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  2. Are the English People Deteriorating?

    Is the physical condition of the English people deteriorating? Are we worse men— smaller, weaker, and less healthy—than our fathers before us? Sir Thomas Crawford, ...

    Article : 580 words
  3. A Gilded Youth.

    THE Dake of Fortland is the most ideally fortunato youth of the age. He is just 30, and has enjoyed his vast wealth and title for eight years past, his only trouble during that time having been ...

    Article : 284 words
  4. Literature as a Profession.

    AN aged philosopher discourses, in Macmillan's Magazine, on "The Profession of Letters." From the frequent and pathetic allusions of this hoary sage to his antiquity ...

    Article : 723 words
  5. The French and German War Departments.

    IN Germany, the Emperor is Commander-in-Chief of the army, Truth tells us. Under him are two co-ordinate authorities, the War Minister and the Chief of the General Staff. ...

    Article : 248 words
  6. Training Oarsmen.

    FEED PLAISTED, the oarsman, or rather trainer of oarsmen, is a very sensible fellow in many respects and has ideas of his own in the matter of training which might well be more generally adopted. ...

    Article : 418 words
  7. Health.

    DISCUSSING the distribution of typhoid fever in Oldham, Dr. Niven, the medical officer of health, refers to the well-known tendency of this disease to prevail in the colder rather than in the warmer ...

    Article : 247 words
  8. The Prophylactic Sunflower.

    IT is stated, on the authority of a Cuban journal, that since the sunflowor has been cultivated in certain swampy districts on the banks of the river Potomac, malarial fever has almost ceased to be ...

    Article : 207 words
  9. A Police Force Locked Up.

    A BOSTON paper states that the citizens of the quiet old town of Ambury, noted as the home of the venerable poet, Whittier, have been so much exasperated by the intemperate zeal of the police ...

    Article : 225 words
  10. An Astonished Indian.

    "THEY tell a story about Geronimo," said a man from Arizona. "While the Apaches were raiding the ranches in the foothills of New Mexico they captured a white man who ...

    Article : 302 words
  11. End of Military Glory.

    THUS a historic writer:—Happening to cast my eyes upon a printed page of miniature portraits, I perceived that the four poreonages who occupied the four most conspicuous places were Alexander, ...

    Article : 406 words
  12. Hypnotism.

    DR. BERILLON, a well-known hypnotic Bpccialict. stated in the courseo f a lecture which he delivered a few days ago in Paris, that it would be impossible to overrate the value af hypnotic suggestion as a ...

    Article : 208 words
  13. Society in China.

    THE highest ambition of a Chinese gentleman is to have a nice coffin and a fine funeral. Old women instead of the young are the idols of society. ...

    Article : 452 words
  14. The Young Men of the Day.

    THE Saturday Reriem says:—"Many yerang men get their heads completely turned when they first appear in London society by being token up and petted by pretty women because they are good ...

    Article : 1,001 words
  15. The Census of the Air.

    WHEN no bird or winged insect is in sight there are round about us in the atmosphere of many districts millions living insecte called microbes, some of which, therefore, we must needs draw into our ...

    Article : 922 words
  16. The Story of the Bottle.

    THE realistic brush of George Cruickshank and the vivid pen of tho author of "Ginx's Baby" haye painted the ghastly horrors of drunkenness in their most lurid lights" (says ...

    Article : 279 words
  17. The Practical Joker.

    "I AM not much given to practical joking," said the Hon. Thomas Pearling, addressing his wife, "but the negro that visits our wood pile to-night will wish that he had shivered in honesty rather ...

    Article : 348 words
  18. A Romance of the Peerage.

    THE history of the life of George Montifex, Lord Drummond, who died a few years ago in the United States,-would make a very readable novel. He was born in 1856, and, ...

    Article : 593 words
  19. Old Sayings.

    A READER of the Times whose signature is "S.C.D. Little Fall," asked me where the phrase "pouring oil on the troubled waters "first, occurs, and adds that it is not found in the Bible. I reply that ...

    Article : 305 words
  20. Turning the Tables.

    THE Riverine Grazier (Hay) reports, a sad case of domestic infelicity. A man and his wife had been married a little over eighteen mouths. The husband, not content with ...

    Article : 358 words
  21. An Object Lesson.

    "PAPA, how donations go to war with each other?" asked Tommy Seasonby. "Sometimes one way, sometimes another," said the father. " Now, there are Germany and Spain ...

    Article : 380 words
  22. Aphorisms by the Earl of Beaconsfield.

    A BEAUTY without wit seems to me to resemble a bait without a hook. There is no marriage in heaven, neither is there any beaven in marriage. ...

    Article : 374 words
  23. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 60 words
  24. Advertising

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