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  2. MUSIC HALL MUSINGS.

    Since the days of the Stuarts, when men took women's parts upon the stage until the present when the ladies take the men's characters ...

    Article : 3,919 words
  3. SOME UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCES.

    THERE are many pleasant and unpleasant things in this life. To an enthusiastic angler there is nothing pleasanter than to be seated on a rock far out in a sunshiny ...

    Article : 982 words
  4. FIRE SUPERSTITIONS.

    WHERE a fire burns on the hearth Germans say the lightning will never strike, and evil beings will not dare to enter the house. In the North of England we have a ...

    Article : 441 words
  5. "OUIDA" ON MEAT-EATING

    I HAVE all my life (writes "Ouida" in the Nineteenth Century) thought that meat-eating was objectionable from the æsthetic point of view. Even as a child the fashion ...

    Article : 543 words
  6. "AA SAY, COORNEL!"

    IN the early part of this century, when England was in hourly expectation of a French invasion, and militiamen swarmed as the riflemen do at this time, a regiment ...

    Article : 299 words
  7. ANOTHER OF "HELEN’S BABIES."

    " PAPA," suddenly piped up the youngest, bracing his sturdy little legs for the assault, don't it hurt the walls to have the old skin scraped off of 'em when you puts the paper ...

    Article : 371 words
  8. "THE BEAR AT THE BRIDGE FOOT."

    THERE formerly stood on the Southwark side of London Bridge a tavern known by the above name, which retained a celebrity for some centuries. It was the house to ...

    Article : 286 words
  9. BIG FORTUNES IN HONEY.

    When the story of the twelfth census is fully told it will show in an interesting way the astonishing development of the apiarian industry in the United States," said Prof. ...

    Article : 459 words
  10. A WORTHY SON.

    It is not generally known that the life of Sir Henry Havelock Allan, who gained the Victoria Cross in the Indian Mutiny, was saved by the splendid bravery of a private ...

    Article : 390 words
  11. ROAD AND RIVER.

    THE brave Pierre Stuppa, the Swiss general, having been deputed by the Thirteen Cantons to solicit the arrears of pay which had been owing for a long time to the ...

    Article : 154 words
  12. HIS BUSINESS WAS WITH THE OLD MAN.

    "OS, papa," she said, with a blush, "young Mr. Chestnut, who owns so many coal mines in Pennsylvania, is coming again this evening, and says he wants to see you ...

    Article : 115 words
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