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  2. 13, TRISTRAM-STREET.

    I engaged my apartments [?] 13, Tristam-street, solely on the recommendations of the [?]dlady's appearance and conversation. Of the former I had some experience. For ...

    Article : 1,553 words
  3. MARRIED IF NOT MATED.

    There was a young woman of Kent. And to the bank teller she went. "See here!" she exclaimed, As in anger she flamed. ...

    Article : 1,112 words
  4. NEW YEAR CUSTOMS OVER THE BORDER.

    The last day of the year has long been celebrated as a high festival among the Scotch, who would appear to reserve their Yuletide rejoicing until now—a custom which has ...

    Article : 770 words
  5. A RUSSIA WEDDING.

    The bride and bridegroom in a Russian wedding have so many parts to play that the wonder is they are able to get through the complicated ceremonies of the Greek Church ...

    Article : 822 words
  6. PREVENTING A SUICIDE.

    "Well, I would hardly be willing to say," responded the physician to an inquiry made by one of a group of listeners, says the "Washington Star," "that a man who ...

    Article : 662 words
  7. PIANOS PRESENT AND FUTURE.

    No more hammers in planes. The old-fashioned method of pounding music out of wires by the aid of a wonderfully complicated system of levers and keys which all the ...

    Article : 735 words
  8. HIS DREAM CAME TRUE.

    An old Georgia darkey bad a dream, and in that dream he saw an iron vessel at the roots of a dead oak tree, and the vessel was filled with silver dollars. He had great faith ...

    Article : 285 words
  9. A FREAK OF NATURE.

    Probably one of the most peculiar things in nature is a group of trees growing from the apex of the court-house tower at Greensburg, Indiana. " It is the only thing of ...

    Article : 472 words
  10. HOW TO CROW PLUMP AND NERVE STRONG.

    A physician writes; "I insist [?] my wife, a person of nervous Temperament who exhausts her energy every day, often needlessly, shall remain in her room at least ...

    Article : 256 words
  11. THE BIGGEST WEDDING EVER KNOWN

    On the day that Alexander the Great was married no fewer than 20,202 persons in one ceremony were made husbands and wires. This seems impossible, but the event really ...

    Article : 236 words
  12. GRAINS OF GOLD.

    Vanity is the only intellectual enjoyment of many people. Pride is the Brat weed to grow in the haman heart, and the last to be eradicated. ...

    Article : 170 words
  13. HEREDITARY GARMENTS.

    It seems remarkable indeed in this age of cheap clothing, and of suits "This style, 32s. 6d;" but there yet are many villages in rural England where respectable men of the ...

    Article : 154 words
  14. AN UNEXPECTED FLIGHT.

    A lady on Staten Island had a green Irish girl for a waitress. After training the girl for a month, the lady ventured to invite two very dignified people to dinner. For two ...

    Article : 150 words
  15. BOY AND BABY.

    He is a very young boy. He is the age when a lotty contempt for the opposite set manifests itself; the contempt which usually finds merciless retribution in later years. ...

    Article : 233 words
  16. MONEY FROM SUNFLOWERS.

    A Long Island farmer, who had more land than he knew what to do with, has put forty acres into sunflower cultivation. A fine table oil is made from the sunflower ...

    Article : 142 words
  17. DARBY AND JOAN.

    A novel wedding took place at Christ Church, Bexley-heath, Kent, the other day, the bridegroom being 80 and the bride 65. Both are inmates of the Foresters' Asylum ...

    Article : 113 words
  18. THE LAWYER'S PLAN.

    Mr. N—, a struggling lawyer in a small town in Ohio, received a call from a farmer who wanted legal advice. Mr. N— took down a much used volume from his small ...

    Article : 117 words
  19. THEATRE-GOING IN JAPAN.

    The Japanese laws now prohibit a theatrical performance lasting more than eight hours. The plays in the first class theatre begin at ten or eleven, and are not ended ...

    Article : 224 words
  20. ALUMINIUM WALL PAPER.

    The uses of aluminium do not seem to have been exhausted yet. It is now coming into use in the decoration of wall papers, many beautiful conceptions being shown in which ...

    Article : 113 words
  21. A DREADFUL DREAM.

    There was great rings under the eyes of the President of the University. His cheeks were pallid and his lips were dry and crackled. ...

    Article : 154 words
  22. GARDENS IN SHIPS.

    To sow in the temperate zone, and reap between the tropics, is a somewhat singular thing. Yet in 1833 it was constantly done; for our great East India ships, in imitation of ...

    Article : 160 words
  23. A JUST COMPLAINT.

    The cook—"Arrag, mum! Of wish ye'd kape out uv the kitchen, entoirely!" The mistress (faintly)—"I only wish to make a few biscuits for my husband's ...

    Article : 148 words
  24. TEA OR COFFEE?

    If there is wisdom in a multitude of tongues no doubt the best of all beverages is tea. It is computed that five hundred million people drink tea, one hundred millions drink ...

    Article : 100 words
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