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  2. Varieties.

    Here is a curious rhyme. Of course the peculiarity is that it can be read in either Latin or English: Mollis abuti Moll is a beauty, ...

    Article : 148 words
  3. THE TRAITOR.

    One bitterly cold winter's evening, toward the close of the year 1887, five men were seated together in a small room in a house situated in the Jewish quarter of a busy and ...

    Article : 1,638 words
  4. Interesting Items.

    The late Dean Church has bequeathed his valuable library to Oriel College, Oxford. Important seams ol smokeless coal exist in the hills fringing the Gulf of Tonquin. ...

    Article : 1,431 words
  5. Domestic. Keep Dolly in The Nursery

    One of the thinking women of the day has issued an ediot against dolls, which she says, as palpable shams are demoralising to little girls, and help to develop a likng for frivolous ...

    Article : 384 words
  6. Science. Light from the Stars.

    It has been fonnd by photometric experiments n the light emitted by the stars of different orders of magnitude that the light ot a star of the sixth magnitude amounts to ...

    Article : 313 words
  7. Fanaiositics.

    The civil engineer is not monarch of all be surveys. Query—Are “the teeth of the wind” all sound? ...

    Article : 1,101 words
  8. Preparations for Sealskins.

    There is a popular notion that the sealskin as we eee it at the fuarrier’s is just as it was taken off the animal. Nothing, however, could be more contrary to fact. Few skins ...

    Article : 374 words
  9. Girls In France.

    of the French girl it is hard to speak, not Only because she is a mere reflection of her mother, but because she is forced to play a part. Ever since Bernsrdin de Saint-Pierre ...

    Article : 1,245 words
  10. Modem Science—Where will it stop?

    Almost everything under the sun has received the benfit of scientific study and researches, and now babies are to be taken in band and a great improvement is to be ...

    Article : 1,024 words
  11. How Ladies Bathe in Turkey.

    When a refined Turkish lady bathes, her attire is first removed. An attendant takes a glove—every day it is a new glove—of undressed silk. With her disengaged hand she ...

    Article : 250 words
  12. The Camel.

    A writer who is giving a very interesting series of letters from Africa, has this to say of the disagreeable traits of the indispensable camel. They had arrived at the banks of a ...

    Article : 543 words
  13. Stern Husbands.

    In the old days, a Roman wife was little more than the slave of her husband. Women, according to the opinion of the early Romans, vere always children. They required ...

    Article : 674 words
  14. Heavy Honors.

    The King of Siam has conferred the order of Chulachonclao on his dentist, a Frenchman. The decoration is the least important of the four orders of Siam, and it involves the ...

    Article : 350 words
  15. An Observing Traveller.

    R.: “What did yon see in Castile, Ed?” E. “Everything, almost, except soap." MRS Wedgwood: “I know I’m cross at ...

    Article : 105 words
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