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  2. WOMAN'S WORLD.

    Says a well-known lady writer:—Whatever other-physical and hygienic advantages may be set down to exercise in the chief locomotive agent of the present hour ...

    Article : 636 words
  3. HOW LADIES BUY.

    Careless students of commercial transactions are rashly apt to infer that all the business talent lies on one side—hat of the salesman—but the initiated know that ...

    Article : 279 words
  4. THE OLDEST FAMILY.

    About a dozen of the 400 barons in the British House of Lords date back to 1400, the earliest being 1264, The oldest family in the British Isles is the Mar family in ...

    Article : 202 words
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    Advertising : 830 words
  6. THE MANNER OF THE TURK.

    Things are net hurried in Constantinople. The Turks love ceremony, and have peculiar notions of what constitutes politeness. At an English poet-office we ask for a stamp ...

    Article : 482 words
  7. A LITTLE MISTAKE.

    The following amusing incident recently occurred In an English garrison. It is the duty of an officer's servant to take his master's luncheon, tea, and anything he ...

    Article : 151 words
  8. A CARD SHARPER'S STRATAGEM

    It was at the time of the greet Civil War, in the month of May, 1865, when four men were travelling from Boston to New York by rail. There were other passengers in the ...

    Article : 1,699 words
  9. AN AWFUL MALADY.

    "Well," exclaimed Mr Queercase, "you talk as you like about physical affliction, but the largest that ever struck me was when I had the rheumatism in my brother." ...

    Article : 155 words
  10. AND HE DID SO.

    All orders to native servants must be literally given, for in that manner they will be received. A missionary ones took a country lad ...

    Article : 126 words
  11. A WONDERFUL CLOCK.

    Sir W. H. Bailey, of Salford, has exhibited a most cleverly-devised Empire clock at the Manchester Exhibition, which is said to be the first of its kind ever made. The ...

    Article : 222 words
  12. AN AWKWARD COMPARISON.

    Lord Chief Justice Kenyon was consplouos for economy in every article of his dress. Once, in the case of an action brought for the non-fulfilment of a contract on a large ...

    Article : 131 words
  13. Harsh Treatment of Children.

    The late Mrs Sherwood, in one of her books, says in her early days it was the custom to use Iron collars round the neck with a backboard strapped over the ...

    Article : 422 words
  14. Pumps and Irrigation Plants.

    The undermentioned firm, having had a large amount of experience in colonial requirements, are prepared to supply Pumps and Irrigation plants to suit purchasers. ...

    Article : 827 words
  15. WIDE AWAKE.

    Cardinal Mazarin was dictating one day a letter to his secretary. The latter, overcome with incessant work, fell asleep and the Cardinal continued dictating, while ...

    Article : 509 words
  16. THE WRONG MAN.

    In connection with the visit of Mr Harry Furniss, the cartoonist, to Ottawa, an interesting story is gang the rounds. Dr Munhall, the evang[?]t there, and is ...

    Article : 325 words
  17. A LITTLE CHERUB.

    A well-known lawyer tells a story of his encounter with a dirty faced urchin, whose countenance was in marked contrast to his beautiful raiment. The boy was arrayed in ...

    Article : 130 words
  18. TOO MANY FOR HIM ALREADY.

    Some years ago, an old align writer, who was very cross, very gruff, and a little deaf, was engaged to paint the Ten Commandments en some tablets in a church. He ...

    Article : 200 words
  19. A BIG COMMISSION.

    An interesting episode in connection with Mr Hooley's purchase of Bevril will show a generous phase of his character. A well-known Fleet Street journalist met him a ...

    Article : 298 words
  20. A DANGEROUS CARGO.

    One of the most dangerous of all cargoes for a ship to carry is lime. When it catches fire, as it frequently does, in spite of the greatest precautions against the admission ...

    Article : 207 words
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