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  2. CONNUBIAL BLISS.

    My autograph she begged, the night When first her beauty filled my sight; "Not just your name, you know, quoth she. ...

    Article : 953 words
  3. AN ARCH DECEIVER,

    "But, Aunt Melita. I do not think it can be the same, He really did seem such a pleasant, kind old gentleman." "Possibly, Molly. Headstrong young ...

    Article : 1,960 words
  4. A DELIBERATE OPINION.

    Chief Justice Waite, who delighted to tell stories once told this story about Evarts and Conkling. Roscoe Conkling came into Mr. Evavt's ...

    Article : 228 words
  5. LOOKING IMPORTANT.

    People nowadays avoid the conventional as they would the plague. At least, that is the opinion of n City photographer, He says that girls in humble ...

    Article : 169 words
  6. AN EKTHPERIMENT.

    A good story has been told of a lisping officer hating been victimieed by a brother-offi[?]—who was noted for his cool deliberation and strung nerves—and of his "getting ...

    Article : 431 words
  7. A GENIUS IN ADVERTISING.

    "When I was a youngster, say, of 21," remarked the veteran journalist of a Western city, "I was the editor of a country paper in a town of about 5,000 people, and having ...

    Article : 746 words
  8. SCARCITY OF TIN.

    That tho goldfields of the world are much more extensive than the tinfields is a fact which might strike the unscientific person with a curious feeling of ...

    Article : 192 words
  9. PRESIDENT OF THE MORMONS.

    Lo[?]nzo Snow, the newly-chosen President oF the Latter Day Saints, is one of the most forceful characters in Mormondom. He is an Ohioan by birth, and is ...

    Article : 217 words
  10. THE OLDEST PEOPLE IN EUHOPE

    The oldest people in Europe are the Casques, whose country in situated in the north of Spain, along the coast of the Bay of Biscay. They were a remarkuble race by ...

    Article : 239 words
  11. STILL IN DOUBT.

    She: You will love me always? He: Passionately, my darling. She : And you will never cease to love me ...

    Article : 161 words
  12. THE MODERN BOY.

    This is a true story of tin office boy who asked for an increase in his salary, and got it. He is employed in one of Lipton's shops in Glasgow. He was ...

    Article : 208 words
  13. NEEDED THE TEETH

    "One of the best reasons I ever heard given for naming false teeth was that of a coloured boy who came into my rooms one day last week," said a dentist, smiling ...

    Article : 211 words
  14. WHY HE WAS UPSET.

    "Yon look a trifle doleful to-night," said one of a group of gentlemen to another, while all were sitting one Saturday evening before fire fire in one of the clubs. ...

    Article : 267 words
  15. SHAVING WITHOUT A MIRROR.

    That a man can become accustomed to pretty much anything is proved by officers in tins Army, who, when camped out or placed in a position where they ...

    Article : 186 words
  16. QUICK BACKSLIDING.

    [?] was a "big revival" one winter [?] the coloured folks near Southern [?] Carolina, under the powerful preaching of Brier Johnsing, who rained ...

    Article : 196 words
  17. SAVA[?]TY.

    A Bocotundo Indian boy captured was sent to school at Bahia. He had talent and industry enough to win a medical degree, and practised as a doctor. But ...

    Article : 174 words
  18. AMUSING ERRORS.

    Mr. Asquith once referred to the Government's "Pique or temper "; the reporter wrote "peacock temper." A speaker at Exeter Hull, replying to an ...

    Article : 141 words
  19. EX-PREMIES AND PUDDING.

    Lord Rosebery has the reputation of n delightful host, and also of having keen tact. This latter gift was certainly displayed on one occasion when ...

    Article : 140 words
  20. THE FIRST SILVER WEDDING.

    The fashion of silver weddings dates back to the reign of Hugues Capet, King of France, in 987. Once, as Hugues was arranging his uncle's affairs, he found on ...

    Article : 273 words
  21. CLOCK WITHOUT FIGURES.

    When you look at your watch and it reads 11.40 o'clock, do you notice tho hour marked VIII and XII, or do you only glance at the position of the hands on the dial and ...

    Article : 206 words
  22. WANTS AND WISHES.

    In Dean Pigou's reminiscences, issued by Edward Arnold, there is a story of a curate, a new one, that paid his first visit to an old woman who at once ...

    Article : 171 words
  23. CURIOSITIES OF THE ALPHABET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 words
  24. THE GERMAN GIRL

    The German middle-class girl avowedly gives herself up to housekeeping, knitting, sewing and cookery. Her sober brown gowns are as much like one ...

    Article : 299 words
  25. THE WEIGHTS OF ROYALTY.

    The young Queen of Holland lias recently been weighed and represents 9st. 121bs. The Tsaritsa weighs 9st. 11b, and the Queen of Italy 12st. 71bs. Our own ...

    Article : 211 words
  26. A WOMAN'S CARRIAGE.

    Much of an Englishwoman's beauty lies in her proud carriage, the ereetness of her figure and the poise of her head. The aristocratic carriage is within reach ...

    Article : 117 words
  27. "CELESTIAL" QUOTATIONS.

    One of the cinet characteristics of the written language of China is its love of quotation. The more frequently and aptly a Chinese writer employs literary ...

    Article : 235 words
  28. A SINGER'B VOICE BY POST.

    [?] an the uses to which the phonograph has been put the following is probably one of the most praclical. A well-known manager received some time ...

    Article : 211 words
  29. BEES AS WEATHER PROPHETS.

    As forecasters of the weather, bees never make a mistake. They know what the weather for the day will he without consulting the direction of the wind or the markings ...

    Article : 219 words
  30. HE SAID TOO MUCH.

    "Mr. Wandsley." said the hostess, at a recent Colonial Club function, " I want to introduce you to Mis Brinkstone." ...

    Article : 112 words
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