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  2. A WIFE'S EFFECTUAL TREATMENT.

    A young wife had just settled in her new house. All seemed fair and promising, but one night her husband came home very late and staggered into the house. His wife was ...

    Article : 422 words
  3. Sermon for Sunday.

    The children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.--1 Chron. xii. 32. A great tribe, that tribe Issachar. When ...

    Article : 2,180 words
  4. PARIS CHIEF OF POLICE OUTWITTED.

    Some years ago the contraband trade in Swiss watches was carried to such an excess that the Paris Chief of Police considered himself called upon to make a great exertion ...

    Article : 557 words
  5. THE FALL OF ADAM.

    In the village of Newhaven, there lived a fisherman of the name of Adam L----, who, upon the birth of his first child, called Dr. Johnson, the worthy minister of the ...

    Article : 352 words
  6. DOING AND DONE IN AMERICA.

    There is a sheriff in Illinois who was rather taken in, on one occasion, and done for. He made it a prominent part of his business to ferret out and punish pedlars for travelling ...

    Article : 413 words
  7. AN ELEVATOR INCIDENT.

    Two women wandered into a building on Grand-avenue and halted near the elevator. They saw the place was nicely carpeted and contained comfortable scats, and one of ...

    Article : 284 words
  8. WIVES SUPPLIED TO ORDER.

    In the old days when the English-speaking race was gradually spreading itself over the world, the men who settled in out-of-the-way places either had to live a bachelor life ...

    Article : 277 words
  9. Sunday Studies.

    For some time to come a short list of questions will be placed at the foot of our sermon column, intended for Sunday study. The questions will be asked so that answers may ...

    Article : 263 words
  10. THE BEST GIFT.

    The sermon was ended, the music low swelled, And louder its resonance grow; As the tinkling chimes of the silvered dimes, ...

    Article : 193 words
  11. STARVING OUT A DEBTOR

    Many queer stories are told of the persistence and clever devices of the collectors of bad debts; but even a professional humorist would find it hard to invent ...

    Article : 295 words
  12. HOW HE OBTAINED A GOOD AUDIENCE.

    "Now, then, ladies and gents," shouted the red-faced showman, "walk hup, and see the most wonderful baby on earth! The charge of admission is only one penny! ...

    Article : 153 words
  13. THE STOLEN PIG.

    Whether "a lie well told and stuck to afterwards is as good as the truth" was debated at the dinner table where a "Lewinston (Mc.) Journal" man was sitting one day. ...

    Article : 323 words
  14. THE BREACH WAS SERIOUS.

    The fair young thing had only been married a short time, and she was in tears when she sought the home of her parents again. "It's all over," she told her mother. ...

    Article : 175 words
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  16. ABSENT-MINDED, VERY.

    A number of sailors were recently taking their ease and grog, when the subject turned on absent-mindedness. Some of the yarns were, of coarse, a trifle. ...

    Article : 183 words
  17. A "TALL" STORY.

    Not long since, when several physicians had met, the conversation ran to the subject of the extraordinary things which a human being might swallow and still live. ...

    Article : 197 words
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  19. PROVISION FOR THE CAT.

    This is an extract from the will of a Frenchman who died in 18[?]:--"I bequeath all my property to Madame X., subject to an annuity to be paid by her to Madame G., on ...

    Article : 122 words
  20. OUR FIRST PRINTED BIBLE.

    Coverdale's Bible was the first complete printed English Bible. Its printer is uncertain; the dispute as to his identity is a warm one. Owing to one of those early ...

    Article : 221 words
  21. THAT SETTLED IT.

    A story is told of a very popular cavalry officer. He was being tried for drunkenness and among other witnesses was his Irish soldier servant. The Court, anxious to give ...

    Article : 149 words
  22. RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD MAIDS.

    A very curious set of statistics was recently compiled from the combined recollections of 32 maiden ladies and 45 military officers, all resident in the county town of one of the ...

    Article : 173 words
  23. THE FIRST CHANCE.

    Not very long ago, in one of our garrison stations in the Mediterranean, died a sergeant, who, by the way, was a married man. The funeral took place duly, when most of ...

    Article : 109 words
  24. YOU CAN FLOAT.

    If only people would not lose their presence of mind when an accident occurs many fatalities might be prevented. There are many persons who have never learned to ...

    Article : 146 words
  25. SEALSKIN FROM RABBITS.

    The bumble bunny is made to yield sealskin in large quantities, to make up for the deficiency in the real thing, which has now become scarcer and scarcer. A few hundred ...

    Article : 137 words
  26. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

    Every girl has an idea that other girls don't realise how homely they are. The devil hasn't much opinion of a sin that isn't considered highly respectable. ...

    Article : 133 words
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