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  2. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

    One lighted gas jet consumes as much air as four adults. In Russia no photographer may practise his art without a licence. ...

    Article : 689 words
  3. FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

    Put down on a shoot of plain paper all the numbers from one to sixteen or eighteen and mixed up in any way you like. Tell one or more persons to ...

    Article : 146 words
  4. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    His Daughter: "Papa, did you [?] mamma long before you married her? Her Father: "Just between you and me, my dear, I don't know her yet. ...

    Article : 1,000 words
  5. RANDOM HEADINGS.

    The Czar has a hundred palaces scattered throughout the length and breadth of his dominions. These Imperial residences have a ...

    Article : 116 words
  6. RIGHT WAY TO BEGIN THE DAY.

    There is a right way and a wrong way to begin the day, and the method you choose may have a decided effect upon the success or failure you will ...

    Article : 441 words
  7. HOW SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD GET THEIR NAMES.

    Asia, the oldest continent known to man, gets its name from the Sanskrit work "Ushas," meaning "land of the dawn." Europe is derived from the ...

    Article : 430 words
  8. PEASANT GIRLS WHO SELL THEIR HAIR.

    The hair with which society women supplement their own can scarcely be termed false, for the simple reason that it comes from the heads of other ...

    Article : 235 words
  9. WOMEN WINE-TASTERS.

    Of the many trades and callings now followed by women, says a writer, that of wine-taster seems to be the most curious and lucrative. Mile. ...

    Article : 168 words
  10. HIDE AND SEEK.

    Tom always loved to have his big sister Nell play with him, and they used to have lovely romps together among the sheaves of corn. ...

    Article : 260 words
  11. IT BELONGED TO HIM.

    A great sensation was caused the other day at a certain station just previous to the starting of the express. The guard was about to start the ...

    Article : 197 words
  12. ENGLISH HARD TO LEARN.

    It is hard for the person to whom English is his native tongue to realise what a struggle the foreigner has to understand some of the peculiarities. ...

    Article : 289 words
  13. KANIS, THE FAITHFUL DOG.

    There once lived in Poland a farmer who had a beautiful bulldog, Kanis. The farmer lived with his wife and baby in a little house in the wood ...

    Article : 287 words
  14. A MILK STOOL HAVING A PLACE TO KEEP THE BUCKET CLEAN AND AT THE RIGHT HEIGHT.

    The stool is made of three pieces of board and a piece of round, or stake, iron. The appearance and manner of construction are clearly shown in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 106 words
  15. SUPERFLUOUS TEACHING.

    There he sat—on a gate by the roadside, swinging his legs and gazing earnestly at the telegraph wires. For a long while the benevolent old ...

    Article : 156 words
  16. AMBASSADORIAL SALARIES.

    People are apt to think that the men who are sent to represent their king or country at various foreign capitals are highly paid and enviable ...

    Article : 190 words
  17. PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION.

    Shamus O'Reilly had just been introduced, for the first time in his life, to a circular saw, and the foreman of the sawmills after giving him the ...

    Article : 158 words
  18. STRANGE FUNERAL RITES.

    An article iu the "Sunday at Home" on the Indians of South America tells us something about their funeral rites. The funeral rites, the writer ...

    Article : 337 words
  19. THEN SHE TOLD HIM.

    Miss Krab—as her name, perhaps, might lead one to suppose—was a maiden lady of uncertain age; and, poor woman, like many of her kind ...

    Article : 165 words
  20. THE FIRST LILY OF THE VALLEY.

    Once upon a time, so long age that no one in Germany had any lily of the valley, there lived an abbot who was a great gardener and a good man. A ...

    Article : 306 words
  21. CONUNDRUMS.

    In what respect does a good geverness chiefly differ from a bad one?—The one guides miss, and the other misguides. ...

    Article : 262 words
  22. TEA-DRINKING IN PARAGUAY.

    The natives of Paraguay, in drinking their tea, do not pour it from a teapot into a cup, as Europeans are accustomed to drink tea, but fill a goblet ...

    Article : 167 words
  23. THE THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE.

    The phrenologist frowned. Then he went carefully once more over the bumps of the man in the chair. ...

    Article : 121 words
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