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  2. Varieties.

    To cut the Gordian knot means to remove a difficulty by bold or unusual means. The phrase 'Gordian knot' is of ancient origin. Gordins, King of Phrygia, in Asia ...

    Article : 198 words
  3. Popular Science.

    Hydraulic power at a pressure of 750 pounds to the square inch is now conveyed about beneath the streets of London as steam is conveyed in this country. ...

    Article : 1,685 words
  4. Sketcher.

    I was obliged to cross a snow-drift to attain a point whence I could descend to my friends. This drift lay at a steep angle, terminating in a precipice seven or eight ...

    Article : 1,298 words
  5. Ladies' Column.

    Notwithstanding the very firesome utilization of its name, 'Eiffel Tower' colors and designs in trimming remain in fashionable favour. ...

    Article : 1,169 words
  6. Universities of the World

    Norway has I university, 46 professors and [?] students. France has one university, 180 professors and 9,300 students. ...

    Article : 158 words
  7. Mrs. Kendal on Good Dressing.

    Mrs. Kendal, what do you think is good dressing?' said Mr. Gordon Bennett's lady. Good dressing is that suited to the time and the place, the occasion, and the woman. ...

    Article : 1,010 words
  8. Personalities.

    John Jacob Astor owned 2,700 high class dwelling-houses, rented at an average of $2,000 a year. He owed, besides tenement houses in untold number, and no end of real ...

    Article : 1,020 words
  9. Wonderful Spread of the English Language.

    The language in which Shakespeare and Milton wrote was the Language of less than 16,000,000 people, and when Washington was president less than 16000000 ...

    Article : 138 words
  10. Odds and Ends.

    He—I've got a brother a policeman. She—Dat's nuffin. I've got'r brother a hangel. 'No, sir,' said Dr. Jol[?]p, 'I would not ...

    Article : 810 words
  11. A Whitmanian Ode.

    I sing The Grip! In [?] You hear me? ...

    Article : 265 words
  12. Art and Literature.

    According to the New York Ledger there is nothing under the sun which is the basis of so large a number of figures of speech as water. Its flow oceanward is likened to the ...

    Article : 932 words
  13. Advertising

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    Advertising : 211 words
  14. Kissing

    A correspondent who describes himself aa a man of mature years, but of limited social experience,' wants to know: 'If there in any trusworthy record as to the ...

    Article : 367 words
  15. Advertising

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    Advertising : 51 words
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