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  2. HATES TO BE A WOMAN.

    The records of the Vay family, from the 10th century founder down to Counters Sarolta, contains a wealth of raw material for simon-pure gossip in ...

    Article : 974 words
  3. A HEN REVENGED.

    A man killed a hen that belonged to a neighbour because it flew into his yard. The neighbour, says the Danbury Newsman, made no demonstration. But he went around ...

    Article : 199 words
  4. SHE WEARIED HIM.

    The grocer's new boy threw his delivery basket down in the corner with an injured air and remarked that the woman who had just moved into 37, around the corner, was ...

    Article : 375 words
  5. DR. TALMAGE'S FIRST CIGAR.

    The time had come in our boyhood which we thought demanded of us a capacity to smoke. The old people of the household could abide neither the ...

    Article : 610 words
  6. SELECTIONS FOR AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS.

    Ah me ! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth, ...

    Article : 1,053 words
  7. IN THE SOCIALISTIC STATE.

    Time—Seven a.m. Scene — Breakfast-room of citizen G. 857a. Citizen : "Ann, is the coffee ready ?" ...

    Article : 572 words
  8. He Saw Only "Mother."

    The doctor said it was no [?] thing in delirium, but it seemed s[?] and pathetic to loving watchers [?] the middle-aged, care-worn man [?] ...

    Article : 466 words
  9. A STRANGE INCIDENT.

    A curious incident is reported from Hirson, on the Northern Railway of France. A drunken man named Lefebvre contrived, unobserved, to mount upon d locomotive left ...

    Article : 956 words
  10. A Difference in Price.

    One morning an unusually fine display of furs in one of the windows of a prominent furrier down town attracted many an [?]dmiring glance from passers by. Two ...

    Article : 350 words
  11. The Three Kinds of Spinsters and Their Missions.

    There are three kinds of spinsters— those who are born old maids, those who achieve old maidism, and those who have old maidism thrust upon them— ...

    Article : 365 words
  12. DRAFT HORSES AT FAIRS.

    Suppose the stake offered equal to that offered for the trotting race, with similar rules as to entry fees, forfeitures, etc., and a draft contest arranged in ...

    Article : 631 words
  13. WOMEN IN RUSSIA.

    Until the present day the wives and [?]aughters of Russian merchants, with very rare exceptions indeed, are as entirely the humble, submissive slaves of their lords and ...

    Article : 387 words
  14. An Extra T.

    Major Johnston is very particular about the spelling of his name. He is a very proud man on general principles. Nothing exasperates him more than to be mixed up ...

    Article : 108 words
  15. A Minor Omission.

    "Clara, I'm engaged to be married already, and I've only been here two days." "You sweet thing[?] Who is the happy "Dear me, how unfortunate! He forgot ...

    Article : 38 words
  16. Ancient Shop Signs.

    [?] seems no risk to assert that in our State there are not ten men born within the Commonwealth, of New England pa ents, who cannot read and write. J ...

    Article : 351 words
  17. The Wings of Love.

    Cass Avenue Lady—What is the matter, Bridget? Why ate you going to leave? Bridget—Sure, madam, our policeman has been appointed to another district.— ...

    Article : 31 words
  18. No Mermaid There.

    [?] was meaning against the railing at it ferry dock looking decidedly out of sorts when along came an oily, smoothed-faced man, and said: ...

    Article : 352 words
  19. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASES.

    A great many curious stories are told of the shopping propensities of ladies, and a Boston salesman in a carpet ware-house has just added a good one to the ...

    Article : 208 words
  20. THE END OF THE WORLD.

    A curious speculation by the Rev. J. S. Vaughan, an Irish divine, may be commended to the attention of those who are making a study of when the world will come ...

    Article : 175 words
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