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  2. MUSIC.

    Music is very much like the little girl mentioned in poetry, who had a little curl hanging down in the middle of her forehead. When this little girl was good she was "very ...

    Article : 482 words
  3. SOME THEATRICAL MISHAPS.

    One of the thrilling scenes in "Across the Continent" is a train of canvas cars that dash across the stage. Why an audience will pay to go wild over a lot of bogus ...

    Article : 1,223 words
  4. The Masterpiece of Crime.

    The "Masterpiece of Crime" appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes, and had a prodigious success. One can gather some idea of it from the ...

    Article : 1,797 words
  5. JEALOUSY.

    In every heart a set of bells Awaits Loves's touch to start them ringing. ringing, And sweet and clear their music wells ...

    Article : 87 words
  6. CURIOSITIES OF KLEPTOMANIA.

    Kleptomania is a disease which is recognised readily enough in the case of the rich, but is not often accepted as a justifiable plea when the accused person belongs ...

    Article : 1,074 words
  7. WIDDER SPRIGGINS' DAUGHTER.

    'Twas on a beauteous summer morn, When things were up and comin', And all among the pumpkin vines The bumble-bees were hummin', ...

    Article : 241 words
  8. THE BAD BOY IN LOVE.

    "Now you git right away from here," said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in with a hungry look on his face, and a wild light in his eye. "I am ...

    Article : 1,128 words
  9. WORDS OF WISDOM.

    The world's judgments are no doubt superficial, and therefore very commonly defective or false; but the world's conventions—that is, its rules tacitly agreed on for the ...

    Article : 166 words
  10. SOME INTERESTING FACTS.

    Devonshire was once famous for a special kind of cider, made by mixing a certain proportion of mulberries with the apple-pulp in the press. The beverage resulting from this ...

    Article : 257 words
  11. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S OPINION OF HIS BOOKS.

    When I ventured, as I sometimes did (writes Ballantyne), to press Sir Walter on the score of the reputation he had gained, he merely asked, as if determined to be done ...

    Article : 348 words
  12. DISCOMFORTS OF THE PAST.

    Nowadays the working man enjoys luxuries in furniture which were but three centuries ago beyond the reach of the king. Even in the time of Elizabeth the comfort of ...

    Article : 297 words
  13. ANTI-CLIMAX.

    A good joke is going the rounds about a certain clergyman who is noted quite as much for his absent-mindedness as for his general piety. ...

    Article : 136 words
  14. "SCANT O' CLAITH."

    John Roy was a sort of half-tailor, who lived in a certain fishing village in the "kingdom o' Fife." As a tradesman, many a joke was perpetrated at his expense by the wags ...

    Article : 115 words
  15. COSTLY CANDOUR.

    A story is told or a member of the United States Congress Mr. Taulbee, which contains considerable humour. An old coloured man called Uncle Eph ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. A SHARP RETORT.

    A good story concerning a lady of fashion who has gone on "the boards" was told the other day. Whilst she was in New York she sent for a young American dramatist who ...

    Article : 167 words
  17. AUGUSTUS CÆSAR AND THE POET.

    A Greek poet had presented Augustus Cæsar with many compliments, in hopes of some trilling remuneration. The emperor, who found them worth nothing, took no notice ...

    Article : 175 words
  18. RATHER COOL.

    "So you want to marry my daughter, do you?" inquired the father to twenty-two years' growth o trembling manhood. "Yes, sir, I like her and—and—" "How can you ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. HIS PLEA.

    Magistrate (to prisoner): "You are found guilty of meeting the plaintiff in a lonely street, knocking him down, and robbing him of everything except a valuable gold ...

    Article : 89 words
  20. LOOKING AHEAD.

    Mother: "Laura, you ought-to make that young man of yours go home earlier." Miss Laura: "But we are engaged, mamma, and I don't see why—" ...

    Article : 116 words
  21. ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

    "How much does young Smifkins earn in the Government service?" asked one of that gentleman's friends of a departmental chief. ...

    Article : 92 words
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    A spawning oyster has been computed to produce 800,000 young. Interpreted It.—Gilroy: "Jaysmith says he believes in first principles. What does ...

    Article : 35 words
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