... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. Found clinging to the side of their overturned skiff, nearly exhausted from exposure, four Florida hunters, says Reuter from Miami, begged that their wives should not told of their mishap lest they be forbidden to hunt again. ...

... TO-DAY'S SHORT STORY. Swearing that had never told a lie in his life citizen of London (Ontario) publicly claimed a prize ot ten dollars offered by a pastor at evangelistic meeting to any person in the congregation who had never told a falsehood. The ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. The proprietor of a dancing saloon in Hamburg hit on a novel idea to attract customers, telegraphs Reuter. He would have the heaviest dance-band in town, so he engaged an orchestra of eight large women, weighing together 1 ton h ...

... TO-DAY'S SHORT STORY. The following conversation took place in the Aberdeen Sheriff Court, yesterday. A ten-yearold country boy was in the w-itness-box about to give evidence in a case of alleged assault, and Sheriff Dallas was on the bench. The Sheriff: ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. During a thunderstorm which raged over Harvestehude (says Router from Berlin), lightning struck the house of hairdresser, but the only damage was done in the kitchen. The Uaeh entered the house, passed along the hairdresser’s clippers ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. A woman assistant at a tobacconist’s store in London dockland is a. little sceptical about Eastern “simplicity” consequence of an experience with four Lascar seamen. They walked into the shop yesterday morning in Indian file, and ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY, number of Plymouth Rock hens recovered from two alleged chicken thieves the police Guelph, Ontario, recently demonstrated their gratitude their rescuers laying a number of eggs for them (states the British United Press). The hens ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. When a Southall man was told Liliug Police Cotiri; yesterday that a distress warrant would issued for the non-payment of his rates, he exclaimed : Do not send a policeman the place where live. I have no goods at all. I live with ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. Counsel representing a wife whose husband was resisting her petition for the restitution of conjugal rights, stated in the Divorce Court yesterday that the question in the case was whether the wife was to be compelled to live with ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. When woman appeared at Wellingborough Police Court yesterday on a summons alleging drunkenness, she told the Bench that she had not had a drink since December until the date the offence with which she was now charged. The Chairman: ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. According to the New York correspondent of the British United Press a young negro walked into the police station at Kenosha. Wisconsin, recently and asked, How much for boatin’ up a fella?” The officer replied that it would cost ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. “Give another glass of rum before you kill me.” This was the farewell speech of Emile Quirin, who was executed at Strasbourg for the murder of a policeman states the British United Press, Then, drinking the rum which is granted to ...