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  2. Personalities.

    Bret Harte's English publishers last year paid him £3,000. Goethe wrote Charlotte von Stein 1,000 letters in ten years. ...

    Article : 740 words
  3. Ladies' Column.

    The longest suit of hair in the world is perhaps that which grows on the head of Miss Asenath Philpott, of Gainesville, Tex., her's trailing on the ground, when she ...

    Article : 152 words
  4. Art and Literature.

    At the last Paris salon there were 190 Soulptors, 165 oil painters, 77 designers and 52 engravers--a total of 484 women exhibiters. Only about a fourth of the ...

    Article : 1,020 words
  5. Sketcher.

    Walter Filmore, a young man whose home is not far from Bryan, Tex., is in the habit of going out into the eastern part of the state every spring on a hunting and ...

    Article : 1,188 words
  6. A Curious Monster.

    A queer marine monster was captured off the Jersey coast the other day. It was about five feet long, and in shape somewhat resembled a toadfish. Two rows of teeth ...

    Article : 140 words
  7. What Eats Tails are Good For.

    Before we had much observed mice, the use of their long tails was a question that had puzzled us, says a writer. We do not know of what service they are to the females, ...

    Article : 239 words
  8. Do Pearls Get Ill?

    " Do you know that pearls get sick ?" said a well-known Atlanta jeweller the other day. "They do, and, like babies, they require a change of climate when their health ...

    Article : 122 words
  9. England's Five Queens.

    From the earliest time on record England has had but five Queens who ruled in their own right. They are Mary Tudor, Elizabeth, Mary wife of William III.; Anne, and the ...

    Article : 502 words
  10. To the Girl with Blemishes.

    If the girl with the disfiguring blackheads in her face would steam her face once a week over boiling hot water and extract the blkokheads in the usual way, bathing ...

    Article : 134 words
  11. Arab Horses.

    There are hundreds of horses called Arabs in America which have no right to the name. Almost every spotted horse, or calico' horse, is said to be more or less Arab, ...

    Article : 262 words
  12. Smile With Your Eyes.

    There is one big " don't" which ninetenths of womankind might with advantage hang up over their dressing tables, and it is this : " Don't smile perpetually." Is there ...

    Article : 160 words
  13. Machine Marriages.

    While Prance tries to increase her population by offering awards for large families and threatening to tax bachelors, Germany encourages the matrimonial bureau. One of ...

    Article : 152 words
  14. The Trap-door Spider.

    Here is an excellent picture of this carious insect and its still more remarkable habitation. This spider is sometimes termed the ' underground weaver,' but its more common ...

    Article : 346 words
  15. The Philosopher of Pessimism.

    Schopenhaur was anything but a comfortable companion or a spmpathetic friend. According to Me own account he was not a misanthrope; he did not hate men, he only ...

    Article : 619 words
  16. What a Woman Should Weigh.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 words
  17. Imposing, not Jolly.

    Alter the marriage of Napoleon and mana Louisa the city of Paris gave them a splendid banquet, which Captain Chignet describes in his 'Narrative.' He was on duty ...

    Article : 280 words
  18. Humour.

    The best time to think is before you act. The debt of nature is one that a man always pays as he goes. You may fool all the people some of the ...

    Article : 141 words
  19. Kissing Dangerous.

    Is tonsilitis contagious ? is a question which has been puzzling many prominent physicians of late. During the past two years a great increase ...

    Article : 411 words
  20. Some Facts About Fishes.

    Not many years ago fishes were looked upon as mute, impassive, stupid creatures, possessing little intelligence. But a thorough scientific observation of the lives and habits ...

    Article : 1,293 words
  21. Not Much Encouragement.

    Rousing himself at last, and screwing up his courage, he said: 'Jennie, I must say it. I suppose you have -been expecting something coming all ...

    Article : 55 words
  22. He Wasn't Equipped.

    ' I cannot marry you, Reginald,' said Maud, but you mustn't mind., There are as fine fish in the sea as were ever caught, you know.' ...

    Article : 56 words
  23. Disraeli and his Place in Literature.

    In Disrael's novels, full as they are of wit, there is something tinselly, something at least out of harmony with the more sober Western mind. Brilliant they, are, ...

    Article : 301 words
  24. Taking Time From the Stars.

    No timepiece is perfect, and there are no meas on earth of keeping perfect time. stars, however, furnish: the necessary [?]. At the observatory in Cambridge ...

    Article : 613 words
  25. The Naturalist.

    The dam porpoises are said to help their young in their efforts to breathe by bearing them np to the surface of the water on their flippers. The spirole, or blowhole, appears ...

    Article : 160 words
  26. A Thrifty Mind.

    The collegian--' Shall we be engaged again this summer or not ?' The accommodating girl--' It's just as you say.' ...

    Article : 46 words
  27. The Reporter's Visit.

    A reporter called at the house of a prominent city-pastor who had been down with pneumonia. His wife answered the doorbell. ...

    Article : 159 words
  28. Lion versus Tiger.

    It is popularly supposed that the lion is the most courageous and powerful of the carnivora, or at least of the folidae ; but on the few recorded occasions of a battle-royal ...

    Article : 105 words
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