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  2. Humour.

    "I SHOULD like to sail you a gimlet," said a care-worn looking man, as he walked into an office the other day. "We have no use for one," replied the ...

    Article : 245 words
  3. Trabeller.

    THE following is an extract from the letter of a missionary's wife, and vividly describes the terrific heat which prevails in India during the summer:— ...

    Article : 501 words
  4. SALICYLIC ACID.—ITS USES AND REMARKABLE CURES.

    THE beneficial effects of salicylic acid as a medicine have been mach discussed in the medical journals since 1675, when the acid was first administered as a remedy for ...

    Article : 443 words
  5. Nature.

    FEW readers are unacquainted with the name which heads this article. From its frequent employment as the name of ships and boats of all sizes and descriptions, to its ...

    Article : 2,457 words
  6. Miscellany.

    SHE was dead, the patient woman, tried by anguish superhuman; Life had spent its worst on clean white flesh, torn heart, thought-wearied brain; ...

    Article : 767 words
  7. Essays.

    IT is commonly said that the art of letterwriting has perished, and that epistolary correspondence—to use the stately phraseology of our grandmothers—which covered ...

    Article : 1,184 words
  8. AN EDITOR'S VACATION.

    ABOUT six weeks ago a person entered our office and proposed to sell us a new-fangled "fountain pen." The rash young man at length mentioned as a recommendation that ...

    Article : 149 words
  9. Sketcher.

    FEW subjects have been oftener written upon than that of dreams and dreaming; yet, frequently as the theme has been treated, it is of that sort which never seems ...

    Article : 1,136 words
  10. WANTED A TWO-HORSE LOAD.

    LADY to peasant—"How much for that load of peat?" Peasant—"Fifteen francs, madam." Lady—"Oh, merey me, that's too dear. ...

    Article : 154 words
  11. THE PRAYING MOTHER.

    RICHARD CECIL records the following as his experience:—"Nothing used to impress upon my mind so strongly, the reality and excellence of religion, as my mother's ...

    Article : 828 words
  12. THE STORIES OF A YANKEE AND AN IRISHMAN.

    THE other night at a London club some Americans were boasting about their inventions and the wonderful machines to be found in the States. One of them told of the ...

    Article : 132 words
  13. HIS TESTIMONIAL.

    IT is [?] City for a number of people to get toge[?] present some public man with a testimonial, in the shape of a gold watch or a silver ...

    Article : 572 words
  14. Science.

    THE deaf can hear by means of their teeth! The audiphone, an instrument invented by a Western Yankee for alleviating the misery of deafness is simply a shoot of vulcanised ...

    Article : 429 words
  15. CHIPS.

    THARE ha[?] been menny a hero born, lived, and died unknown, just for the want ov an opportunity. Thare, ain't nothing that will sho the ...

    Article : 132 words
  16. DISAGREEABLE PEOPLE.

    WE should bear with disagreeable people better—and generally find them more agreeable, probably—if we were accustomed to look on their mental infirmities with more of the ...

    Article : 202 words
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