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  2. THE WILL, AND THE WAY TO IT.

    "Yo[?] safe enough George never fear Yon always were father's favourite, and I know that he mens to leave you all his [?]. He does not care a bit about any of ...

    Article : 2,966 words
  3. AN EVENING WITH THE MICROSCOPE.

    After peering through the great eye of the microscope our every-day sight seems superficial and imperfect. And yet it may be well that our vision is dull, for certain forms of ...

    Article : 1,586 words
  4. HOUSEHOLD WORDS.

    Forty years of constant courting, O, procrastinating pair. Forty years of gay escorting; To the picnic and the fair. ...

    Article : 1,204 words
  5. A TALE OF A SHIRT.

    I once was acquainted with a younger son, whose stock of linen had degenerated (from too frequent visits to "my uncle") into one solitary Blurt. It is true, he had ...

    Article : 585 words
  6. THE GREAT BELLS IN INDIA.

    We have all rend in our school-books of the great bell of Moscow, and retain usually a vague impression that it is the only bell of its class in the world. Yet huge bells are very ...

    Article : 289 words
  7. ZOLA'S FOIBLES.

    M. Zola, realist as he is, does not escape from the control of something outside himself, and numbers sway his actions grout and small. The figure 13 leaves M. Zola as ...

    Article : 442 words
  8. THE HOME OF THE NOT DEVILS.

    The greatest natural wonder in Java, if not in the entire world, is the justly cele brated "Gheko Kamdha Gumko," or "Home of the Hot Devils," known to the world as ...

    Article : 259 words
  9. NERVE.

    There was stern discipline among the Japanese in their late war with China, aud at every point a display of iron nerve. The medical inspector of the combined feet was ...

    Article : 321 words
  10. WHERE BABIES SLEEP IN BROOKS.

    The native women on the slopes of the Himalayas select the most extraordinary sleeping places for their children. Being obliged to labour in the fields for the greater ...

    Article : 235 words
  11. A MAN OF ALL WORK.

    The following is a quaint advertisement of the seventeenth century insetted in a paper published at Aylesham, Norfolk, in 1680:—"By his Majesty's letters patent Beards ...

    Article : 255 words
  12. A MONSTER AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE.

    Whether the Americana have or have not produced the fastest engines in the world, is at least open to doubt, but it can hardly be questioned that they have built the most ...

    Article : 297 words
  13. Advertising

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    Advertising : 169 words
  14. TRYING TO MAKE DIAMONDS.

    The experiments of Moissan and his success in producing microscopic crystals of carbon which, technically at least, were entitled to be called artificial diamonds, are ...

    Article : 161 words
  15. LOST TRACK OF THEM.

    A Georgiana man was arraigned for illtreating his wife. "What have you to say for yourself?" asked the judge. "Kin I speak out jedge?" "Yes. What have you ...

    Article : 137 words
  16. THE PRETTIEST WOKEN.

    There is a chapter in the late Mr. dallas's "Gay Science" which argues that the English are, or used to be, the handsomest race in the world. Mr. Dallas shows that this ...

    Article : 202 words
  17. MILLIONS OF [?]EM.

    Visitor (in search of apartments); Have you plenty of fresh eggs? Landlady: Thousands of [?]em, mum; thousands of em. ...

    Article : 78 words
  18. DE QUINCEY'S CENSUS PAPER

    In 1851 De Quincey, then living at Lasswade, had to fill up a census' paper. After much thought, he entered his occupation as "writer to the magazines," and then his ...

    Article : 78 words
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