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  2. FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO DETESTED CIGARS.

    "A custom lothsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke, stinking fume thereof ...

    Article : 468 words
  3. CHARACTER FROM THE EYE.

    [?]eware of the shifting, faltering eyes that always look away from you. Small eyes usually mean an alert mind. ...

    Article : 253 words
  4. "CLERK OF THE CHEQUE."

    When the King of England falls ill the duty of guarding the sick chamber falls, by ancient usage and tradition, to the Yeomen of the ...

    Article : 285 words
  5. "ALICE AND CLAUDE ASKEW."

    There are few readers of popular periodicals who do not know the names of these novelists, for the stories written by Alice and Claude ...

    Article : 313 words
  6. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    The Prussian King Frederick William was very fond of parading his Giant Guards before the foreign Ambassadors at the Prussian Court. On ...

    Article : 869 words
  7. TURKISH CALENDAR.

    The Turks count their day from sunset (twelve o'clock) to the next sunset, dividing the twenty-four hours into twelves, as we do. This ...

    Article : 223 words
  8. HOW THE NATIONS FEED THEIR TROOPS.

    The principal meal of the Russian peasant soldier consists of "stchee," a sort of cross between a gruel and a soup, the chief ingredients of ...

    Article : 296 words
  9. "HONEST MAN!"

    The manager of a factory makes it a practice of giving all his old clothes to one of the labourers, who is in poor circumstances. ...

    Article : 185 words
  10. HER TESTIMONIALS.

    "Sir" said the young man, entering the office, "I sent you a communication yesterday!" "Well?" asked the grim -faced man. ...

    Article : 160 words
  11. OFF LIKE A SHOT.

    It was a case of attempted murder, in which the prisoner was accused of having fired twice at his intended victim. One of the witnesses ...

    Article : 130 words
  12. A POSER FOR TEACHER.

    The new pupil teacher had arrived at the school, and the budding geniuses and others were doing their best to form an accurate estimate of her ...

    Article : 129 words
  13. WOMAN'S GENTLE HAND.

    Great was the excitement in a certain small town. The local ladies had decided to hold an exhibition of women's work, with a view to ...

    Article : 168 words
  14. WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA?

    Historical controversies are creeping into the schools. In a New York public institution attended by many races, during an examination in ...

    Article : 134 words
  15. ENLIGHTENED THE LAWYER.

    "I presume, my good fellow, you're a labourer?" said a lawyer to a plainly-dressed witness." "You are right, I am a workman, ...

    Article : 103 words
  16. SPIDER SUPERSTITIONS.

    Spiders, according to common superstition, are always omens of good fortune and money, therefore to kill them provokes wrath and invites ...

    Article : 145 words
  17. CARRYING GOLD AT SEA.

    The specie looker of an ocean steamer is a carefully constructed vault, and is located in the stern, immediately over the crew. It has ...

    Article : 155 words
  18. CONFIDENCES.

    There was quite a flutter of applause as the lady who had been singing left the piano and made her way to her seat next to her friend, Miss ...

    Article : 119 words
  19. TIM'S FRIGHT.

    "Don't turn me away, madam," implored Wandering Tim, as he stood before a sour visaged lady who had just finished scrubbing the floor; ...

    Article : 129 words
  20. BRAZILIAN PESTS.

    In certain parts of Brazil rats are a great nuisance. The common cat does not thrive, for some unaccountable reason, but is replaced by a ...

    Article : 114 words
  21. R. L. S.'s REQUIEM.

    Robert Louis Stevenson left instructions that he should be buried on the top of a Samoan mountain, but the epitaph was one he wrote for ...

    Article : 111 words
  22. THE REASON WHY.

    "This talk about men being so impatient when a woman is getting ready to go anywhere is all rubbish," said an indignant young wife recently ...

    Article : 112 words
  23. HE WAS THANKFUL.

    If you would please a mother praise her child; but do it with discretion. A visiting gentleman had ...

    Article : 88 words
  24. TRULY FEMININE.

    A Sunday-school superintendent, who happened also to be the leading local draper, was putting a class of tiny children through a little ...

    Article : 84 words
  25. BIBLES ON WATCH CHAINS.

    The devout in all lands have their own particular way of giving outward demonstration to their piety. In Russia it frequently takes the form ...

    Article : 125 words
  26. HIS OWN MEDICINE.

    A surgeon who was in the Navy was in the habit of prescribing salt water for sailors. While angling one fine day, he happened to fall ...

    Article : 103 words
  27. MORE SUITABLE.

    She was very anxious to learn all her new duties properly, and to please her mistress. Now, ladies, don't get ...

    Article : 86 words
  28. TONGUES THAT KILL.

    The tongues of some animals are very dangerous weapons. The lion could speedily kill a man by merely licking him with his tongue. The ...

    Article : 125 words
  29. "KULTUR."

    They tell in Milwaukee of a subscription book agent who tried to sell a set of Shakespeare to a wealthy German. After talking for five ...

    Article : 83 words
  30. SUNDAY BATTLES.

    It is truly remarkable to find how many battles have been fought on Sundays. For instance, Salamanca was fought on Sunday, July 2nd, ...

    Article : 88 words
  31. A TALL YARN.

    A Yankee entered a big hotel in the Highlands, when he overheard a party of visitors speaking about shooting. ...

    Article : 124 words
  32. UNEXPECTED.

    The customer in the grocery shop, having ruined his clothes, was hopping mad. "Didn't you see that sign, 'Fresh ...

    Article : 56 words
  33. TOO FIERCE.

    Editor: "Tommy, what is that moving in the waste-paper basket-- a mouse?" Tommy (the office boy, examining ...

    Article : 47 words
  34. TOO MUCH TIME.

    Prison Visitor: "And what brought you here, my poor man?" Convict: "Havin' too much time on my hands." ...

    Article : 52 words
  35. THE EASIEST WAY.

    Briggs: "You must have a lot of trouble keeping your wife dressed up in the height of style." Griggs: "Yes, but it's nothing to ...

    Article : 36 words
  36. NOTHING MUCH.

    Shop-walker (to man who seems undecided which way to go): "Are you looking for something?" Party Addressed: "No, sir. I've ...

    Article : 27 words
  37. FORCE OF HABIT.

    "Why the noise?" "The barber is shaving himself." "But why the argument?" "He is trying to persuade himself ...

    Article : 25 words
  38. BEATEN.

    "Pa, what is an echo?" "An echo, my son, is the only thing that can cheat a woman out of the last word." ...

    Article : 23 words
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