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  2. TRAINING A CIRCUS HORSE.

    The art of horse breaking for trick purposes would, if history is to be credited, appear to be no now invention; for in Queen Elizabeth's day Bankee's horse Morocco ...

    Article : 897 words
  3. THE DRUMMER'S LAST CALL

    A pathetic story of the Civil War was related by the corporal of on Illinois regiment who was captured by the Confederates at the battle of Wilson's Creek, and in repeated in ...

    Article : 594 words
  4. GIRLS' HOSIERY CAUSES REBELLION.

    Prof. Rorer, of the girls' high school, Philadelphia, is very Rood and very learned. But, unluckily for him, he is young; only 35 years old. With the rashness of youth, the ...

    Article : 454 words
  5. A REPUTATION LOST AND RECLAIMED.

    The editor of the "Badtown Breeze" was clipping from some exchanges in his sanctum the other day when a typical Western cattledrover stalked in and paid, as he shoved a ...

    Article : 451 words
  6. THE GAY DECEIVER.

    Referring to a party of travelling men at a Nashville hotel, the "Banner" says: Most of them were married men, and this trend of stories turned to personal reminiscences of ...

    Article : 597 words
  7. CREW SAVED BY A GHOST.

    Many strange incidents occur at sea, but none more so than that which befell Captain Ben[?]er, of the brig Mohawk, a small vessel engaged in the West Indies trade. ...

    Article : 667 words
  8. BILLING AND COOING.

    Rebecca Dainty was a maid whose summers no one knew, Though she for fifteen years had said that she was thirty-two ...

    Article : 1,050 words
  9. THE MEANEST MAN

    "Talking about the meanest man alive," reflected the undertaker as he drove a few more nails and covered up the holes with putty, "I know him! ...

    Article : 314 words
  10. RILEY'S LUCK

    Riley was a lazy follow. Never worked a bit. All day long in some store corner On a chair he'd sit. ...

    Article : 233 words
  11. COMETS OF 1898.

    The year upon which we have just entered is to be quite a year for comets. The first that is booked should appear in April. It is known as the Pons Wineeke. In May ...

    Article : 279 words
  12. HOW THE AMERICAN WOMAN MAKES MONEY.

    In the large towns of America there is a position in every retail dry goods store which in very responsible, well salaried, and held in every case by a woman. I do not know ...

    Article : 286 words
  13. MARK TWAIN'S QUOTATION.

    Controversies about Scotch dialect are notoriously dangerous affairs, says the "New York Evening Post" but Mark Twain, in his new hook, "More Tramps Abroad" ...

    Article : 434 words
  14. A BRAVE MAN'S MAGNANIMITY.

    The gallant devotion of Stanley's little band of Arab heroes, who, two hundred strong, beat hack vast hordes of cunning and devilish cannibals, along a thousand miles of ...

    Article : 557 words
  15. PAT'S LAST REQUEST.

    "Pat," said the priest, "you're drunk." "Yis, your riverense," says Pat, "I'm feeling purty good." "Well, how long in this going to continue I'd like to know," said his ...

    Article : 357 words
  16. TRY YOUR STRENGTH TRICKS.

    A number of extremely simple and yet, most wonderful looking tricks depend for their success upon mechanical truths, which, while really obvious enough, do not strike ...

    Article : 348 words
  17. JOCULAR RAILWAYMEN.

    Americans are great jokers. Mr. C. Dewey Hilles, of Lancaster, Ohio, has found this out to his cost. Mr. Hilled was formerly a railwayman, but is ow engaged in another ...

    Article : 414 words
  18. WHY THEY ARE BALD.

    In the tropics turkey buzzards are the scavengers of towns, and are protected both by law and sentiment. A lady, writing from Port Clarence, in the ...

    Article : 197 words
  19. DISTRIBUTION OF RAILWAYS.

    The people of George Stophenson's race have not kept railroads to themselves, but so far they, have a long lead of the rest of the world in constructing them. There is ...

    Article : 209 words
  20. MR. GLADSTONE'S MAGNANIMITY.

    As an instance of Mr. Gladstone's magnanimity, Mr. McCarthy describes a curious and touching little scene in the Commons, of which he was a witness, in connection with ...

    Article : 303 words
  21. THE HINT WAS TAKEN.

    A dear old clergyman once exchanged pulpits with a younger brother minister well-known for his aggressiveness. Speaking to him before service, the resident ...

    Article : 263 words
  22. A PECULIAR PARISH.

    One of the Kings of England, being in the North, was entertained by the Bishop of Durham, at his palace there. Among many of the clergy at that time with the bishop ...

    Article : 236 words
  23. A VALUABLE ACQUISITION.

    The hired girl entered the room with noticcable hauteur, and waited the pleasure of her mistress de nominee de[?]ed non facto. A cheery wood fire burned in the grate ...

    Article : 160 words
  24. WHEN JOSEPH ARCH WAS A BOY.

    Mr. Joseph Arch tolls the following little story in his autobiography:—It was 1835, the winter of the Repeal of the Corn Laws. I was about nine years old. I ...

    Article : 162 words
  25. CARD-PLAYING FOR THE BLIND.

    If the latent story from America is true, the blind will soon be able to add cardgames to their list of amusements. A Now York firm, to whom application was made ...

    Article : 137 words
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