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  2. The Sketcher.

    When civilisation has advanced by a few more leaps and bounds. 1 sincerely hope that the evil practice of minding other people's business will be made an ...

    Article : 1,078 words
  3. The B.I.S.N. Company.

    The following interesting passage relatiing to the origin of the British India Steam Navigation Company is from Mr. Marlineau's "ife of Sir Bartle Frere": ...

    Article : 502 words
  4. A DEADLY DENOUEMENT.

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    Article : 1,693 words
  5. Pith and Point.

    It is easy to see, hard to foresee. He had a face like a benediction. All habits gather by unseen degrees. You may imitate, but never ...

    Article : 538 words
  6. The Home.

    These, like Topsy, seem to have "just growed," and to have been the invention of no one. In the good old times "when Adam ...

    Article : 205 words
  7. Spray.

    Mrs. Frank Leslie has again arrived in England, and here is an extract from an interview with her in the "London American":—" Do I expect to see my ...

    Article : 122 words
  8. A Life of Devotion.

    Mile Pauline de Grandpre Probably knows more of the prison life of French women than any one else in France She lived in the St. Lazare prison as ...

    Article : 72 words
  9. The Use of Dolls.

    The use of dolls in the nursery has a distinct educational value, and the little girl who loves her doll, will dress and undress, and wash and make its clothes, has ...

    Article : 120 words
  10. Nero and His Ma.

    Nero was no monster. His mother Agrippina was not put to death by his order, nor did he play upon his harp and sing " The Burning of Troy" while ...

    Article : 62 words
  11. The World's Soldiers

    An authority tells us that during the most peaceful years the world has 3.700.000 soldiers, who are withdrawn from productive occupations to pose as ...

    Article : 48 words
  12. Secrets of Successful Love-making.

    To be loved one must begin by pleasing. How is this to be done? In a thousand different ways. Perhaps the most pleasing thing in life is to feel that other ...

    Article : 215 words
  13. Samoans Demoralised.

    Civilisation has demoralised the Samoans. They have taken a fancy for the large men-of-war's boats, for which they have discarded their canoes, and ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. carris Five

    A Toledo (U.S.) watchmaker has added to his bicycle from time to time until it now carries five. There is a seat for the seven-year-old on the Tear, ...

    Article : 100 words
  15. THE TALE OF FOUR TUMBLERS

    Two men who are not remotely connecled with a local journal blurted out from the office the other day and after an hour or two of work came together. ...

    Article : 321 words
  16. Bad News for Bachelors.

    A law has been passed in Texas that every unmarried man of 20 and upwards who cannot satisfy a committee that he has done his very best to enter into the ...

    Article : 243 words
  17. Gladstone's Correspondence.

    Mr. Gladstone is still plagued with almost as great a volume of correspondence as when he was in office. Since his retirement from public life there ...

    Article : 104 words
  18. Drunk or Sober?

    The first and most obvious signs of drunkenness are those dependent on unsteadiness of gait. From the street hoy's point of view, these are always ...

    Article : 542 words
  19. Revenged Himself.

    Hogarth's gate has been demolished at Calais. The story is cherished of how Hogarth went over to enjoy a holiday. and, full of British pride ...

    Article : 105 words
  20. A Marriage-making Season.

    An observant lady says that more marriages in proportion are made from holiday meetings than in any other way. The reason (she says) is not far to seek. ...

    Article : 292 words
  21. An Arbroath Story.

    The season had been an exceptionally bad one for farmers, but in a country church not 100 miles from Arbroath the office-bearers had resolved, according to ...

    Article : 120 words
  22. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT.

    Looking over his letters one morning. Mark Lemon, then the editor of "Pouch," opened an envelope enclosing a poem which the writer said had been ...

    Article : 418 words
  23. One of the Results.

    The small boy had applied at the lawyer's office for a job, and the lawyer, kindly man, was asking him a few preliminary questions of a moral character. ...

    Article : 100 words
  24. Walt Until the Train Stops.

    There is a good deal said in censure of the custom of jumping on and off railway carriages when in motion. It is righteous condemnation but is not ...

    Article : 347 words
  25. A Mew Rifle.

    A new rifle, invented by Captain Cel. of the Italian Infantry. is attracting much attention. This weapon, which was tried in the presence of the Prince ...

    Article : 135 words
  26. Woman's Wit.

    A young lieutenant in a cavalry corps in India, on sick leave in the convalescent station of Simla, whilst recovering his shattered health there, lost his ...

    Article : 255 words
  27. Lucky Lord Wolseley.

    Colonel Maurice, the official historian of the Egyptian War, mentions in his article in the "United Service Magazine" a fact of which perhaps few people ...

    Article : 134 words
  28. A Mile Down in the Earth.

    The great novelty at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 will be it is expected a dive into the bowels of the earth. M. Grousset's plan, which, it has been ...

    Article : 175 words
  29. The Drummer and the Geese.

    An old but a capital story reaches us about the 48th Georgia (U.S.A.) Regiment. It appears that on the march to Gettysburg. some of the soldiers fell out of the ...

    Article : 140 words
  30. Highly Successful.

    Dora: "What is that D.R.A that you belong to?" Clara: "The Dancing Reform Association—gentlemen dance with gentlemen, ...

    Article : 60 words
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