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  2. Short Story.

    The sun was sinking in a sullen red glow from the brassy sky, hanging over a waste of dry African scrub—an arid, treeless desert—as a small party of ...

    Article : 2,479 words
  3. The Sketcher.

    The people of Ballycrook always called him the " wee priest." I think this was not so much on account of his "onsignifying" stature as because he ...

    Article : 1,255 words
  4. Spray.

    One of the most important of the professions is the wig-makers. Of late years the improvement in wig-making has been astonishing. Shortly before Sir Henry Irving ...

    Article : 115 words
  5. Pith and Point.

    There are only six loan and investment companies now in Kansas, where there used to be 381. The only conclusive evidence of a man's ...

    Article : 960 words
  6. Story of an Opal.

    " Talking about luck-stones," said the Jeweller, " I was an eye-witness once to a most remarkable instance of superstition in regard to the opal, and I ...

    Article : 511 words
  7. Tobacco.

    The painstaking analyst Stow says that tobacco came into England about the twentieth year of Queen Elizabeth (1557). But Aubrey, speaking of Sir Walter Raleigh, ...

    Article : 107 words
  8. The First Locomotive in China.

    There is a curious story concerning the first locomotive ever seen in China. Li Hung Chang was given permission to construct a railway from tile ...

    Article : 285 words
  9. Professional Jealousy.

    Macfarlane : "I suppose you have come again in connection with the diamond pin I thought had been stolen from me. It turns out, after all, that I had left it In my ...

    Article : 65 words
  10. The Queen's Children.

    The children of Queen Victoria, we are told, were most carefully trained in manners. The Queen and her husband, Prince Albert, meant that their children should ...

    Article : 221 words
  11. But Once Too Often.

    " For a long time," said a reformed criminal, who is now doing well in an honest occupation, " my line was the shipwrecked mariner fraud. Got up ...

    Article : 357 words
  12. Too Virtuous.

    Duclos the cynical philosopher of the eighteenth century was on one occasion supping with two or three great ladies and he advanced the proposition that the ...

    Article : 100 words
  13. Where to Get Everything.

    Our universal providers scarcely keep anything like all the articles they sell under one roof. In this respect they are unquestionably put to shame by ...

    Article : 431 words
  14. Retort Courteous.

    The Marquis del Carpio, Viceroy of Naples was once going Into a church at Madrid and saw a lady entering at the same moment who wore an extremely ...

    Article : 79 words
  15. Followed a Prophet.

    In New York there is a clergyman who has been predicting the end of the world, and his prediction has been the cause of a very peculiar kind of lawsuit. A certain ...

    Article : 115 words
  16. Health of Pearls.

    " Do yell know that pearls get ill ?" said a well-known jeweller recently. " They do, and, like children, they require a change of climate, when their health is bad, or ...

    Article : 119 words
  17. Somewhat Slow.

    There lives in a town in the North a lady whose faith Is firmly rooted in the mind-cure, and who is endeavouring by its means to get her children safely past the ...

    Article : 223 words
  18. A Fine Pie.

    Perhaps the largest pie ever made was that baked at Denby Dale, Yorkshire, in 1857, on the occasion of the Queen's Jubilee. The dough was made up into two-stone lots ...

    Article : 164 words
  19. A Youthful Swashbuckler.

    An Englishman, who many years ago emigrated to Canada, tells the following story of his childhood :—When I was 5½ years old a gentleman captain in ...

    Article : 332 words
  20. Rule for Laughing.

    Twelve years ago a woman overcome with a succession of almost crushing sorrows, determined to throw off the gloom which encircled her. She made a rule that ...

    Article : 153 words
  21. Art of Writing Sermons.

    In speaking of the " Genesis of a Sermon," Dr. Watson ("Ian Maclaren") lecturing in Boston recently, declared the sermon to be the result of six processes—(1) ...

    Article : 240 words
  22. Had the Last Word.

    The best humorist among public speakers take pains to be serious and dull at times. They are often masters of law or experts in statesmanship or good ...

    Article : 205 words
  23. A Curious Custom.

    A curious custom, known as Quaaltajh, is still partially observed in the Isle of Man. The person who first sweeps the floor on New Year's morning most begin to brush ...

    Article : 137 words
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