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  2. A DYING LOVER'S MARRIAGE.

    She was a charming maiden, slendor and girlish, though full twenty. Her eyes ware a liquid brown, shaded by long, curling jetty lashes, She was sweet as a rose, and she know ...

    Article : 2,072 words
  3. THE GEM FINDERS.

    It was near 11 o'clock when the two partics stealthily approaches to within one hundred yards of the blacks' camp. The cover of vegetation did not extend any ...

    Article : 2,544 words
  4. STORIES OF THE CLIFFS.

    On the hill-tops in the Devon Bay which stretches from Beer Head to Otterton Point the road is flat and level--the remains of the ancient plain which the waters have scooped away on ...

    Article : 966 words
  5. THE ROMANCE OF A GREAT DIAMOND.

    The wonderful stone which is called, in honour of Count Orioff, its first European purchaser, the "Orioff diamond," has had a most extraordinary history, which must add ...

    Article : 470 words
  6. "TWELVE HUNDRED MILES IN A WAGGON."

    In her book, published under this title, Miss Balfour describes how she and three friends--Mr. and Mrs. Albert Grey and Mr. F. H Fitz william--started for the South African ...

    Article : 1,396 words
  7. Great Inventions that Were Laughed At.

    Inventors whose endeavors to benefit tho human race are now only rewarded with sneers may take courage from the fact that what have proved to be the grandest discoveries and ...

    Article : 678 words
  8. THE MUSIC OF THE AMERICAN JINGO.

    Twist, twist, O twist the lion's tall! I love to heir him gnash his teeth and roar; I love to listen to his angry wail Go echoing from shore to shore. ...

    Article : 195 words
  9. LITTLE LUCY PERKINS.

    "Is this the literary editor ? " The horse reporter looked up and discovered a young lady standing in the doorway. " No, madams," he replied "the literary editor is ...

    Article : 612 words
  10. A DANGEROUS DREAMER.

    A young married couple lived happily together. One morning, however, the young woman was very morose at the breakfast table, and behaved in a most extraordinary way. The ...

    Article : 98 words
  11. Quite Another Matter.

    Dr. Liddell's morning levees were crowded beyond description. It was his pride and boast that lie could feel his patient's pulse, look at his tongue, sound him with a ...

    Article : 154 words
  12. A STORY FROM GLASGOW.

    A Glasgow jeweller named Muirhead tells a queer story. Borne little time ago an elderly man called at his shop, and said that he had come for his watch, which had been left to be ...

    Article : 178 words
  13. One to the Yankee.

    A celebrated American draught-player, when on a visit to London, had the following little encounter with one of the City defenders. Having missed his way said to a ...

    Article : 162 words
  14. WHY NOT, INDEED?

    Dr. Abernethy rarely met his match on one occasion he fairly owned be had. He was sent for by an innkeeper who had a quarrel with his wife, who had scarred his face with her mails, ...

    Article : 117 words
  15. WHIMS OF CELEBRITIES.

    Madame do Steel, so justly celebrated for her brilliant conversational powers, when engaged in talking always held in her band a twig, a flower, or a strip of paper, which she twisted ...

    Article : 302 words
  16. A SUCCESSFUL TRICK.

    During the war a quantity of personal property belonging to a resident at Washington was seized and confiscated by the United States. For years the original owner made repeated ...

    Article : 231 words
  17. Not Soldierlike.

    An Irish soldier, serving our Queen in the st regiment of foot, was one day on parade at the Curragh Camp. Larry Lonergan was every inch a soldier, but paid scant attention ...

    Article : 119 words
  18. He Could Snap Them.

    The other morning a tramp, who had been out all night, called upon an old acquaintance following the trade of a baker in town. The latter, busy with the morning batch, ...

    Article : 194 words
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