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  4. SPRAY.

    An interesting passage from the Coleman memoirs ("Fifty Years of an Actor's Life") is the description of Dickens speaking, and Thackeray. commenting on Dickens at the ...

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  5. THE SKETCHER.

    The steamship London was lying in port in the West -Indies. During her voyage across the Atlantic her propeller had come into contact with Home submerged wreck- ...

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  6. PITH AND POINT.

    Better few wants than many possessions. Only 15 per cent of engagements end in marriage. That which is useless cannot be harm-less. ...

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  7. VARIOUS VERSES.

    He was teaching Eliza arithmetic ; He said that was his mission. He kissed her once, and even twice, And said, "Now, that's addition." ...

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  8. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY.

    Parson Tucker leaned over the write-washed fence that separated his yard from that of his neighbour, Parson Sanborn, and watched the latter scattering chicken food ...

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  9. FATHER'S REWARD.

    I've searched the magazines and paper for all these many days, But I haven't found a poem that gives father any praise. ...

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  10. MASHER'S SOLILOQUY.

    This world is such a bubble, doncherknow, Full of twials and of twoubles, doncherknow ;You come to earth to cwy, You gwow oldah and you sigh, ...

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  11. PARLIAMENTS BAD CHARACTER.

    " In the House of Commons last week, Lord Ashley reported that the Durham election committee had unseated Lord Dungannon on the ground of bribery, but ...

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  12. EARLY EPAULETS.

    Epaulets, which derive their name from epaule, the French for shoulder, may be traced back to the old epau[?]eres, or shoulder pieces, worn as a protection in the ...

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  13. LIFE AS A HERO.

    "It is easy to die." But to live, and live rightly, loyal to truth, and courageously steadfast to duty, -With an honest, constant effort to see truth and duly clearly ...

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  14. AN INDIA OFFICE TRAGEDY.

    '' A splendid ball was given at the India Office to the Sultan. It was quite a. fairy scene, but a melancholy event occurred which will throw a gloom over the ...

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  15. SOME HARSH CRITICISM.

    " When I way a boy in Washington," said John Philip Sousa, " there was an old Scottish musician with whom 1 played now and then. One afternoon 1 ran ...

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  16. HOW TO REMOVE STAINS.

    Iodine Stains.—Wash with alcohol, then rinse in soapy water.Scorch Stains.—Wet the score[?]ed place, rub with soap, and bleach in the sun. ...

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  17. SPINACH AS MEDICINE.

    There is no green vegetable of such value as spinach, The English appreciate more than we do this fact, perhaps because a great physician, whose memory is still ...

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  18. VICTIMS OF OVER-WORK.

    The victims of over-work are to be looked for, not among men who pursue active but regular business careers, as merchants, manufacturers, mechanics, lawyers, ...

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  19. BACK TO THE OLD STYLE.

    The famous preacher Bishop Potter is a good American, and is endowed with a sense of humour. He tells a story against himself. In England. where a Bishop is ...

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  20. RETROSPECT IN HYGIENE.

    The Sanitary Institute, which is holding its twenty-second Congress in Glasgow this year, was formed in 1876. At that time the public were ignorant and indifferent so f ...

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  21. A WATCHER OF THE HEART.

    An exceptionally useful little instrument has lately been invented, and is in constant use in one of our public hospital. it enables any one to observe the slightest ...

    Article : 88 words
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