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  2. FLOWER LANGUAGE IN PRETORIA.

    Mrs. Hignolt, wife of the resident maglstrate of Nqutn, Zululand, who, with her little girl and husband, was taken prisoner to Pretoria, after the capture of the magistracy by ...

    Article : 612 words
  3. THE RACING BOAT A[?] HISTORY.

    The invention and perfection of the present day racing boat are matters of comparatively recent history. To the Claspers, of the Tyne, is due almost all the credit The ...

    Article : 1,039 words
  4. CONFESSIONS OF A BEEFEATER.

    The following, which appealed in the "New York World " the other day, shows that England is by no means alone in its gou[?]mandising contests. It is the story of ...

    Article : 1,540 words
  5. WHAT CO [?]SITORS HAVE DONE TO MAKE US LAUGH

    Compositors are humanists of the first water —unconncious humorists. Without effort without turning a hair. they provide humanity with more [?]ment than could as ...

    Article : 699 words
  6. AN EMPTY HOUSE.

    Dear little lade, I never cease To look for you to spoil my rhymes, To break in on my working times And waste my precious hoar of peace; ...

    Article : 245 words
  7. HER BABY.

    At a prosperous Boer farmhouse when General Ian Hamilton requested a shelter for the night, a bedroom and parlour were placed at his disposal. This was not very ...

    Article : 231 words
  8. TROUGHT IT WAS ABOVE.

    The Postmaster of Glasgow talls a story of an Irishman who once stood at the counter while a gentleman purchased the requisite stamp for a letter to Je[?]salem. After he ...

    Article : 82 words
  9. SHARTLY DSTECTED.

    It is not only in great cities and crowded cooties of population that remarkable instances of detection by the police are to be met with, but sometimes country districts ...

    Article : 238 words
  10. ANYTHING

    " Waiter, a beefsteak! Quick! I'm in a hurry!" "We haven't any beefsteak, sir! " " A chop then." ...

    Article : 66 words
  11. HER REASON FOR SITTING.

    A Glasgow servant went home a few even ings ago with her head wrapped up in a shawl. Her young mistress asked her what ailed ...

    Article : 102 words
  12. THE YOUNG MAN WAS THERE.

    Father (calling from head of stairs) Jennie, don't you think it's about time to go to bed? Jennis: Yes, papa, dear. What keeps ...

    Article : 33 words
  13. FORMING A DIAGNOSIS.

    Soma time ago in an Irish hospital, a patent suffering from an [?] affection came in for advice, and the surgeon in charge deputed two students to make an examination ...

    Article : 142 words
  14. SOMETHING WRONG

    Wife (to husband returning at 3 a.m.); What time is it. dear? Husband: One o'clock, I think. (Clock strikes three.) ...

    Article : 39 words
  15. A TEMPERANCE AKECOOTE.

    Dean Pigon, when young, was a student of natural history, and he gave "cottage lectures," using his [?]cioscope for the purpose of illustration. "My first attempt was a ...

    Article : 254 words
  16. SWEETHEARTS

    " The young gentlmen is now in the drawing-room waiting for you, miss." "Very well, Eloise. Go tell him 1 will be down right away. And come back in ...

    Article : 39 words
  17. UNJUSTLY ACCUSED.

    " Miss Bliggms laughed at me when I proposed to her," said "Willie " Wishington. "And yet," commented Mss Cayenne, ...

    Article : 36 words
  18. HE SAID SOMETHING.

    A member of a school committee visited a school under his jurisdiction. When asked to make some remarks, he said," Well children, you spells well ...

    Article : 37 words
  19. MAKING A GOOD APPEARANCE

    Tommy: Auntie, why are yon wearing your hair like that? You are like the girls at school. Auntic: Only just because this is the ...

    Article : 45 words
  20. AT THE PARTY.

    Clarence Cooney: What's you going to cook, Miss Mokington? Miss Mokington: A Welsh rabbit. Clsronce Coonley (cagerly): Would it ...

    Article : 41 words
  21. AFTER THE HONEYMOON.

    Old Curmudgeon (married at last). Well, that's my wife. What do you think of her? Confidential Crony: Don't like her at ...

    Article : 35 words
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