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  2. RETRIBUTION.

    THE following pathetio story (abridged) Is from the pen of Anna Shields,in "Old and Young":-- It was a dreary December day, cold and ...

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  3. THE MAN FROM COLOONEY

    He came to us when the last field of wheat had fallen before the irrepressible advance of the reaping machine, and consequently at a time when fresh hands were hardly wanted. ...

    Article : 2,046 words
  4. STAZZEMSKO THE MOUJIK.

    It is morning. The little moujik Stazzemsko arises, very drowsy yet. The pigeons, cooing, brush their wings fighting against the roof of yellow straw. The horses are snorling ...

    Article : 1,851 words
  5. IT WORRED

    The delegation of young men had been shown into the reception room at their employer's residence, and, when his wife entered, all rose awkwardly and seemed ill ...

    Article : 601 words
  6. NOTABILITIES WHO NEVER MARRIED.

    WILLIAM PITT remained single on the plea that he was already married to his country. It has been said that he did not once about women, but according to Lady ...

    Article : 610 words
  7. ABOUT FLEAS.

    THE perfect insects, as is well known, feed upon the blood of warm blooded animals and, as a rule, each species of flea is allotted to some particular species or ...

    Article : 389 words
  8. THE RISE OF SAN FRANCISCO.

    In January, 1848, the men who were building a sawmill at Coloma, about 200 miles from San Francisco, discovered bits of yellow metal in the flume, and fancying ...

    Article : 390 words
  9. JUST LIKE A BOY.

    WHEN a boy-- that is, a small boy-- want anything, he wants it "all over," and cans not be made to understand why be does not get it. An example of his persistency is ...

    Article : 474 words
  10. MONEY NO OBJECT.

    "I WANT a position,"he said as he entered the office "I'm sorry," said the head of the firm. " but we really have no need of any men at ...

    Article : 216 words
  11. ROYAL BANSHEES.

    ALTHOUGH the banshee is supposed to bo peculiar to Ireland, nearly every country possesses one, which is almost invariably accepted as a death omen. In Ireland, that ...

    Article : 497 words
  12. BACK TO BE SHOT.

    THE order had been issued to Paris in 1871 by the new Republican authorities, that Communist insurgents who were taken with arms in their hands, should be put to ...

    Article : 605 words
  13. HE WANTED TO BE HONEST.

    An individual accused of stealing some cloth from a tailor's shop convinced a lawyer so thoroughly of his innocence that he undertook his defence without the ...

    Article : 201 words
  14. THE FIRST YEAR OF MARRIED LIFE.

    A WOMAN should not take offence too easily. Often, indeed, the words or manner she resents were not ill meant by her has band. Some men have a hasty, brutal ...

    Article : 365 words
  15. AN INTRODUCTION.

    He was a bashful man, was Trotter. He loved Miss Budd so ardently that he was afraid to tell her so, lost his dream be resolved to ashes and smoke, and yet he ...

    Article : 228 words
  16. HOW CHINESE ARE EDUCATED.

    THE Chinese children have instilled into them at an early age habits of hard, steady study. At the age of five a boy begins his schooling. At daylight he rises, and after ...

    Article : 182 words
  17. IMPROVED.

    Furlong-- I made an ass of myself when I got married. Mrs. Furlong-- And yet you took a better half. ...

    Article : 28 words
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