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  2. CAHT TPON THE WATERS.

    GOUXT CLAIRVILLE has just given in marriage his only daughter yolandel. the Murquis of Kergouct, of an old and proud Breton family. ...

    Article : 1,999 words
  3. THE SHIPWRECKS OF THE WORLD.

    WR barr much of the many linely mo[?]elled ships that are buill from time in time, but [?]le of the many vessels that are lots Occusionally public interest is exeivd he ...

    Article : 635 words
  4. WHAT A WOMAN'S HAIR DENOTES.

    A WELL, KNOWN officer was standing in a bay window of one of the St. James-streel clubs a short time ago, carefully studying the various types of women who drove and ...

    Article : 512 words
  5. "OUIDA" ON MEAT.

    I HAVE all my life (writes "Ouida" in the Nineteenth ccu[?]y)thought that meat-eat ing was objectionable from the nesthelic point of view. Even as a child the fashion ...

    Article : 545 words
  6. NOVEL MADE OF RAISING [?]ONEY

    A CARTAIN [?]crnor of Egypt having occasion of a money adopted the following most extraordinary method to raise it:— ...

    Article : 405 words
  7. HOW A HOSPITAL NURSE LIVES.

    FEW people realise the kind of life a hospital nurse leads. Some have a vague idea that it must be hard and monotonous, while others think it is merely ...

    Article : 1,096 words
  8. THE WERE-WOLF.

    A tradition prevalent in the Middle-Ages attributed to certain individuals the power of assuming at will the form of a wolf, with all its bloodthirsty habits, and of divesting ...

    Article : 293 words
  9. A SPECTACLE MISSION.

    WR live and learn. How many people, we wonder, know of the existence of a Spectacle Mission in London. And yet such an excellent institution does exist, and has ...

    Article : 255 words
  10. ANOTHER OF "HELEN'S BABIES."

    "PAPA," suddenly piped up the youngest, bracing his sturdy little lege for the assault, don't it hurt the walls to have the old skin scraped off of 'em when you puts the paper ...

    Article : 392 words
  11. A STORY WITH A MORAL.

    PRESIDENT ROBERTS, of the Pennsylvania railroad, is, as everybody knows, a great stickler for discipline, and a story if told of him which is too good to keep. Some time ...

    Article : 292 words
  12. HOW CHEMISTRY IS TAUGHT.

    UPOS the subject of chemistry the examiners of the Science and Art Department state in their latest report that with regard to advanced inorganic theoretical ...

    Article : 263 words
  13. WHAT BROUGHT HIM TO IT.

    IN a small village in Suffolk some sixty or seventy yeans ago, when public-houees were closed only during Divine service on Sunday, and stocks were used for minor offences, ...

    Article : 194 words
  14. IT TICKED.

    WHEN Sir Charles Napier was a midshipman ha was one night sent out with a boat to attach an infernal machine to the side of a French man-of-war. The boat was pulled ...

    Article : 175 words
  15. UNFORTUNATE DEBTORS.

    AT the left-hand corner of the Place Notre Dame, at Rouen, in a houre (date[?])now occupied by a clothier, there formerly existed the Bureau dcs Finance, or ...

    Article : 156 words
  16. THE QUEEN AS A FARMER.

    IT is not generally known that the Queen is a tenant farmer, and pays rent to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, for her two Windsor Farms. Her Majesty takes ...

    Article : 186 words
  17. A COSTLY TELEGRAM.

    "I HAVE heard of lots of funny telegraph mistakes," said an operator the other day, " but 1 never laughed so heartily as over one in which a whole military detachment ...

    Article : 282 words
  18. WANTED.

    WANTED—A ekilful dentist to fill the teeth of a gale. Wanted—A cook to prepare a dinner on a mountain range. ...

    Article : 317 words
  19. THREE KISSES.

    The purest kiss In the world is this— The kiss that a mother lays On her child's fresh lips ...

    Article : 87 words
  20. THIS BIRTHDAY OF CARDS.

    THE birthday of playing curd in to be celebrated in Vienna year. An exhibition of the cards of various ages and nations should be interesting to every one, since the ...

    Article : 257 words
  21. MEASURING A FLASH OF LIGHTNING.

    "Did you ever see the diameter of a lightning flash measured!" asked a geologist. "Well, here is the case which once enclosed a fash of lightning, fitting it exactly, so that ...

    Article : 266 words
  22. "A SERIOUS APHAIR."

    ACCORDING to a Newcastle contemporary, the first number of an American paper, the Rocky Mountain Cyclone, contained the following heroic announcement:— "The ...

    Article : 218 words
  23. A LITTLE.

    SHE loved him " just a little "—so she said— And with that little be was well content; for in her gently-heaving breast he read, With quickened lover's eye how much ...

    Article : 193 words
  24. HE DIDN'T WISH TO CHANGE IT.

    THE jarvaya of Ballyshannon are noted for the fact that it is almost impossible to make them perfectly satisfied with their "tips, or "whipmoney," as it is designated. Two ...

    Article : 153 words
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