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  2. Little Folk.

    Fond Mamma-- why don't you take your dollie with you to the tea party ? Little Dot-- I don't fink dollie would like folks to know zat she hasn't any sing but summer ...

    Article : 361 words
  3. Ladies' Column.

    The Queen of Italy recently found a streak of ugly and indelible green colour on her favourite lap dog, and, on inquiry, found that King Humbert, for whom she had ...

    Article : 141 words
  4. Sketcher.

    There is a general readiness among the Negroes in the Bahamas to accept charity, even when remunerative work may be starting the mendicant in the face. The better ...

    Article : 606 words
  5. Varieties.

    I venture to put into octosyllabic verso a dinner invitation which I received the other day. My host ingeniously wave the thread of his menu into the web of his request for my ...

    Article : 276 words
  6. An Austrian Opinion of American Women.

    American women, if they are not always beautiful, at least know how to make themselves appear so. Nowhere have l seen so many beautiful women with white hair. ...

    Article : 129 words
  7. Opium in China.

    The Chinese Imperial. Maritime Customs has just issued a small pamphlet entitled, ' Opium : Historical Note ; or, The poppy in China,' by Dr. Edkins, the well known ...

    Article : 317 words
  8. Art and Literature.

    The method followed by T. W. Robertson in his comedies, as defined by himself in conversation, was as follows:-He took a flower of juvenile sentiment and placed it in a world ...

    Article : 393 words
  9. The Pope's Gold Rose.

    The gold rose, of which so much is errone ously written, is not a rose at all, but a rose bush or plant, perhaps eighteen inches in height, showing leaves, buds and several full-blown roses. The designs are ...

    Article : 190 words
  10. If There Were No Children.

    A dreary place would be the earth Were there no little people in it: The song of life would lose its mirth Were there no children to begin it. ...

    Article : 120 words
  11. The Increase in the Population of China

    A writer in the North China Herald, discussing the causes of the increase in the population of china, and the increasing energy of the Chinese race which enables it to absorb ...

    Article : 379 words
  12. How to Furnish.

    We may lay it down as a safe rule not to over - furnish to have nothing that is not good and useful, to eschew collections of worthless bric-a-brac and china, together ...

    Article : 455 words
  13. Balmoral

    At Balmoral,' the dullest house on this earth,' according to the -late Lord Beaconsfield, the monotony of existence is almost oppressive. State business is, of course, conducted as at Buckingham ...

    Article : 364 words
  14. A Clever Little Girl

    Little Sunshine is one of us up at our boarding - house. We call her Sunshine be- cause she looks as if some playful fairy had spilled an apronful of sun -beams on. her head, ...

    Article : 194 words
  15. Scythe Song.

    Mowers, weary brown and blithe, What is the word methinks [?] know, Endless over - word that the Scythe Sings to the blades of grass below ? ...

    Article : 129 words
  16. Millais.

    Millais's grasp on the transforming power of art alone is not strong enough to sink or swim with. The fire within him does not burn enough to fuse imaginings of his ...

    Article : 251 words
  17. Shopping in Fez.

    One long street, roofed in from the sub forms the highway of Fez. It runs from New Fez right through the town, ending opposite, one of the many gates of the ...

    Article : 960 words
  18. Personalities.

    When Dom Pedro of Brazil lay sick unto death in Italy, not very long ago, he told his nurse one morning that he had [?]dream. ' An old man came to me,' said Dom Pedro, ' and in a most earnest ...

    Article : 370 words
  19. Humour.

    Oh, the whole play was rained' 'Don't be cast down, What happened!' Why, at the close of the third [?]one of the stream pipes broke and hissed me off the ...

    Article : 39 words
  20. Dudes, Take Notice.

    Van Goslett-- Say, Wooers, what calm I do to p[?]went my two users from bagging? Rogers'--Take a dose of rat poison. That will stiffen your knees and you wonit die in ...

    Article : 37 words
  21. Queen Victoria and Ireland.

    The almost jealous love which her Majesty shows toward Scotland has not unnaturally caused much chagrin to the warm-hearted Irish, who cannot forget that years ago when ...

    Article : 444 words
  22. The Earth not a Vast Cemetery.

    Again and again the old poetic fancy of the earth as one great cemetery buried several times deep with dead men and women and children, has been refuted by figures. But ...

    Article : 883 words
  23. The Highest Appointive Office.

    Department clerk (at Washington)--The President will soon dispose of the highest office in his gift. Crowd of Correspondents (eagerly)-- ...

    Article : 46 words
  24. The Trials of a Translator.

    It is probably too late now to add another failure to the many which have been published by translators of Goethe's Nachtlied, that un translatable lyric --the very crux of ...

    Article : 524 words
  25. Miscellaneous.

    In 1889 ยง100,000,000 worth of gold has been dug, mostly in Australia, California and South Africa. A can - making machine manufactures ...

    Article : 390 words
  26. The Midnight [?]

    Walker Flohr, sympathetically-- Yes, old chappie - it was all the doctor could do to pull you through In your delirium you kept talking of business all the time. ...

    Article : 42 words
  27. Why He Went.

    Paterfamilias, from the head of the stairs at 2 a.m.-- Fanny, will you ask that young man to step into the hall a moment ? Young Man, timidly-- W- well, sir ? ...

    Article : 52 words
  28. Life of Julius Caesar.

    Longfellow, in ' The Courtship of Miles Standish,' gives the shortest biography of Julius Caesar extant Somewhere I've read, but -Where I forget, he could dictate ...

    Article : 105 words
  29. A Typical Deadhead Who Asks for Theatre Tickets.

    Walter Gale tells a good story of Roland Reed and the theatrical pass fiend. It was one of Reed's engagements at the Grand Opera House, Chicago. Every seat was sold nightly ...

    Article : 212 words
  30. About Big Men.

    The Greek Orestes was 115 feet tall. Galabro, an Arabian, was 10 feet tall. The The Emperor Maximins, was [?] feet. ...

    Article : 199 words
  31. Prince Albert.

    Had the Prince Consort but lived the ordinary space allotted to man his influence over the Queen, and through her over the English nation, would doubtless have been most ...

    Article : 600 words
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