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  2. MARINA'S HUSBAND.

    "Who goes there? Who enters my chamber at this hour of the night?" "Pardon, sir," said honest David, "but I have brought your coffee. The horses are in ...

    Article : 3,344 words
  3. BY-AND-BY.

    Was the parting very bitter? Was the hand-clasp very tight? Is a storm of tear drops falling From a face all sad and white? ...

    Article : 308 words
  4. A CRING LOTHARIO.

    Far out in the way of the Mexican Sierras, about one day's [?] west of Guadalupe by Calvo, the trail looking to Morales leaves the ridge along which climbs and plunges down ...

    Article : 3,419 words
  5. WHERE FRANCE MURDERS ITS CONVICTS.

    The "Isles of Safety," the isolated spot where French convicts serve sentence, comprises three small islands off the coast of French Guiana, a few degrees north of the Equator, ...

    Article : 629 words
  6. THE PUNISHMENT OF TORRIGIANA.

    Peter Torrigiana, the celebrated Florentine sculptor, who executed the fine monument of Henry VII. in Westminister Abbey, was engaged upon a statue of the Infant Jesus for a ...

    Article : 242 words
  7. AN UNREHEARSED SITUATION.

    Years ago, in what we are now pleased to call the good old "stock days," I was playing (writes Mr. Frank Harvey in the "Era Almnack") an engagement in Leeds. At that time ...

    Article : 339 words
  8. A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

    In Florida there is a creek that disappears in the ground, then flows under a high mound and at a distance of over half a mile reappears with added force and volume. This in a great fishing ...

    Article : 204 words
  9. A CHRISTMAS PIE OF THE OLDEN TIME.

    "Monday last was brought from Bowick to Berwick, to be shipp'd for London for Sir Henry Grey, Bart. a pie, the contents whereof are as follows, namely:—Two bushels of flour, 201bs. ...

    Article : 145 words
  10. THE BARGAIN WAS OFF.

    A shrewd old farmer, full of fun and mischief, once overreached a jeweller in some transactions and the jeweller complained of the way in which he had been treated. ...

    Article : 176 words
  11. A GOOD JUDGE.

    A cattle-dealer arrived in Paris the other day with the intention of having his portrait painted in oils. He applied to an artist near the Madeleine, and in concluding the bargain dwelt strongly on ...

    Article : 178 words
  12. A BALANCING STONE.

    There has been discovered at Peniunis, on the island of St. Mary's, Scilly, a logan-stone by which the well-known logan-stone of the Land's End district is cast entirely in the shade, ...

    Article : 132 words
  13. PAT'S REASON WHY.

    Two Irishmen, while driving through the country, noticed that many of the barns were ornamented with vanes in the shape of huge roosters. ...

    Article : 146 words
  14. RICH MEN'S BILLIARD TABLES.

    "Numerous fallacies are prevalent concerning the value of rich men's billiard tables," remarked Mr. G. D. Stevens, the vice-presidest of the Billiard Association, "but I don't think ...

    Article : 145 words
  15. A FAMOUS CARPET.

    In South Kensington Museum may be seen the famous carpet from the mosque of Ardebia. The price being more than the authorities of the Museum were in a petition to give for it ...

    Article : 149 words
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