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  2. The Sketcher.

    I had gone in to get a glass of ale--into the four-ale bar! The place was pretty full. Scarcely had I begun to absorb my liquid when a ...

    Article : 1,766 words
  3. The Sergeant's Dilemma.

    THE thriving seaport town of B[?] Bustle was in a great state of excitement, the cause of which may, perhaps, be most clearly explained by an extract from the ...

    Article : 3,419 words
  4. Raiment and Gewgaws.

    Sensitive to impressions as is the human organisation and subtle as are the many influences brought to bear upon it, there is none which has a more ...

    Article : 254 words
  5. Health in the Family.

    Carbuncles may either arise from plethora or from debility. If the patient is of a full habit, the diet should be reduced, and flour of sulphur be ...

    Article : 192 words
  6. Entertaining Extracts.

    Anybody can go to heaven--on a tombstone. Then, amid the silence which followed this incredible yarn, Colonel G--arose ...

    Article : 881 words
  7. Indigestion.

    Simple cases of indigestion are curable by attention to diet, by avoiding indigestible foods (especialy cheese, salt meats, and pastry), by taking light foods and ...

    Article : 85 words
  8. Fashion in England.

    Blue is to be a prominent colour this season in London (says "Myra's Journal"), displacing the pink, gold, and pale-green tints which have rather ...

    Article : 282 words
  9. Milk for Burns.

    To the uses of milk there has recently been added one in which this familiar fluid figures as a dressing for burns. Absorbent lint, soaked in milk, is laid on ...

    Article : 89 words
  10. Marvellous Memory.

    There is now at La Rochelle, France, an old man of the name of Jules Zostot, who possesses a marvellous memory. He knows by heart all the verses of the ...

    Article : 94 words
  11. Paring Nails.

    Ingrowing toe nail is a troublesome, affection. To cure it, patients should keep the growth down in the middle of the nail; they should never cut the ...

    Article : 101 words
  12. Our Plays.

    First Manager: "Well, how's the new piece coming on?" Second Manger: "Oh, first rate; biggest thing we've done. ...

    Article : 88 words
  13. Narootics.

    People should be very careful in using narcotics or other drugs which produce sleep or unconsciousness. In saying so, I am not merely thinking of those ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. Too many Sweethearts.

    "I cannot imagine," said the minister, "any more shocking, dangerous, painful, trying situation for any young girl to be placed in than to be engaged ...

    Article : 109 words
  15. Our Grandmothers' Fashions.

    Our Royal Princesses remain firmly faithful to that form of coiffure which has to be arranged with a thickly-curled mass of hair on the top of the head ...

    Article : 146 words
  16. Rather Reverend.

    A debate took place when the Houses of Convocation got hold of the idea that "the reverend" was not a sufficiently impressive title for canons ...

    Article : 165 words
  17. Indigestion and Acidity.

    Infants often suffer from these causes, which will sometimes much relax the bowls. Two grains of rhubarb and three of magnesia may be given in a ...

    Article : 102 words
  18. Diamonds and Stones.

    Since a great actress has given out that she cannot bear diamonds because they are so fearfully [?] to the ordinary complexion and eyes, and that she ...

    Article : 209 words
  19. THE MOB ORATOR.

    Under the lamp-post's feeble ray THe Agitator stands. [?] big and boastful man is he, With large and beefy hands ...

    Article : 480 words
  20. The Care of the Mouth.

    I wrote last week of the care of the teeth, and have something now to say as to the general care of the mouth. Tho teeth may themselves be in ...

    Article : 290 words
  21. A Fellow-feeling.

    Some years ago a great review was held at Aldershot, which was attended by the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, and other noted ...

    Article : 177 words
  22. THE MAN ON THE CASK.

    Here is a story of a colonel who was much addicted to travelling, and who once reached home when the house was full of his son's guests, and stayed to ...

    Article : 89 words
  23. A MOVING IMAGE.

    An English officer at Venice walking one day from the Doge's palace thought he observed one of the figures on the clock tower of St. Mark's stoop down ...

    Article : 111 words
  24. Novelties in Paris.

    In Paris the fashionable dressmakers are using for berthas, and in other ways for adorning evening bodices, Venetian point set with brilliants. It is very ...

    Article : 354 words
  25. Lady Bailiffs.

    It will come as a surprise to most people to know that quite one-sixth of the servers of writs and people in "possessin" employed in London are ...

    Article : 233 words
  26. NEVER NO MORE.

    Christopher North introduced gas into his house, and the first night of his experience was delighted with the brilliant light it shed around him. Gradually ...

    Article : 268 words
  27. Privileged Soldiers.

    The Russian army is full of strange features. Thus the biggest fellows are detailed for duty in the bodyguard regiment. "Preobrashenski," founded by ...

    Article : 203 words
  28. Advertising

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