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  2. INSTANCES OF ANIMAL REASONING.

    In an interesting article in the current number of the "Land Magazine," Mr. A. Smith, in replying to a previous paper on the subject of the reasoning power of animals, ...

    Article : 911 words
  3. CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS.

    It is unquestionable that our Christmas festival is of Pagan origin; that it is the survival of sun-worship—one form of that great and universal phallic creed which would seem ...

    Article : 1,009 words
  4. A JUDICIAL MAN A DOG COMBAT.

    On the 8th October, 1361, there took place on the Island of Notre Dame, Paris, a combat which both illustrates strikingly the maxima and ideas prevalent in that age, and ...

    Article : 728 words
  5. A PROFITABLE MARKET.

    Nothing is lost in a good market, as the following story shows:—A young man, brought up in the city of London to the business of an undertaker, went to Jamaica. ...

    Article : 306 words
  6. PRE-NUPTIAL CHATTER.

    Surely no'er so sweet a creature (Slight in form and fair in feature) As my prim and pretty teacher Has this world produced before. ...

    Article : 978 words
  7. QUEER TRINKETS WORN BY WOMEN

    " Women are traditionally supposed to be allowed to wear what they will, and accordingly they sometimes wear the most extraordinary things. In my business," said a ...

    Article : 420 words
  8. JACK FROST AND HIS CROWBAR

    He was a pinched little fellow in a frosty jacket, and from his pointed little chin ran down a long, pointed icicle, like a fashionably trained whisker. ...

    Article : 540 words
  9. THE FIRST CHRISTMAS CARDS

    Before the Christmas card was modestly ushered into the world, the greetinzs of the season were written to dear and distant friends on old-world notepaper with ...

    Article : 964 words
  10. VEGETABLES IN GOOD QUEEN BESS'S TIME.

    Speaking of the neglect into which some of the vegetables had fallen under the early Tudor kings, Harrison says, in striking contrast is his own day, where " their use is not ...

    Article : 892 words
  11. SPECIAL SCOTCH.

    Scene—Provision Shop in Glasgow. Woman, familiarly to Peter, the principal salesman: Ha pennyworth o' saut, Peter. Peter hands her a halfpennyworth of ...

    Article : 445 words
  12. AN ESSAY ON MAN

    Man that is born of a woman is few of days and full of microbes. The moment, he hits the earth he starts for the grave, and the longer he travels the faster he goes. His ...

    Article : 688 words
  13. AN AUDACIOUS M.P.

    Sir Boylw Roche had an excellent memory; so good, indeed, as to give rise to the belief that his speeches were written for him by abler hands, and got by heart by Sir Boyle. ...

    Article : 622 words
  14. SWEETEST OF THE SWEET

    Framed and hung up in the Agricultural Bank of Paris, Ky., is a cheque which was made payable to "Sweetest of the Sweet " and so endorsed. President McClue of the ...

    Article : 349 words
  15. RUTH AND THE GANDER

    Ruth Leslie and her mother lived in a little cottage on the border of the moor. Mrs. Leslie kept a flock of geese, and it was Ruth's duty to drive them out on the moor ...

    Article : 378 words
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