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  2. THE VIGIL OR THE SPIRIT VOICE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 876 words
  3. THE GHOST AND THE CHIGNON.

    A JIGGY little song, (which I have often sang in my boyhood,) descriptive of the personal qualities of a fashionable belle of the day, began thus, "Nancy Dawson is so fine; she lies in bed till eight or nine;" and it ...

    Article : 3,641 words
  4. CHRISTMAS IN A GERMAN LUNATIC ASYLUM.

    CHRISTMAS in Germany is, in itself, something to an Englishwoman; but Christmas in a German lunatic Barium, where I spent my last, is a very curious and touching sight to any one; and the whole thing ...

    Article : 1,112 words
  5. DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

    DR. LYON PLAYFAIR makes the following sensible remarks on the importance of a knowledge of the scientific principles of domestic economy. "We shall never attain the benefits which the discoveries of science are calculated ...

    Article : 962 words
  6. LIGHT READING.

    A LADY asked a gentleman how old he was. He replied, "What yon do in every thing." What was his age? XL. " Are you fond of tongue, Sir ?" " I was always fond ...

    Article : 94 words
  7. LOCKJAW CURED BY TOBACCO.

    THE Scientific American of August 28th contains the following letter:— "Reading in the late papers the account of the recent melancholy death of the Engineer Roebling from tetanus, ...

    Article : 1,056 words
  8. A GRECIAN BEND TRAGEDY.

    At midnight in her chamber lone. While round her form the lamp-light shone A maiden fair did sadly moan; She was a girl of mighty grit, ...

    Article : 828 words
  9. THE PERCY ANECDOTES.

    SPENSER'S FAIRY QUEEN.—When Spenser had finished his famous poem of the "Fairy Queen," he carried it to the Earl of Southampton, the great patron of the poets of that day. The manuscript being sent ...

    Article : 2,520 words
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