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  2. JEWISH WIT AND HUMOUR.

    THE Chief Rabbi recently lectured to a crowed audience at the London Institution on the above subject. He said that Renan, the great scholar, whose loss the world of ...

    Article : 1,135 words
  3. RECOLLECTIONS OF DION BOUCICAULT.

    MR. AUDREY BOUCICAULT. son of the famous dramatist, tells some interesting anecdotes of the author of "The Shaughran" "The Colleen Bawn," &c. ...

    Article : 595 words
  4. MEN WITH IRON MUSCLES.

    ENGLAND has always paid a sort sneaking reverence to its strong men. We are not speaking now of the Gladstones and Salisburys who alternately hold the reins ...

    Article : 1,334 words
  5. THE CARE OF THE SICK.

    THERE are says the "Spinning Wheel" few situations in life where more judgment prudence, forethought, and un[?]ing watch fulness are necessary than in the cure of ...

    Article : 639 words
  6. A CRICKETING HUMBUG

    I remember Fred Spicer well. With all his faults he was a good follow at heart, generous good n[?]red, the truest of friends, and to those who knew him well his irresistible ...

    Article : 1,250 words
  7. THE ULIMATUM OF CAPTAIN FAGUS.

    Durban, Port Natal, in 1879 was a gay and festive town. The hotels were crammed with warriors, the lodging-houses were stuffed with beds almost to ...

    Article : 2,122 words
  8. CAN WE DIE OF A BROKEN HEART?

    How often we hear the expressions, "His heart was broken'," "He died of a broken heart." It is one of the commonest sayings, used whenever a man or woman dies ...

    Article : 435 words
  9. THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE PAWNBROKER.

    A GENERATION ago the publican was regarded as a comparatively respectable member of the community, while the pawn broker was universally despised. To have ...

    Article : 405 words
  10. SOME THRILLING EXPERIENCES.

    THE story of Miss Kate Marsden's journeys "On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Lepers in Siberia" is a sensational romance, and we might fill many pages with ...

    Article : 302 words
  11. THIS FAKIR FAILED.

    "Now, gentlemen," began the fakir, as he arranged half a hundred bottles on a temporary table at the street corner. "I am here to sell the original and only ...

    Article : 475 words
  12. MEN WHO NEVER ADVERTISE.

    THE "Pelican" recently had the following: —The good Dagonet girds at me, I see in his most recent "Mustard and Cross, in that I suggested that he should go ...

    Article : 439 words
  13. QUITE A DIFFERENT THING.

    THE Wife: "Well, what do you suppose I saw last night?" The Husband (complacently reading his magazine): " I don't know, I'm sure. What ...

    Article : 402 words
  14. THE PUNISHMENT FITTED THE CHIME.

    SOME years age in Georgia, there lived a teacher who was very pious, and went upstairs to her room regularly at every recess for the devotions ...

    Article : 114 words
  15. SPORT AT THE FAIR.

    It was the violet calm of evening. A Kaffir chief stood at the entrance of the last tent but one on the Midway, Plaisance. ...

    Article : 222 words
  16. AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK.

    HUNTER : "Good morning, Parson Shouter, I presume you are saving souls as usual? Parson S.: " No, sub." ...

    Article : 82 words
  17. ONE WAY.

    TAIVVET: "Is this your advertisement in the paper for a lost dog? Dicer: "Yes" Trivvet: "Why, you never had a dog to ...

    Article : 70 words
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