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  3. A HELPLESS SITUATION.

    (By MARK TWAIN. IN "EARPER'S BAZAAR.") Once or twice a year I get a letter of a certain pattern, a pattern that never materially changes, in form and substance, yet I ...

    Article : 1,989 words
  4. THE GIRL OF THE NORTH.

    "A girl from the north." To how many Victorians, aye, and New South Wales people, the words bring an imaginary picture of a dried-up, unattractive-looking ...

    Article : 1,009 words
  5. AMONG THE QUAIL.

    Persistent rumours of a scarcity of birds urged many to be out with dog and gun at daybreak on Marcj 1—the opening day of the quail season. III-fared the sluggard ...

    Article : 1,024 words
  6. THE FEBRUARY MAGAZINES.

    Questions arising out of the general election naturally take precedence of other subjects in most of the February reviews. First place in the "Nineteenth Century" is given ...

    Article : 2,008 words
  7. WOMAN'S REALM.

    In the far west of Canada the male population has for some time been increasing at a very disproportionate rate as compared to the female, and consequently there has ...

    Article : 2,775 words
  8. WITH CARRIERS IN NEW GUINEA.

    They de[?]anted me into a whaleboat, and showered down ma[?]s of rice and boxes of meat and all the multitudinous stores needed in a place so far removed from the ...

    Article : 1,888 words
  9. IN THE PAPERS.

    Mr. Cooper, an aeronaut, who made his first ascent at Wolf City, Texas, on January 23. fell 2,000ft., and was killed. On examination it was found that the only bone ...

    Article : 1,823 words
  10. A MIRACLE OF THE TURF.

    "Mr. Cray said I wasn't to prevent your getting up if you felt so inclined," remarked Mrs. Summer, as Thorby lay watching the sunset. "It must all depend on yourself. ...

    Article : 7,433 words
  11. QUEER WILLS.

    In no way, says the Leeds "Saturday Journal," do the ruling passions of men show themselves so strongly as by their wills. What a curious collection might be made of ...

    Article : 1,085 words
  12. MEN'S HATS IN CHURCH.

    It is a matter of historical record (says the Hatters' Gazette) that our forefathers in the seventeenth century wore their hats at divine service, and also at dinner, but it ...

    Article : 436 words
  13. WHO KILLED CHARLES I?

    It is now 237 years since, by the heads-man's axe, Charles [?]. died at Whitehall. The body was taken down to St. George's Chapel. Windsor, and interred by those ...

    Article : 412 words
  14. CLEAN JAPANESE.

    Writing in the "Empress," a Calcutta magazine, on "Life in Japan," [?]dy Law-son says that Japanese houses are built a foot or two above the ground, without ...

    Article : 268 words
  15. TRICKING A SURGEON.

    Sir Morel Mackenzie once received a wire from Antworp, asking h[?] his charges for a certain operation. He replied £500, and was told to come at once. When he stepped ...

    Article : 310 words
  16. COWEN'S SONGS.

    Dr. F. H. Cowen was a young man of only 23 when he wrote the music of "The Better Land"—he is now over 50. During the interevening years he has written much ...

    Article : 316 words
  17. FIGS IN COURT.

    An amusing "[?] brief" story was told some [?] ago by Mr. Ru[?]us [?], R.C., M.P., says the "Penny Magazine." Mr. l[?] client, a fruit merchant, was being ...

    Article : 257 words
  18. THE PENKNIFE.

    One of the most remarkable instances of the [?] of an article surviving its [?] is the penknife. We talk of it every day, [?] the "Globe," but the purpose for which the ...

    Article : 270 words
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