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  2. AN UNLUCKY MARRIAGE.

    I once crossed the Alleghanlen with a [?]but shrewd driver named Dyke Austin. He was remarkable in his way, and afforded me a great deal of entertainment ...

    Article : 1,688 words
  3. SLEEP AND LONGEVITY.

    Apropos of Sir James Sawyer's recent discourse on longevity at Birmingham, in which he insisted on " a sufficiency of sleep " as one of the things needful to make a man's ...

    Article : 783 words
  4. HANGED TO SAVE HIS MOTHER.

    Mr. Greville relates in his " Memoirs," that in November, 1829, he was on a visit at Rochampton, at Lord Chlden's residence when Sir James Mackintosh, the historian, ...

    Article : 787 words
  5. PLAYS THAT HAVE FORFEITED REASON.

    We have all experienced that thrilling, ecstatic moment when, just as the hero who for some inscrutable reason declines to clear himself from some hideous charge involving ...

    Article : 688 words
  6. ROSE-COLOURED.

    The advertisements were really too tempting to young housewives driven nearly' to desperation by a year or two's experience of modern servants—and experience of the ...

    Article : 1,556 words
  7. REMARKABLE MEMORIES.

    There is certainly no man in England to-day who has such a good memory for faces a the Prince of Wales. It is said that he remember every person who has been ...

    Article : 555 words
  8. HOW GHOSTS ARE MANUFACTURED.

    We are still mystery loving enough to be roused to a state of interest by any tangible manifestation of the invisible, especially when it comes to us under scientific ...

    Article : 690 words
  9. THE IMPECUNIOUS CLERGY.

    "Martin West, " whose knowledge of the slergy and their ways is certainly extensive, if not a little peculiar, writes that about one-half of the country clergy "are trying ...

    Article : 591 words
  10. INSULTING HIS KING.

    Louis XVI. was of an advantageous stature ; his shoulders were large, and his belly prominent. His walk was ungainly, rolling as it were, from one leg to the other; his ...

    Article : 340 words
  11. ABOUT JADE.

    The high standing of jade is no modern thing. The very first weights and measures of the Chinese world, says Olive F. Gumby in " Leslie's Weekly." were computed from ...

    Article : 408 words
  12. CUNNING BIRDS.

    African honey-birds, though wild, watch for opportunities to accompany the natives when they go to hunt for honey. This bird flies in advance, attracting the hunters to the ...

    Article : 186 words
  13. WALKING BACKWARDS.

    There is one piece of advice which I invariably give to my patients about walking up-hill, and that is, to walk backwards," said It doctor at a seaside home for those suffering ...

    Article : 460 words
  14. HINDOO CRUELTY.

    The correspondent of " ''The Calcutin Asian " states during a royal hunt in one of the Rajpoot states an exceptionally line tiger, was caught—netted, no doubt—and lured ...

    Article : 426 words
  15. SOME ROYAL LADIES' HOBBIES.

    Queen Victoria, whose especial hobby is music, has educated her daughters to be useful as well as accomplished women, and they may all be said to be efficient and artistic. ...

    Article : 186 words
  16. A MILLIONAIRE'S HOBBY.

    Big telescopes are a hobby which only millionaires can afford to indulge, Many conflicting statements have been ,and as to the amount spent by Mr. Yerkes on his ...

    Article : 270 words
  17. RUSSIAN WIVES.

    In Russia woman first owed her emancipation to Igor's wife Olga, who, after the death of her husband, by the able way she carried on the Government, did much to ...

    Article : 215 words
  18. A DEAR MEAL.

    A sailor seating himself in a summer- house copied a couple of onions (as he thought) in a remote corner. Wishing to enjoy o savoury it meal, he took from his ...

    Article : 152 words
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