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  2. ART & LITERATURE.

    Tition and Holbein painted portraits as their sitters were, and did not turn them into ladies and gentlemen dressed up for a fancy ball. Although the subjects are so few, so ...

    Article : 160 words
  3. SKETCHES.

    In some hot humid forest districts, the European who should attempt to hunt or explore with bare feet and logs would be pricked or lacerated at almost every step of his ...

    Article : 905 words
  4. VARIETIES.

    Sir William Harcourt enlivens the debates in Westminster and shakes the platforms of the country with comic thunder in an agreeable manner. He accompanies Mr. ...

    Article : 528 words
  5. LITTLE FOLK

    Bennie was asked if he was afraid of the dark. 'Oh, no,' he said; 'I go in great piles of dark!' Johnnie—Mamma, wasn't Adam the first ...

    Article : 959 words
  6. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    It is predicted that the borings through the Straits of Dover will reveal the existence of extensive coal beds. A man in Washington Territory has ...

    Article : 1,126 words
  7. Some Stage Panoramas.

    The use of a panoramic background on the stage to give illusion of motion in a railway train was, I believe, first made by Mr. Sefton Parry in a sensational drama written by ...

    Article : 955 words
  8. PERSONALITIES.

    King Humbert's palace at Rome contains 2,000 rooms, but the King and his family occupy only 125 of them. South Hitchens, who died recently at ...

    Article : 306 words
  9. FARM AND GARDEN.

    An incubater may be described as a limied chamber, the temperature of whose atmosphere its humidity or moisture, its freedom from noxious gases, are under the cotrol of the ...

    Article : 543 words
  10. Men Who Were Great While Young.

    Cromwell left the University at eighteen. Charles Fox was in Parliament at nineteen. Charles Bright never was at school after ...

    Article : 254 words
  11. A Big Bank Note.

    An extraordinary affair happened about the year 1870. One of the directors of the Bank of England a very rich man, had occasion for £30,000, which he was to pay as ...

    Article : 373 words
  12. The Umbrella in Britain.

    Previous to the reign of Queen Anne (A.D. 1702 to 1714) the umbrella was a luxury practically undiscovered in these rainy isles. That it was not quite unknown must ...

    Article : 903 words
  13. MOLLY'S TROUBLE.

    'Sing to me something sad, mamma, For I've got an ache, and I want to cry' I don't know where, for its not my head, It's not my tooth, and no one is dead ...

    Article : 137 words
  14. HUMOUR.

    Speed out on the Question—Counsel (impatiently to witness)—Can't you speak a little faster, Uncle Rastus? Witness—Didn't I [?] to tell de truf, de whole truf, an' nuffin ...

    Article : 509 words
  15. Charles Dickens And His Less Familiar Portraits.

    When, in 1855-66 Dickens made Paris his temporary home, his life there wan passed among artists and in the exercise of his culling, and before he had been a week in his new ...

    Article : 524 words
  16. What a Tailor can Tell.

    A careful observer can tell a man by his dress as easily as a footman is known by his his livery. As a rule physicians carry themselves with marked dignity. They dress in ...

    Article : 468 words
  17. A TAP AT THE DOOR.

    A hand lapped at my door low down, low down. I opened it and saw two eyes of brown. Two lips of cherry red ...

    Article : 544 words
  18. HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.

    Macaroui, usually associated with cheese in this country, can be most successfully utilised in a variety of ways. Macaroni mince is tasty-looking and delicious; any cold meat ...

    Article : 664 words
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