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  4. IN THE ARMCHAIR.

    "Well," I said, as I sank into a chair and held up my muff to keep off the heat of the fire, "what was it like ?" "Oh, very nice. You ought to have ...

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  5. FACTS & FANCIES.

    The orange is one of the fruits usually associated with Christmas, but it is really at its best, as far as we are able to command this, a little later on, though it is ...

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  6. VARIOUS VERSES.

    I bought a patent camera a little while ago, About it I'll a history relate. It's small compact, and portable, and ...

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  7. THE SKETCHER.

    Continental taxpayers pay for their music out of the rates just as in Britain we pay for libraries, washhouses and museum mummies. ...

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  8. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY.

    So I suppose you think that amid the harrowing scenes and grim realities of a detectives career there is no room for anything in the shape of a romance, eh? You ...

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  9. SWEETBRIER LANE.

    O Sweetbrier Lane is a place of rest When day fades by in the tender west, And lovers meet in its shadow dim When birds are singing their vesper hymn. ...

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  10. BACHELOR HABITS.

    It is sometimes rather a wrench for a man to part from all his bachelor habits. He has grown so devoted to his latchkey, his slippers, his indiscriminate smoking, his ...

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  11. THE GRAY MAN'S PATH.

    By the yellow lichened stone where the ocean surges moan. Go not alone, mavourneen, acushla machree! ...

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  12. PRODIGIOUS!

    How simple questions tax all the ingenuity of the human mind was shown by the discussion in the pages of a scientific journal of the following problem. A man ...

    Article : 357 words
  13. LOYALTY AND LOVE.

    A diminutive specimen of the genus "small boy," ragged and far from clean, was meandering along a New York thoroughfare the other evening, whistling ...

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  14. PHOTOGRAPHING THE SPIRIT.

    All Paris is talking of the extraordinary tiring which is shortly to be tried in connection with the new N-rays which M. Baradue discovered, and which have ...

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  15. LADIES IN OUR NURSERIES.

    Surely our children are as important as our plants! Surely if ladies are in their right positions as our head gardeners they are still more in place as guardians of our ...

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  16. A QUEER BAROMETER.

    One of the most curious of the many natural barometers consists of a half pint glass half full of water, a piece of muslin, and a leech. The leech must be put into ...

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  17. WHEN RAIN IS COMING.

    Here are some rustic beliefs:—If the rooster crows more than usual, or earlier, expect rain, the country folks say. If he claps his wings in an unusual manner ...

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  18. GROW YOUNG AS YOU GROW OLD.

    Next to air and food in the human economy comes exercise. We may have plenty of fresh air, and a proper allowance of the right kind of food, and yet. without ...

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  19. THE RIGHT WAY TO STAND.

    Most people stand down. The right way is to stand up. Stand erect, with the weight principallY on the balls of the feet heels touching enough to make a firm ...

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  20. MAKING THE FALSE TRUE.

    False teeth as firmly fixed in the sums as natural ones are claimed by Dr. Znameusky, a Russian dentist, as a solution of a difficult problem. The teeth—which may ...

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  21. COLOUR BLINDNESS.

    Every one (says the "Family Doctor") is colour blind in a certain sense—that is to say, no human eye is an perfect as to appreciate every shade of colour in the ...

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  22. ETYMOLOGY EXTRAORDINARY.

    The following paragraph, called from a New York paper published more than a hundred years ago, would seem to show that the philologists of that time were ...

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