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  2. LADIES' COLUMN.

    There never was a time when Lead gear was more spring and summer like than new, because hats and bonnets are both a there resting-place for flowers. Sometimes a ...

    Article : 1,674 words
  3. A RECORD-BREAKING BICYCLE RUN.

    On Sunday, 11th August, at midnight, Mr. A. Mr Donaldson, of the Edinburgh Amateur B.C., started from the general post-office of the Scottish capital with the ...

    Article : 1,255 words
  4. THE YOUNG FOLKS.

    'Now [?] what do you have to do to[?] "Oh dear," waited Jack, 'I want to go fishing, right off.' ...

    Article : 1,134 words
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  6. CHIT-CHAT.

    New York dressmakers have all sorts of methods for different customers—as, for examples, the wife of a certain well-known millionaire, who can never persuade him to ...

    Article : 1,498 words
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  8. A LEPER COLONY.

    "Wanted, a second Father Damien," are the concluding words of a remarkable article in the September number of Blackwood. The subject of the article is a colony of lepers ...

    Article : 888 words
  9. AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

    Preparations for the harvest will shortly have to be made. In a few instances, in the northern districts, hay making has already commenced. There is a splendid growth ...

    Article : 1,525 words
  10. IN THE COUNTRY.

    A good deal of billing and cooing is being done at the summer resorts just now. Lovers do the cooing and hotel proprietors do the billing. ...

    Article : 33 words
  11. HE WAS THE CAUSE OF HER SMILES.

    Softleigh—Miss Flyte, do you think Miss Giggle is laughing at me? Miss Flyte—I can't say, Mr. Softleigh. She often laughs at almost nothing. ...

    Article : 33 words
  12. HIS SCHEME DIDN'T WORK.

    Tramp (to lady of the house)—I am starving to death. Can I die out in the barnyard? Lady of the House (graciously)—Yes; if yon won't crawl under the barn. ...

    Article : 42 words
  13. SHE WOULD CHASE RAINBOWS.

    "That is Tom's yacht off there on the horizon, Harriet." "Why, how elegant! I'll ask him when he comes in what the horizon looks like when he is ...

    Article : 39 words
  14. LET HIS WIFE VISIT HER MOTHER.

    Dr. Bowless—You will find your dyspepsia greatly alleviated, Mr. Peck, by cheerful and agreeable conversation at your meals. Mr. N. Peck—I don't see how I am going to ...

    Article : 55 words
  15. WHAT INSPIRED HIM.

    "Go far, Snag?" asked Wag, as the former shot by him walking like a six-day pedestrian the first night. "Don't know, Wag," came the cheerful response," depends on that fellow ...

    Article : 47 words
  16. THE TENNIS GIRL.

    Her gown is limp, but she is sprightly, The tennis girl. She says she's a fright, but she knows she is sightly, ...

    Article : 49 words
  17. HOW TO SCATTER A CROWD.

    A new way to scatter a crowd has been discovered. A man who found himself hemmed in by a dense throng while a circus procession was passing pulled a bottle of ammonia from ...

    Article : 60 words
  18. AN EXCUSE.

    "I don't believe yon have been to the Sunday-school. You've been swimming. Your hair is wet and your trousers are hindpart foremost." ...

    Article : 63 words
  19. STICK TO YOUR FLANNELS.

    Stick to your flannels, Tom, Though hotter grows each day; Don't take them off, my boy, And catch pneumonia. ...

    Article : 44 words
  20. BEAR-SHOOTING IN INDIA.

    I went out one evening to look for bears, and had just sat down to scan the hillside, when a female and two cubs came slithering down the slopes of snow to feed not very far ...

    Article : 711 words
  21. FIGHTING FOR PRINCIPLE.

    Men sometimes fight for principle, but oftener for interest. The Scotchman may not mind spending or giving away money, but he will exact the last bawbee of his due. There were ...

    Article : 540 words
  22. STORIES FROM 'YOUNG FOLKS.'

    When families go out of town on a holiday, the serious question often arises, "What shall we do with pussy ?" Some folk doubtless take their cats with them; many ...

    Article : 1,622 words
  23. APRES LA DANSE.

    It was a chair of satin rose, And Arabella sat in it; And heedless in her bitter woes That she had flung her hat in it. ...

    Article : 340 words
  24. RAIN GAMBLING IN CALCUTTA.

    A writer in the Times of India describes a system of gambling in Calcutta on rain. It is carried on in a "compound" of the Burra Bazaar, where, when a raincloud crosses the ...

    Article : 295 words
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