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  2. Spray.

    "You may be sharp," said the thread to the needle, "but I notice you are always getting it in the eye." " Oh, I don't know," answered the needle.. ...

    Article : 71 words
  3. Short Story.

    An the criminals of the 84 Transvaal War there is a particularly bright spot which we know as the defence of Lydenburg. Lieutenant Long, with ...

    Article : 3,323 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,163 words
  5. Kruger Could Dance.

    A correspondent sends to the Press what he carls a delightful, touching, and truthful story of President Kruger. Many years ago, when in England ...

    Article : 211 words
  6. Household Hints.

    Soap purchased in bars in quantity be cut with a piece of strong twine In [?] for service, and placed on a high slef in a cool portion of the pantry to harien ...

    Article : 257 words
  7. They Knew.

    An American bishop, while visiting in Yorkshire, had been asked to give an address at a Sunday school. " I am the Bishop of the diocese of Washington and Idaho," ...

    Article : 102 words
  8. The Recipe Did It.

    An invalid called on a physician for advice. The doctor wrote out a prescription, charging the patient two guineas for it. Some time afterwards they met in the street. ...

    Article : 92 words
  9. To Get Rid of Cockroaches.

    Mix one teacupful of plaster of Paris half-a-pound of oatmeal, and a little sugar together. Roll into little pills, which place in the holes. Then fill the holes with ...

    Article : 46 words
  10. More Stingy Than His Excellency.

    An officer at present on General Roberts's staff is noted for this ready wit and quickness in repartee. In the very early days of his career he was ordered ...

    Article : 149 words
  11. Lucky to Have Ther

    The late Duke of Westminster was an enormously wealthy peer, as all the world knows. He received so many begging letters every day that even with his great ...

    Article : 131 words
  12. Mending Stockings for Tender Fret.

    Stockings mended with silk instead of the ordinary wool will not enafe tender feet. The silk should be almost as thick as buttonhole twist, and as it lasts a long time ...

    Article : 45 words
  13. The Storeroom.

    The storeroom is a department at longer, as in the days of our grandmothers, the chief pride of the housewifely possessions, when frugality and expediency taught the ...

    Article : 222 words
  14. Too Much Honour.

    On the day on which the news of the relief of Ladysmith was received the National Anthem was sung by the company during dinner at several London restaurants. ...

    Article : 80 words
  15. General Hector Macdonald.

    Not a few of the stories in circulation regarding General Hector Macdonald are apocryphal, or should be received, at any rate, with the proverbial grain of salt. Several ...

    Article : 249 words
  16. A Story of Mr. Chamberlain.

    Some years ago Mr. Chamberlain sent to a local exhibition at Birmingham a collection of jewellery that had been presented to him by some section of his ...

    Article : 88 words
  17. Smoked His Pipe in Action.

    Letters written home by Intelligent soldiers serving at the front give as perhaps, the most interesting accounts of our men's doings in South Africa. Says a private in ...

    Article : 345 words
  18. The Bait That Failed.

    They had quarrelled. The seat upon which they were resting was only 6ft. In its entire length, yet of that Oft. fully 5ft. separated them. ...

    Article : 107 words
  19. Criticises the Chinaman.

    A commercial man who has spent much [?]in China, and who is[?] with the political situation there, made some outspoken remarks on the character of the ...

    Article : 192 words
  20. The Vicar of the Parish.

    While walking one day the Rev. William J— encountered a well-dressed girl whose face seemed familiar to him. Taking her to be one of his parishioner's daughters, ...

    Article : 93 words
  21. Good "Fares."

    Lord Rosebery is a great favourite with the cabbies of London and Edinburgh, mostly on account of the liberally he displays when paying his face. The late Lady Rosebery ...

    Article : 118 words
  22. A Host in Himself.

    Raw recruits they were, and a regular awkward squad. After an hour of preparatory drilling .the sergeant took them off the parade, and marched them down a quiet ...

    Article : 132 words
  23. Came to Cure It.

    At the autumn assizes in a certain Mid-land town a respectable-looking man was charged with an extensive series of thefts. The facets were admitted; and the only ...

    Article : 134 words
  24. Squashed.

    Since the death of Mr. Gladstone, " Miss Helen," as she is affectionately called at Hawarden, has become a valuable " big sister" to Mr. Herbert Gladstone. ...

    Article : 160 words
  25. The Dog's Turn.

    A gentleman, going to a friend's house, was met at the gate by a little dog all covered with mud, which ran to meet him, barking in gladness. Thinking that the dog ...

    Article : 197 words
  26. Instanced.

    Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister at Washington, is a social favourite, because of his genial humour and companionable ways. At a little dinner a few weeks since ...

    Article : 127 words
  27. "Boiled or Fried?"

    A newly-married couple went to a modest little restaurant for dinner the other day. "Will you have oysters?" asked the man, glancing over the bill of rare. ...

    Article : 168 words
  28. Bargain Battle.

    He wondered when he heard them talking if something in the war news of that day had escaped him. "It was a terrible slaughter." said one of ...

    Article : 133 words
  29. A Story of the Iron Duke.

    As an economist of time the Duke of Wellington would be hard to beat. Babbage tells how he was one day driving home in a cab to dress for a dinner-party when be ...

    Article : 161 words
  30. Told by the Screw.

    It is customary among certain people to accuse Mr. Joseph Chamberlain of being a snob. His enemies declare that be is ashamed of his former business, which was ...

    Article : 131 words
  31. Without Doubt.

    A bright girl in a certain large school applied to her teacher for leave to be absent half-a-day on the plea that her mother had received a telegram which stated that ...

    Article : 118 words
  32. One for the Recruit.

    Some recruits were being drilled a rider-shot shot by a very Impatient cavalry drill-sergeant After about an hour of hard drilling at the sword exercise the sergeant gave the ...

    Article : 105 words
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