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  2. Wit and Humor

    Is an hotel waiter maid to order? A capital thing.—A banking account. The light-weight champion.—Our baker, Debt is the outcome of a small income ...

    Article : 1,280 words
  3. Terror-stricken.

    For a moment, I think, I fainted as I staggered against the wall, and the whole room swam round and round before my eyes Flashes of light came before me, and I ...

    Article : 2,592 words
  4. Agricultural, &c.

    How to use time to the best advantage in the busy season of the year is what every farmer should study well. It is not enough that he works hard all day long, scarcely ...

    Article : 390 words
  5. A Desperate Situation.

    It was the second time he had accompanied the young lady home. When they reached the gate, she asked him if he wouldn't come in. le said he would. ...

    Article : 490 words
  6. Revised History of England.

    In the last year of his reign, Richard II. was granted a life tax on wool, probably because he had so little of his own, being slightly bald. ...

    Article : 1,036 words
  7. Two Little Blue Boots.

    An American correspondent thus writes: Among the many stylish carriages which at this season of the year throng Sea Side Park just before sundown every afternoon, there ...

    Article : 581 words
  8. LICE ON FRUIT TREES.

    A number of our farmers and orchardists report their fruit trees covered with live, and a anticipate great injury being done to them unless the insects can be destroyed. In a ...

    Article : 123 words
  9. THE CODLIN MOTH.

    I have noticed, in watching the codlin moth, that simply gathering up the fallen fruit will not effectually stop the peat. The worm often leaves the fruit before it falls ...

    Article : 246 words
  10. Hints for the Alliance.

    Under the heading "Amenities of the Press," a leading temperance journal has taken the trouble to collect a few of the names which have been applied to Sir ...

    Article : 161 words
  11. Causes of Suicide.

    The causes of suicide are often more trivial than tragic. Undoubtedly, disease predisposes many to self-murder; the desire is also hereditary, while it grows in people ...

    Article : 474 words
  12. The Way to Treat a Burglar.

    Tom Whopper was a young chemist who ha' just bought a little shop and moved into it, preparatory to setting up in business. After looking round the place the first day, ...

    Article : 497 words
  13. The Drill.

    "Present arms !" there they are, Both stretched out to me—Strong and sturdy, smooth and white, Fair as arms can be, ...

    Article : 111 words
  14. Shipping Intelligence.

    Are "bower " anchors only used when ships are in 'arbour ? Why should ships be spoken of as "oak" when the most important part is invariably ...

    Article : 153 words
  15. They're All Alike.

    An American editor writes in this fashion:—"The presiding spirit of past week's campaign has been our devil. That lad has suddenly emerged from the obscurity and soil ...

    Article : 281 words
  16. The Secret of It.

    One of the Princess Beatrice's wedding present is a grand piano, which has "so elastic a touch that all the gradations, from the most subdued whisper to the greatest ...

    Article : 65 words
  17. Too Suggestive.

    Not a hundred miles from the gay city of Ballarat, there resides a certain barber who is a prominent member, of the Salvation Army. One morning a young man, who is ...

    Article : 136 words
  18. Beginning Early.

    There is a startled mother somewhere in town. She has a child five years old. The other day this youthful scion walked into the parlor and stood by the mother's knee. ...

    Article : 61 words
  19. Cerulean.

    Lord Carrington, the new Governor of New South Wales, when he married in 1878, resigned his commission in the Blues. The fact may have an interest to disputants at ...

    Article : 53 words
  20. A Fatal Mistake.

    A paper, emanating from the suburbs of Sydney, says—"Mrs. B., while seated on the [?]fishing, fell sleep. Waking suddenly the caught sight of a reflection of one of her ...

    Article : 42 words
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