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  2. Raiment.

    The winter fashions of this month in London and Paris will be those of June and July in Queensland, so it is interesting to us, even with the thermometer at ...

    Article : 1,165 words
  3. The Sketcher.

    Love in a cottage (as usually understood) implies love destitute of funds for maintaining the cottage, for paying the rent, provisioning the larder, ...

    Article : 1,899 words
  4. Comic Cuttings.

    "What's the latest thing about Miss Bloomer ?" " My arm—unless yours has been there since." Cigarettes of green tea are said to be ...

    Article : 1,102 words
  5. Professor Blackie.

    Henriette Corkran writes as follows of the late Professor Blackie in "Temple Bar":— It was about twelve years ago that I ...

    Article : 880 words
  6. Short Story.

    By some cause that I do not recollect (if ever I had it property told) the regiment wherein the captain had bought his commission was not sent to the ...

    Article : 1,432 words
  7. Spray.

    Angelina: "And you won't, forget to buy a tin of cocoatine." (Edwin ties a knot in his pocket-handkerchief.) Angelina: "And you won't forget to ...

    Article : 82 words
  8. A Literary Order.

    Her Majesty the Queen, who has always taken the warmest interest in literature, and has numbered many men of letters among her personal friends, is said to ...

    Article : 117 words
  9. French and English.

    In certain matters the English and French are diametrically opposed. For instance, while an Englishman accuses another of taking French leave, one ...

    Article : 156 words
  10. Mesmerised Him.

    "Whut was de dine flat you run dat mile in when you win de race?" said I one jockey to another. "Foh hours leben minutes and sixteen seconds." ...

    Article : 186 words
  11. A Miser's Loan.

    A story is told of a dying miser by whose side sat the lawyer receiving instructions for the preparation of his last will and testament. "I give and ...

    Article : 99 words
  12. A Greek Accent.

    The biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, formerly Premier of Canada, published recently, contains many anecdotes bearing testimony to Sir John's ...

    Article : 127 words
  13. The Great Wall of China.

    Next to the Pyramids of Egypt (says Cassell's "World of Wonders") amongst the wonders of the world ranks the Great Wall of China. Father ...

    Article : 524 words
  14. A Reporter's Inquiry.

    M. Paul Bourget in his impressions of America, tells a story of the Yankee reporter. Last summer, he says, I was passing through Beverley near Boston. ...

    Article : 117 words
  15. A Risky Experiment.

    The Rev. James Gallagher, at one time chaplin of the United States House of Representatives, began his ministry in Tennessee. He was a strong champion ...

    Article : 139 words
  16. Military Cycling.

    Under the nom de guerre of "Daurit," General Boulanger's son-in-law contributes an article on military cycling to the "Revue Moderne" which is arousing ...

    Article : 125 words
  17. Vegetarianism and Matrimony.

    Vegetarians in Germany have lately started a matrimonial agency of their own, and none but fruit-eaters need apply (says the "Pall Mall Gazette"). ...

    Article : 238 words
  18. How Naples Disappointed Ruskin.

    A heavy rain-cloud raced us for the last ten miles, and stopped over us, stealing the blue sky inch by inch till it had left only a strip of amber blue behind ...

    Article : 211 words
  19. Posthumous Patronage.

    The appreciation of David Cox's work can only be regarded as remarkable. Painting for which the artist was glad to obtain trifling sums now run well ...

    Article : 144 words
  20. Thackeray.

    Thackeray was in the main a satirist. His playfulness consisted in exaggerating somewhat the weaknesses of human nature, and dwelling on them ...

    Article : 165 words
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