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  4. Short Story.

    I felt more than ordinarily exercised at Appleton's absence. It was 6 o'clock. The curtain at the local theatre would rise at 7, and Appleton, ...

    Article : 2,246 words
  5. A Child Prophetess.

    The latest American curiosity is child prophetess. The prodigy is named Mabel Miller, she is 5 years of age, and lives in Chicago. She does not deem it ...

    Article : 611 words
  6. Pith and Point.

    Bismarck taken no interest in pictures. Sir John Millais's particular fad in fishing. The Pope is the oldest bishop now ...

    Article : 758 words
  7. Household Hints.

    The sleeves of lined blouses are some-times difficult to iron without creasing; this may be remedied by stuffing the sleeves with a cotton cloth and then ...

    Article : 468 words
  8. Spray.

    The biggest billiard-room in the world is in London, near Charing Cross. It is a great haunt of Germans, Frenchmen, and other of our Continental ...

    Article : 86 words
  9. The Sketcher.

    Eccentrics Who Enliven Police Duty. There is a droll side to the heavy work of a Metropolitan constable. This is clear from stories of actual occurrences ...

    Article : 1,209 words
  10. The Earth.

    The philosophers who have figured on the condition of things that exist at the earth's centre, differ very widely in opinion. Some think that the earth's ...

    Article : 91 words
  11. Alcohol Lamps.

    In France, Belgium, and Germany experiments are being made with a view to the use of alcohol instead of petroleum in lamps. Alcohol burns with a ...

    Article : 183 words
  12. An Old Pawn Ticket.

    An old pawn ticket has been unearthed at Florence, dated 1570, and bearing the signature at Torquato Tasso, then in his 26th year. The document runs as ...

    Article : 71 words
  13. Aid to Crime.

    Some one has come forward to prove that the bicycle is an aid to crime. It enables the criminal to escape with speed, and leaves no track behind. This ...

    Article : 105 words
  14. Making a Billiard-table.

    A member of a noted firm of billiard-table makers was asked by an interviewer: "Is the table of green cloth' ever covered with doth of another ...

    Article : 381 words
  15. Mistakes of Love.

    The mistakes of love are legion. Is not there not room here for a little self-examination? Is not self-love occasionally dominant, when it seems that ...

    Article : 148 words
  16. Famous lovers.

    When Leigh Hunt was in love he says himself that he got up at 5 o'clock in the morning, went about sullen and morose until 11 o'clock at night, when ...

    Article : 598 words
  17. The Pheasant.

    Mr. Hudson, in his new volume on "British Birds," adopts the theory that the pheasant is an Asiatic bird, a view which has been generally accepted till ...

    Article : 106 words
  18. An Extinct Soldiery.

    The Janissaries are an extinct religious soldiery of Christian profession who for centuries took part in the intrigues and wars of the Ottoman ...

    Article : 104 words
  19. The Mistress's Character.

    The ordinary Irish servant, when she loaves one mistress for another, procures a paper "character" to take with her; but Chinese servants, so it seems, ...

    Article : 287 words
  20. Wet Humour.

    He stood at the end of the pier and looked sadly after the retreating form of the Joker who had kicked the board out from under him and dropped him into ...

    Article : 125 words
  21. Where the Grasshoppers Became a Burden.

    "Speaking of grasshoppers," said the man with the yellow whiskers, "but were any of you gentleman ever in Brazil? ...

    Article : 325 words
  22. Tennis and Tennis.

    The carefully clothed young man moved here and there about the court, seeking wherever possible the shade cast by the neighbouring clubhouse, for the ...

    Article : 132 words
  23. With Privileges.

    "By the way," said the young man in quest of lodgings to a Glasgow landlady, "your advertisement advertisement mentioned 'home comforts.'" ...

    Article : 140 words
  24. The Gentleman Farmer.

    The "gentleman farmer." so called, has to put up with many jokes at his expense in print. In real life he is not often treated to speeches as amusing as ...

    Article : 106 words
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