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  2. HET.

    I was on some Government duty last year in New Sooth Wales that took me into the local post-offices In the back parlor of the Gundaro (Post-office I had a long chat with the son ...

    Article : 4,190 words
  3. Go Thou and Do Likewise.

    There was, once upon a time, a man who kept a store and sold goods wholesale and retail. And he became melancholy, because ...

    Article : 663 words
  4. Agricultural, & c.

    An average egg weighs about 1,000 grains, divided as follows: Shell 107, white 604, and yellow 289. It is said that there are over two thousand ...

    Article : 514 words
  5. Mr. and Mrs. Bowser.

    All husbands find fault with their meals. I know this to be true, because Mr. Bowser says so. I think it nothing strange when Mr. Bowser sits down to his dinner and ...

    Article : 942 words
  6. Curious Postal Gleanings.

    Many curiously addressed letters in poetry and prose have passed through the post of the old country. Several of the rhyming directions are remarkable for the poetical ...

    Article : 505 words
  7. The Amateur Conjurer.

    A Young gentleman, with a medium-sized brown moustache, and a suit of clothes such as fashionable tailors sometimes furnish to their customers "on accommodating terms" ...

    Article : 531 words
  8. SOME OF THE ADVANTAGES OF PLANTING GRAPEVINES WIDELY APART.

    Those conversant with the business know that in the old method of planting a vineyard the vines were set about six feet apart each way. Some were set closer, even down ...

    Article : 518 words
  9. Facetiae.

    The banjo-player generally manage to pick a living somewhere. After the sleeveless bodice will come the skirtless skirt, and then—Lord deliver us. ...

    Article : 596 words
  10. A Very Tough Town.

    Brother M'Whacker's Experiences in a Mining Camp.—"Livermore is about as hard a town as ever I struck," said the Rev. Samuel M'Whacker of Tombstone ...

    Article : 502 words
  11. "B.B."

    A shrewd epicurean, who used frequently to dine at the bouse of a country gentleman —very wealthy, very fond of good eating, very mean and selfish—noticed that when ...

    Article : 186 words
  12. Beer as a Means of Health.

    The following remarkable testimony, says the Journal of Commerce, to the value of beer as a means of health, is worthy of a transfer to these columns:- ...

    Article : 431 words
  13. Origin of a Famous Song.

    Once over the bar at its entrance from the gulf, the Suwanee river holds its way with a deep current, in places of forty feet, far up through the forests of the best hard pine in ...

    Article : 197 words
  14. Found Out.

    Silence is not always a proof of wisdom, though often it is a sign of it. Here is a story of a gentleman who had a son who was not particularly bright, and always ...

    Article : 180 words
  15. Small for His Age.

    Young Mother: "What do you think of the little darling, Major Boots?" Major Boots, of the militia: "Well—er —isn't he rather small?" ...

    Article : 62 words
  16. A Capacious Swallow.

    A man from the back-blocks stood watching a performance on a slide trombone. Suddenly seizing a companion's arm, the countryman excitedly exclaimed: "For the ...

    Article : 80 words
  17. Out of Consideration for Him.

    "My dear," said an elderly lady, "you should have thanked that gentleman who so kindly gave you his seat." "My failure to thank him, mamma, was ...

    Article : 74 words
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