor to the new reporter, 'always be on the lookout for any little touoh of humour that may brighten up the columns.' ...

    Article : 138 words
  20. AN EYE-OPENER.

    Three men in a three-masted schooner Saw a whale, and thought they'd harpoon her. They were new at the biz, ...

    Article : 35 words
  21. RAISED[?]

    [?]What is the beat thing to raise in such a rainy district as this?' asked a tourist of a witty farmer. 'Umbrellas, sir, was the reply. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 30 words
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