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  2. Personalities.

    IN autumn it is Count Tolstoi's practice to live alone upon his estate, attended only by his secretary, as he ministers to his simple wants with ...

    Article : 242 words
  3. Varieties.

    AMONG the Bonapartes the household fetishes are the boots and the title of Napoleon — that monarch who worked harder ...

    Article : 111 words
  4. Domestic Life.

    THERE are men who are born tidy. This is not their fault; they can't help it—although they know ...

    Article : 941 words
  5. SHORT STORY

    THE affair of the Diamond Necklace will forever be associated in history with the unfortunate Marie Antoinette. The queen lost through it all joy, all peace of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,114 words
  6. Humour.

    She: 'I can't possibly got my gown for less than five-and-twenty guineas, dear.' He: 'But there's Mrs Rounder. I'm certain she doesn't pay any such price.' ...

    Article : 261 words
  7. Science.

    BATH SACHETS.—Half a pound fine oatmeal, one ounce powdered Castile soap, and two ounces powdered orris-root Mix ...

    Article : 347 words
  8. STOVE-REFRIGERATOR.

    Heat and cold in the same apparatus is the design of a new device patented by a woman. It resembles a luncheon hamper and is ten by ten inches at the side and ...

    Article : 75 words
  9. LETTERS OUT OF LEATHER BAG.

    Presuming the letters are painted upon he bag, the best plan will be to remove the paint with a solvent, such as turps or benzine; or chloroform will soften still ...

    Article : 114 words
  10. A CELEBRATED DUELLIST.

    The late Lord Camelford, of duelling notoriety, entering one evening a coffeehouse in Conduit Street, meanly attired, as was his ' eneral custom, sat down to ...

    Article : 285 words
  11. EVIDENCE

    Scene—A Police Court.—Constable: And the prisoner said, yer honour, as how somebody had blown the gaff' His Honour: 'What does that mean?' ...

    Article : 118 words
  12. MONUMENTS TO MARTYRS.

    No city in the world has so many statues and monuments as Paris, and every day sees a new project for a new statue or bust. It is curious to note in ...

    Article : 138 words
  13. SENSE OF HUMOUR.

    A well-known golfer recently told a good story in an after-dinner speech. A belated wayfarer was passing a public-house late at night when a foreigner was ...

    Article : 166 words
  14. MUSKETS TEN FEET LONG.

    Gen. F. C. Ainsworth, chief of the record and pension division of the U. S. A. army, is in receipt of several interesting relics from friends in the Philippines and ...

    Article : 125 words
  15. QUINSY

    Is a tiresome and painful complaint. The temperature is often very high, and the pain and discomfort great, as an abscess forms on the tonsil. This, if left ...

    Article : 146 words
  16. 'JIM, THE PENMAN.'

    James Townsend Saward, better known as 'Jim, the Penman,' was a man of good birth, a barrister-at-law, who might have done wall at the Bar had he not drifted ...

    Article : 259 words
  17. TRIPLETS.

    'I was called,' said a physician,' to attend triplets. The three youngsters, a few wealth old, lay aide by side in a crib, and it wag a physical impossibility to tell ...

    Article : 158 words
  18. HOW JAPANESE MEASURE DISTANCE.

    The [?] and the cho are the J panese [?]esaures of distances. The ri is equal to about two and a half English miles, and it takes thirty-six chos to make one ri. ...

    Article : 108 words
  19. AN OPEN-AIR NAP.

    Does baby take his nap in the open air ? If not, then he is missing the best tonic that nature can give him. At least, that is the popular theory at present, and it is ...

    Article : 147 words
  20. SHORT OF HOT WATER.

    Miss Flora Shaw, a correspondent of the 'London Times,' was once travelling through Africa in a bullock waggon. The sun was blazing, the bullocks were ...

    Article : 191 words
  21. DYED COFFEE BEANS.

    In Germany it is permissible to adulterate coffee. A wholesale grocer was recently tried in Hamburg, the charge against him being that be had adulterated ...

    Article : 493 words
  22. SOCIETY.

    Transatlantic Society has lately been devoting itself to costume parties, each one introducing more or less novel or startling features, but all former efforts ...

    Article : 229 words
  23. PICTURES FOR THE BLIND.

    One of the latest and most ingenious inventions for the instruction and delight of the blind is a moving picture apparatus which has just been constructed ...

    Article : 148 words
  24. PRINCE EDWARD'S FROG.

    Prince Edward of York, the little grandson of Edward VII., was recently attacked with influenza, and, being a sturdy lad, he complained bitterly ...

    Article : 208 words
  25. THE BANANA.

    The banana was named musa after Antonius Musa. the freedman and physician of the great Augustus of the Romans, says Li[?] The sapientum ...

    Article : 264 words
  26. [?]R HENRY KEPPEL.

    The harbour of Singapore—or rather, the sheltered passage behind Brant Island—has hitherto borne the name of New Harbour. In honour of Sir Henry ...

    Article : 330 words
  27. NOTE THE MIDDLE FINGER.

    One of the most peculiar members of the Lemur tribe is the aye-aye of Madagascar. In form it resembles a squirrel, in size it is equal to a large cat, and it is ...

    Article : 118 words
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