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  2. MEN WHO LOST THEIR HEADS.

    IT is becoming more and more an admitted fact that genius and insanity are closely related. Only quite recently, under the title of "The Insanity of Genius," a ...

    Article : 1,145 words
  3. STATE EMBLEMS.

    EACH State in the American Union has its distinctive coat of arms or seal. Unlike the arms of most European countries, American Stats emblems are not based ...

    Article : 634 words
  4. Items of Interest.

    While the rateable value of England is £160,000,000, that of Ireland is only £14,033,594. The average weight of men in England ...

    Article : 1,692 words
  5. SUPERSTITUTIONS OF THE BLACK COUNTRY.

    GOOD housewives mark their bread leaves with across, and housemaids ensure a brisk kindling of a newly-lit fire by making the same sacred sign over the grate. As to ...

    Article : 1,016 words
  6. DECIDED BY A CRINOLINE

    LADY LILY and Lady May, the pretty twin daughters of the Earl and Countess of Flowermead, were as like as two blush roses just opened on the same ...

    Article : 1,795 words
  7. THE HOLY CITY OF BENARES.

    I SUPPOSE there is no one city in India more interesting to the historian, antiquarian, and archeologist than Benares on the Ganges. There is also no place that I ...

    Article : 464 words
  8. THE PRICE OF ADMISSION.

    THE clothing man thought that held be funny and original in his advertisements, so he pat a number of pairs of trousers in his windows and labelled them variously; ...

    Article : 176 words
  9. THE TRAMPS ENJOYED THE JOKE.

    THE free lunch had run a bib low about dusk, and a noble turkey was brought in and placed on the table in all the glorious garniture of jellied cranberries, celery, and ...

    Article : 318 words
  10. HAD TIME TO DO GOOD.

    A HUNGRY man went into a fashionable down-town restaurant and gave an order for dinner. Among other dishes, he ordered calf's liver and bacon. ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. A DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT

    WE have in our midst, so to speak, a young business loan who is thrifty and active, but who has not yet made his pile. He has an uncle in the East who is a ...

    Article : 148 words
  12. WISE WORDS.

    GOODNESS is the only investment that never fails. If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further ...

    Article : 344 words
  13. THE TRIALS OF PREACHERS

    WARDEN: "So you got rid of you pastor." Elder: "Yes; he was a good man, but he was too dry in his preaching—always giving ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. IT SERVED.

    THE flickering light of the grate fire fell athwart the face of the lovely girl and made her look more beautiful than ever. "Will you marry me?" he said. ...

    Article : 215 words
  15. DUE TO HIS INFIRMITY

    FLORENCE: "That Miss Howard must be very popular. She said she had three proposals in one evening." Bortha: "That's just one of her tricks ...

    Article : 179 words
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    Diner: "So you are hard at work studying French? What is the object of that?" Waiter: "I've been offered a steady job ...

    Article : 163 words
  17. A WIND INSTRUMENT PLAYER.

    "WHY," exclaimed a pretty girl at a company the other night, "I didn't know that young man from Chicago who is visiting friends in Detroit was a musician." ...

    Article : 169 words
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