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  2. In the Honeymoon.

    It seems so strange to carve for two, to ask her What kind of chicken I shall send to her, and see ...

    Article : 174 words
  3. Agricultural, &r.

    Can any one tell why it is that farmers in general do not take a more wide-awake interest in the hen department of the farm? They will turn it over to the wife or ...

    Article : 738 words
  4. In the Orient.

    She lay in langour on her soft divan, Rich rags around her; A peri—in what heav'n had the swart Khan, And turbanned, found her? ...

    Article : 171 words
  5. Odds and Ends.

    There is a dreadful rumor beginning to take form and shape in the Press that a resolution is to be submitted simultaneously in all the Australian legislative assemblies to ...

    Article : 1,112 words
  6. Here and There

    "No, Mr. Smith," said she gently, but firmly; "I can never be your wife." Then he struggled to his feet and said in broken tones: "Are all my hopes to be thus dashed ...

    Article : 721 words
  7. Fighting with Burglars.

    Twice in my life I have been placed in positions that served to "harrow up my soul, freeze may young blood," and turned my hair as gray as a rat's before my fortieth ...

    Article : 1,087 words
  8. A Pompeian Lady's Bedroom.

    Entering now in imagination our lady's own rooms, we perceive at once, says a writer, that one of her principal interests and occupations was the toilet. Though ...

    Article : 393 words
  9. Curious Excuses.

    Anyone who takes an interest in the cause of elementary education will know that [?] attendance at [?] has a prejudicial effect upon the work of a ...

    Article : 479 words
  10. A Russian Romance.

    It was early morning in the pretty little village of Werchobistritzkiol, and Solvitch was but an hour high in the glowing heavens; the dew was still sparkling on the grass ...

    Article : 388 words
  11. Extremes Meet.

    College youth (who has been asked to write in a birthday book, and discovers that he was born on the same day as England's great statesman)—"Ah, Miss De Smythe, ...

    Article : 60 words
  12. Not His Train.

    "Is this my train?" asked a traveller of a [?]ounger. "I don't know, but I guest not," was the doubtful reply. "I see it's got the name of the railroad company on the ...

    Article : 45 words
  13. The Old Sayings.

    "It is a shame, husband, that I have to sit here mending your own clothes." "Don't say a word about it, wife; the least said the soonest mended. ...

    Article : 40 words
  14. Very Close.

    "Jane," said a father. "I thought you hated stingy people," and yet your young man——" "Why, papa, who said he was stingy?" "Oh, nobody," replied pa; ...

    Article : 38 words
  15. Wit and Humar.

    The man who threw a chance away picked up an acquaintance immediately after. The difference between pig-headedness and firmness is this—it is your wife who is ...

    Article : 387 words
  16. His Best Friend.

    An Irishman having been told that the price of bread had been lowered, exclaimed. "That is the first time I ever rejoiced at the fall of my best friend." ...

    Article : 29 words
  17. A Daring Suggestion.

    An intelligent dude—however, we will not go on with the narrative. [?] was struck dead for a much smaller one than that. ...

    Article : 276 words
  18. A Cure for Nose-Bleed.

    "If there is one thing more annoying than another," said a well-known physician one morning, "it is to have an attack of nose bleed. While travelling in the north of ...

    Article : 125 words
  19. Trite Remarks.

    "There's no system of accounts so good as double entry," as the tradesman said when he put down the same article twice over. "That won't wash," as the fellow ...

    Article : 273 words
  20. Men I Have Met.

    The bumptious man, who thinks you a fool, and takes no pains to conceal his opinion. The horsey man, who has always got a ...

    Article : 175 words
  21. Joy! Joy!!

    "The word is ours!" We are saved at last! Mrs. [?] Richards dressed in a becoming street dress, entered our [?] this P.M., and after jingling two bright crown ...

    Article : 115 words
  22. ADVENTURE No. 2

    Two years later I was sent to Savannah, [?]a.; by my employers to open and manage a branch store in that city. I was yet [?] store had a ...

    Article : 740 words
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