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  2. MATRIMONIAL AMENITIES.

    Few poems possess the advantage of the following. The simple transposition of the second and third lines make it agreeable to the sentiments either of bachelors or ...

    Article : 1,100 words
  3. A TIGHT-ROPE DANCER'S LOVE STORY.

    No one who saw the tawdry finery of his tinsel and trappings and the cheap appointments of the famous " Signor Salviatoria," as id called himself, when engaged in his ...

    Article : 1,673 words
  4. UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR.

    The editor of the school magazine has usually a bad time of it and during the summer months experiences great difficulty in getting together a sufficient number of contributions. ...

    Article : 714 words
  5. A CRIMEAN VETERAN'S END.

    Dr. Wynn Wescott held an inquiry at the. Bethnal Green Coroner's Court respecting the death of Abraham Russell, aged 67 years, who had served seventeen and a half ...

    Article : 634 words
  6. TURKISH LADIES AT HOME.

    A lady, in one of the magazines, thus describes a visit to Turkish ladies. We entered she says, a large, well-lighted room. The windows were latticed outside and hung in ...

    Article : 1,004 words
  7. HUMOUR OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL.

    Yesterday, to-day, to morrow, and for ever I are largely one and very much the same. "There is nothing new under the sun." We talk of evolution: but act and fact show ...

    Article : 882 words
  8. HEROES WHO FIGHT FIRE.

    Mr. Jacob A. Riis, author of " How the Other Half Lives," and other studies of tenement-house life, contributes to the " Century " an article on " Heroes Who ...

    Article : 773 words
  9. THE WEARING OF MOURNING.

    The conventionalities of mourning are for the most part matters of early Pagan or Christian inheritance. Each nation had its peculiar rites and ceremonies, hinging upon ...

    Article : 692 words
  10. SWINDLING AT MONTE CARLO.

    In the course of an article on Monte Carlo, in the "Road," the writer says:—I do not say that the character of the habitues of the gaming-rooms is such as to render it ...

    Article : 669 words
  11. THE POSTAL CRAZE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

    Few fads have any claim to utility. As a rule, their mission is fulfilled if they succeed in satisfying a passing fancy, or furnish timely food to a restless imagination. Here ...

    Article : 613 words
  12. CURIOUS EPITAPHS.

    An amusing collection, gathered by curious people the world over, could be published of tombstone literature; some of the following are not found in the published collections ...

    Article : 266 words
  13. LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE.

    A weaver, who lived in a village in Ayr shire, and who occupied every Sunday a conspicuous bottom-room in the front laft of the parish church, was a shameless votary of ...

    Article : 439 words
  14. THE LONGEST DAY.

    It is quite important, when speaking of the longest day of the year, to say what part of the world we are talking about, as will be seen by the following list, which tells the ...

    Article : 173 words
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