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  2. The Home. On Taking Things for Granted.

    There are few things in the world which wound us so deeply as the feeling that we are ignored by our fellow-creatures, that we are looked over, or ...

    Article : 545 words
  3. Spray. The Passion of Jealousy.

    Dr. De Fleury, a French physician of some eminence, claims to have discovered that the passion of jealousy is dependent on the bodily condition of its ...

    Article : 268 words
  4. Household Hints. Insect Pests.

    Last week an Edinburgh correspondent sent me a d[?]l[?]ful account of the invasion of her pretty home by an army of cockroaches. Where they came from was ...

    Article : 574 words
  5. Can You Do This?

    A correspondent sends us "Weekly Telegraph" an account of several amusing tricks. described to him by the marker of a London billiard saloon. The ...

    Article : 1,239 words
  6. Short Story.

    "Oh. N[?]nie, I am tired, dog-tired." "Well, sit in your pet chair, tea is quite ready." The first speaker, a well-developed ...

    Article : 1,641 words
  7. The Sketcher.

    Sometimes I ask my friends in business if they like their work, and when they reply. as they almost invariably do, that only the need of the almighty ...

    Article : 770 words
  8. A Diplomat.

    A young follow was recently caught napping on the porch of a summer holiday resort. A pair of soft, little hands covered his eyes. and a sweet voice ...

    Article : 151 words
  9. A Matter of Memory.

    Poor little Ned had been kept in again and again to learn a very simple stanza that had been easily mastered by all the rest of the class. Finally he broke ...

    Article : 95 words
  10. The Art of Securing a Healthy Sleep.

    It is still an unsettled question how a sleeper ought to lie in respect to the course of the earth as it rotates on its axis. Should we lie down in the [?] ...

    Article : 421 words
  11. Verdigris.

    Emery powder will remove the verdigris from the [?]ss pan: but if it is very bad. It may be necessary to use, in the first place, diluted sulphuric acid (one ...

    Article : 79 words
  12. Another Jenny Lind.

    A granddaughter of Jenny Lind is said to possess a voice that promises. with proper training. to be as sweet and as beautiful as that of her illustrious ...

    Article : 96 words
  13. The Art of Talking.

    To be able to talk well is quite as much a talent as to be able to play or sing well. and quite as worthy of cultivation; indeed. many people would ...

    Article : 686 words
  14. Early Rising.

    Long ago. in the days of my childhood, I remember being very sceptical as to the virtues of early rising, and when my pastors and masters, to inspire me ...

    Article : 417 words
  15. Voices of Women.

    The voice of the average woman about us is not pleasant: it is not round and [?]e-like. A harsh. strident quality [?] taking the place of the low. soft. rich ...

    Article : 113 words
  16. Women and Men.

    What woman in profundity she gains in quickness. She excels in fact, and extricates herself from a difficulty. with astonishing adroitness. In language ...

    Article : 258 words
  17. Birmingham’s Weekly Output.

    A week's work in Birmingham comprises amongst its various result, the manufacture of 14,000,000 pens, 6000 bedsteads, 7000 guns, 300,000,000 nails. ...

    Article : 116 words
  18. The Sweating System.

    The bill introduced by Congressman Suizer, of New York city, in the House of Representatives. to tax the sweating system. is attracting wide attention. and ...

    Article : 429 words
  19. A Deposed Sultan.

    The ex-Sultan Murad, brother of the Sultan of Turkey. is said to have lucid moments, but there is no hope of his permanent restoration to reason. He ...

    Article : 123 words
  20. Queen King.

    One of the most remarkable women in the world is (says "Cassell's Saturday Journal") Mrs. King, she widow of Captain Richard King, of South Texas. She ...

    Article : 353 words
  21. "Fond of the 'Breaderasts.’"

    This little story is going the rounds to point the moral when an orator claims that women have, until now, been kept shielded. from business cares and from ...

    Article : 296 words
  22. A Woman-hater.

    There has just lied at Sydenham a medical recluse. confirmed woman-hater. He was ea[?]hy, and lived amidst luxurious st [?]oundings. but the ...

    Article : 199 words
  23. A Very Natural Question.

    During the late bay harvest in North Yorkshire, an agricultural labourer was one day busily engaged tossing out the half-dried grass with a long fork. ...

    Article : 181 words
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