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  2. SKETCHES.

    Scene—A public square in a French town. In the centre of the square a guillotine. (Enter venerable gentleman, of scientific aspect, reading a newspaper.) To be ...

    Article : 4,087 words
  3. PERSONALITIES

    Mme. Modjeska flew in the face of tradition at the Wallack testimonial performance in New York by going mad, as Ophelia, in a sage-green gown. It is against all the ...

    Article : 409 words
  4. LADIES' COLUMN.

    Apropos of bonnets—fancy a bonnet, competition! It really did take place at Paris, or rather, at the Chateau de Orangerio, at Montmorancy, in the suburbs, the property ...

    Article : 795 words
  5. The New First Reader.

    Lesson I.—John White was a good boy. He had a gandfather. He lived in a village. He fell into a pond and was pulled out by Sam Jackson. He would also have had a ...

    Article : 731 words
  6. HUMOUR.

    The life of the journalist is a hard one, and, although it is not so trying as the life of the newspaper man, it is full of trials and perplexities. If newspaper man and ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  7. A Story of the Queen's Kiss.

    The following story is clipped from an English paper in India, which circulates it presumably for the development of the loyalty of her Majesty's subjects in India:—Long ...

    Article : 212 words
  8. The Dentil of a Famous Shampooer.

    Johnson the English 'masseur,' accidentally Killed the other day while struggling with his keepers in a Parisian lunatic asylum, has probably shampooed more principalities and ...

    Article : 161 words
  9. Bound to get His Money's Worth.

    How much yer charge ter go er mile?'an old negro asked of a street our conductor. 'I wanted go out ter see Bradder Lias Smif. Ain't er flesh an' blood brudder, yer ...

    Article : 699 words
  10. It is Well to remember.

    That he who gathers roses must not fear thoras. That to wait and be patient soothes many a pang. ...

    Article : 142 words
  11. The German Emperor as a Linguist.

    According to the Berlin Borsenkurier, the present German Emperor can speak Russian fluently, He is the first King of Prussia who has taken the trouble to learn that ...

    Article : 226 words
  12. ART & LITERATURE.

    Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, formerly of San Francisco, thus writes to the Critic on California missions: 'In spite of some distinguished opinions to the contrary, among them ...

    Article : 642 words
  13. A Sleeping Man in Liverpool.

    Dr. Caton has recently had a remarkable case of narcolopsy in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. The patient was a man aged thirty-seven. He would fall asleep while ...

    Article : 270 words
  14. A TIMELY CHESTNUT.

    With hope and bait and tackle rare, I hie me with a boat to where The finny tribe disports below The waters green. ...

    Article : 131 words
  15. THE LAWNCERS.

    'Do you dawnce the lawn[?]ers, Dr. Brown? 'No, I do not dawnce the lawncers, But when the dawncers' health breaks down, I sometimes lawnce the dawncors. ...

    Article : 61 words
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