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  2. FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

    I don't care for the papers you Big, grown-up folks read through and through; The one 1 take is full of rhymes ...

    Article : 172 words
  3. RANDOM READINGS.

    The Eiffel Tower has of late years become extremely useful to scientists. Its suitability for measuring variations of atmospheric pressure have enabled ...

    Article : 149 words
  4. SPORT FOR CONVICTS.

    Humanitarian motives have led the authorities in the States to institutes remarkable regulations in some of their penitentiaries. The convicts are ...

    Article : 336 words
  5. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

    Germany is able to feed about ninetenths of her nearly 60,000,000 inhabitants on the products of her own soil. About one-third of the textile goods ...

    Article : 761 words
  6. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Howard: Is their hotel up-to-date? Coward: Indeed it is. They furnish sleeping powders with every bedroom. Louise: Is your new cook ...

    Article : 905 words
  7. HEIGHT IN RELATION TO WEIGHT.

    Within tho past fow years public attention has been drawn to the fact that weight is as important an indication of the general condition of the ...

    Article : 235 words
  8. QUEER USES FOR BREAD.

    Instead of baking broad in loaves, the inhabitants of Asia Minor, Arabia, Turkestan, and the Tigris-Euphrates valley make it into sheets. These sheets ...

    Article : 415 words
  9. DUBIOUS COMPLIMENT.

    The American writer, Booth Tarkington, like many of his craft, writes a wretched hand. Once, while on a voyage to Naples, he sat in his ...

    Article : 163 words
  10. PROFITING BY EXPERIENCE.

    Little Johnny had been naughty. At last he slapped his small sister. When father came home, mother told him of his son's misdeeds. "The next time ...

    Article : 74 words
  11. A BIT CHEEKY, WHAT!

    One of those travelling beggars who make their periodical round from town to town, with tho regularity of a commercial traveller, was in the habit of ...

    Article : 236 words
  12. THEY DON'T MIND THE COLD.

    Eskimo children wear the same clothes as their parents—very thick fur socks, and two suits of reindeer or sealskin, which have no opening's behind ...

    Article : 95 words
  13. EFFECTUALLY CURED.

    An Englishman, who had among his ancestors a number of men and women who committed suicide, became despondent and melancholy ...

    Article : 278 words
  14. TILTING PIANO STOOL NOW HELPS PLAYERS.

    An adjustable piano stool, the head of which may be tilted to any desired angle, is announced by a manufacturer who believes he has solved the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 109 words
  15. A GOOD GAME.

    Here is a game which boys and girls will enjoy. Have the alphabet printed times galore on cardboard. Then cut between the letters. When cut ...

    Article : 166 words
  16. VERY CHEAP.

    A gentleman entered a fishmonger's shop the other day, and after making a small purchase, began a friendly talk with the proprietor. ...

    Article : 181 words
  17. PAMPERED STOMACHS.

    Even though it takes pork four hours to leave the stomach, and six more to be dissolved and absorbed in the small intestines, what does that matter so ...

    Article : 234 words
  18. CHILDREN IN OTHER LANDS.

    The things that you and your playmates do seem quite proper to you and in no way unusual or queer. But has it over occurred to you that, if you were ...

    Article : 441 words
  19. HE HAD OFTEN HEARD OF HIM.

    It was a contested will case, and one of the witnesses, in the course of his evidence, described the testator minutely. ...

    Article : 174 words
  20. ALL NATIONS SMOKE.

    There is hardly a country in the world where the pipe is not smoked in one form or another. The Kaffir dearly loves his pipe, and ...

    Article : 214 words
  21. "MY ROSARY."

    A strange story, pathetic in its telling, is told by Mr. Frederick G. Winter, a resident of Putney, as to the authorship of the popular melody ...

    Article : 319 words
  22. UPSIDE DOWN.

    The school concert had begun. Four little girls nero dressed to represent the word "Star," and each had ono letter of that word pinned on to her snowy ...

    Article : 97 words
  23. SNEEZING AND SHIVERING.

    Nature's provision against the consequence of "chill" and the prevention of a "cold" are snoozing and shivering. A violent fit of sneezing ...

    Article : 160 words
  24. A GRAMMATICAL PUPIL.

    A country schoolmaster the other day, after giving one of his pupils a sound scolding for speaking ungrammatically, sent him to the other end ...

    Article : 121 words
  25. WHAT THE KING CAN DO.

    What are the King's powers to which reference is being mode in the present crisis? Legally, if [?]t actually, they are very large. By his personal ...

    Article : 129 words
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