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  2. YOUTHS AND MAIDENS.

    We met but once, my lady fair—To mention where I am forbidden—It was at tea—ah! what despair In one sweet cup for me lay hidden! ...

    Article : 1,101 words
  3. NATURE'S COMPASS

    The many different methods to determine the cardinal points while on the mountains, in both heavy timber and small bush, or upon the featureless expanse of a great marsh, ...

    Article : 711 words
  4. WHAT JULIEN DREAMED.

    Julian is a ten-year-old boy, with blue eyes und rosy cheeks. He is what we call a regular boy. He pretends that he is a General and walks about the yard with a very ...

    Article : 970 words
  5. LEGEND OF AU SABLE CHASM.

    One pitch black night about tan years after the storm that had demolished the bridge a stranger drew up his horse in front of the tavern ...

    Article : 540 words
  6. INTELLIGENCE IN ANIMALS

    If animals can furnish sufficient instances of affection, reason, memory, imagination, and so on, they may establish their classification as kindred of the human, though as ...

    Article : 1,399 words
  7. MET OH THE TRAIN

    A quiet-looking young man who had been for some time reading a magazine on a Western railroad train laid it aside, and was about to make himself comfortable for a ...

    Article : 842 words
  8. SURVEYING BY BICYCLE

    The newest use of the bicycle is as a surverying machine. Not merely a machine to carry a surveyor from point to point, but as a machine which performs in itself ...

    Article : 777 words
  9. A CAPITAL BY ACCIDENT

    Nature never intended Berlin for anything but a provincial town. It has been made into the capital of a great Empire deliberately of malice aforethought. It has, in fact, been ...

    Article : 233 words
  10. TALES TOLD OUT OF SCHOOL.

    School examinations and composition writing produce funny results the world over. An Austrian teacher has recently published in Vienna a book called "Humour ...

    Article : 297 words
  11. FRUIT A FINE FOOD.

    A great social change may be traced in the host of shops that have lately sprung up for the sale of sweets, tea, and fruit. All of these point with an unerring finger towards a ...

    Article : 312 words
  12. EQUAL TO THE OCCASION.

    A Punxsutawney girl was out biking the other day with a Punxsutawney young man. They were six miles from home on a country road. ...

    Article : 151 words
  13. PERTINENT QUESTION.

    Old Aunt Dinah was a coloured woman with a remarkably strong roice, who would sing and cry "glory," with such rigour as to be heard above all the rest of the ...

    Article : 170 words
  14. TEA FROM ANT OTHER LEAF.

    Of course, everyone knows that under the name of "tea" we drink a good deal that is quite innocent of the real leaf. But there are several "teas" that are known not to be ...

    Article : 175 words
  15. WILD BEASTS FED ON SNATCHED BODIES.

    There is something very revolting in these extracts from an old newspaper, and we can scarcely realise that the events happened last century:—May 6th, 1765—On Saturday ...

    Article : 192 words
  16. A GOOD WIFE BUT A STRANGER.

    The sister-in-law of a celebrated artist who died recently tells the following story:—She met a farmer friend one day and said to him, "I hear, John, that your're lately ...

    Article : 271 words
  17. A CURIOUS LEGACY.

    An extraordinary legacy was that bequeathed to his fellow citizens by Father La Loque, of Paris. At his death his body was found in an attic of the Quartier de ...

    Article : 304 words
  18. A NORWEGIAN GIRL'S MARRIAGE

    When a Norwegian girl is married the feast takes place at her father's house, though, as a people, they love to hold their merrymakings out of doors, and of late years ...

    Article : 167 words
  19. A HAUNTED CHURCHYARD.

    Kelvedon Churchyard has an ancient tree standing on the south side of the church which has long enjoyed the reputation of being haunted. This story arose from the fact ...

    Article : 116 words
  20. STILL UNSATISFIED.

    "Henrietta." said Mr. Mcekton. "there is one thine that I wish to cay to you frankly. There is one subject over which I do not desire any shadow of doubt to fall. ...

    Article : 101 words
  21. A HEAP O' TROUBLE.

    Over in the mountainous parts of West Virginia is a happy, contented people, whose World is bounded by the pine-clad peaks around them. Occasionally travellers find ...

    Article : 206 words
  22. MOST IMPORTANT.

    "Yes," she said confidentially to her dearest friend, "it's all settled. We're to be married about the middle of next month. We're practically made all our ...

    Article : 162 words
  23. DUGS AND BIRDS ON BICYCLES.

    It may surprise many to learn that there actually exist a large number of animals and birds which derive almost as much enjoyment as human cyclists from trips on the ...

    Article : 156 words
  24. PUBLIC SCHOOL REBELLIONS.

    It is a queer thing that at almost everyone of the big English public schools there has at some time or another been a regular rebellion against all authority. There is a record of a ...

    Article : 142 words
  25. COSTUMED FOR THE PART.

    Husband: My dear, these trousers are frayed at the bottom. Wife: They are the best you've got, John, except year dress trousers. ...

    Article : 75 words
  26. SPLENDID IDEA.

    Mrs. Dorcas: I do think the "Ladies' Spare Time" is the bast magazine I ever saw. In the current number it shows you how to make a lovely pair of slippers out of ...

    Article : 78 words
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