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  2. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Tommy had a curious dream one night. He had been kept in from play to help his father. But, instead of being proud to think that his father ...

    Article : 1,074 words
  3. PETTY TYRANTS.

    Peace and happiness cannot exist in the vicinity of an individual who has a mania for setting everybody right. In the first place, he is generally ...

    Article : 395 words
  4. AN OLD MAID'S ROMANCE. A SHORT STORY.

    There never was a sweeter woman in all the world than poor Miss Marsh. Yet she had reached an age at which most old maids begin to slip into narrow grooves of [?] views [?] and into a course ...

    Article : 2,297 words
  5. MISS MANNINGTON'S LESSON

    Two ladies were seated over breakfast one morning in early July at 19 Belsistern Square. The younger of them was a radiantly beautiful girl, but her ...

    Article : 2,150 words
  6. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    Manager (to new actor): " Your performance of ' Hamlet' is the very worst. I've ever seen. If there had been any money in the house I should have had to ...

    Article : 1,209 words
  7. WORTH KNOWING.

    In many parts of China there are mounds, earthworks, look-out terraces, the remains of ancient cities and fortresses, which mark the sites of ...

    Article : 483 words
  8. OLD CUSTOMS.

    The antiquary took a sip from his glass of ale. Then he smacked his lips. He held the beverage up to the light, admiring its clear colour. " This ale," be said "is pure. In the proving of it ...

    Article : 256 words
  9. AN IDEAL JUDGE.

    Mr. Rufus Choate, fifty years ago, in a speech before the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, said : " He shall know nothing about the parties; ...

    Article : 183 words
  10. ITALIANS AS I SAW THEM.

    Even the working girls either have a hairdresser, who does her work for a trifle, or dress each other's hair. The second distinctive feature is the gay ...

    Article : 221 words
  11. IT DOESN'T COST MONEY.

    It doesn't cost money, as many suppose, To have a good time on the earth; The best of its pleasures are free unto those ...

    Article : 205 words
  12. SINCERITY.

    The origin of the word "sincerity" is profoundly interesting and suggestive When Rome flourished, when her fame was spread the world over, when the ...

    Article : 194 words
  13. Erected to a Sparrow.

    Tombstones of on imposing order have often been raised to the memory of pet dogs and cats, but the one in Berlin to the memory of a sparrow is probably unique. [?] railway ...

    Article : 558 words
  14. RICH WITHOUT MONEY.

    Many a man is rich without money. Thousands of men with nothing in their pockets, and thousands without even a pocket, are rich. A man born with a good sound constitution, a good ...

    Article : 220 words
  15. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    Tom (who is at a boarding-school in the country) wrote to his father:- "Please send me some more money, 8 trap to catch birds, and a piece of carpet ...

    Article : 451 words
  16. THE VALUE OF DUST.

    Dust is essential to the well-being of the animal and vegetable kingdoms of the world. It is the medium through which we obtain diffused daylight, for the whole ...

    Article : 169 words
  17. NOTHING BUT WATER.

    An Englishman was spending a shore holiday in France, and during his travels he became acquainted with a Frenchman, who took much pains to show him ...

    Article : 239 words
  18. SILKWORM EXPERIMENTS.

    Silk is known to be the secretion of two glands of the silkworm alongside of the digestive canal. These glands, which consist of tubes in numerous coils, terminate in the spinning-wart, ...

    Article : 258 words
  19. Rewarded by the Emperor.

    A little Austrian boy recently met with a piece of luck. He lives in a street in Buda-Pest, and whenever the Emperor Francis Joseph ...

    Article : 149 words
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