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  2. THE DUTIES OF A KING.

    Oh! bright occasions of dispensing good,! How seldom used, how little understood ! ...

    Article : 143 words
  3. A TRAITOR TO HIS COUNTRY.

    Mr. George Griffiths tells the story of a French soldier, now undergoing a sentence of penal servitude for betraying Government secrets. In 1888 he chanced ...

    Article : 340 words
  4. LIFE IN MARTINIQUE.

    A daughter of a New York agent of a mercantile house with West India connections gave recently to the "New Pork Tribune" correspondent some ...

    Article : 1,180 words
  5. OUR YOUNG FOLKS.

    He teased the poor cat, he played rat-tat- tat On the window panes nearly an hour by the clock; ...

    Article : 158 words
  6. STATISTICS AND LOVE.

    There are scores of men and women who live on statistics and seem to fare very well on the diet. A foreign statistician has been formulating some ...

    Article : 426 words
  7. ONE AGAINST TWO.

    A June sea lay at our feet, a golden future stretched over the horizon, and our whispers were of love until --"A thousand apologies, my dear sir, but ...

    Article : 2,259 words
  8. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.

    There was one person, Raoul Sartout by name, who went through the destruction of St. Pierre. He was confined in a dungeon at the time of the ...

    Article : 256 words
  9. BARGAINS.

    This is surely an age of bargains! The world is running over with them, and still they multiply and flourish. We take up the morning paper, and, ...

    Article : 668 words
  10. A STRANGE ANIMAL.

    Young readers, did you ever hear of the guanaco ? When I was in Patagonia, South America, three years ago, I saw some of ...

    Article : 139 words
  11. TURQUOISE MINES.

    Persia is the only place in the world which produces turquoises, the most celebrated mines being at Nishapur. Here there are two villages entirely ...

    Article : 204 words
  12. M. DE LESSEPS AND MEHEMET ALI.

    Monsieur De Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal, was nothing if not picturesque. His somewhat abrupt and interesting qualities--for he did everything as if ...

    Article : 1,007 words
  13. SAM CUNARD.

    It was Sam Cunard of Glasgow, who was determined to build ships. Be had nothing but a penknife, and he whittled out little boats. He was a poor boy, but he ...

    Article : 127 words
  14. ALWAYS THE SAME.

    A party of tourists, who last autumn were touring among the more obscure parts of Devonshire, came suddenly upon a tiny cottage of unusual beauty ...

    Article : 188 words
  15. FACTS ABOUT FEATHERS.

    The present trade in feathers is almost unprecedented. A glance at women's toilets is sufficient to explain this unusual demand. Perhaps more ...

    Article : 572 words
  16. THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT.

    The best way in which sons and daughters can honour their parents is by doing all honour to them. Every s[?]n when he goes away from home carries with him the ...

    Article : 77 words
  17. HE CAME BACK.

    Governor Duval, of Florida, was the son of a poor Virginian, a man of stern, strong, taciturn dssposition. The boy was a huge youth of fifteen. ...

    Article : 305 words
  18. COULDN'T BLAME THEM.

    A lady recently engaged a kitchenmaid who was fresh from the country, and whose dialect indicated the fact. She proved herself none too thorough ...

    Article : 144 words
  19. ASK YOUR CLERICAL FRIENDS.

    The following conundrum was propounded to four ministers: "If Solomon was the son of David, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, what relation was ...

    Article : 147 words
  20. What Mother has Done.

    Many a discouraged mother folds her tired hands at night, and feels as if she had, after all, done nothing, although she had not spent an idle moment since she ...

    Article : 150 words
  21. THE RESOURCES OF GREAT BRITAIN.

    We had a rather vivid illustration of the power and patriotism of the British when a few ill-advised words, spoken not very long ago, by one who ought ...

    Article : 141 words
  22. MODE OF PURIFYING WATER.

    A tablespoonful of pulverised alum sprinkled into a hogshead of water--the water stirred at the same time--will, after a few hours, by precipitating to the ...

    Article : 361 words
  23. "THINGS ARE NOT WHAT" THEY'RE CALLED.

    If we only had time to think about the matter, we should often wonder why it is that so many things wtih which we are familiar are wrongly ...

    Article : 305 words
  24. WHERE HE FAILED.

    The new minister of a Perthshire kirk had occasion to complain to one of the elders of the poorness of the collections. "Aye," remarked the worthy elder, ...

    Article : 315 words
  25. THE DUTCHMAN'S SOLILOQUY.

    A Dutchman was 'overheard moralising over his dog as follows: "You was only a nog, but I wish I was you. When you go to your bed you shust turn ...

    Article : 182 words
  26. Hints on Letter-Writing

    Be natural. Put yourself into your letters. Let there be individuality without imitation. Be what you admire, and utter yourself. ...

    Article : 155 words
  27. FRIENDSHIP, NOT FAMILIARITY.

    Many of us have yet to learn that friendship does not consist in familiarity. One cannot make a friend of a woman by entering her home, ...

    Article : 259 words
  28. PROFITABLE WAITING.

    Even the children of to-day have an eye to the main chance. A man has a little daughter of whose character, strange to say, he has an exalted idea, ...

    Article : 148 words
  29. Springtime.

    Springtime! Set the bells a-swinging. Smiling Nature says 'tis true. Underfoot the grass is springing, Overhead the skies are blue. ...

    Article : 70 words
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