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  2. PRESENT TO THE QUEEN.

    The present to the Queen of alien and lioness by the Snlten of Zanzibar, which recently arrived at the Royal Albert Docks in the British Indian Company’s steamer’ ...

    Article : 201 words
  3. A DEFINITION OF ELECTRICITY.

    Professor Galileo Ferraris, a well-known Italian physicist, has (says the Building and Engineering Journal) defined in clearer terms than have ever previously been ...

    Article : 281 words
  4. SMITH'S PATENT GATE-CATCH.

    The name of Smith recalls to my mind the image of a tall, thin man, who had a reputation for-great cleverness, as well as for unexampled obstinacy. ...

    Article : 1,067 words
  5. BANKING ANECDOTES.

    Just 200 years ago an ingenious and enterprising Scotchman, by name William Paterson, Scotchman, by the prospectus for the formation of the Bank of England. The scheme ...

    Article : 892 words
  6. SELECTED POETRY.

    Love and Borrow met in May, Crowned with me and hawthorns spray, And Sorrow smiled. Scarce a bird of all the spring ...

    Article : 214 words
  7. LADIES’ COLUMN.

    'MY DEAR MILLIE,— ‘With the first cold breath come the first thought of evening dress, but with the thought of evening dress come other ...

    Article : 921 words
  8. A LIVE CORPSE.

    The Irish Himes publishes the particulars of an extraordinary case of trance which was mistaken for death. Recently a young man, agedtwenty-two, named Garrigan, ...

    Article : 153 words
  9. CHANGED THE SENTIMENT.

    It was at an entertainment given to a boys’ club. Under the supervision of some kind ladies the reader was to recite Scott’s stirring poem, ‘Lochinvar.’ ...

    Article : 212 words
  10. A COUNTRY SWEETHEART

    Three days later they carried young Philip Temple to his grave, and the new heir came to Woodlea as a mourner. His uncle had written to John Temple to tell him of the ...

    Article : 3,498 words
  11. IT BROKE THE ENGAGEMENT.

    ‘Do yon know why Louise’s engagement to that Mr Oddman is broken?’ asked the girl in pink lawn of the girl in brown duck, as they paced the beach. ...

    Article : 165 words
  12. THE WAY TO ANSWER ILLEGIBLE LETTERS.

    When you get an illegible letter from a friend, don’t lose your temper and write him a scathing rebuke. Just sit down in a good humor and concoct one like this of Mr T. B. ...

    Article : 209 words
  13. GOOSEBERRY AND RED CURRANT WINE.

    The following recipe is a very good one. The quantity made may he increased or[?]decreased in proportion as desired:— Take 301 b of gooseberries and 10ib red ...

    Article : 166 words
  14. THREE FORTUNATE WOMEN.

    We will introduce you to the oldest one first. Her name is Mrs Jessie Bussell, and she lives near the city of New York, in America. She was born in London in 1787, ...

    Article : 761 words
  15. TWO CLEVER STATESMEN.

    The author of ‘Twenty Years in Parliament’ says that Lord Palmerston had a natural buoyancy which his opponents called audacity, but which seldom failed to jerk ...

    Article : 233 words
  16. SOME SHERIDAN STORIES.

    The revival on the stage of The School for Scandal’ has caused the name of its author to be once more in the mouths of men. Perhaps the most curious account of him, and ...

    Article : 475 words
  17. SHE WAS A NERVOUS WOMAN.

    ‘At one time in my early practice in a country town,' said a dentist the other day ‘there came to me a very nervous woman to have a tooth extracted. She carried on so ...

    Article : 446 words
  18. QUEER STUFF THAT A DOCKER HANDLES.

    We work among awful stuff sometimes,’ said a dock laborer. Guano is disagreeable, owing to the smell. Cement affects the chest. When unloading pitch we wear ...

    Article : 325 words
  19. A QUESTION FOR A DEBATING SOCIETY.

    The following question was lately put to a debating society:— Gentlemen,’ said the secretary, ‘ sup posing there were 100 ears of corn in a barn, ...

    Article : 181 words
  20. THE PUNSTER AND THE CHEMIST.

    ‘I want some consecrated lye,' he slowly announced as he entered the chemist’s shop. ‘You mean concentrated lye,’ suggested ...

    Article : 179 words
  21. DR JOWETT AND THE WASHER-WOMAN.

    Some years ago the Balliol College washerwomen struck for a higher rate of wages. After several meetings they arranged to call on the master, Dr Jowett, in a body. ...

    Article : 229 words
  22. PAYMENT IN KIND.

    A traveller who had put up for a week at a largo hotel in Cologne, [?]quested the traitor to let him have his bill every morning. The first day’s account was pretty ...

    Article : 251 words
  23. HIS NEW HAT.

    A distinguished preacher, of somewhat arbitary manners, wan engaged to preach in Belgravia, and purchased anew hat for the occasion. He was met outside his residence ...

    Article : 173 words
  24. ORIGINAL, AT ALL EVENTS.

    A young countryman was hired by a family who were in extreme want of a footman. He was a most friendly person, as willing ...

    Article : 158 words
  25. BUILDING UP BUSINESS.

    'Mr Bong,’ said the secretary of the Fearful Accident Insurance Company, ‘ be sure and drop in at old Curmudge’s as you pass this morning, and express your sympathy ...

    Article : 143 words
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