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  2. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PARIS.

    What is one's first feeling in Paris ? Exhilaration with most of us I think, the exhilaration Thackeray said he felt as soon as he landed at ...

    Article : 478 words
  3. WASP MIMICING BEETLE.

    "As one rather extreme example of mimicry," says Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace in his book, "The World of Life," "I give the figures of a black ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 138 words
  4. A SERVANT OF THE PUBLIC.

    "Two penny stamps, please," said the middle-aged lady for the third time. The girl behind the counter looked ...

    Article : 919 words
  5. ROOKS AND THEIR WAYS.

    An old-established rookery gives an air of respectable antiquity to a dwelling house, says the "Queen." Here have come the grandfathers and ...

    Article : 656 words
  6. HER GOING AWAY.

    There was staged in the Brooks flat one of those quiet domestic scenes such as are nowadays seldom found outside of Harlem and a few ...

    Article : 1,745 words
  7. ANONYMOUS LETTERS.

    One morning, coming down to breakfast, you go through your letters as usual, knowing pretty well the contents of each one before you ...

    Article : 667 words
  8. BICYCLE TROTTING SULKY.

    In order to make a sulky that will be very light, and one in which the weight of the driver will be entirely removed from the shafts, an ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 119 words
  9. SCOTCH HUMOUR.

    Scotch humour has ever been a debatable subject since Sidney Smith declared "there is humour in a Scotch skull: but the only ...

    Article : 335 words
  10. BY "TUBE" TO WORK.

    Our sketch depicts French workmen engaged in burrowing under a river for a "tube," entering a pipe which leads to a chamber containing ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 94 words
  11. WHEN THE WORM TURNS.

    The strangest animal in the world is a little green worm found on the coasts of Brittany and Normandy. On a fine, warm day, when the tide ...

    Article : 310 words
  12. ELEGANT ELSIE.

    "Airs !" exclaimed the proud mother; and shook her head vigorously. "My Elsie, for all her learning, hasn't any more airs, so to ...

    Article : 147 words
  13. THINGS HE WAS GOING TO DO.

    He sits by the window in twilight, And thinks of the days gone by; Of a little lad in his schooldays Who builded his castles high. ...

    Article : 224 words
  14. THE SLIPPERY EDITOR.

    For the third time that day the disappointed contributor entered the office. His spring poem had been refused, and he wanted to know the ...

    Article : 136 words
  15. ONLY ONE.

    Merchant' "I shall advance your salary £5 this year. You have been remarkably correct and careful for the past twelve months. Haven't ...

    Article : 62 words
  16. THE HEIGHT OF IMPUDENCE.

    They called him Puny Pepper, because he was, besides one of the smallest, one of the most peppery officers in the regiment. To see him ...

    Article : 90 words
  17. NOT AT ALL PARTICULAR.

    At a dance recently a young gentleman approached an alderman's daughter -- of the extremely superior' sort -- to whom he had previously ...

    Article : 99 words
  18. CHANGING HIS MIND.

    "What are you doing here?" said the farmer to the tramp, who had only just got over the wall in time to escape the bulldog. ...

    Article : 62 words
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