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  2. ARE WOMEN BRAVE?

    THE question has times out of number been raised, whether the palm for the higher degree of courage should be awarded to the male or to the female sex. This is a ...

    Article : 729 words
  3. AMUSING BLUNDERS OF CLEVER PEOPLE.

    A hyper-critical reader has been totting up a few scientific blunders in works of fiction. Here they are :— The romances of Jules Verne are crammed ...

    Article : 1,574 words
  4. HOW DUELS ARE ELUDED.

    The French still pride themselves in their duels, but as a matter of fact the French duel, now-a-days at least, is nothing short of a ridiculous fiasco. The last thing that enters a ...

    Article : 1,006 words
  5. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED.

    "What are you two fellows sniggering over?" cried Captain Barrington to a couple of subalterns who were giggling like a brae of school girls over a photograph. "Something nasty, ...

    Article : 1,788 words
  6. THE DECADENCE OF ROMANCE.

    It is not only in poetry, Mr. Frederic Harrison begins by pointing out, in the " Now York Forum," that we are at this moment without a "Laureate" :—" The same phenomenon meets ...

    Article : 1,474 words
  7. MAIDS OF HONOUR AND THEIR DUTIES.

    A "Comical Circumstance" at Leicester House, then the residence of Frederick, Prince of Wales, in the year 1743, greatly tickled Horace Walpole's peculiar sense of humour. ...

    Article : 1,420 words
  8. JEROME K. JEROME ON GIVING PRESENTS.

    ONE afternoon, as I sat sipping tea in an aërated broad shop, I overhead female [?]oices behind me. "I suppose we shall have to give her something." said the first ...

    Article : 658 words
  9. EARLY ATLANTIC STEAMERS.

    IT was in 1839 that the success attending Wilcox and Anderson's new enterprise to the Peninsula led the admiralty to seek for tenders for carrying the mails across the ...

    Article : 657 words
  10. SLEEPING POWDERS AND NARCOTICS.

    It is hard to lie awake night after night, counting the hours, but avoid the use of sleeping powders, unless, indeed, your physician absolutely orders them. The ...

    Article : 247 words
  11. PAT'S REHEARSAL.

    Two Irishmen once made a bet, which was that one of them would not drink a gallon of beer in five minutes. A minute or two before entering upon the wager, Pat ...

    Article : 94 words
  12. HER TIME OF PROBATION.

    HE : "Gladys, I must beg of you, whil you are an engaged girl, to observe a few of the limits of propriety. Your flirtations are the talk of the town." ...

    Article : 89 words
  13. TEACHING HIS WIFE SENSE.

    WIFE (counting over her change after making a purchase): "I fear he has given me the wrong change." Husband (savagely): " I thought so ! I ...

    Article : 92 words
  14. LIFE WORTH LIVING.

    GEORGE: "Well, life is worth living after all." Jack : "What's happened ?" George : "I went to a railway station to ...

    Article : 134 words
  15. CONCLUSIVE.

    AT a time when the famous Sir John Herschel was engaged in wilting a treatise on an abstruse astronomical subject, it was asserted by a flippant acquaintance that ...

    Article : 104 words
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