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  2. THE HAT IN PARLIAMENTARY ETIQUETTE.

    Mr. Michael Mac Donagh in an article in "The Nineteenth Century," writes :—When men meet together in public assemblies, or in social life—as in a theatre or at a ...

    Article : 744 words
  3. WHERE PRESIDENT M'KINLEY'S ANCESTERS LIVED.

    In the county of Antrim—Ireland's northernmost district—there stands a comfortable old farmhouse, which until recently attracted little notice, but which has now ...

    Article : 978 words
  4. FOR THOSE FOND OF FIGURES.

    The largest of the Pyramids is 543 feet high and 693 feet on the sides; its base coders 11 acres. Many of the stones are 30 feet long, 4 broad and 3 thick. ...

    Article : 321 words
  5. CHINESE CHILDREN AT SCHOOL.

    A noted German traveller. Baron von Hesse-Wortegg, has just returned from China, bringing, among other interesting stories, an account of the Chinese schools. ...

    Article : 729 words
  6. TO GET RID OF BORES.

    Come in and see how I get rid of bores. You've often asked my recipe, and I am about to deal with one of the most virulent of his type." It was an old hanker ...

    Article : 265 words
  7. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    A teaspoonful of microbes contain over 4,000,000 individuals. There are 180 mountains in the Alps from 4,000 to 15,732 feet high. ...

    Article : 537 words
  8. HITS AND BITS.

    He: I would follow you to the end of the earth.—She: Thank you, Mr. Hotter; but I am not in need of any more caddies at present, ...

    Article : 1,022 words
  9. FOUR WAYS OF THE AMERICAN GIRLS.

    At the Thespian exhibition, as you stand with meek submission, and occasionally mutter, "It is getting very late," The Gotham maiden smiling, all the ...

    Article : 185 words
  10. WHEN WHIST WAS NOT RESPECTABLE.

    It is not, generally known by the devotees of whist that there was a time when it was not considered a fit diversion for respectable people. Whist is now regarded as essentially ...

    Article : 316 words
  11. THE LADY WAS SATISFIED.

    Travelling on a railway that zigzagged up steep hillsides and wriggled about among precipices, an old lady asked the conductor if there was any fear of an accident. ...

    Article : 109 words
  12. BEFORE AND AFTER.

    She played the organ in our choir, Before she rode the wheel, And did the congregation fire With music-loving zeal. ...

    Article : 84 words
  13. A STREET PERFO RMER'S DODGES

    The methods of modern street performers are nowadays becoming almost as artistic as those of music-hall "entertainers," and quite an "up-to-date" example of this is a ...

    Article : 321 words
  14. THREW AWAY THE OPPORTUNITY.

    Several years before the discovery of oil at Pithole, an Irishman named McCarty and his son Dan came to this country from the Emerald Isle. Dan was a young man of 20, ...

    Article : 319 words
  15. THE TOUCH GIRL'S STORY.

    Sam Hardy was a workin But I'd no use for him; I know'd what I was doin' When I took up wid Jim. ...

    Article : 408 words
  16. SOCIAL HINTS.

    Never press a guest at your table to take anything more after he has once declined it. Never forget to he courteous and polite to children and those you consider to be your ...

    Article : 207 words
  17. A BEAUTIFUL INCIDENT.

    A young man recently ran away from the galleys of Toulouse. He was strong and vigorous, and soon made his way across the country, and escaped pursuit. He arrived ...

    Article : 423 words
  18. SIAMESE DANCING GIRLS.

    The dancing girls of Siam are remarkable for the agility and grace of their movements. The cup dance is the prettiest and most poetic of all. A row of young girls, with a ...

    Article : 312 words
  19. THE DUKE ENJOYED THE FUN.

    In the course of an interview with Made moiselle Patrice (La Belle Magicienne), on the subject of the tour per motor-car, which is the latest theatrical enterprise of this ...

    Article : 219 words
  20. THACKERAY'S OYSTER.

    Thackeray entertained a decided curiosity as regards American oysters, as marvellous stories which he did not believe had been told him about their great size. ...

    Article : 205 words
  21. DR. BUSBY AND THE SCHOOL BOY.

    A good story is told of the late Doctor Busby, who one morning, going into the school-room, took with him a bunch of line grapes for his own eating. Going from the ...

    Article : 246 words
  22. A REVOLVING PALACE.

    Paris is to out-Ferris Ferris. The great Chicago wheel is to be outdone in the universal exposition of 1900. The special wonder of the French fair will be the revolving ...

    Article : 189 words
  23. A HISTORY OF KISSING.

    Kissing is a subject which is rarely treated seriously; but in the "Nuova Antologia," one of the Italian magazines, Signor Ernesto Mancini writes on "Le forme e Porigine ...

    Article : 204 words
  24. AGED MATRIMONY.

    A statistician has tabulated the age at which men at various stages in their, life prefer their wives to be. Young men of 18 and 19 years, it seems, generally select wires of ...

    Article : 199 words
  25. A MARVELLOUS BOWL OF PUNCH.

    On the 25th of October, 1694, a bowl of punch was made at the Right Honourable Edward Ruffel's house, when he was Captain- General and Commander-in-Chief, of His ...

    Article : 174 words
  26. IGNORANT OF THE SCRIPTURES.

    An old story illustrating the extreme ignorance of the Scriptures and of Seriptural things that prevails in some quarters of the land, has recently ...

    Article : 159 words
  27. LITTLE BOY WAS PUZZLED.

    An American paper tells a story of a little boy who was reading in a Sunday school paper the story of a missionary having been eaten by cannibals. "papa." he asked, ...

    Article : 130 words
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