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  2. THE MODERN POMPEII.

    Martinique, the scene of the terrible volcanic eruption described in our news columns, has hitherto been known as the Isle of Romance. But in future it ...

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  3. MODIFIED CHINESE TARIFF

    The question of the modification of the tariff on foreign goods imported into China is now being discussed with considerable heat, and much ...

    Article : 620 words
  4. WIT AND HUMOR.

    Husband : Now, dear, just as soon as you arrive you must telegraph. Wife : All right. How much shall I telegraph for? Customer : I want a shoe that is both ...

    Article : 920 words
  5. BRET HARTE.

    Somehow or other, when I think of Bret Harte as being that impossible thing—dead—I think simultaneously of a passage in his works, one of hundreds of the ...

    Article : 1,500 words
  6. HORTICULTURAL.

    Established canes of raspberries should have their tops shortened down to a plump bud. The canes planted in the early autumn are the ...

    Article : 380 words
  7. DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN SPORTSMAN

    Captain Machell, the well-known sportsman, expired on May 11th at Hastings. He had suffered from bad health for a long time, and nearly, ...

    Article : 743 words
  8. HEALTH HINTS.

    As a rule, says an English paper, an epileptic fit presents the following signs; but there are exceptional cases, in which some one or more of ...

    Article : 395 words
  9. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    Love me with affection lasting that will weather storm and stress, With a love that's pure and tender—such as God can, seeing, bless. ...

    Article : 167 words
  10. THE KITCHEN GARDEN.

    Where asparagus is forced a certain quantity of land should be sown with asparagus seed each year. Although a few weeks hence will be time enough ...

    Article : 393 words
  11. USEFUL HINTS.

    To Wash Lace.—First let it soak for some hours in water in which borax has been dissolved in the proportion of a teaspoonful to a pint. Then make a ...

    Article : 582 words
  12. PILGRIM TRAIN WRECKED.

    From Paris, on 7th May, a correspondent of the "Daily Mail" writes:—The details of the appalling railway accident which happened yesterday on the ...

    Article : 640 words
  13. OUR DECLINING SHIPPING

    No more striking comment on the threatened decline of British shipping ping has been made for a long time than that contained in the ...

    Article : 501 words
  14. THE FLOWER GARDEN.

    Lawns, lawn tennis courts and bowling greens should .have all coarse weeds removed and a dressing of bone meal applied at the rate of 3cwt. per acre, ...

    Article : 379 words
  15. A WOMAN'S RACE FOR LIFE

    A woman's race for life from an infuriated man with a revolver, and a fight between that man and a passer by in which the latter was killed ...

    Article : 307 words
  16. A NEW MEMORY SYSTEM.

    My friend, Micah Miggles, has a system of memories all his own. When he wishes to remember one word he thinks of another that may sound quite different, but that bears some ...

    Article : 423 words
  17. TOILET HINTS.

    Soft Water.—The softer the water the better is it fitted for washing the human skin. Boiling lessens "hardness." Hot water cleanses the skin ...

    Article : 459 words
  18. THE CONSERVATORY AND POT PLANTS.

    Begonia Gloire de Lorraine is undoubtedly the most popular of winter flowering begonias, and its decorative merits are such as to make it invaluable ...

    Article : 444 words
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    It is said some account books belonging to the banker against whom Madame Humbert had preferred a charge of usury have been seized by the police at ...

    Article : 111 words
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    English, As She is Spoken.—"What time do the buses go driver?" "A quarter-arter, 'alf-arter, quarter-to, and at.' President Roosevelt's new livery for ...

    Article : 90 words
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    Owed to his wife.—Van Bibbler: Marriage was the making of that man. Van' Dyke: He doesn't look as If he dared to call his soul his own. Van Bibbler: He ...

    Article : 44 words
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