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  2. WHAT KILLED DION BOUCICAULT?

    In the course of a dressing-room chat at Daly's Theatre, New York, Sol Smith Russell recently gave some interesting particulars of Mr. Boucicault's last ...

    Article : 1,187 words
  3. THE NEW PET PANACEA.

    The American girls latest restorative (quinine) seems likely to become popular. It is taken in the form of pills, and is carried in ornamental glass bottles. For ...

    Article : 263 words
  4. Vaccination and Its Evils.

    The question of vaccination is one deserving of the deepest consideration. The evil effects of inoculating with virus are very great and in no sense ...

    Article : 1,107 words
  5. THE FIRST CHEW OF TOBACCO.

    The boy said it was a peculiar kind of tobacco, and was known as molasses tobacco, because it was so sweet. The other boys did not ask how he came to ...

    Article : 489 words
  6. WORKING-WOMEN IN PARIS.

    What are the wages, paid to female labour in Paris, and what is the, colt of living? Three or four trades or; more properly, ...

    Article : 920 words
  7. The Success of Labor

    At the present time great changes are coming about in the social status of mankind. A man is not now a days considered a God, because his father was a clever userer or ...

    Article : 449 words
  8. A Modern Miracle Worker.

    Last Wednesday afternoon and inst., Mr. G. M. Stephen's fame, as a Magnetic Healer, had caused some 50 people, of all ages and both sexes, to ...

    Article : 792 words
  9. A STAGE EXIT.

    Years ago, in what we are now pleased to call the good old stock days," I was playing an engagement in Leeds. At that time eight or ten plays were produced in a single ...

    Article : 335 words
  10. Ladies' Column.

    COME all you fair young housewives and listen unto me. (I mean those lacky ones who are from servant bendang free.) ...

    Article : 193 words
  11. AMUSEMENT FOR LITERARY HOMES.

    An English newspaper contained the announcement that Mr.—is building a house at W—that will be just the place for a man of literary tastes. Around the ...

    Article : 359 words
  12. SAM WELLERISMS.

    "I'm only taking a leaf out of your book,' mentally observed the clerk as helped himself surreptitiously to a bank cheque. "You are green enough to be taken in," ...

    Article : 188 words
  13. "The Electric Party."

    THE latest thing in New York is the " electric party." It is held at any house where there is a heavy carpet, and the fun consists in shuffling rapidly over the floor, to generate ...

    Article : 95 words
  14. Bride Cake.

    Ten eggs beaten separately one pound butter, one of white sugar, two of almonds, blanched and chopped fine, one of seeded raisins, half pound citron, shaved fine; ...

    Article : 479 words
  15. MAGNIFICENCE OF THE RUSSIAN COURT.

    As you approach the state drawingroom of the Prince Dagmar, of Denmark, Empress of all the Russias, you perceive that the doors, thickly overlaid ...

    Article : 331 words
  16. HARD ON THE OWNER.

    In Zurich, some time ago, a beggar who opened the garden gate in front of a house where he intended to ask for relief, was attacked by the watch dog and bitten in the ...

    Article : 254 words
  17. A LOVE-LETTER.

    Some of the prettiest love-letters known are those addressed by Steele, the essayist, to his wife. Here is one of them: Madam,—It is the hardest thing in the ...

    Article : 175 words
  18. THE SNAKE AND THE BIRD.

    Not every bird is afraid of serpents, as the following story of a fierce duel will prove. One day a snake was crossing a street in a town in Florida, when a butcher bird caught ...

    Article : 113 words
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    Keep your troubles to yourself; when you tell them, you are taking up the time of the man who is waiting to tell his. Simson—"As much as is said against ...

    Article : 47 words
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    Parent: "Didn't I hear you call a boy a hard name to-day ?" Bobby: "Oh, no, that was his real name. He's a Russian." Not perceivable.—"Papa, what is this ...

    Article : 51 words
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