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  2. TRIVIAL CAUSE OF A DUEL.

    One morning a Prussian officer came to an inn and ordered a pickled herring, which was soon brought to him in a caper sauce. Not far from ...

    Article : 259 words
  3. THE GREATER PRIZE. I

    It was finished. The book upon which he had been so strenuously engaged, working almost night and day for several months past, was ...

    Article : 1,357 words
  4. REPOSE AS A MARK OF BREEDING.

    Cultivate repose. It is a mark of good breeding. It invests the person who possesses it with forcefulness and individuality. It is one of the prime ...

    Article : 678 words
  5. MADAME DE POMPADOUR.

    In reviewing Mdme. de Pompadour's career we are inclined to conclude that surely naught but evil followed as the result of her influence over ...

    Article : 951 words
  6. WOMEN LOVED BY R.A.'s.

    It is probable that during the past thirty years there has never been an Academy Inhibition in which Joan of Arc has not been present in some ...

    Article : 596 words
  7. II.

    "I'm sorry, sir, but Dr. Thomas is engaged, and may not be at liberty for some considerable time. Will you wait?" ...

    Article : 1,980 words
  8. NEW YORK'S BIRD HOSPITAL.

    The tiniest hospital in the world is the bird hospital in West Sixty-eighth street, New York. All sorts of feathered patients lie in the tiny wicker ...

    Article : 331 words
  9. ODDITIES.

    The coalman is a sly old fox; In fact, he's quite a paradox; For coal he always makes us pay, And yet he gives his coal a weigh. ...

    Article : 112 words
  10. [?]LME IN SOIL FERTILITY.

    The president of the agricultural section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Mr. A. D. Hall), in addressing the ...

    Article : 458 words
  11. Very Appropriate.

    Sir Walter Scott was sitting in his library one day when a tall Borderer, who had been erecting an inn near by, entered and said: ...

    Article : 158 words
  12. SHACKLETON'S SLEEPING-BAG.

    The announcement that Sir Ernest Shackleton is to have a sleeping-bag which will be the lightest in existence for his next expedition calls attention ...

    Article : 349 words
  13. Rival Newspaper Editors.

    Some years ago there were in Paris two papers, the "Razor" and the "Scorpion," which were always attacking each other. ...

    Article : 171 words
  14. Have Jews a Sense of Humor?

    One of the most noteworthy characteristics of the Jewish race, which disproves Carlyle's assertion that Jews are lacking in a sense of humor, ...

    Article : 129 words
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