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  2. Srraps.

    Lays of ancient roam.—Stale stray eggs. A certain cure for indigestion.—Starvation. The lowest card in the human pack.— ...

    Article : 342 words
  3. Hareli[?].

    A new style of stockings is called Voltaire, Sockrates would have been a better name, and we never did admire a stocking with a taire at the end of it. ...

    Article : 888 words
  4. SUDDEN FORTUNES.

    A certain barrister has owed professional success to the mere lucky, or let us say providential, hazard which sent him out on a trip to China. Having lived three or four ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 885 words
  5. "Love's Labor Lost."

    Yak was a beef, who was tired of being courted for his clean, smooth skin. So he backed through a narrow hedgeway six or eight times, which made his hair stand the ...

    Article : 473 words
  6. An Exciting Event in Mormon Life.

    Not long previous to the death of Brigham Young, one of the most effective leaders of the early Mormon Church preceded him to the world beyond the grave. In 1833, this ...

    Article : 1,647 words
  7. Slow Returns but Large Profits.

    Some interesting particulars are given by a contemporary of a suit of armour that originally belonged to King Francis I, of France. This armour was bought by the late Sir ...

    Article : 173 words
  8. How a Gay Gallant was Guyed by a Giddy Girl's Mother.

    Mr. H. A. Van Fredenberg is one of the most famous of gallants. It is true he is a little past the age when gallantry is an absorbing passion, having scored 53 years, but ...

    Article : 433 words
  9. To Prevent Accidents.

    Now that the dynamiters intend paying us a visit, great precautions are necessary. Business men, and in fact everybody should steep all letters and papers received through ...

    Article : 215 words
  10. Catching the Speaker's Eye.

    The celebrated assembly known as the Long Parliament, which met for the first time at Westminster, on the 3rd of November, 1640, commenced proceedings at eight in ...

    Article : 316 words
  11. Robbed of his Jest.

    SAMUEL FOOTS, the English dramatist and wit, once made a jest which cost him dear. It was after he opened the Haymarket Theatre on his own account, and was doing ...

    Article : 283 words
  12. Easily Understood.

    It is stated by a writer, with regard to the walk of a horse, that he found that, "supposing the off fore-leg to begin, it was immediately succeeded by the near hind one, ...

    Article : 347 words
  13. We Know what we Know.

    When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and, when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge. ...

    Article : 35 words
  14. A Holy Sell.

    One of the most illustrious of our living judges, Baron A., a contemporary tells us, was travelling once with a friend through the South of France, and so into Italy. He was ...

    Article : 269 words
  15. She Smiled.

    Within a private box she sat, a vision bright and fair— It seemed to me I never saw a beauty half so rare, ...

    Article : 179 words
  16. A Wagner Aria.

    I am a Gumbilda, One bazoo-jewsharp Daughter of Blogan, And an old ephicleide; Blogan Bosslugga, And you may stake your Blogun the fighter, Spirit immortal ...

    Article : 111 words
  17. To all whom it may concern.

    Loafer is derived from the German—laufen, to run; laufer, a runner—an idle man, who seeks his living by sponging or expedients. The following ingenious explanation has also ...

    Article : 106 words
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