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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 493 words
  3. FIRESIDE FANCIES.

    The usual quantities of food consumed by adults are as follows:—Tea, coffee, or cocoa, four ounces per week. ...

    Article : 75 words
  4. GERMAN NAVY SCANDAL.

    The trial of the nine officials and merchants implicated in the recently-discovered robberies from the Imperial. Navy Yard at this port began here to-day (says ...

    Article : 560 words
  5. MINING INTELLIGENCE, STOCKS AND SHARES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 569 words
  6. NEW SERIES OF STORIES.

    Donald Davison wag a young medico from Glasgow, who knocked about the boarding-houses of Bloomsbury seeking what he could devour without laying ...

    Article : 1,436 words
  7. SPRAY.

    John Augustus Scribble wearily opened the envelope that brought back from its twentieth journey his " Ode on a Crushed Caterpillar." ...

    Article : 1,301 words
  8. OLD-FASHIONED PHILOSOPHY.

    Scorn not the homely virtues. We are Prone. To search through all the world for something new; ...

    Article : 70 words
  9. NOT WORTH IT.

    A dark-eyed, buxon woman, still young, applied to Mr. Biron, at Old-street Police Court, London, for advice. Without any circumlocution she said, "I want to ...

    Article : 110 words
  10. THE FIELD OF WATERLOO.

    The battlefield of Waterloo, writes an American tourist from Brussels, is rapidly being divested of all its interesting features. The houses which sheltered men ...

    Article : 140 words
  11. FRIENDSHIP OF TWO JOCKEYS.

    Describing a thrilling finish for the last of the “Ten thousand pounders" at Newmarket Rces, the writer of gossip in “ The Yorkshire Post" says the features ...

    Article : 179 words
  12. AN ENGLISH “KOEPENICK."

    Peterborough has experienced a little Koepenick affair (says a London newspaper). Some months ago Mrs. Morling, a widow lady, advertised for sale her ...

    Article : 271 words
  13. PASTORAL MATTERS.

    Hughenden station starts to shear the selectors' sheep again on Tuesday, Sharp and Crain being the contractors. J. V. Kirby has sold his Ewan Plains property ...

    Article : 147 words
  14. LION-HUNTING WITH A CAMERA.

    When we had almost despaired of getting any more lion pictures we found a partly-eaten hartebeest, which had evidently been killed during the past night. ...

    Article : 318 words
  15. THE EFFECTS OF ACTING.

    "The direct effect of acting upon the body must not be overlooked," says Mr. Cliverd Young in the "Playgoer." “To obtain the most telling effect with the ...

    Article : 173 words
  16. CLOTHES IN THE WRONG PLACE.

    Concerning the evils of fashionable dress, a writer in the October number of “ Good Health" says that one of the hurtful practices which custom fosters is " the ...

    Article : 146 words
  17. FIGHT IN A MENAGERIE.

    During the performance in Bostock’s menagerie at Edinburgh Marine Gardens recently a terrible struggle took place between a large bear and a Bengal tiger, ...

    Article : 159 words
  18. IN THE SOUP.

    Birds'[?]nest soup is not a delicacy which has as yet figured on a European restaurant menu, but in China it is esteemed as a most nourishing and wholesome dainty. ...

    Article : 273 words
  19. BEQUEST TO HOUSE OF COMMONS WAITERS.

    The will has just been proved of Sir James Alfred Jacoby, Liberal M.P. for Mid Derbyshire, and chairman of the Kitchen Committee of the House of ...

    Article : 594 words
  20. EPIGRAMS ABOUT LOVE.

    Women are angry if other women think too little of their lovers, and furious if they think too much. A kiss is remembered when kisses are ...

    Article : 82 words
  21. TWO LOMBROSO STORIES.

    Lombroso himself has told the following story of how his attention was first drawn to the special branch of science with which he became identified. ...

    Article : 268 words
  22. STORIES OF A FAMOUS SURGEON

    Some amusing anecdotes of the late Sir Thomas Smith, the eminent surgeon, have been recorded by the president of the Royal College of Surgeons, Mr. Henry T. ...

    Article : 235 words
  23. CARLYDE AND SHAMS.

    In the " Memoirs of Fifty Years," by Lady St. Helier, just published, she records how Carlyle once offended against conventionality at the Deanery of ...

    Article : 252 words
  24. COUPLES ARM-IN-ARM.

    I observe it is becoming less usual for a gentleman to ofter his arm to a lady when entering a Paris salon. Neither when walking nor at the races does one ...

    Article : 201 words
  25. “LITTLE SLAVES” OF ESSEX.

    Canon Ingles, Vicar of Witham, Essex, addressing about 100 ploughmen, who took part in the yearly competitions at the Witham Church School, said that the ...

    Article : 563 words
  26. PROVING THEIR PLUCK.

    Should an Englishman wish to prove himself of high courage, he may, if possessed of the most extreme daring, take a cold bath about mid-winter. Then he can ...

    Article : 184 words
  27. "WORLD-WEARY CRITICS."

    The author, at the back of the stalls (or, if you like, in the lowest box on the prompt side) studies his judges. Like a criminal in the Jock who tries to read ...

    Article : 218 words
  28. HERBERT SPENCER [?] BILLIARDS.

    Billiards need ask for no better defender than Herbert Spencer. He explains that he found it “ a very desirable way of passing the time," because it prevented ...

    Article : 176 words
  29. THEIR RIGHTS.

    "Pa.” "Well?" " What's women's rights?" " Everything they want. Run away!" ...

    Article : 18 words
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