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  2. A LOST OPPORTUNITY.

    Everybody expected that Lance Middleton's engagement with Miss Custance would be announced before he went abroad. Certainly he was not rich, but in other ...

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  3. BREACH OF PROMISE LAW

    The law of England in the present day has a good deal to say about woman and her rights. What those rights are will be found succinctly not forth in words comprehensible ...

    Article : 532 words
  4. HITS AND BITS.

    Don't explain yourself too much; give the world a chance to think well of you. "Excuse me, madame, but I should like to ask why you look at me so savegely?" ...

    Article : 1,193 words
  5. TOBACCO ON TRIAL.

    The question as to whether smoking is or is not a bad habit has always been a vexed one. Advocates pro and con have had no difficulty in adducing the evidence of ...

    Article : 548 words
  6. ABOUT AN EARTHQUAKES

    The subjoined extracts from a letter from an Englishman, who is manager of a large tea garden not far from Darjeeling, give a realistic account of the effects of an earthquake ...

    Article : 494 words
  7. PROPHETIC DREAMS.

    In Mrs. Hilton's recently published [?]graphy some remarkable instances are given of a prophetic spirit inspiring her dreams, and although the narrator speaks with some ...

    Article : 822 words
  8. BIRDS AND THEIR AUTUMN LOVE SONGS.

    Since there is little evidence supporting the theory that autumnal songs of birds are love songs, we must attribute them to some other emotional origin, says Mr. Charles A. ...

    Article : 263 words
  9. A SARCASTIC ADVOCATE.

    That queer old Scotch lawyer, John Clerk, when promoted to the bench by the title of Lord Eldin, said, "The difference between me and the Lord Chancellor of England ...

    Article : 334 words
  10. WITH ONLY A WHIP.

    A performer has exhibited some wonderful experiments in the power of a whip. The first thing he does is to take a long-lashed, stout-handled whip in each hand, and ...

    Article : 314 words
  11. HER WEDDING.

    Peck was her plain drab surname, Simms his pitifully prosaic one. She was of Chicago. Oconomow[?]e, Wis., was the place of their marrying, and September of this ...

    Article : 313 words
  12. BY A SATURDAY AFTERNOON SOLDIER.

    On one of the volunteer ranges in the North is a well-known old Irish sergenat, who went through three wars—the Crimean, the Indian Mutiny, and the Chinese—and ...

    Article : 257 words
  13. CONJUROR AND HUMORIST.

    The travelling conjurer, who seizes favourable opportunities to play tricks upon people in public places in order to advertise his business, may be made to wish he had let his ...

    Article : 382 words
  14. A SHOEBLACK'S ADVANCE AGENT.

    An English officer, who was in Paris in 1815, mentions the case of a dog belonging to a shoeblack, which brought customers to its master. This it did in a very ingenious ...

    Article : 234 words
  15. SAGACITY OF PANTOMIME SHEEP

    Those who witnessed the performance of "Bo-Peep" pantomime, at Bolton, could not fail to bo struck with the manner in which the four sheep employed in connection ...

    Article : 264 words
  16. EMANCIPATED WOMAN.

    How does it happen that the woman of Iceland has quietly possessed herself of emancipation long before the women of Europe and America dreamed of clamouring ...

    Article : 245 words
  17. AN UNEXPECTED REPLY.

    A little while ago a lady, whose organ of benevolence is not properly developed, inserted the following advertisement in a London paper:— ...

    Article : 193 words
  18. VERSE FOR VERSE.

    A young gentleman happening to sit at church in a pew adjoining one in which was a young lady for whom he conceived a violent passion, felt desirous of entering into ...

    Article : 221 words
  19. A SHATTERED ROMANCE.

    Girl at seaside, (Pretty dear). Handsome follow Drawing near: ...

    Article : 94 words
  20. A CURIOUS PORTRAIT OF A KING.

    Probably the most curious portrait of a King to be found anywhere in the world is that of Charles I. in St. John's College, Oxford. At a distance the portrait looks ...

    Article : 167 words
  21. DIDN'T LIVE THERE.

    A member of Congress was going home very late a few nights ago when he met a young man who was hopelessly drunk. The Congressman happened to know where he ...

    Article : 178 words
  22. ARTISTS IN HAIR.

    The hair artist's greatest work is the arrangement of a lady's, head of hair when she is about to attend at Court or at some public function. He travels to the houses of his ...

    Article : 248 words
  23. WANTED, A COLONEL.

    A certain colonel of a well-known regiment displayed such exceptional indifference with regard to the nature of documents prepared for his signature that his ...

    Article : 173 words
  24. MOUNTAIN ASH.

    The berries, dried and reduced to powder, yield a spirit; infused in writer they make an acid drink something like cider. Evelyn tells us that, ale and beer browed with these ...

    Article : 122 words
  25. A CHINESE SUPERSTITION.

    Chinese junks and boats have eyes carved or painted on the bows, which are usually supposed to be a mere fanciful form of ornamentation? But they have a real meaning. ...

    Article : 119 words
  26. THE MARRIAGE MONTH.

    There is a popular idea that June is the favorite month for weddings, and that the young woman who loves romance and wishes fortune to smile upon her nuptials in every ...

    Article : 81 words
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