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  2. THE JESTER.

    He: “Then it is settled that we are to elope at midnight?” She: “Yes.” He: “And you are sure you can get your trunk packed in time?” She: “Oh, yes; papa ...

    Article : 553 words
  3. FIRESIDE FANCIES. MARRIAGE AND LONG LIFE.

    Get married and live long." So says Dr. Jaques Bertillon, the eminent expert upon vital economics. Dr. Bertillon has just produced statistics to prove that the ...

    Article : 178 words
  4. VARIOUS VERSES. THE WAIT, OF THE TENDER HEART.

    [If we were too tender-hearted we should never eat anything.—Daily Paper.] The bacon that so crisply curls Upon my breakfast-plate ...

    Article : 126 words
  5. NEW SERIES OF STORIES.

    (Last year, while on a visit to Ceylon, my cousin, who had lived in the East Indies since he was a boy, told me the following strange tale:— ...

    Article : 1,914 words
  6. AN OVERWORKED ELOCUTIONIST.

    Once there was a little boy, whose name was Robert Reece; And every Friday afternoon he had to speak a piece. ...

    Article : 261 words
  7. THE COARSER SEX.

    Charlotte Bronte obviously availed herself of the fen[?]inine privilege of “changing her mind." for, as is shown by the following letter addressed to her friend ...

    Article : 172 words
  8. HAIR THAT IS LUSTROUS.

    It may seem quite a trifling detail to friction the head every night wi[?] the tips of the fingers, and to shake the hair loosely with the hands as though to ...

    Article : 131 words
  9. EXERCISES FOR HEALTH AND APPEARANCE.

    One of the best of early morning exerciser is to stand erect, with the weight on the balls of the feet, the head held upright, and with the arms hanging ...

    Article : 246 words
  10. A GUIDE’S STORIES.

    When in reminiscent mood the Jocular Guide of the Capital at Washington, who is a war veteran and extremely popular, can tell some interesting and amusing ...

    Article : 639 words
  11. AMERICAN SLANG.

    We have much to learn yet in the way of American slang. An English traveller was addressed by the mate of a Mississippi steamer in these words, “Look here, ...

    Article : 86 words
  12. A REVISED VERSION OF “SAN TOY.”

    There is a distinct musical comedy flayour about a story which emanates from the Japanese-British Exhibition at Shepherd’s Bush. The story goes that, the ...

    Article : 133 words
  13. PETTICOAT PHILOSOPHY.

    As for matters of Huswifery, when God puts them upon you it would bee sin either to refuse them or perform them negligently. and therefore the ignorance ...

    Article : 371 words
  14. INSPIRED BY A GOLDEN DREAM.

    Two notorious quacks who flourished a hundred years age were known as the “Doctors” Jordan. In Cannon-street road, London, stood a shop parlour then, ...

    Article : 146 words
  15. NOSES OF GREAT MEN.

    "Give me a man with plenty of nose,” said the great Napoleon. His own nose was exquisitely chiselled, sculpturesque in mould, form, and expression. George ...

    Article : 152 words
  16. BLACK, WHITE, AND LONG PEPPER.

    When the berries of the pepper plant are growing, says Mr. James Scott, in an interesting article in. ‘‘The Magazine of Commerce," they are full-bodied, glossy, ...

    Article : 159 words
  17. THE BRIDAL VEIL.

    The bridal veil is evidently of Eastern origin, being a relic Of the bridal canopyheld over the heads of the bride and bridegroom. Among the Anglo-Saxons a ...

    Article : 163 words
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