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  2. THE ARMCHAIR

    " Well, I've done Europe," remarked the American girl who had come into money, "and Asia and Africa—and I've done with them for ever !" ...

    Article : 739 words
  3. NEW SERIES OF STORIES

    The following account of the adventure of Andre Marcelle, one of my great uncles, was given to me by a spinster aunt, to whom it had been handed down from ...

    Article : 3,548 words
  4. THE JESTER

    A woman can forgive a beaming, but to be forgotten—never. He : " I wonder why it is that so many old maids have fat bank accounts ?" She : ...

    Article : 678 words
  5. VARIOUS VERSES

    When tilings go right, it isn't hard To keep a pleasant, cheerful face, For other folk to have regard And grant requests with smiling grace. ...

    Article : 173 words
  6. SPRAY.

    Senator Depew, at a lawyers' dinner, talked about circumstantial evidence, and then told this story :— A young and pretty girl had been out ...

    Article : 111 words
  7. POLICEMAN AND REPORTER.

    At a big fire a reporter on an American daily paper was sent to secure details by his editor. Trying to bush his way through the crowds, he was stopped by a ...

    Article : 76 words
  8. JUST A LITTLE.

    A little of the pleasurt, A little of the pain, A little of the mystery That this world can't explain ...

    Article : 135 words
  9. SHE HAD HIM GUESSING.

    " Once upon a time," said the truthful man, " a certain party asked a lady friend of his whether she could learn to love him. ...

    Article : 342 words
  10. FORGOTTEN WEDDING RINGS.

    " Don't forget the ring " This warning has been given many times to the nervous bridegroom on the morning of the great event of his life. One ...

    Article : 418 words
  11. WHO HE WAS.

    The following conversation was overheard on the landing-stage of an Irish seaport between an English tourist and an Irishman, the ktter being cook an board ...

    Article : 68 words
  12. WRONG TRAIN AGAIN !

    [?] bearded a train at one of the Irish stations, and after sitting therein almost an hour was discovered by a porter, and ...

    Article : 158 words
  13. FRUIT AND HOW TO EAT IT.

    Most people, instead of taking fruit on an empty stomach, or in combination with simple grain preparations, such as bread, eat it with, oily foods, generally ...

    Article : 141 words
  14. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE STEAM BOILER.

    The high steam-pressure boiler was advocated as fur back as 1801 ; but, says " Engineering," a long time elapsed before such high pressures could be brought into ...

    Article : 278 words
  15. THE MOUSE AND THE MAID.

    A little mouse peeped through the door, It saw a dainty on the floor— A little sweet, dropped by a Miss When her sweetheart proposed a kiss. ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. DAILY EXERCISES FOR THE FIGURE

    Beauty specialists are always advocating the claims of daily exercises as a means of reducing what they euphemistically term "excess of adipose tissue, but few ...

    Article : 364 words
  17. SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT BABIES.

    Even in this up-to-date twentieth century there are still superstitions about babies, which are, however, rapidly being forgotten with the ...

    Article : 392 words
  18. "NEITHER A MUSICIAN NOR A GENTLEMAN."

    A Lancashire bassoon-player having stayed late at night at a public-house after a village oratorio, and, of course, moistened his clay, departed for his residence, which ...

    Article : 166 words
  19. WHERE THE WOMEN "PROPOSE."

    In the Torres Stiraits, between the northern extremity of Australia and the southern extremity of New Guinea, there is a labyrinth of small island and coral ...

    Article : 168 words
  20. LEFT BEHIND.

    Recently a number of e[?] were playing in a Liverpool street, when, suddenly as if frightened they all except one ran away. ...

    Article : 80 words
  21. A FAMOUS SHOWMAN'S CAREER.

    Mr. Lord George Sanger is retiring from business as a circus proprietor. He has had a long and varied career as a showman. His first engagement was as ...

    Article : 473 words
  22. DICK TURPIN'S SPUR.

    It is not Generally known (says the " Manchester Courier," that the old "Saracen's Head" at Warburton, Chestire, is associated with the history [?] the ...

    Article : 145 words
  23. SUGAR AND STATURE.

    A Philadelphia physician lias a new theory as to the reason why the modern maiden is larger of stature and stronger and longer of limb than she used to be ...

    Article : 146 words
  24. DONT'S ON DRESS.

    Don't expect your hair to shine unless you brush it well every night and morning Don't buy Cheap boots or gloves. ...

    Article : 117 words
  25. THE COLLIER WAS SATISFIED.

    A conjurer was once entertaining some villagers, who consisted chiefly of colliers. He asked one of his admirers if he would lend him a halfpenny. ...

    Article : 136 words
  26. TEA DRINKING IN JAPAN

    Tea in Japan is an almost religious ceremony. No unkind word must foe spoken during the two hours the Japanese are at their tea. A very practical custom is ...

    Article : 87 words
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