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  2. A WRONGED WOMAN.

    When [?] and Edith Varoon were married all their friends were delighted. Everything promised exceptional happiness—love, social standing, ample means. Yet these ...

    Article : 1,731 words
  3. THE SABLE STAR.

    It was tiffin-hour at Dutoitspan. On the step of the hotel half-a-daren men were distributed in lounge-chairs and picturesque altitude, waiting for the bell to summon them ...

    Article : 1,273 words
  4. A SWORD DUEL IN PARIS.

    The two most conspicuous forcing masters of Paris, M. Vigeant and M. Rue, quarreled the other day over a letter which the letter published in the "Figaro," criticising Vigeant's ...

    Article : 1,162 words
  5. THE SULTAN'S WRETCHED LIFE.

    Latest reports from America represent the Sultan's Christian subjects as suffering terrible hardships. It is doubtful, however, if their lot is much more unhappy than that of their ...

    Article : 586 words
  6. A NEW BOOK OF ANECDOTES.

    Mr. Howard Paul has brought out a book of reminiscences which is both new and entertaining. Dinner shows many celebrities at thier best—the circumstances make even mediocre talkers ...

    Article : 778 words
  7. SWORDS TO SHARPEN THE APPETITE.

    Chevalier Cliquot, who is now engaged in the appetising occupation of putting swords, watches, and incandescent lamps into his inside at the Westminster Aquarium, has been telling ...

    Article : 770 words
  8. TRICKS OF TRADE.

    Clerk: Lady in front caught stealing goods. What shall we do? Proprietor of Shop: How is she dressed? Clerk: Furs and diamonds. ...

    Article : 49 words
  9. IN WHIST.

    No matter what your partner does Remain urbane and bland, Don't even say his game is one You cannot understand ...

    Article : 135 words
  10. CAUGHT.

    It in not always the practise of pretty women to wear a veil. A barrister not unknown was going home the other day on the Upper ground Railway. By his side sat a lady, whom, ...

    Article : 143 words
  11. A RUSSIAN SNOW-BLIZZARD.

    I was perforce detained here by a snow-blizzard, during which no case man would start on a journey. These Russian snow-blizzards are terrible [?] of Nature's wrath, ...

    Article : 302 words
  12. A COOL HAND.

    Robespierre, is making out the list of his victims for the guillotine, wrote down the name of Jean Lambert Tallien with a slow hand, that shaped each letter with a firm distinctness, ...

    Article : 44 words
  13. THE MODERN VALENTINE AND A BORN DIPLOMAT.

    "If you give this packet, Tommy, to your sister, I'll give you a shilling." "All right, I'll make her give me two shillings before she gets it." ...

    Article : 38 words
  14. IN PRAISE OF AUSTIN.

    Herr Max Nordau contribute to the "Neue Freie Presse" as article on Mr. Austin, whom he considers "the most perfect embodiment of Anglo-Saxonism in the literature of our time; ...

    Article : 93 words
  15. GIPSY SUPERSTITIONS.

    To See a wolf both at the same time is the greatest luck that can befall a pair of gipsy lovers. Birds appear to be deemed ominous, and, as a rule, to bring misfortune. ...

    Article : 233 words
  16. A PRIVILEGED PERSON.

    Princess Mathilde is one of the few Catholics who are entitled to eat meat during lent by a special decree of the Pope. This dispensation was accorded in her under peculiar ...

    Article : 151 words
  17. A COSTER'S SPILL.

    At the Bromptes County Court, Judge Stonor has had an amusing case before him Edwin Adams, a Hammersmith coster, brought as action against the London General Omnibus ...

    Article : 472 words
  18. BAKHAM AND THE BARREL ORGAN.

    AS Mr. Barham, of Lamehouse, is only a stevendore at the docks, it is not probable that he is will versed to medieval Italian history or [?] with the fact that the [?] ...

    Article : 464 words
  19. POPE LEO XIII.

    In mannar, as well as appearance, the reigning Pontiff offers a striking, and in more than one respect advantageous, contrast to his immediate predecessor. Pius IX., of whom, ...

    Article : 382 words
  20. THE GAMIN AND THE MATCH.

    Tony Willis, one of the "Pickaninnies" with Canary and [?] New York Casino success, "The Passing Show," while walking down Market-street in San Francisco recently ...

    Article : 317 words
  21. A SYMPATHETIC ORDER.

    Policemen are generally by nature philanthropic, and any rate member of the force who may lack that attractive virtue is now requested to be so by order of the Metropolitan ...

    Article : 168 words
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