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  2. THE JESTER.

    " Is your brother-in-law a well-informed man?" " I should say so. Why, his wife tells him everything." Goldrinski (the rich pawnbroker) : " No, mein ...

    Article : 683 words
  3. SPRAY.

    In an omnibus one Boxing Day a passenger stooped down and picked up something. " Who's lost a sovereign ?" he said. ...

    Article : 132 words
  4. NEW SERIES OF STORIES.

    Travelling over the hot sands toward Tonameca one blazing day, Pedro quietly suggested melons. Melons ! For a luscious, ...

    Article : 2,843 words
  5. THE SKETCHER.

    Women receive less emphasised attention than they used, perhaps, but that is simply because they like to be treated as men and brethren.— ...

    Article : 926 words
  6. THE ARMCHAIR.

    Some people find entertainment at the theatre or the music hall, but give me (writes a roving contributor) a front seat in a law court. It costs ...

    Article : 1,162 words
  7. ADVISED.

    A crowd gathered round the lady and the cabman, who were engaged in a very lively discussion over the question of the amount of fare that was due. ...

    Article : 226 words
  8. PLENTY MORE AT THE PRICE

    Tom Jimsone looked very sheepish indeed as he stood in the dock charged with blacking the eye of a fellow-workman. ...

    Article : 104 words
  9. TERENCE DIFFERED.

    Terence O'Grady had only been married a week, but his bride was already making things lively in the little house at Bally bunion. He had been working for three ...

    Article : 98 words
  10. THE LADIES OF JAPAN.

    Beneath the elaborate black blue coiffure of the Japanese woman there is a brain which baffles the ordinary European observer. She looks so placid, so smiling, ...

    Article : 240 words
  11. A SHREWD GUESS.

    An American gentleman was chatting " buttons" in a London hotel the other day, the banter being mostly derogatory of Englishmen. " Buttons" stood it calmly ...

    Article : 85 words
  12. TRAGEDY AT SKIBO.

    Mr. Andrew Carnegie tells this as one of his experiences. Soon after he had bought Skibo, there was a circus exhibiting in the neighbourhood of the castle, and ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT.

    Jerome K. Jerome, at a dinner in NewYork, expressed his disappointment at not yet having met Mr. Howells, the novelist. "Perhaps you think," said Mr. Jerome, ...

    Article : 192 words
  14. THE OTHER SIDE.

    Isaacson and Moses were rival clothiers, who kept shops situated in the same street and opposite each other. It was their frequent practice to stand at their ...

    Article : 120 words
  15. ANGLO-AMERICAN ENTENTE.

    Americans are surprised to find how much the English love them. It was a part of the education of the American boy and girl not so many years ago that the ...

    Article : 263 words
  16. GOOD BUSINESS.

    A writer who spends his summers at the sea-shore tells the following story :— An ignorant countryman who saw the sea for the first time was much impressed ...

    Article : 165 words
  17. THE HEART.—DISEASE OF THE VALVES.

    The inside of the heart is lined by a delicate thin membrane called the Endocardium, and in nearly all acute diseases it is apt to suffer from fatty degeneration, ...

    Article : 400 words
  18. SUSPICIOUS ACTION.

    We come upon the auto, standing upon the brow of the hill. " Hello," we say to the chauffeur. " Broken down ?" ...

    Article : 180 words
  19. THE KISS OF DEFIANCE.

    A despatch from Denver, Colo., U.S., says that a private of Company F, 2nd Infantry, is serving thirty days in the guardhouse at Fort Logan because he ...

    Article : 146 words
  20. A BEAUTIFUL COUNTESS.

    Mr. Archibald Stuart Wortley, the artist, was frequently at the house of Millais, and was present on one occasion when the comparative charm of ...

    Article : 121 words
  21. A PUZZLE IN COLOURS.

    What colour is least easily seen from a distance ? One would naturally say same dull, neutral tint, a sombre gray or brown. But military men have been puzzled by ...

    Article : 135 words
  22. ETIQUETTE OF CANNIBALISM.

    Even among the savages of French Africa, who eat human flesh, there are differences, says Paul Pucci, a young Italian traveller. Some while ago, when ...

    Article : 173 words
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