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  2. Night and healthsome.

    The spirit of the age.—Whisky. Text for the day.—Don't be a fool. It is the late cat that catches the early s boot-jack. ...

    Article : 1,697 words
  3. Bank Failures.—The Real Sufferers.

    A letter appeared about a week since in the columns of the Herald, from an unfortunate Oriental Bank clerk, who had lost his position through the suspension of that ...

    Article : 615 words
  4. Jerry the Miller.

    Beneath the hill there stands the mill Of wasting wood and crumbling stone ; The wheel is turning and chattering still, But Jerry the miller is dead and gone. ...

    Article : 275 words
  5. THE PICTURE.

    "The portrait was finished at last, and my courtship proceeded with smoothness: only I made no very perceptible advances. I never contradicted her republican theories; ...

    Article : 3,979 words
  6. AN IMPROMPTU ON ROLLER SKATES.

    Rumble, tumble, growl and grate ! Slip and trip and gravitate ! Lungs and plunge and thrash the planks With your blameless, shameless shanks ! ...

    Article : 94 words
  7. A Terrible Fellow-Traveller.

    Two gentlemen, occupying a compartment in a train running from Paris to Bordeaux, entered into conversation, and apparently got on well together, for on reaching the ...

    Article : 381 words
  8. High-Toned.

    Neither of them were over ten years old. One leaned his back against a lamp-post, and the other rubbed against a fence. Then our of them said:—" My mother has got a new ...

    Article : 58 words
  9. Testing an Artist.

    A country woman presents herself in a photographic studio in Bourke street. "I have come, sir, to have a picture of my poor, dear husband made. He—he died three ...

    Article : 70 words
  10. A Police Court Ditty.

    To the Court-house caine a woman, Bruised and battered very sore. Eyes were blackened, teeth were loosened, Very shabby clothes she wore. ...

    Article : 245 words
  11. Quite True.

    It is more fun to watch a man read a [?]of himself than it is to see a fat man slip on an orange peel. The narrow-minded man reads it over seven or eight times, and then ...

    Article : 78 words
  12. Absurdities.

    To attempt to borrow money on the plea of extreme poverty.—To lose money at play, and then fly into a passion about it.—To ask a publisher of a new periodical how many ...

    Article : 250 words
  13. The Hour and the Men.

    Gallant Major, verbose Mirams, M'Intyre, Bent— Treasury feeds are hopeless now, This to you means Lent. ...

    Article : 41 words
  14. Health Rules.

    A great deal is written about the Laws of hygiene nowadays, but here are a few simple rules for keeping healthy that contain more substance than a volume of learned advice: ...

    Article : 206 words
  15. Agricultural, &q.

    About three years ago we had hung In our garden eighty bottles, and in one night caught 2,150 of these moth millers, by actual count. Previous to that season our fruit was wormy and ...

    Article : 202 words
  16. Utilizing White Folks.

    Out on Pemberton's lines I came to a spot on the highway where the road narrowed to about ten feet, and just here was a faded old mule hitched to a waggon loaded with a ...

    Article : 320 words
  17. Words and Deeds.

    They do the least Who talk the most; Whose good designs Are all their boast! ...

    Article : 60 words
  18. Wanted.

    A woman who remembers last Sunday text, but is unable to speak understandingly of the trimmings on the bonnet of the lady in the pew next in front. ...

    Article : 218 words
  19. DAIRY HINTS.

    Some milk producers object to turnips and other roots as a ration for dairy cows on the ground that they taint the butter. This is true, if fed in large quantities. But these same men ...

    Article : 260 words
  20. THEATRICAL DWARFS.

    A German dramatic company, composed wholly of dwarfs, was some time since performing in New York. The names and descriptions of the ...

    Article : 113 words
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