Perhaps of all the mongrel callings which spring into existence in cities, and illustrate the high pressure of modern life, none is more incongruous than that of the pavement ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 865 wordsAbout two years before. the startling revelations respecting the dissecting trade in Edinburgh had placed the legal supply of "subjects" upon its present satisfactory ...
Article : 1,479 wordsThe Falcon, a surveying brig, carrying six guns, lay becalmed off the west coast on Terra del Fuego. Gertrude Walton, a beautiful girl of ...
Article : 1,787 wordsOn Saturday, Mrs. Siddons, about whom all the world has been talking, made known her beautiful, adamantine, soft, and lovely charms for the first time at Smock Alley ...
Article : 468 wordsNever drink whisky immediately after breakfast, unless you have been eating ham. We have never missed having him for break. fast once in the last fourteen years. ...
Article : 1,257 wordsThrough Reuter's Agency.—Mrs. Langtry has changed the style of wearing her hair. New York Letter.—Mrs. Langtry has completely altered the style of her hair. ...
Article : 179 wordsTears, chemically considered, are a weak solution of chloride of sodium and phosphate of lime. Poetically considered, they are drops splashed into the eyes from the deep springs, ...
Article : 379 wordsA well-known theatrical agent is said to be fond of playing practical jokes. A party of his friends were standing outside Garton's hotel, when he suddenly said— ...
Article : 182 wordsWho is it woos my daughter long, And breaks my rest with midnight song; And as the winters slowly roll Burns yards of gas and tons of coal ...
Article : 263 wordsThe other night a quartett of feline vocalists assembled in the backyard at the hour of midnight, to serenade the neighborhood in order to usher in the New Year. The ...
Article : 292 wordsIt was Sunday afternoon. The clock had just sounded the witching hour of three. He wasn't a traveller. What was more to the purpose, there wasn't a publican, or barman, ...
Article : 213 wordsQuoth James: "My uncle has a hen, Whose age is wondrous—very; She turned her three score years and ten Some time last January." ...
Article : 53 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 82 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: