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  2. THE GIRLS OF PORTUGAL.

    Miss Batchellor, daughter of the American Minister of Portugal, says that the girls of Lisbon are beautiful and attractive, but are very closely guarded, never appearing ...

    Article : 157 words
  3. Sketcher.

    rooms for twelve years, during become acquainted with Bel [?] Breton landladies, and [?]elies, but I must own that the ...

    Article : 241 words
  4. The Naturalist.

    The largest school of alligators I ever saw,' said the captain, in response to an inquiry, 'was on the Alabama, near the point where the Tombigbee flows into that ...

    Article : 193 words
  5. HUNGARIAN WOMEN.

    The Hungarian women are among the most beautiful in the world. They are not languishing, diaphanous creatures, composed of cobwebs and the odor of musk, with a ...

    Article : 227 words
  6. CUNNING DEER.

    In some respects deer are very cunning, in others they are wanting in that degree of animal intelligence which would protect them from harm under most circumstances. ...

    Article : 749 words
  7. [?] AND THEIR WATS

    me the elves was originally in [?], where they were known by the Alfar.' In England, as elsewhere, divided into two classes; the ...

    Article : 331 words
  8. THE GARTERPHONE.

    An ingenious little instrument called the garterphone has recently been invented which, attached to any lady's garter, registers the distance she walks each day. The ...

    Article : 193 words
  9. CHINESE TORTURES.

    One of the ordinary punishments in China is the compulsory kneeling, hare legged, on a coiled chain. This does not sound particularly dreadful, but the agony it causes is ...

    Article : 531 words
  10. A HEAVENLY WAIST.

    Barbarous as is the fashionable Chinese foot, and extreme as most be the suffering to produce the 'three-inch gold lilies,' as they are poetically called, the result to life and ...

    Article : 204 words
  11. WHAT BACTERIA ARE.

    Bacteria are simply microscopic plants, the smallest form of vegetable life. In some instances they are so small that it would be necessary to place 15,000 of them end to end ...

    Article : 137 words
  12. Art and Literature.

    Phooion conquered with few soldiers, and he convinced with few words. I know not what better description I could give you either of a great captain or a great orator.-- ...

    Article : 1,505 words
  13. SAPPHO.

    he the centre of a female literary [?] in the Island of Lesbas, 600 years the Christian era. In her time who lived in the Isles of Greece could ...

    Article : 341 words
  14. Popular Science.

    Thirty-four pounds of raw sugar make twenty-one pounds of refined. Chinese dentists are said to have a powder which is rubbed on the gums over an affected ...

    Article : 1,276 words
  15. Humour.

    It won't do any good to look as solemn as an owl in church if yon are in the habit of skinning people in business.--Roth's Horn. It is sometimes hard to tell where business ...

    Article : 379 words
  16. Varieties.

    In South Africa the seller of any horse or ox is hound by law to provide two sureties that it was not stolen. A flannel night-gown is recommended for ...

    Article : 1,107 words
  17. WHAT DR. LEMON WILL DO.

    Do you want to know the name of one of the best all around household doctors, and certainly the cheapest that can be found in any country? ...

    Article : 418 words
  18. Ladies Column.

    There is nothing on earth that wears out glove fingers like trying to button gloves. The tips simply rub through in a urinate. It is very little trouble to carry round a ...

    Article : 148 words
  19. A BEAUTIFUL DINNER.

    Recently a beautiful dinner was given by a hostess where the table was triangular and decorations all of Parma violets. The triangular table can be easily arranged by ...

    Article : 156 words
  20. EARING A SHELL SCREAM.

    [?] turned upon personal courage in a talk I had the other day with an aide-decamp of General Alexander Hays. The veteran, who had the name of being the most ...

    Article : 566 words
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