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  2. PING PONG; OR PARLOUR TENNIS.

    Mr Walter Harrison, Honorary Secretary of the Cavendish Table Tennis Club, writes in the current issue of the "Windsor Magazine": ...

    Article : 1,167 words
  3. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Use lemon-juice and salt to remove iron-rust, ink, and mildew on white goods. Caster-oil nixed with tallow and ...

    Article : 355 words
  4. THE INFLUENCE OF A HUMANE WOMAN ON A ROUGH CROWD.

    It was nothing but a yelping street our, whose leg hid been run over by a passing waggon, but if had a voice pathetic and shrill enough to wake the dead. ...

    Article : 640 words
  5. THE VALUE TO THE WORLD OF FINDING THE NORTH POLE.

    The use of the Polar exploration is not that it promises any immediate return of food, or gold or land, but that it adds to the sum of human ...

    Article : 193 words
  6. A GRAVEYARD ADVENTURE.

    "Then, boys, I suppose I have to go?" I addressed the party with a cheerful tone of affected indifference, i[?] hopes that some one among the number, more fond ...

    Article : 1,735 words
  7. THEN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN.

    A young subaltern of Scotch nationality was one day on guard with another officer at Gibraltar, when the latter fell over a rock and was killed. ...

    Article : 151 words
  8. WHERE HE STOPPED.

    An old fellow who had taken the pledge, but whose practice it was shrewdly suspected, did not keep pace with his profession, was twitted one ...

    Article : 94 words
  9. WILLINGLY PAID.

    On the journey from Vienna to St. Petersburg a thought-reader entertained his fellow-travellers by reading their thoughts. One of the ...

    Article : 172 words
  10. BRUIN DRINKS TOO MUCH.

    The methods pursued when Russians go bear-hunting may not appear very sportsman-like from our point of view but they are nevertheless efficacious ...

    Article : 216 words
  11. THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN.

    A famous direr, tells singular stories of his adventures when making search in the deep waters of the ocean. He gives the following sketch of what he saw on ...

    Article : 471 words
  12. HUMOROUS ITEMS.

    He (fervently): "You are the only girl I have ever loved." She: "Ah! What lots of fun you have before you!" ...

    Article : 508 words
  13. IN THE CONSERVATORY.

    "Very interesting conversation in here?" asked papa, suddenly thrusting his head through the window where Ethel, Mr. Tomkins, and little ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. A FRENCH BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

    A young couple were about to be united, the banns had been made public, cards sent out to the friends, and the wedding-dress had received the finishing touches of the ...

    Article : 205 words
  15. THE REASON OF IT.

    Mrs. Sweet: "I find it ever so much more economical to do my own cooking. I even make the pastry." Mrs. New: "And so do I, dear, ...

    Article : 84 words
  16. A MISUNDERSTANDING.

    In a few remote villages there still exist old-fashioned people whose hands go up in horror at the sight of a lady cyclist clad in the rational costume. ...

    Article : 215 words
  17. MIRRORS THAT CAN BE SEEN THROUGH.

    This is a new invention, and one that will doubtless become popular. These mirrors are of so-called platinized glass, being backed by a ...

    Article : 210 words
  18. DIAMONDS INCREASING IN VALUE.

    The world's stock of diamonds has increased enormously. In 1876 the output of the African mines was about 1,500,000 carats; in 1869 it was over 4,000,000, and the ...

    Article : 218 words
  19. HASTY MARRIAGES.

    Better too long a courtship than a short one. Undue haste often results in unspeakable misery in matrimonial alliances. Love is proverbially blind; he is more ...

    Article : 276 words
  20. WHAT HE OUGHT TO GIVE.

    In anything that tends to the well-being of the toilers, Lord Roseberry is the soul of generosity. Not long ago on the platform of a ...

    Article : 179 words
  21. AN EXAMPLE.

    It was a sultry afternoon, and the teacher of the geography class was endeavouring to get a few good answers before closing the lesson. ...

    Article : 131 words
  22. "COME, LOVE, COME!"

    A pensive young mail, while singing, "Come, love, come," beneath his Dulcinea's window, the other night had love, music, wind, and everything else knocked ...

    Article : 77 words
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