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  2. DREAMS.

    A writer in the new-established "Hour Glass" asks, "When do we dream?" what hour of the night is more-especially the period of vision? He leaves it an open ...

    Article : 1,070 words
  3. INSOMNIA.

    One of the chief maladies of the age is Insomnis, and from this terrible nerve disturbances spring the most painful end hopeless disease. "If I sleep to-night I will ...

    Article : 513 words
  4. AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

    Real wintry weather has been experienced during the past ten days. High winds, accompanied with cold showers, have prevailed, and there is at present very little ...

    Article : 1,242 words
  5. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    Thackeray makes a sentimental French cook in "Pendennis" woo his lady love through the medium of dainty dishes. I have recently seen some dishes, produced by ...

    Article : 1,010 words
  6. THE YOUNG FOLKS.

    Joanna, daughter of King John, was a peacemaker. Sweet title, is it not? The people called her Joan Makepeace. She was married when only eleven years old to ...

    Article : 1,403 words
  7. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    Counsel: Married? Witness: No Gonn. Single? Witness: No. Counsel: Ah—widow! Witness: No. Counsel: But, my dear madam, surely you must be one ...

    Article : 45 words
  8. FISHING FOR COMPLIMENTS.

    Fubsby: A—everybody's getting too clever nowadays. I assure you, my chief object in society is to conceal my ignorance, and prevent people from finding oat what an abject ...

    Article : 46 words
  9. THE YANKEE AND THE BOWLING ALLEY.

    A good story is told of a Yankee who went for toe first time to a bowling alley, and kept firing away at the pine to the imminent peril of the boy, who, so far from having anything ...

    Article : 108 words
  10. MIKE'S WATCH.

    "Paddy, honey; will ye bay my watch ?" "What's the price?" "Ten shillings, and a mutchin of the cratur." "Is the watch a dacent one?" "Shire, and I've had it ...

    Article : 99 words
  11. HERMAN THE CONJUROR.

    By the death of Garrick it was said, perhaps a little hyperbolically, that the gaiety of nations had been eclipsed. With stricter accuracy it may be recorded that at ...

    Article : 1,113 words
  12. A PREVENTIVE OF CHOLERA.

    "Do you think the cholera will reach us here next summer, Mr. Jones ?' she murmured, as [?] brushed a microbe of dandruff off his shoulder, where her head had lately ...

    Article : 140 words
  13. WAIT UNTIL THE "RAIN" STOPS.

    Those persons who take a mischievous delight in altering the notices in railway carriages are sometimes responsible for not a little inconvenience and a good deal of ...

    Article : 175 words
  14. THE GHOUL OF ISPAHAN.

    Ameen Beg, an [?]tant of Ispahan, noted for the craftiness of its natives, having board many stories of the ghouls which baunt the dreaded valley of the Angel of ...

    Article : 1,005 words
  15. FRAGMENTS OF FUN.

    THE wearing of the green—a game of billiards. "Two heads are better than one," observed the hairdresser. ...

    Article : 586 words
  16. SOME STILL WILDER BEMINISCENCES.

    You have asked me if I cannot add to that history of marvellous, superhuman, and heroic exploit which characterises the whole stretch and sweep of my Transatlantic career, ...

    Article : 891 words
  17. CHIT CHAT.

    One of the prettiest dresses worn at the fancy-dress ball of the Medical Students' Society, on the 15th July, was that of Miss Allen. This young lady appeared as ...

    Article : 98 words
  18. A Heiress Abducted.

    All Paris (says the London "Daily Telegraph") is talking about the most extraordinary thing in the way of abductions that has taken place for many a long day. You may ...

    Article : 363 words
  19. The Glorions First of June.

    Referring to the interesting article on "The Glorious First of June," in a contemporary, a correspondent relates the following story, which [?] ...

    Article : 326 words
  20. Name! Name!

    "Fustian" writing in the "Sydney Echo" says:—"It is strange no one has yet guessed the right name for the colony. I have known it all along, but should not have ventured to ...

    Article : 189 words
  21. Accident at at the "Far We t."

    Buck Taylor, "King of the Cowboys,'. met with a serious accident during the mounted quadrille performance at the, Wild West" Show on 1st June. He was ...

    Article : 157 words
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