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  2. ODDS AND ENDS. IN THE SICK ROOM.

    Quiet[?] is a good toing, of course, but any appeara[?] of mystery, or conspiracy for the good of the patient, excites him, and must be avoided. Do not whisper, and never say ...

    Article : 459 words
  3. THE MOSQUITO.

    An exchange states that a scientist has made known to a long-suffering people that the mosquito is wondrously beautiful 'Place one, he says, under a microscope. Adjust ...

    Article : 301 words
  4. THRIFT.

    Tho very careful wife of a millionaire, about to trav[?] on[?] continong, wishing her two sons to remain at boarding school during the Christmas holidays, visited the establishment they ...

    Article : 111 words
  5. ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE

    An exchange relates that a young gentleman happening to sit at church in a pew adjoining one [?] which sata young lady, for whom he conoeived a sudden and violent passion, was ...

    Article : 222 words
  6. A FINE WEDDING NOTICE.

    A young man from out in the Panhandle came down to Austin recently to marry Miss M Neester, diughter of General M'Neester, who suddenly struck it rich while herding his ...

    Article : 281 words
  7. REMINISCENCES

    Some very interesting auecdotes are in circulation about tho Marquis of Winchester, whose 86 years of life carried him back to an epoch that allowed him to mingle with many ...

    Article : 217 words
  8. THE WAY HE DOES IT.

    When, a woman gets into a train with ll bundles and a bandbox or two, it is inspiring to see her examine each one and carefully stow it away on the seat beside her with no more ...

    Article : 235 words
  9. REVENGE.

    I have served in the French army (as surgeon), and saorebleu!' I never yet suffered an insult from mortal being to pase unavenged It was in the Tyrol last year while wandering through ...

    Article : 626 words
  10. A SURPRISE

    An old gentleman farmer, who had two or three pretty daughters, was se very an[?]ious for his charges that he would not permit them to keep the company of young men However. ...

    Article : 254 words
  11. PHYSICAL TRAINING FOR GIRLS.

    Dr. Batton, of Gloucester, who has given much attention to the subject of the physical training of girls, makes the tallowing recommendations:—There must be suitable drill in a ...

    Article : 559 words
  12. AN ABE LINC [?]LN STORY.

    I heard a story repeated the other day as an 'Abe Lincoln Story,' but which is older and must have slumbered somewhere for a good while Certainly, it is not one that the ...

    Article : 594 words
  13. TRA.DING IN A COURT.

    A witness was being axanine 1 befora a Dacota justice of the p[?]e, and in the course of his testimonv mentioned having said to the prisoner at one time time that he had a hose be ...

    Article : 212 words
  14. TIT FOR TAT

    Some few years ago before his death Poole, the tailor, was taking a walk on the west pier, Brighton, looking, as he always did, a beaming specimen of health, content, and success A ...

    Article : 236 words
  15. THE JUDGE CHANGED THE PLANS.

    Some five Or six years ago, when Watertown, D.T-, was a new place, the business men raised 5[?] dollars with which to build a church. A meeting was called to talk over the plans. ...

    Article : 235 words
  16. ILLUSTRATING THE STORY

    An amusing story is told of John Stuart Blacke. the gool old "Scotch professor, whose liking for a bonnie lassie is well known He was walking along Princess-street, in ...

    Article : 152 words
  17. MATRIMONIAL NEWS

    There comes on appeal from Deita. Washington Territory, an appeal which ought to touch the gentle, loving hearts of the girls Three young men write from the fxrthest end of the ...

    Article : 178 words
  18. CAUGHT NAPPING

    About 40 years ago nearly every Presbyterian kirk in Scotland bad the precentor's box placed just below the pulpit, and it was owing to their proximity to the minister that precentors had ...

    Article : 156 words
  19. JENNY LIND'S LATTER DAYS.

    A recent writer says:—I was speaking the other day with an elderly Swedish gentleman about the stories one hears in Australia of the sensation the Swedish nightingale, Jenny Lind, ...

    Article : 248 words
  20. EQUALITY.

    A laughable story is told concerning Mr. Labouchere's doings while at Hamburg. One autumn, when there, before insoribing his name, he glanced through the visitors list, and was ...

    Article : 62 words
  21. 'DE HARDEST PART.'

    Out on West Peach-tree-street, the other day, two negroes were engaged to re-saingle the roof of a cottage The mistress of the house noticed that one of tho negroes nailed ...

    Article : 77 words
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