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  2. The Wild Train.

    'Yes, sir! the boy there, though but five years old and not knowing a dash from a dot stands upon the company's pay-roll as telegrapbic-operator, at fifty dollars per ...

    Article : 3,506 words
  3. WIT AND WISDOM.

    The thing that a woman always knows best is how some other woman ought to dress. Everyman has three characters—that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which ...

    Article : 993 words
  4. Mr. Besant on the Writing of Novels.

    Nothing in the world seems easier than to write a novel; four things are in reality more difficult. This has often been pointed out. It is indeed one of the merest commonplaces ...

    Article : 597 words
  5. In a Western Railway Depot.

    "Whenever I feel blue and disheartened," said a struggling attorney recently, I always go to the depot and watch the gentlemanly and sauve man in blue who has charge there. ...

    Article : 567 words
  6. ODDS AND ENDS.

    The end of the last and the early years of the present contury were fertile in curious London Clubs. There was one instituted by that, notorious ro[?], Lord Barrymore, better ...

    Article : 507 words
  7. LADIES' COLUMN.

    Art should always be based on nature, and no art is true which does not take nature for its model. A perfect, symmetrical, healthy woman of five feet five inches in height must ...

    Article : 322 words
  8. Variations of Body Weight.

    In the current number of Dr. B. W. Richardson's "Asclcpiad" is stated a law that is now to me, and may be to many of the readers—viz., that the human body is ...

    Article : 1,343 words
  9. PERSONALITIES.

    The late Major Mordecai, of North Carolina, met the Czar of Russia once, and in the course of the conversation, which was carried on in French, addressed him as "Monsieur." ...

    Article : 632 words
  10. Fashions.

    Coventry should rejoice and all the ribbon interest be of good cheer, for if appearances are not falsified, this should be a perfect ribbon year. They appear on everything, ...

    Article : 466 words
  11. Did Not Need a Gun.

    A gentleman was conversing with an Idaho minister whom he happened to meet on a railroad train. 'You have been preaching in the west for ...

    Article : 250 words
  12. Life and Work.

    As to the period of life when work is best done there is much difference of opinion. In most cases great men begin to show their greatness soon; and where promptitude, ...

    Article : 260 words
  13. They Never Stop.

    It is this kind of a wife that makes some men old mid gray before their time. 'William,' she says, after William is curled snugly up under the blankets for the ...

    Article : 328 words
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