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  2. SHORT SKETCHES.

    The Shah of Persia draws some shrewd comparisons between the English and French. He pronounces the English nation "one of the most powerful agglomcrations of men" he has seen. English crowds are ...

    Article : 236 words
  3. HORTICULTURE.

    Perhaps there may be readers who have concluded to set out an orchard of fruit trees the coming spring, and to such a few hints may not be amiss. About 25 feet apart is ...

    Article : 1,317 words
  4. FUNNIOSITIES.

    I gave my girl an onyx ring, Which filled her with delight; She looked upon it wondering, Her eyes with radiance bright. ...

    Article : 53 words
  5. LITTLE FOLKS.

    There's a wonderful country we all of us know, Where the strangest things talk and the quecrest things grow, ...

    Article : 292 words
  6. BEETHOVEN AND THE EMPEROR.

    When Ricthoven was about sixteen years of age he was court organist at Bonn, on the Rbine. Max Francis, the Elector of Cologne, who had his residence in the royal palace at ...

    Article : 1,723 words
  7. VARIETIES.

    Guard well thy heart lest paesion sweep The chords; and God's sweet melody Be lost; lest from the runis leap The spirit of unreat set free ...

    Article : 103 words
  8. The Guileless Peddler.

    Peddler (respectifully); "Madam, I have not called for the purpose of trying to sell you anything, but to inqure if there is a man named Jones living in this vicinity." ...

    Article : 179 words
  9. Hearty Service.

    Put your life into oven the smallest task and the doing of it will have powerful moral intluence upon others. Whether you preach, study, sell goods, toll the soil, saw wood ...

    Article : 221 words
  10. The Future King of Italy.

    The Prince of Naples, the future king of Italy—if that country is destined to have an. other king—is described as a silent, old, and stoical young man, overburdened by a ...

    Article : 252 words
  11. Wasn't Losing His Memory.

    Scene—Scotch railway station. Ticket collector, in making his collection, finds an old gentleman fumbling in his poolets for his ticket. ...

    Article : 1,037 words
  12. Some of Rumas's Maxims.

    When one sees life as Good has made it, there is nothing left but to thank him for having made death. La Rochfoueauld said; "We all have ...

    Article : 221 words
  13. A Prince on the Fisheries Question.

    Osborne, Isle of While, Is Queen Victoria's seaside residence. Many years ago, when the Prince of Wales was a lad, ho was, one day playing on the ...

    Article : 432 words
  14. A King's Escape.

    A foreign journal relates the following; King Humbert, of Italy, although only forty-five years of age, has already grey hair and beard. This fact worries the head of the ...

    Article : 179 words
  15. The Dignity of Labor.

    This has been a favorite subject. with a great many, and much has been written and said upon it, but we have never seen it more truthfully, pointedly and reasonably handled ...

    Article : 858 words
  16. "The Rest in Silence."

    When the loved voice in heard no more, Whose falling tones were doubly dear, There falls upon the listening car - A silence never felt before. ...

    Article : 84 words
  17. Building From the Roof Down.

    A visitor to Japan tells of the peculiar methods of construction employed in that country: Speaking of house building, the Japanese begin their work at the top. The ...

    Article : 212 words
  18. Flotsam and Jetsam.

    A DESPAIRING woman in London tried to kill herself and her obild with landanum, The child died, but the mother recovered and a jury found her guilty of wilful ...

    Article : 615 words
  19. Subjects For Thought.

    USELESS and hurlful memories can be crowded out by filling the mind with better things. Much or such recollections are mere idle reveries that can be swept away by the ...

    Article : 478 words
  20. Power of the Devil-Fish.

    A few days ago, at the end of the Naples wharl, a forty-feet pile of about one foot diameter was loosely tied with one hundred feet of cable. The hands suddenly noticed ...

    Article : 177 words
  21. The Burmese at Dinner.

    The Burnmese use neither knives nor forks. Their staple food is rice, and a huga platter of this is cooked for the family and placed upon the floor. In addition there is a bowl ...

    Article : 291 words
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