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  2. IN THE STREETS OF PARIS.

    This is a story from Paris. Monsieur Tibie, a milkman, was delivering Milk at the house of a customer in the Rue de Belzunce. Mou[?] Tibie had a horse and ...

    Article : 707 words
  3. GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGES.

    Gretna Green is eight miles from Carlisle, and is the nearest place in Scotland for every Englishma[?], except those dwelling in the border counti[?]. In the days when, by ...

    Article : 678 words
  4. THE FIRST LOVE WAS THE BEST.

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    Article : 2,987 words
  5. [?] POODLE.

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    Article : 1,328 words
  6. A SLAVE GIRLS FIEN[?] HATE

    A new light is thrown upon tho terrible times of the Indian Mutiny, of 1857-9 in a new book published by Mr. William Forbes Mitchell. Therein he tells a very interesting ...

    Article : 527 words
  7. A FIFTH AVENUE EPISODE.

    I am a stranger to the city, and the scenes [?] A week ago today I spe[?] several hours loitering on 23rd Street just watching the steady stream of ...

    Article : 2,029 words
  8. THE PORCELAIN TOWER,

    The celebrated Porcelain “Tower, near Nanking, China, must have been very beautiful in its perfection, if we accept the statements of its various historians, who ...

    Article : 370 words
  9. QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS SHOPPING.

    “A pretty anecdote.” says the “Woman at Home.” [?] is told [?] the thought [?] of the Queen of the Belgians towards [?] The King had a particular [?] ...

    Article : 239 words
  10. THE BEST KINDS OF WEDDING PRESENTS.

    When a young couple is about to marry there is often considerable consultation among their friends and relations as to what presents should be given. In too ...

    Article : 340 words
  11. MOLTKE IN PRIVATE LIFE.

    Moltke’s private life was marked by an austere, almost ascetic simplicity. The very bread at the table of tho field-marshal was the same commis-brod eaten by the, common soldier. ...

    Article : 442 words
  12. WHIST ON SUNDAYS.

    Lady Mary Coke added to her [?] the habit of playing cards on Sundays : but. as appears from the following passage of Mr. Courtney’s bcok, she had many to keep her ...

    Article : 635 words
  13. THE TOOTHACHE SPECIFIC.

    B. : “How did you come by your large fortune ?” S. : “By the sale of a specific against toothache, which cost eighteen pence, and ...

    Article : 96 words
  14. WHAT HE WAS DRIVING AT.

    One morning a young man who was engaged in the office of a very wealthy merchant sought an interview with his principal, and, after present his case in ...

    Article : 290 words
  15. SHE CHANGED HER MIND.

    “ Don’t sit up for mo to-night, dear,” said the [?]led Woman, as she looked into the [?] room, where her husband was darning [?] ...

    Article : 197 words
  16. A STRANGE COMMISSION.

    Many were the strange applications made to Owen, the famous anatomist, but one from a firn of surgeons near Bath, in 1844, was not the least singular:—“We have ...

    Article : 170 words
  17. THIS BOY HAD FUN.

    A boy who was recently sent to a boarding school has just sent the following letter to his loving and anxious mother :—“ I got here all right, arid I forgot to write before. ...

    Article : 158 words
  18. CUCUMBER PUNCH.

    The favourite drink in the imperial palace at Potsdam now is said to be “cucumber punch.” It was introduced into Germany by the emperor, who Larnel ...

    Article : 154 words
  19. PER[?]NENT QUESTION.

    Old Aunt, Dinah wart a coloured woman, who had a remarkably strong voice, and would sing and cry “Glory !” with such [?] to be heard above all the rest of ...

    Article : 346 words
  20. HALF A MILLION WOMEN IN ARMS.

    A startling headline, but, nevertheless, a true one. It was when one of the most singular rebellions ever known took place, and men and women together participated ...

    Article : 314 words
  21. AN ARMY OF LAND CRABS.

    A singular point in the history of the West Indian land crab is the fact that every year when the wet season has set in they make a great exclusion to the sea. ...

    Article : 324 words
  22. TOO FINICKY BY FAR.

    A man went into a restaurant the other day and took a seat on a stool. He looked at the bill of fare a minute, and then beckoned to the water. “Hay,” he said, ...

    Article : 198 words
  23. A GRATEFUL NEWSBOY.

    A condition of moral degeneracy is commonly attributed to newsboys, but there are exceptions. A physician recently took an evening paper ...

    Article : 189 words
  24. POLITE TO THE LAST.

    F[?] of the old school did at times tre mendously polite things, such as breaking their necks to pick up a lady’s fan, or set ting fire to a house to dry her when caught in a shower of ...

    Article : 201 words
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