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  2. FIELD-MARSHAL LORD ROBERTS, V.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.

    Among the passengers on board the P. and O. steamer, Ripon. which left Southampton, England, in February, 1852, to perform the first stage of the so-called ...

    Article : 1,133 words
  3. HAVE HOPE.

    I yet shall see your smile again, As you were wont to smile Before the heart was crushed by pain, Or how'd by toil awhile. ...

    Article : 99 words
  4. HUMOROUS COLUMN.

    A colonel, on his tour of inspection, unexpectedly entered the drill room, when he came across a couple of soldiers, one of them reading a letter aloud while ...

    Article : 129 words
  5. THE FATAL LILIES, OR The Lady of Larchton Mere.

    She could not expect the same attention to be paid to her little son in his cradle; but it was gall and wormwood to see it paid to Ross. If she ...

    Article : 3,080 words
  6. NEWS IN BRIEF.

    There are no boot factories in China. Smelling-salts are said to be a prolific cause of deafness. On very dark nights a white light can ...

    Article : 491 words
  7. THE WAR AND JAMESON'S RAID.

    I do not think Englishmen have ever realised the injury done to British prestige in South Africa by the attitude of the British public after the collapse of the ...

    Article : 330 words
  8. A Little Problem from Life.

    He begged a kiss. She frowned meditatively. 'A kiss,' she said, 'is an expression of sentiment. Placed upon the hand it ...

    Article : 130 words
  9. Taking Precautions.

    A young man from the country went to have a tooth stopped. The dentist advised him to have the tooth out, and assured him that he would have no pain ...

    Article : 129 words
  10. RUSH FROM JOHANNESBURG.

    When the rush from Johannesburg commenced, many of the Boers sent their families to the Cape to be taken care of by their enemies, the British, a certificate of ...

    Article : 242 words
  11. The Parson Had Washed.

    A young minister had obtained a kirk in a mining district, greatly to his joy— not because of the locality, but because of the kirk. After a deal of difficulty he ...

    Article : 110 words
  12. Reduced the Name to "Ma."

    Her mother named her "Mary," that good old-fashioned name, And all through school she wore it, contented with the same. ...

    Article : 69 words
  13. THE SILVER LINING.

    An Irishman who had lost a leg on the battlefield was condoled and sympathised with on his return home by his friends and relatives, ...

    Article : 411 words
  14. DODGING A LYDDITE SHELL.

    A correspondent writing from the Modder River, says:—The most peculiar object of all that we can discern is the gunner who works "Long Tom" high up in the kopje. ...

    Article : 195 words
  15. Very Touching.

    First Pickpocket (who had been attending church for professional purposes, to his mate): 'That was a mighty touchin' sermon which that old off in ...

    Article : 72 words
  16. The Coward.

    A certain wild beast tamer has a tartar of a wife. The other day, as the result of a violent quarrel, she gave him a generous hiding, and the poor fellow, at ...

    Article : 89 words
  17. SERIOUS JOKE.

    Many years ago a harum-scarum young officer in a provincial town was drinking in the smoke room of an hotel. A local tradesman sat doubled up in a ...

    Article : 196 words
  18. Payment Demanded.

    At a ragged-school feast one of the teachers asked the children: 'Are you not thankful to receive so much instruction, without being asked ...

    Article : 58 words
  19. Looked Suspicious.

    Mrs. Cowper (the next morning): 'Do you know what time you got home last night ?' Mr. Cowper: 'I must have been ...

    Article : 68 words
  20. WOULD LIKE TO BE THERE.

    There are some curious customs connected with marriage in the Torres Straits Archipelago, where it is almost universally the woman who proposes. ...

    Article : 136 words
  21. Tongue Twisters.

    Say each of the following lines six times— Six thick thistle sticks. The sea ceaseth, and it sufficeth us. ...

    Article : 59 words
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