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  2. LIGHT-HEARTEDNESS.

    Light-heartedness is a graceful quality a grace, perhaps, rather than a quality—the only substitute for good fortune, the only impregnable shield ...

    Article : 393 words
  3. FOR THE CHILDREN

    “Monday, I think, is the nicest day," Said Ted, as he merrily left his play. On Tuesday, too—why, nothing we wrong, ...

    Article : 110 words
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  5. AUMSING INCIDENTS

    A Scotsman who has a keen appreciation of the strong characteristics of his countrymen delights in this story of a chemist, known both for his thrift ...

    Article : 146 words
  6. GUARDED A LIONESS.

    In the report of the council of a provincial zoological gardens there is an account of the death of a lioness, in which is noted a touching incident, ...

    Article : 405 words
  7. GETTING THE WORST.

    A boy came to the door or a lady house and asked if she did not wish some blackberries, for he had been out all da[?] gathering them. ...

    Article : 237 words
  8. A TEACHER TAUGHT.

    Mr. Herman Merivale tells of an amusing encounter between Doctor Vaughan, for many years head master at Harrow, and a small boy who ...

    Article : 143 words
  9. NATURE IN HER TANTRUMS.

    Nature in her destructive or revolutionary moods needs no help of man to change the face of the earth. Luckily she rages but a little at a time. Here ...

    Article : 213 words
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  11. FINISHED.

    In a certain village in Scotland there is a custom, whenever a house is built, for the owner to have a favourite text from Scripture carved at the front, ...

    Article : 189 words
  12. OF FIRST IMPORTANCE.

    A Yorkshire miner’s bride arrived with her friends at the church, according to the etiquette on such occasions, after the pre-arranged time of the ...

    Article : 186 words
  13. THE REWARD OF GENIUS.

    What genius had the meanest reward? Probably Alexander Bain, who is unknown even by name to most people, but who was the inventor of many of ...

    Article : 233 words
  14. JUST MY LUCK.

    If the boy who exclaims, “Just my luck,” were truthful, he would say “Just my laziness,” or “Just my in attention." ...

    Article : 143 words
  15. STEEL STAR WINDMILLS.

    “They have given entire satisfaction." “These mills work so smoothly that the slightest wind will make them work.” “It has stood the test of some very ...

    Article : 168 words
  16. THE POLICEMAN FLED.

    “ Mary,” said the cook to the housemaid, “they tell me it’s all over between you and the policeman. Oh, I do hope it isn’t true, dearie! He’s ...

    Article : 189 words
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  18. CHUBBY WEE THING.

    Chubby wee thing; how she laughs, Brimming o’er with fun; Screams and scampers through the house, Out now for a run. ...

    Article : 297 words
  19. FACTS FOR SWIMMERS.

    The following remarks on swimming, by a veteran swimmer, should prove interesting to lovers of aquatic sports, and otheris:— ...

    Article : 253 words
  20. MUCH TOO EARLY.

    A sergeant of a certain famous regiment was recently married, and as the bridal pair emerged from the church where the ceremony had boon ...

    Article : 155 words
  21. WASN’T PROUD OF IT.

    A much-scarred veteran occupied a seat in a tram-car, and opposite to him sat a benevolent-looking old gentleman who gazed with seeming ...

    Article : 205 words
  22. FORTUNES IN TRIFLES.

    “Some of the greatest inventions have beem the productions of men who have reaped little or nothing by their discoveries, just as on the other hand ...

    Article : 193 words
  23. WORK THAT KILLS.

    A visitor from South Africa described what is doubtless at once the most deadly and most highly paid kind of work in the world. ...

    Article : 164 words
  24. WOULD HAVE BEEN USEFUL.

    A Scottish gentleman, who had been through the South African campaign, is rather fond of drawing the long bow when referring to his personal ...

    Article : 167 words
  25. COULDN’T HELP IT.

    “Dear [?]e,” said a female visitor to the superintendent of the lunatic asylum, “ what a terrible-looking woman that was we just passed in the ...

    Article : 131 words
  26. ALL OF SALT.

    “For a thousand years the workers in this enormous salt mine have been busy transforming it into chapels, restaurants, ball-rooms, railways, ...

    Article : 138 words
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