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  2. MAIL EXTRACTS

    The first shipment of frozen sheep carcases from the Rirer Platte region, South America, was made in January, 1884. The mutton was sent to London in the steamer Meath, ...

    Article : 119 words
  3. "WHO SAYS HAM?"

    A famous bon vivant proposing a particularly s[?]l dinner to a party of distinguished people, and being short of a dining-room servant, [?]ired a noted head waiter to officiate. ...

    Article : 111 words
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    Advertising : 3,867 words
  5. MOODY'S ILLUSTRATION OF FAITH.

    In a sermon in Pittsburgh, Pa., the Rev. Mr. Moody said: "A Sunday school teacher tried to illustrate the free grace of salvation by offering his watch to the members of his ...

    Article : 112 words
  6. SOMEFIN SPISHOUS.

    "What explanation have you to offer?" asked the Judge. "I found the pocketbook." "In the gentleman's pocket, I suppose" ...

    Article : 50 words
  7. THE YELLOW PINE OF THE SOUTH.

    No wooden flooring that is used bare is superior to narrow strips of seasoned Georgia yellow pine. A well-laid surface of the wood improves with age and friction, its resinous ...

    Article : 135 words
  8. HER PROPERTY.

    Uncle Mose approached the County Clerk the other day to obtain a marriage license. The clerk, in order to poke fun at the old man, said seriously: "I hope the bride has got ...

    Article : 96 words
  9. A QUESTIONABLE STATEMENT.

    A newspaper correspondent, writing from St. Petersburg, makes the astounding statement that Nihilism has practically censed to exist in the Russian Empire. He declares ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. ST. JOHN'S SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS.

    St. John who is very near-sighted, once went to a civic banquet, and forgot his eye-glasses. He sat next to the Chevalier Piqueassiette. The Chevalier's hand was gracefully ...

    Article : 102 words
  11. IRRELIGIOUS FRANCE.

    The "laicising" mania in France is apparently insatiable. The religious orders have been expelled, hospitals have been purged of their chaplains, schools of their religious ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. MAKING A CROSSING.

    There would be fewer accidents at street crossings, less profanity and much less strife between teamsters and pedestrians if the latter would go straight across when they begin ...

    Article : 136 words
  13. THE ARGENTINE RAILWAYS.

    Great progress is being made with the railways of the Argentine Republic, the work of construction being pushed forward with all possible speed. A new section of the Andine ...

    Article : 167 words
  14. RECOVERY OF LONG LOST PROPERTY.

    Some thirteen years ago, Hon. Gideon Haynes, in the course of businees, mailed four Bank of England notes of the aggregate value of 500 dols., to a correspondent in ...

    Article : 116 words
  15. DICKENS'S SONS.

    The Fort Pitt incident shows the strange ups and downs of English family life. Dickens was the most famous and financially the most successful novelist of this country—or, ...

    Article : 137 words
  16. GARIBALDI'S WAYS.

    Mr. Sala is a great admirer of Garibaldi, and tells a good story illustrative of his Spartan simplicity. Garibaldi visited a house in England, where preparations had been ...

    Article : 113 words
  17. PORPOISE FISHING.

    The Jerseyites find porpoise fishing so profitable that it is likely to become one of the chief industries on the Jersey coast. At first the fish were caught for the skin and ...

    Article : 130 words
  18. THE LOW MORAL INSTINCTS OF THE KURDS.

    A Kurd is not allowed a wife until he is a practiced robber. I know a case where the son of a rich Kurd, who had never had occasion to steal, fell in love with a girl, but her ...

    Article : 156 words
  19. THE STRENGTH OF OLD RUINS.

    Visitors to very old ruined buildings, such as are to be frequently seen in European countries, are often surprised to notice that broken arches and walls, with seemingly ...

    Article : 145 words
  20. OVER A 2,000 FEET CLIFF.

    Last week a freighter in the Colorado mountains with a sleigh load of flour and groceries was coming down one of the gorges at Hunter's pass, when the sleigh swung ...

    Article : 104 words
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