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  2. RACING FOR A WIFE.

    Among some of the ruder tribes of men where physical excellence counts for the chief merit, the custom of running races for a bride has always been ...

    Article : 466 words
  3. The Street Preacher.

    John Friend looked absent-mindedly out through the window of the office as he closed the ledger at which he had been at work, and methodically ...

    Article : 4,632 words
  4. HOW THE "LIGHT BRIGADE" ESCAPED.

    It is little known that the remnant of soldiers who escaped from the "valley of death" at Balaclava, owed their lives to the obstinate inaction ...

    Article : 267 words
  5. CHOOSING WALLPAPERS.

    It is important, when selecting a wallpaper, to consider durability as well as beauty. White papers are not always ill-wearing, and one that is ...

    Article : 251 words
  6. ANCIENT SWEETMEATS.

    Of all candies, perhaps the "sugar plum" boasts the most ancient lineage (says the International Confectioner). It was the invention of one ...

    Article : 255 words
  7. A MAN'S WAY.

    Henrik Ibsen, although not a man to be defeated by a difficult problem, once faced one that puzzled him sorely. The amusing way in which he met it ...

    Article : 299 words
  8. HOW SOME COINS GOT THEIR NICKNAMES.

    Why does everybody nearly always speak of a soveriegn as a pound? There seems to be no reason for the name, so far as one can ascertan, and ...

    Article : 251 words
  9. An American Jury Story.

    The case was one of assault and battery, and one of the witnesses was a local doctor whom the prosecuting solicitor proceeded to bully, suggesting ...

    Article : 208 words
  10. POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

    A woman sometimes remains an old maid not because she has been disappointed in love, but because she doesn't want to be. ...

    Article : 288 words
  11. A FIDDLE WITH A BRAIN.

    The latest invention is a violin that plays itself! People who have heard it say that it possesses the delicacy of touch and sweetness of tone of a ...

    Article : 189 words
  12. A Fleabite.

    The latest Suffragette story cornea from America. A negro woman was arguing with her husband as to whether she ought ...

    Article : 63 words
  13. THE COST OF DISCOVERING AMERICA.

    English newspapers print a report from Madrid to the effect that some ledgers discovered at Palos, Spain, contain interesting information on the ...

    Article : 88 words
  14. Objectionable Remarks.

    What Did I tell You? there's a yellow hair on your coat. I remember when he didn't have a bob. ...

    Article : 52 words
  15. A Grief Without Re-dress.

    I fell in love the other day A way I have in Spring, And, since one's plumage should be gay ...

    Article : 80 words
  16. The Retort English.

    He was learning French, and thus addressed his wife: "Araminta, je t'adore." "Shut it yourself," she replied. ...

    Article : 191 words
  17. Journalism in the West.

    Mark Twain, at a dinner, related some reminiscences of his early days of journalism in Nevada City. "We paid for outside contributions," ...

    Article : 175 words
  18. LIMITS OF NATURAL VISION

    The limits of vision vary with elevation, condition of the atmosphere, intensity of illumination, and other modifying elements in different cases ...

    Article : 114 words
  19. At the Last Green.

    A green little boy, in a green little way, A green little apple devoured one day. ...

    Article : 38 words
  20. "Awful!"

    "You must have had a terrible experience with no food and mosquitoes swarming around you," I said to the shipwrecked mariner who had been ...

    Article : 78 words
  21. WORKING WITH A WILL.

    We are not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be ...

    Article : 79 words
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