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  2. THE YOUNG FOLKS.

    Children's parties, like everything else almost, have advanced with the age. The sort of party that delighted your Aunt Maggie when she was young, would have few charms ...

    Article : 921 words
  3. AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

    The farmers are taking advantage of the moist season by putting a lot of land under fallow. The subsoil being thoroughly well soaked, the ground this winter can be broken ...

    Article : 1,330 words
  4. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    It was New Year time, and Jock had met Tam, an old neighbour and invited him along to his house to get his New Year, remarking: Man, [?] I've got [?] noo, but I'd gae ...

    Article : 157 words
  5. LOST!

    The kesper of the Eddyskone [?] use recently discovered a bottle containing the following [?] sentences, the last expressions of a small band of shipwrecked [?] ...

    Article : 636 words
  6. BOYS I HAVE MET.

    In this year of our Lord 1887 there is a great deal of talk throughout the colony as to the working of our " Education Act" in town and country districts; and some ...

    Article : 2,400 words
  7. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    Fashion is becoming rational in the matter of tournures. The ridiculous tournures, enormously protruding, which vexed seriously inclined spirits for the last few ...

    Article : 636 words
  8. IT ISN'T CATCHING.

    A Philadelphia school teacher saw a doctor call at the house of a pupil, and, obeying a school rule requiring scholars to bring physicians' certificate in case there is sickness ...

    Article : 65 words
  9. A SMOKER'S CONSOLATION.

    Yes, it is a terrible bondage. It is a slavery. Yes, I inhale the smoke, and then blow it out again. It is very silly, is it not? I do the same thing with my breath. Away ...

    Article : 173 words
  10. STARTING A JIBBER.

    A jibbing or balky horse stopped short in Princes street, right in front of our window, the other day. and a great crowd of interested spectators gathered around. The old ...

    Article : 198 words
  11. WHO WAS GROTIUS?

    Plunkin's liitle boy, who has an inquiring mind. had been reading in she morning papers that a statue of Grotius had just been unveiled at Delft, Holland, and he said ;— ...

    Article : 274 words
  12. The Case of Olga Linbatovitch.

    Three or four years ago (writes Mr. Kennan in the "Century") there was arrested, in one of the provinces of European Russia, a young sensitive, cultivated ...

    Article : 733 words
  13. A Romantic Country.

    Morocco (says the "St. James's Gazette ") is just now the only romantic country washed by the Mediterranean, which used to be the most romantic of seas. The Sultan ...

    Article : 239 words
  14. THE HOUSEHOLD.

    PORT CARE.—One pound of salt pork chopped fine, one pint of boiling water, two cups of sugar, one cup of molasses, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, spice to taste, ...

    Article : 809 words
  15. FRAGMENTS OF FUN.

    Woman is mortally afraid of a mouse, they say, but a moustache doesn't scare her a [?]. Don't call a very large, strong, sinewy man a prevaricator. If you are sure he is a ...

    Article : 807 words
  16. The Secret of the Emperor Joseph's Popularity.

    A Vienna correspondent of "The Times," giving an account of an interview which a committee of English residents in Vienna bad the other day with the Emperor on the subject ...

    Article : 295 words
  17. The Young Indian.

    The young male Indian grows up very independent, and as noon as he can run about rapidly acquires all the habits and vices of his elders. His day is chiefly spent ...

    Article : 336 words
  18. The Mad Marquis.

    Once when in London he was returning home at night in a cab, and when he same to pay for his drive he imagined that the cabby overcharged him. Now, this has ...

    Article : 319 words
  19. Electrical—Antiquity of Telegraphy.

    A correspondent of the French journal "Cosmos" states that in a curious old work printed at Paris in 6622 here occurs a remarkable passage, of which the following ...

    Article : 233 words
  20. Advertising

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    Advertising : 138 words
  21. Prince Bismarck's Popularity.

    An interesting an[?] of Prince Bia marck's gallantry is going the rounds of the German Pr[?]ss. It appears that two young English ladies living in Dresden came to ...

    Article : 120 words
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