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  3. CHICOT'S LITTLE CASK.

    Monsieur Chicot, innkeeper of Eperville, stopped his tilbury in front of Mother Magloire's farm. Twenty times he had tried to buy it, but ...

    Article : 1,286 words
  4. IN DISGRACE.

    Bertha Deane opened her eyes with a start. Had she dreamed, or did someone speak her name in tones of displeasure? No, it was not a dream ; Madam Weston was standing, tall "What does this mean?" madam's stern voice demanded. "The rules of the seminary require all lights to be out by ten, yet when I make my customary rounds I find gas jets ...

    Article : 1,506 words
  5. A NIGHT ON THE PRINCE'S YACHT.

    A telegram from Sir Francis Knollys, saying that the Prince of Wales invited me to dine and sleep on board the Osborne, took me to Cowes one Friday afternoon. ...

    Article : 952 words
  6. THE STORY OF A GREAT PICTURE.

    In his first genre pictures, Meissonier followed the traditions which were in force in his youth in the French schools of painting. First bits of detail, carefully studied from nature or from ...

    Article : 946 words
  7. THE VENGEANCE OF THE GODS.

    "Do you take this woman to be your lawful Wife?" The breezes stirred the bank of palms in the chancel and softly caressed the massive pillars ...

    Article : 2,423 words
  8. STATUARY COBBLER.

    In an old church in the town of Truro, Cornwall, there is a large massive monument, which is erected to the memory of John Roberts, Esq., who died in 1614. It was originally decorated ...

    Article : 206 words
  9. THE SUN'S TERRIFIC HEAT.

    We believe that we are speaking the truth when we say that there is not more than one person in each ten thousand of our readers who has anything like a correct idea of what ...

    Article : 215 words
  10. THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE.

    Elias Home almost beggared himself before he discovered where the eye of the needle of a sewing machine should be located. His original idea was to follow the model of the eye at the ...

    Article : 228 words
  11. ROMANCE IN A REGIMENT.

    A rather romantic circumstance attended the departure of the 1st Light Infantry Regiment of the British German Legion, which left Spithead for Balaclava on Tuesday. On Monday ...

    Article : 217 words
  12. "MAGNIFICENT SIGHT."

    An old engine-driver was getting his eyesight tasted by a doctor who lived in a house facing a common. The doctor used to say to his patients, "Look over there and tell me what ...

    Article : 162 words
  13. A KINGS NARROW ESCAPE.

    A short time ago the King of Sweden had a remarkable escape. His Majesty was reclining on a sofa in his palace. He arose to go to his study, and had hardly reached the door when a ...

    Article : 68 words
  14. A WOMAN BURIED BY WOMEN.

    One of the most remarkable funerals on record took blace in the United States lately. It was that of a Miss Bertha Rose, and she was buried entirely by women, Miss Rose was 22 ...

    Article : 139 words
  15. SPARTAN LAWS.

    Among tho Spartans one kind of theft was encouraged, and even recognised by the law, and by the consent of the citizens, and that was their stealing herbs or roots from the ...

    Article : 284 words
  16. SOME MISQUOTATIONS.

    An interesting book might be written on misquotations. Two or three typical ones occur to [?] at the moment. Butler's He that complies against his will ...

    Article : 215 words
  17. THE SCOTCH JAILS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY.

    It would be difficult to exaggerate the, condition of the Scotch prisons prior to 1835. It will be found described by Lord Cookburn in his "Circuit Journeys," and Scott hit it all off ...

    Article : 227 words
  18. THOSE TERRORS IN GREEN.

    A collecting agency in the State of Maine is employing a scheme that is said to be a great success in bringing slow-paying doctors to time. ...

    Article : 135 words
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