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  2. AN EXPERIENCE IN MEXICO.

    Through the influence of a New York friend young Marshall Cassidy secured a really good position with the Concheno Mining Company down in Mexico. That ...

    Article : 3,670 words
  3. PERSONAL.

    "What is a gent."? Perhaps the best definition was that of the late Judge Wightman, the father-in-law of Matthew Arnold. Once, in the course of an ...

    Article : 1,135 words
  4. WIT AND HUMOR.

    "A glass of beer is the most temperate drink." "How so?" "You never see one full." "The crltic said one of ivy plays was ...

    Article : 500 words
  5. SOME TOASTS.

    A rather cynical toast runs thus:— "Woman—she requires no eulogy; she speaks for herself." A gallant young man, in the same festal ...

    Article : 114 words
  6. HAPPINESS ON THE HITCH.

    A school teacher raid to her boys: "Now, I am going to give you each three buttons. You must think of the first as representing life, the second liberty and the third as happiness. In three days ...

    Article : 90 words
  7. A ROUND EDGE.

    "[?]Urry on, please !" urged the guard. The stout old lady struggled to enter a narrow carriage doorway, but struggled in vain. "Urry on, there I" yeiled the guard, ...

    Article : 80 words
  8. IN THE WRONG BOX.

    A funny story is told at Washington at the expense of an impulsive and somewhat, light-headed young gentleman attached to the British Legation. The youth made a couple of purchases one day— ...

    Article : 105 words
  9. A GERMAN JOKE.

    The newspapers express huge delight at a trick alleged to have been practised on the Chilian journal, "El Mercurio," by a number of German residents in Santiago de Chile. ...

    Article : 181 words
  10. SOME THINGS WITHIN REASON.

    The flag and the drum thrill the soldier, but the sabre and the musket win the battle. Necessity is the mother of contention. Not even Jefferson could make the Russian ...

    Article : 973 words
  11. THE INVASION OF ENGLAND.

    Has the war disclosed any new factors which would render invasion of England a less thorny problem for our enemies than it has hitherto been deemed to be? ...

    Article : 538 words
  12. TRICKING THE SPY.

    The Teutonic system of espionage is, of course, a wonderful thing. The Germans tell us so them selves, and nobody would doubt the work of a German. Our own Intelligence department d[?]e, ...

    Article : 1,217 words
  13. HALT!

    ["There is a time to drink and a time to retrain from drinking."] Hear me, ye blue-nosed drouthy crew, Wha ilka mornin' pree the brew ...

    Article : 413 words
  14. WHITEWASHING THE APOSTLES.

    Two colored men, returning home from a revival meeting, were discussing as to the color of certain Biblical personages. One of them asserted that as Palestine was about in the line with ...

    Article : 106 words
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