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  2. SONG.

    Linger, my lady! Lady lily fair, Stay yet thy step upon the casement stair—Poised be thy slipper tip as it is the time ...

    Article : 187 words
  3. A NEW MEXICAN SAND-STORM.

    The air was still as death, and there was not a puff of wind nor a rag of cloud in the whole horizon. I observed, however, that the sky had undergone a curious ...

    Article : 502 words
  4. The Mysterious Valise.

    "SENTRY, will you kindly keep your eye on my bag for a few minutes? I am going to have a plunge in the Serpantine," said a welldressed, middle-aged gentleman to me, one ...

    Article : 3,057 words
  5. Washing the Face.

    THERE are some who object to washing their face often, especially with soap, thinking this an injury to the complexion. Bat those who have made a speciality of skin diseases say ...

    Article : 217 words
  6. A Phenomenal Brother.

    I SUPPOSE it is something of a phenomenon, but I know a man who takes his sister to all the first nights at the theatre, and who actually gave her a monopoly of the opera season. ...

    Article : 183 words
  7. Twisted English.

    FOUR men played cricket—si[?]gle wicket; one was named Runn; one was Dunn, one was Wunn, and one was Nunn, Runn went in first, got one run, got run out, and so was ...

    Article : 102 words
  8. UNNATURAL HISTORY.

    Teacher—Now, these specimens are vertebrates. Those having no backbone are called what? Tolerably good boy—Mugwumps. ...

    Article : 49 words
  9. FAR FROM THE FOOTLIGHTS.

    I wander by the northern wave, When all the seas are lashed in fury, And wonder how the "gods" behave At "Human Nature" in Old Drury. ...

    Article : 298 words
  10. Nature.

    "WHAT would you think,[?] sail the botanist, "of riding along through the wood and coming upon a flower that offered a f[?]ir jump for your horse? in other wor[?], was three or ...

    Article : 174 words
  11. To My Boy; an Apostrophe.

    I gaze into the szure depths of thy bonnie eyes, my boy, and that gaze brings back to me other eyes and another form, long since mouldered to clay, and I feel bound to the[?] by ...

    Article : 592 words
  12. A PIECE OF LOGIC.

    Bolgertop—"What horrible uproar. It must be a street fight." Pugsby—"Where on earth is it? I can't locate it." ...

    Article : 58 words
  13. Remarkable Memory in a Dog.

    PROFESSOR BOULEY, of Paris, gives the following remarkable instance of memory in animals. A watch-dog belonging to the General Omnibus Company, named Jupiter, ...

    Article : 322 words
  14. OPERA SINGERS AND THEIR BOUQUETS.

    The public has a foolish impression that comic opera singers care a great deal for the flowers that represent so many heart conquests and that they carry them home ...

    Article : 193 words
  15. Ladies' Column.

    IN a recent number, the San Francisco Past says: "A late fashionable mandate is the abolishment of the menu st lunch and dinner parties. The vulgarity of this small, ...

    Article : 370 words
  16. Sketcher.

    IT'S rather a curious fact," said a gentleman and unprofessional prestidigitateur to a correspondent of the Philadelphia Times, "that none of the shows and circuses that use so ...

    Article : 1,930 words
  17. How the Baby Should Sleep.

    In an article on this subject in Babyhood, Marion Harland says the proverbial nine days of blind puppyhood are not without their hint to the human mother. In dealing with the ...

    Article : 402 words
  18. How to Quell Mobs.

    FITZ John Porter in the North American Review: "Mobs are cowardly at first. Crime always enervates. They only gain courage as they find that those whose duty it is to ...

    Article : 214 words
  19. Can this be So?

    A GAELIC verse says: "Turice man's age, age of deer; thrice deer's age, age of the eagle; thrice eagle's age, the age of oak tree." If we take man's age even at half the promised three ...

    Article : 79 words
  20. On an Old Coin.

    This coin has passed from hand to hand Long years and been the sport of fate; Worn is the emblem from each side; Time has effaced its motto, date. ...

    Article : 59 words
  21. Do Something Navel.

    A LADY came once in despair to one of the patrons of the Woman's Exchange. Her eyes were very seriously effected, and allowed her to do nothing in the way of painting and fancy ...

    Article : 186 words
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