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  2. Short Story.

    The long hours of English midsummer twilight were rapidly fading into night, and the dark was descending over the landscape layer on layer. In the garden-beds the ...

    Article : 3,392 words
  3. Notabilities.

    The Rothschilds smoke the most costly cigars that are made—the 'Henry Clay Sobranes,' costing near five shillings. These are wrapped in gold leaf and packed in little ...

    Article : 99 words
  4. Vanity Fair.

    It is an undisputed fact that a plain dinner neatly served is a luxury, compared with a great, pretentious, ill-cooked meal, badly served. 'To see one's maid,' says a writer ...

    Article : 133 words
  5. DOCTORS IN LITERATURE.

    Speaking of the late Dr. Holmes, the London Lancet, which is perhaps the leading organ of the medical profession, says the union of medicine and letters is rare. And ...

    Article : 93 words
  6. STARCHED GOWNS.

    Starched gowns are no longer fashionable, but in some remote parts of the country, people still adhere to the old method of starching material until it 'stands alone.' A ...

    Article : 162 words
  7. HOW MEISSONIER PAINTED.

    For his great effects he trusted neither to memory nor construction, but, at vast expense and under extreme difficulties, he insisted on working from nature. When he ...

    Article : 109 words
  8. ENGLISH LETTER.

    are greatly worn, and very pretty they are too, especially for young girls. Here is a specimen: the underdress is of creamy satin, made perfectly plain, and over it is draped a ...

    Article : 1,031 words
  9. HARTINGTON.

    When sitting in the House of Commonses Lord Hartington, it was said of the Duke of Devonshire that by watching him you could determine almost infallibly the ability of any ...

    Article : 183 words
  10. DIDN'T LIKE CROWING.

    This ancedote of Bismark is related in a recent volume of memoirs: 'The war of 1870-71 was not desired by Prussia. We were prepared for it; knowing the French, we ...

    Article : 180 words
  11. Far and Near.

    One of the most prosperous and profitable businesses connected with theatres is that of wig-making. One dramatic production sometimes entails an order for wigs to the tune of ...

    Article : 215 words
  12. GLADSTONE.

    Of all English statesmen who gave contributed largely to the welfare and glory of their country, Mr. Gladstone most reminds us in many points of Cicero—the man, the ...

    Article : 184 words
  13. IT MADE HIM LIGHT-HEADED.

    Candidates for poet laureate still abound, An Edinburgh bard lately wrote to the first lord of the treasury that he was fully competent to fill the post, and that he was ...

    Article : 187 words
  14. Spare Moments

    An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.—Pablius Syrus. To wilful men the injuries that they ...

    Article : 143 words
  15. CHINESE PROVERBS.

    The following proverbs are familiar specimens of the Chinese coinage; the English versions are also given: 'Virtue is the surest road to longevity; ...

    Article : 375 words
  16. HIS ABSENCE WANTED.

    An English doctor, attached to the court of a rajah, made himself almost indispensable to his highness. He had, fortunately, also made a friend of his prime minister. ...

    Article : 206 words
  17. Scientific Notes.

    The serious and widespread outbreaks of influenza which have attacked people in many parts of the world yearly since 1890, have greatly stimulated observation ...

    Article : 987 words
  18. HER WAY.

    'Will you let me know when we get to Pitcher street!' asked a women of a [?] avenue car conductes. Tea minutes later the conductor [?] ...

    Article : 165 words
  19. HE WON THE CASE.

    In the early days of interior Missouri the late Judge E—out cord-wood, cleared up his homestead farm, and was employed upon one side of nearly every case that came up, ...

    Article : 420 words
  20. SAM JONES' [?]

    An amusing incident [?] at the close of Sam Jones' [?] other day. [?] folding his [?] ...

    Article : 267 words
  21. USEFUL BURGLARS.

    A sea life does not seem to offer an encouraging field of operation for an enterprising burglar, but a well-known naval officer relates an aucedote of how a considerable ...

    Article : 297 words
  22. A CHAN[?]

    He—'Mr. [?] ...

    Article : 40 words
  23. A CHINESE ARTIST.

    One picture that he showed a reporter was said to represent a garden-party, though it needed some assurance at first to dispel the [?] that it was a extantropho at sea. What ...

    Article : 408 words
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