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  2. Advertising

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  3. LADIES' COLUMN.

    There are man superstitions having regard to marriage, and among the quaintest are the following: The bride who dreams of fairies on the ...

    Article : 189 words
  4. PERSONALITIES.

    When the now famous Gordon Highlanders were first recruited it was found to be exceedingly hard to lure men away from their farms and civil employment. ...

    Article : 101 words
  5. WAYS OF LIVING.

    The truth of the well-known proverb, There is many a slip twixt the cop and the lip,' is often proved at churches and registrars' offices, to the infinite disgust ...

    Article : 664 words
  6. MRS. LYNN-LINTON ON GEORGE ELIOT.

    Success and adulation spoilt her and destroyed all simplicity, all sincerity of character. She grew to be artificial, posee, pretentious, unreal. I have never known ...

    Article : 203 words
  7. BEFORE THE BALL.

    There are in big towns beauty doctors, who are as good us their word when they say the can send a girl to a ball, however plain of face and form she may be, a ...

    Article : 1,072 words
  8. POETRY.

    When, foot to wheel, and back to wind, The helmsman dare not look behind, But hears beyond his compass light The blind bow thunder through the night, ...

    Article : 285 words
  9. SCIENCE.

    The following is rather a good remedy for rheumatism, lumbago, sprains, bruises, and it has often been known to cure chilblains, if used before they are broken. ...

    Article : 143 words
  10. WHAT THE QUEEN DRINKS.

    The Queen's favourite mineral water has a sharp, acrid taste; it is used by her Majesty to dilute her whisky at dinner. So fond is the Queen of this water that ...

    Article : 133 words
  11. NATUR LIST.

    A smartly dressed young lady stepped into a confectioner's shop the other morning to buy some sweets. She had hardly entered when she was greeted by a shrill ...

    Article : 217 words
  12. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FOR RAILWAY SIGNALING.

    Two months ago Professor Russo d'Azar of Rome, perfected his invention of telephoning without wires between ships at sea. ...

    Article : 468 words
  13. GLOVES TO LAST.

    As illustrating the sturdy independence of the famous George Stephenson, the following deserves to be remembered :— Stephenson was told when in Brussels ...

    Article : 228 words
  14. Original Novel

    Arriving home when the sun was sinking behind the great mountains of the west, he asked Martha—Martha now the mainstay of his home, almost, a woman in ...

    Article : 2,339 words
  15. ABOUT A HIGH JOKER.

    An elephant enjoys a joke as well as any boy or girl. A huge elephant was kept in the Paris Zoo. He lived in a great enclosure out in the open air, so ...

    Article : 354 words
  16. BREACH OF PROMISE SENTIMENT.

    The sickly sentiment which is supposed to hang round the epistles exchanged between lovers and their loved is nowhere in greater evidence than in the letters ...

    Article : 858 words
  17. A STORY OF MR. JOHN LAWRENCE TOOLE.

    Mr. Toole's suit of clothes in which he plays the 'Artful Dodger' is a triumph of the sortorial art, and to those who have examined it closely proves, says a ...

    Article : 260 words
  18. SCIENCE AT THE TOILET TABLE.

    There is a peculiar susceptibility on the part of some persons to certain drugs. Hence a treatment that in ninety-nine cases is productive of good only may, in ...

    Article : 270 words
  19. FEET THAT MADE HISTORY.

    The Princess Bismarck changed the political history of France unwittingly, and but for her the Franco-Prussian War might never have been waged. ...

    Article : 274 words
  20. A SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALES.

    The nightingale has become proverbial for the beauty of its song; both poets and naturalists have been alike eloquent in its praise. Its music is the standard of ...

    Article : 258 words
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