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  2. TOOK THE STARCH OUT OF HIM.

    A well-starched individual, with the usual eyeglass, and jaunty air was to be seen daily on the pier or promenade at Redcar. The man had nothing to recommend him but his faultless ...

    Article : 305 words
  3. HOW MAPS ARE MADE.

    Map-making is not an industry that has many representatives, and the details of the work of printing the maps is known to few. It begins, with a survey of the country to be ...

    Article : 453 words
  4. LOOKING FORWARD.

    "Yes, my sisters," said the spellbidress, raising her voice as she warmed up to her subject," the recent great successes of women in the political field give us a mighty and ...

    Article : 439 words
  5. YOURS OR MINE?

    It was a particularly disagreeable day in London. The pavements were unsafe to foot-passengers by reason of a fall of snow which, [?]ast[?]y swept off, had left them ...

    Article : 3,991 words
  6. IMPUDENCE.

    Great is the power of impudence, and endless are its degrees. it has many disguises. In the edifying books of those good folks who profess to show the young how to get on it life ...

    Article : 279 words
  7. A MIGHTY EXPENSIVE COW.

    When, in a certain legislative proceeding, it was proposed to make an appropriation in a series of expenditures that never came to an end, the Hon. Philetus Sawyer, than a United ...

    Article : 316 words
  8. ANCIENT FORTUNES.

    The Roman fortunes would not be thought extraordinary in London, Paris, or New York to-day, when it is not an unknown thing for a man to leave over £20,000,000 to his heirs ...

    Article : 256 words
  9. FIGHTING WITH CHEESE.

    The most remarkable ammunition ever heard of was used by the celebrated Commodore Coe. of the Ment[?]vidian navy, who, in an engagement with Admiral Brown, of the Buenos ...

    Article : 230 words
  10. HIS MODEST REQUEST.

    "I don't ask you to remove your hat, miss," plaintively spoke the little man in the seat behind her, "bat if you will kindly refrain from wobbling your head I will take it as a favour ...

    Article : 280 words
  11. THE ANTIQUITY OF BEER.

    Beer is, doubtless, a very ancient drink in the British Isles. Phythins, a Greek of Marseilles, visited the south of Britain five hundred years before the Christian er[?] and found that the ...

    Article : 194 words
  12. DRUNKEN BEES.

    T. L. Williams, in a note to the Journal of Botany, points out certain facts about bumblebees which will be of interest to some humans. He says that these insects often get drunk. ...

    Article : 179 words
  13. "TOOTS, TOOTS."

    "Willie" M'Bean, V.C., who enlisted in the 93rd Highlanders, a barefooted lad, in 1835, rose through all the intermediate grades to the command of his regiment, and died a ...

    Article : 189 words
  14. WHAT SIXTY YEARS HAVE SEEN.

    Our annual output of coal in 1837 only amounted to some 30 million tons, our operations were of the crudest, danger was the chief feature of mining work, and mine inspection, if ...

    Article : 154 words
  15. PREPARING A NEW SKIN.

    One of the very latest stories from P[?] is that ladies of the fashionable world go "into retreat" for Lent, and undergo tortures, not by way of penance, but in order to be beautiful. ...

    Article : 181 words
  16. THE FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE.

    In a certain church in Ireland, a young priest was detailed to preach. The occasion was his first appearance, and he took for his text, "The Feeding of the Multitude." ...

    Article : 177 words
  17. MAKING THE BEST OF IT.

    A German girl who recently went to America to marry a man who had been there for some years, and who had made himself if so indispensible to his employers that he could not even be ...

    Article : 189 words
  18. A VANISHING PEOPLE.

    The Lapp race is rapidly disappearing off the face of the earth. The chief reason for this is attributed to the decrease in the herds of reindeer, in ...

    Article : 209 words
  19. TAKEN DOWN A PEG.

    In a certain Irish college the student at his oral examination has to give his answers from a pulpit before the board of examiners. One student, who had no mean opinion of his ...

    Article : 155 words
  20. AN OFFENCE TO BE FORGIVEN.

    The proudest moment of Nelson's lie in said to have been when he received the swords of the officers of the "San Josef." Nelson's ship, which was the smallest of her class in the ...

    Article : 134 words
  21. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

    Some girls can never blush without feeling conscious. Most men feel more at home when their wives aren't. ...

    Article : 104 words
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