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  2. [ALL RIGHTS STRICTLY RESERVED] Third-Class Crimes.

    It was his deplorable appearance which excited my attention. Rags, dot, and keen-eyed hunger are so common in this great London that we have grown to take them as matters of course. ...

    Article : 2,410 words
  3. Items Of Interest.

    RAPID growth of the finger nails is considered to indicate good health. SIXTEEN ounces of gold are sufficient to gild a wire that would encircle the earth. ...

    Article : 1,844 words
  4. THE PRACTICAL JOKER.

    The practical jester has been rightly banished from respectable society. A practical joke, except between people who are very young or very intimately acquainted, is now looked open as ...

    Article : 1,552 words
  5. GRUB-STREET.

    SOME curious specimens of composition and printing of the order once known as Grub-street have recently found their way into our possession in a collection, made by ...

    Article : 559 words
  6. WOMAN AS HOUSEWIFE.

    "To be happy at home," dear old Dr. Johnson says, "is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire ...

    Article : 963 words
  7. THEY SECURED THE INFORMATION.

    THE next prisoner at the bar was a foreign-looking person whose heard covered his features, so that it was quite impossible to say from just what country he hailed ...

    Article : 291 words
  8. WHY SHE PAUSED.

    THE dear young thing agitating the keys with in hotel parlours. She is the [?] of the caravansary ; the sweet singer of the wayside inn. Across whose orbit bath she ...

    Article : 516 words
  9. PEARLS BEYOND PRICE.

    THE most curious pearl, from all points of view, was that which the traveller Tavernier sold to the ruler of Persia two hundred years ago for £100,000. It is still ...

    Article : 471 words
  10. AN IMMOBILE TOWN.

    "I CONSIDER Alexandra, in the State of Virginia, the deadest town in the United States," remarked a Washington man the other day, "No doubt there are worse places ...

    Article : 249 words
  11. THE PATERNITY OF GREAT MEN.

    AMONGST lawyers Lord Somers father was a solicitor at Worcestor : Lord Harwicke's an attorney at Dover Lord King's, a grocer at Exeter Lord Tharlow's a poor ...

    Article : 163 words
  12. A LONG WAY.

    WITH lottering, uncertain footsteps be advanced through the gathering gloom. He raised his eyes wearily, when he was suddenly confronted by a gleaming pistol ...

    Article : 153 words
  13. IN A NEW LIGHT.

    "JUDAS ISCARIOT was so called because he had red hair," was the reply of a scholar at a London grammar school to a question in his Scripture paper. ...

    Article : 216 words
  14. ROMANCE IN A GONDOLA.

    THEY were gliding over the still waters of the bigoon in a blue gondola, when he leaned towards her. "My own—my love"—he began. ...

    Article : 161 words
  15. HOUSE SERVANTS.

    Mistress : Mary, go to the door at once. Some one has knocked three or four times—Oh, It's alright, team, It's only the young letter as is included on ...

    Article : 82 words
  16. KNEW BY EXPERIENCE.

    Askett ; Would you describe cycling he a sport or pastime? —Bentley (an enthusiastic wheelman) It' a round game, as far as the shoulders are ...

    Article : 33 words
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