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  2. SELECTED POETRY.

    The Johannesburg correspondent of the Cape Times, writing from that place, says, 'Here every man lives in a golden mist.’ Too true, alas!—The busy hands of men ...

    Article : 170 words
  3. GREAT SINGERS AND THEIR METHODS.

    There was once a singer who possessed one good note in her voice, and an obliging composer wrote a song to accommodate that strange vocalist. ...

    Article : 1,164 words
  4. FUN AND FANCY.

    ‘Na one kens,’ says George MacDonald, 'the wiles o’ a wumman, least awa them ’at fa’s into them, but anither wumman.’ ...

    Article : 571 words
  5. WHEAT IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

    The Russian wheat supply is the controlling element in the markets this season. The Russian shippers can undersell America, and the feeble ...

    Article : 355 words
  6. COMBINATION AND CO-OPERATION.

    The Rev. J. Hill, M.A., in an address to the workers of Sydney, said:— Every combination which brings its forces to the support of any of tits ...

    Article : 785 words
  7. A CHILD'S KISS.

    He was a bounty-jumper, and he had been shot down while trying to escape from the guard-house. He was a burly big man, fierce of look and rough of ...

    Article : 511 words
  8. WHERE IS HEAVEN?

    ‘What is heaven?’ ‘Child, how can I tell Of the beauty that rests on “the city of God?” My eyes have not seen it, my feet have not ...

    Article : 138 words
  9. LADIES' COLUMN.

    'MY DEAR MILLIE,— ‘The heat and the complexion, the complexion and the heat! This is the universal refrain just now. ...

    Article : 777 words
  10. A HIDDEN CHAIN.

    He did not attempt to follow her; he felt his must have time to think; to let the terrible shook of the knowledge of her unworthiness calm down in his mind before he ...

    Article : 2,857 words
  11. NOTHING LIKE A HOUSEHOLD FLUE BRIGADE.

    Thompson’s friends tell this story of him. Thompson himself says it is exaggerated. Much disturbed by fires in the neighborhood, Thompson decided ...

    Article : 351 words
  12. MORE LIKELY TO BREAK DOWN.

    Who hasn’t hoard of the good old Deacon in America, and his idea of how a chaise should be built so as to run for ever without repairs? I dare say we all have, yet he ...

    Article : 752 words
  13. SYDNEY SMITHS APHORISMS.

    In a volume lately issued by Mr Walter Jerrold are the following-witticisms of Sydney Smith:— 'The whole story of my life has been ...

    Article : 216 words
  14. SLEEP FOR CHILDREN.

    The amount of sleep needed by children is in inverse proportion to their ages, and in direct proportion to their mental and muscular activity. ...

    Article : 294 words
  15. A CURE FOR STAMMERING.

    A gentleman who stammered from childhood almost up to manhood gives a very simple remedy for the misfortune:— Go into a room where you will be quiet ...

    Article : 250 words
  16. ONIONS AS A MEDICINE.

    Onions are a kind of all-round good medicine, and every housewife knows this without knowing why. She knows that a solid red onion, eaten at ...

    Article : 160 words
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