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  2. A PRETTY PHANTOM.

    The poster had often attracted my attention. For one thing, it was pasted on a hoarding directly in front of my study window, and so it happened that whenever I looked into the street ...

    Article : 1,766 words
  3. A BLIGHTED MISSIONARY

    Winifred Kent throw back her bead with a long-drawn sigh of relief. Was she really off at last? When had she paused before with a sensation of rest? ...

    Article : 3,030 words
  4. MARRIAGE BY CAPTURE.

    Ever since the dawn of civilsation society Las recognised the necessity for some form of marriage ceremony. When Englishmen first visited Australia they found marriage by capture ...

    Article : 953 words
  5. ONLY A COMPANION.

    "It srems to me I don’t look so well as usual to-night," said Mrs. Major Dartburg, shaking her jet-black earls in a serpentine cataract about her face as she spoke, and critically surveying ...

    Article : 1,496 words
  6. A LEGENDARY STORY OF FLANDERS.

    In one of the streets of the ancient city of Bruges, in Flanders, may be seen to this day a house disti[?]rui-hed from others by a sculptured stone embedded in the frontage, ...

    Article : 1,684 words
  7. THE WIVES OF BARAK HAGEB.

    There were three hundred and sixty-five of them! One for every day in the year. Nevertheless, Barak was not a Sultan; he was hageb—that is upper chamberlain—at ...

    Article : 2,033 words
  8. No Sense, but Some Satisfaction:

    A man, top heavy, rushed into a telegraph office, seized a telegraph blank and pen, and by propping himself against the counter, managed to write the following message: ...

    Article : 284 words
  9. G. Washington AEsop’s Fables. THE OSTRICH AND THE HEN.

    An ostrich and a hen chanced to occupy adjacent apartments, and the former complained loudly that her rest was disturbed by the cackling of her humble neighbor, "Why is ...

    Article : 100 words
  10. REMARKABLE WATCHES.

    Mary of Scotland had her watches. In these days there was a great variety in the shape of the watch. A favorite shape was that of a skull, another was that of a coffin. Descriptions ...

    Article : 396 words
  11. THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANT.

    A grasshopper, having spent the Summer in mirth and revelry, went on the approach of the inelement winter to the ant, and implored it of its charity to stake him. 'You had ...

    Article : 103 words
  12. RETURNED WITH THANKS.

    A literary man in Vienne possessor of the learned degree of doctor, used to take his mid day reflection, a contemporary tells us, at a well-known cafe in the Austrian capital. One ...

    Article : 273 words
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