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  2. AT INTEREST.

    "Please, sir, will you give me a penny, only a penny?" "No go along with you! I never give money to street beggans!" ...

    Article : 2,289 words
  3. Farmer’s Wives.

    Farmers' wives in America are the most moral people in the world. They have a fair education, now-a-days, and they live where the air is fresh and the water pure. ...

    Article : 530 words
  4. Fireside Talks.

    IT would be well if the education of our girls were in some ways more like that of French maidens, who in the common schools are all taught household book-keeping, and ...

    Article : 1,428 words
  5. "Water-Rot" in Sheep. CHIEF INSPECTOR OF STOCK.

    The character of the soil where fluke and water-rot are most prevalent is retentive, the disease being mostly confined to red-gum alluvial flats ...

    Article : 1,278 words
  6. A TINY HOUSE.

    The following pithy acccunt of a Liliputian house is taken from a San Francisco paper:—Away up on Fifteenth-street-hill, near South Broderick-strcet, stands the very tiniest ...

    Article : 819 words
  7. A MODERN ADVENTURESS.

    "The adventuress," announced Godfrey autocratically, as he placed his feet upon the piazza rail and rolled a fresh cigarette," must change her taclics. She is too well known in ...

    Article : 1,151 words
  8. LIFE HISTORY OF THE FLUKE.

    The mature fluke inhabits the bile ducts of several animals, of which the sheep is the commonest. The eggs pass along the bile duct into the ...

    Article : 301 words
  9. Health in the Home.

    To cure round shoulders sleep perfectly horizontal—that is, without any holster or pillow—and the round-shoulders will soon be straightened. ...

    Article : 904 words
  10. Cleaning Floors.

    Sweeping is an art of simple nature, but one which requires practice and care. The broom in the hands of a thoughtless girl may do more harm ...

    Article : 271 words
  11. A WOMAN WITH A HISTORY.

    A well-dressed and sharp-faced woman passed into the lawyer’s office and very shortly was standing by his desk. "I beg your pardon," she said, in salutation, ...

    Article : 433 words
  12. A MODERN ROMANCE.

    The new woman paused in deep thought. For a year she had conducted a law business and had met with poor success. She had spent her evenings at the club or at the theatre, and ...

    Article : 661 words
  13. Four Ways of Cooking Potatoes.

    POTATO LOAF.—Take some mashed potato, season it with pepper, salt, and a dust of powdered mace, and in a baking-dish which can be sent to table ...

    Article : 314 words
  14. A YOUNG ELEPHANT’S TOILET.

    A great many babies dislike soap and water, and cry when they are being washed. Not so the great four-legged baby at the Zoological Gardens. He likes to feel the cold water dashed ...

    Article : 211 words
  15. HUMOUR’S DECAY.

    Minstrel End Man (to professional Literary Humorist): "I say, old fellow, now really is there any money in writing jokes for the evening papers?" ...

    Article : 140 words
  16. THE PATIENT NOT IN IT'

    A famous surgeon advises one of his patients to undergo an operation. "Is it very severe?" asks the patient. "Not for the patients," says the doctor. We ...

    Article : 133 words
  17. BETTING IN THE PULPIT.

    In the Parish Church of Yarrow nealy 100 years ago a Dumfriesshire clergyman has officiating for the Rev. Dr. Russell. It was the custom at that time for the farmers and ...

    Article : 131 words
  18. A PIOUS FRAUD IN COURT.

    There is an eminent Q.C. whose professional attainments are somewhat marred by the excessive length of his speeches. The persistency and prolixity of this learned gentleman recalls ...

    Article : 115 words
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