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  2. PRINCESS VIOLET.

    The states of the town were bordered with elm-trees, whose branches met overhead in long leafy bowers lending down to the sea. The houses were roomy and rambling, and ...

    Article : 3,150 words
  3. ARE ANTS OF AID TO FRUIT GROWERS.

    CAN the ant be enlisted into the service of man and be utilised for a beneficent purpose by the fruit grower. Though generally regarded as an ...

    Article : 1,113 words
  4. HIDING FROM FATHER.

    There is something peculiarly sorrowful to me in the way in which the children of some household slip quietly out of sight when they hear father's footstpes outsine ...

    Article : 462 words
  5. A Drink for Life or Death.

    I came to India in 185— as a private in the— Regiment, and my company formed part of the garrison at Arcot.We found Arcot horribly dull, and it was ...

    Article : 1,591 words
  6. A WALK THROUGH A SALTWORKS.

    The first thing that strikes the eye in the salt country are huge frameworks, towering up into the sky, looking like the skeletons of cathedral spires. Those are ...

    Article : 516 words
  7. THE SAVINGS BANK AND ITS ROMANCE.

    Mr. A. Granger Bowie, the author of the "Romance of the post office," now gives us a companion volume, The Romance of the Savings Bank." The earliest names comes ...

    Article : 418 words
  8. AT THE ENGINE.

    The light form the electric lamps is reflected in patches on the smooth steel beams of the engine. In and out in and out like shuttles ...

    Article : 428 words
  9. GALVANISING AN INDIAN.

    On the afternoon of a very sultry day in June, writes an Fast Indian correspondent, I had pat a table out on the verandah of my bungalow, and was amusing myself with a ...

    Article : 620 words
  10. STUMBLING UPON GOLD MINES.

    Gold was discovered in California in 1848, and in Colorodo in 1858. The discovery was accidental in both cases, and the fact created the impression that ...

    Article : 537 words
  11. PERHAPS THE MOON IS INHABITED.

    It does not seem improbable that in the coarse ol events the earth and the moon may become more intimately acquainted. A few years ago scientists held the ...

    Article : 227 words
  12. NOTED BEAUTIES' BATHS.

    Queen Marie Antoinette made liberal use of a "tub," putting into the water wild thyme, laurel-leaves, marjory, and a little sea salt. Marie Czetwertynoska, ...

    Article : 244 words
  13. OBSERVATIONS

    In a friendship between two women there is either a man at the beginning or will be at tire end of it. Revenge is sweet, bat foregoing it is ...

    Article : 113 words
  14. OF NO CONSEQUENCE.

    An artist gave his latest painting to a porter to carry to the Academy. " Be careful be careful," said he, " the picture is scarcely dry."Oh, never mind," ...

    Article : 50 words
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