... HANGING STORIES. *ame An Experinment. nan, Ag to How executions can best be managed is oft A tamne discuesed-whetber, for instance, with a thick Pt beon rope or a thin one, a slip-ring or a knot, a long I Lame droD or a short one. tb a my The opinion ...

... There was no appeal from this sententious ver. job di't but it is to be hoped that ministers who T the happen to reed this story will not lay it too much hi eat jape to rears oh to ieart. C in. Mathews to the Rescue. vi wn Mathews, the actor, was always ...

... eager line of office boys waiting MIa c- to take the story, page by page, down to the M1i *ilas coiposiug-room. of t Dice At last it was done-one of the best, the most Cau thrillinglv-told stories that had gone out of that ,, oftice for wees; and as the ...

... SCARLET STORIES. The Sergeant-Major Smiled, n Many and various are the tricks that are a played on The newly-joined recruit, as the follow- C i ng will show. n A company sergeant.major of a certain corps a D. had occasion to visit a barrack-room to which ...

... THE NURSES STORY. Ana so you've ?? roticed the old castle before, Dlr. Oharleo 1 It is aI ?? pluce, ?? enlough; but it was wonderful howy gentlemen usho go about dcr-wing used to taike to it. They'd come duwo , lote of theun, ill suniner time, and make ...

... THE CABMAN'S STORY. A .Burglar's Funeral Service. M, PC The rummiest start I ever heaxd of, said a es patriarchal driver recently to a representative of so the Liverpool COurie?,, was that that caused a ne cabi an, who is dead now, to be known as ...

... .THE BURGLAR'S STORY. 'I lie RECIARKABLE STATEMENT. he At Grecnwich Police.eourt, on Thursday. a re remarkable story ?? told by a man natmed Veter f 'ir Connor, 32, nDauter, no home, who was charged rd on remiand with the unlawful possession of certain ...

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... QUEER STORY. Story of a Bicycle. 'Aho ?? Was Over, andI( had been a gr at a szzccess~, tiangog Pretty E'thel Churchill hald not or: niatite.nd aL dlare, nor even a count, but jiist a gyaiai busikoiiness an, by nakme Robert Smilth-it r can ikear being ...

... QUEER STORY. A NINETE E NTH C0ENTURY MIRACLE. i ,0ornise-it was oerly in May-a rnmour (trollels thle little town oi i~t. Lo that a sf1 d-,bout to he periorised. Ellsewhere 1.1 night have inet with scant credence, Dli eve have ed to unseemly jests ; bet ...

... QUEER STORY. THE SECRET DESPATCHES. C o It's about £iqlu vears ago, said the skipper, C that I waB i g one evening down lthe side v of the harbour aiZ (Cova with iny hands in my F Po-ket, having nothing to do, nor say prospects Ui of it, for my last ...

... au immeasurable distance, hollow t aud Ilutiled. I ' in those davs, said Vanderlyn, again inter. runting the thread of his story, while a faint s 1falih stoic over his pale features, younr as I was I was au inveterate gamester, and had already leririced ...