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  2. THE MODERN SAMSON.

    Thomas Topham, born in London about 1710, and brought up to the trade of a carpenter, thought by no means remarkable in size or outward appearance, was endowed by ...

    Article : 464 words
  3. THE PORTRAITURE RAGE.

    The general craze among fashionable people for having their pottraits done in all manure of ways is giving a good deal of inputs to that branch of art and much ...

    Article : 311 words
  4. A WONDERFUL CLOCK.

    Two-thirds of the way around the world there has travelled the strange story of a clock—the most marvellous that ever clockmaker dreamed of. ...

    Article : 494 words
  5. A PLUCKY BRIDE.

    A certain Dean of Chester was called upon to perform the wedding ceremonial of a pair of happy lovers. The position of both parties was of the highest rank, and the guest ...

    Article : 656 words
  6. JEM THE PEDLAR.

    In "wor vill[?]ge" Jom was a person of consequence. Here alone was he to be seen without his pack, for a curious point was that he got so used to having the big oblong ...

    Article : 801 words
  7. THREE THOUSAND MOURNERS.

    He was old and poor and lived in two rooms at the top of a tenement house. Yet when he was buried in Brooklyn, 3.000 persons followed his coffin to the grave. The man's ...

    Article : 505 words
  8. LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM.

    Be kind, dear love, and never say "Good bye!" But always when we're parting—"Till tomorrow. ...

    Article : 517 words
  9. A "PREPARED" COCOA SPEECH.

    Rather an amusing incident took place recently at one of the French elections. M. Menier, the chocolate manufacturer, was a candidate for Meaux. After he had made a ...

    Article : 254 words
  10. THE SIZE OF THE UNIVERSE.

    To form some idea of the largeness of the earth, one may look upon the landscape from the top of an ordinary church steeple, and then bear in mind that one must view ...

    Article : 286 words
  11. THE WANDERING JEW.

    The legend of the Wandering Jew was brought to Europe from the East late in the eleventh century, after the first crusade under Peter the Hermit. In the year 1228 ...

    Article : 340 words
  12. A FAMOUS BLUNDERER.

    M. Calino the popular French simpleton who performs in the humorous literature of France much the same function that the traditional Paddy does in English ...

    Article : 342 words
  13. THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S FEARS.

    In view of the eclipse of the sun on Jan 22nd next the Emperor of China has ordered that the ceremonies of congratulations habitually paid to him on that day, the ...

    Article : 149 words
  14. THE FRENCHMAN AND RATS.

    A Frenchman once, who was a merry wight, passing to town from Dover in the night, near the road-side, an ale-house chanced to spy; and being rather tired as well ...

    Article : 539 words
  15. A TRIFLE TOO ANXIOUS.

    Up in Blossburg, the other day, a lightning-red man drove up in front of a handsome edifice standing in the midst of trees and shrubs, and spoke to Mr. Summers, who ...

    Article : 544 words
  16. BULL RINGS IN BRITAIN.

    We often hear the Spaniards spoken of as cruel and degraded because of their national sport of bull fighting; but it is well to remember that a very degraded from of ...

    Article : 168 words
  17. A PRACTICAL JOKE WHICH FAILED

    When the London Gaiety Company was so tour with "Little Miss [?]oralda" some time late in the eighties, certain of the principals conspired with the stage-manager ...

    Article : 186 words
  18. A FINLAND LOVE STORY.

    Mrs. Alee Tweedle has recently brought out a book entitled "Through Finland in Carts," full of racy chat of travel. She speaks of Finland as. being like Norway, ...

    Article : 349 words
  19. THE KNIGHTING OF THE LOIN OF BEEF.

    The pleasant legend which relates how lames the First knighted the particular joint of beef which has ever since borne the name of "Sirloin" will doubtless be familiar ...

    Article : 129 words
  20. THE YOUNG IDEA,

    Superintendent of schools he was in a western town. Fully equal to that exalted post he was, perhaps more than equal. His awe inspiring ...

    Article : 318 words
  21. FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE FORK.

    The year 1895 was the nine-hundredth anniversary of the first appearance of the fork in Western Europe. In 995 a son of the Venetian Doge Pictro Orscolo married ...

    Article : 438 words
  22. WHAT THE STARS FORETELL OF 1898.

    Comparatively few people perhaps, believe in astrology nowadays, yet there is sufficient, public interest shown in the "science of the stare" to have induced the editor of a ...

    Article : 437 words
  23. THIRTY YEARS UP A TREE.

    Up in Windham County, America, lives Hulitt Hazewell, who, for the past thirty years, has made his abode in a tree. He was a strong Democrat, and in 8168 he said ...

    Article : 422 words
  24. TAILORS—ADMIRAL AND GENERAL.

    The brave Sir John Hawkwood was apprenticed to a London tailor. He left tailoring, however, and entered the English Army, then getting ready to invade France ...

    Article : 407 words
  25. WHAT IS PRIDE?

    "Father," said his son, looking up from a book, "what is pride?" "Pride," returned the father. "Pride? Why—a—oh, surely you know what pride is? ...

    Article : 259 words
  26. ORIGIN OF "FOOTMAN."

    The word "footman" now in use no doubt perpetuates the purpose for which such a servant was originally engaged—namely, to run alongside his master's carriage. It is ...

    Article : 99 words
  27. A LETTER TO PONDER OVER.

    The number of obsolete words that are to be found in Webster's dictionary is considers ably larger than people have any idea of. The following letter written by an alleged ...

    Article : 258 words
  28. COLOURED SARCASM.

    Rev. B. Melancthon Fish, a coloured divine, received a call from a coloured congregation, provided he gave satisfaction. He preached his trial sermon. After it was over ...

    Article : 146 words
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