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  2. A CLASS PARTITION.

    "Father, I cannot do it" "My dear Natalie, it is a cane of needs must This," holding out a handful of small change, "represents the extent of my petty ...

    Article : 1,883 words
  3. RAISING MAGICIANS.

    A school of a very curious order has just been opened in Paris. Its founders offer to initiate whoever is possessed of the necessary dose of patience, and perhaps of credulity ...

    Article : 449 words
  4. THE UNTRUTHFUL MUMMY.

    "One huge mummy had a Stranger, forbear kind of inscription on it," says a recent tourist to Egypt. "The guide furnished me with a liberal translation. ...

    Article : 137 words
  5. PARTING FOR EVER.

    Good-bye for ever, my darling, Dear to me even now, Though I give yon back your promise And release you from your vow ...

    Article : 373 words
  6. DISPOSED OF THEM.

    "Yes, I find it extremely, difficult to make a living by my pen," said the poet. "Difficult?" exclaimed his friend. "You mean impossible, I presume." ...

    Article : 182 words
  7. HOW HE WOULD BE QUITS

    The Rev Thomas Williams, in a lecture on "Irish Wit and Wisdom," gives some capital examples. "Patrick," said the priest one day to ...

    Article : 245 words
  8. A LOST LOVE OR A BLIGHTED LIFE.

    COME down and spend Christmas with us at Rutherford. Little with Muriel and I are alone, and the sight of you will do me a world of good ...

    Article : 2,397 words
  9. SEASONS TO ORDER.

    The Emperor of China has some strange duties. One of these is the ordering of the Reasons. It is summer in this country when the sun warms the earth, and not till then ...

    Article : 194 words
  10. TWO AND A TRICK.

    If people would take as much trouble or show as much ingenuity to do honest business as they do in evading the law they might be quite as rich and with infinitely less danger. ...

    Article : 337 words
  11. A MOUNTAIN OF FLESH.

    Daniel Lambert, the champion "fat," was born at Leicester in 1770. His immediate ancestors in the paternal line had been a huntsman and a cock-fighter. His ...

    Article : 482 words
  12. THE OLYMPIA'S LOG.

    A young married, woman, whose home is in that vague region known as Uptown, startled some of her relatives greatly the other day by a quite ...

    Article : 228 words
  13. THE KING OF "LIVING WONDERS."

    The most remarkable man in the world is to be seen every day by travellers on the Louisville and Nashville Railway, as the train steams into Gallatin Station. About ...

    Article : 311 words
  14. FIVE THOUSAND TONGUES TOO MANY.

    Colonel Cody ([?]Bafialo Bill") helped to build a church at North Platte not long ago, and was persuaded' by his wife and daughter to accompany them to the ...

    Article : 152 words
  15. LOOKED SPLENDID.

    Entering a music shop the other day, a Durham miner, who had lately come into a considerable sum of money, asked the price of a grand piano. He was told it was £50. ...

    Article : 92 words
  16. A DIPLOMATIC DRUMMER.

    Assistant Secretary of State Thomas W. Cridler, in the discharge of his diplomatic duties, has crowed the ocean probably more times than any other official in that branch ...

    Article : 182 words
  17. WHY HE HELPED SIR HENRY.

    Baron Brampton, when Mr. justice Hawkins, was accosted at a railway station on one occasion by a rough fellow who seemed anxious to assist with his luggage. ...

    Article : 174 words
  18. RATHER TOUCH JOB

    Guest (wrestling with a beefsteak on his plate): "Waiter, is there a chemist's shop near here? Waiter: Yes, sir! there is one just ...

    Article : 83 words
  19. UNREASONABLE TO EXPECT.

    At Hawick, in Scotland, many years ago, the people used to wear wooden clogs, which made a clanking noise on the pavement. A dying old woman had some friends by her ...

    Article : 107 words
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