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  2. PARLIAMENTARY ANECDOTES.

    The following are a series of anecdotes from Mr. Jennings' "Anecdotal History of the British Parliament," one of the most interesting books of the kind in the language:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,982 words
  3. The Household.

    Galette.—This cake is a great favorite in France. Silt a pound of the best flour, put it in a heap on the pastry-board, make a hold in the middle, put into it a pinch of salt and ...

    Article : 561 words
  4. A STORY OF ADEN HARBOUR.

    It is a common practice on passenger vessels, more especially on board the large "overland" steamers voyaging to and front [?] for certain of the male passengers to ...

    Article : 2,132 words
  5. MANAGEMENT OF SICK CHILDREN.

    The vicissitudes necessarily incident to an outdoor and primitive mode of life are never the first causes of any disease, though the may sometimes betray its presence. ...

    Article : 271 words
  6. OUR ILLUSTRATION.

    Leon Gambetta, the Prime Minister of France, was born at Cahors, a large town in the south of France, about sixty miles north of Toulouse, in October, 1838, so that at the ...

    Article : 461 words
  7. ANECDOTES OF THE LATE CHARLES DILLON.

    I was engaged by a Manager for a tour in the mining towns in Sierra Nevada; business, as a rule, in these small places was remunerating. The people were rough, good-hearted, ...

    Article : 927 words
  8. Faretice.

    Foot-ball.—A bunion The holiday sea-son.— A yatchsman. A Daniel come to judgement.— "Prisoner, have you ever been convicted?" "No, your honor." ...

    Article : 538 words
  9. WHOLESOME FOOD.

    The earliest agitator in the matter, says a writer in the Nineteenth Century, observed two years ago, when travelling in Sicily, that the laboring classes there live healthily and ...

    Article : 425 words
  10. BULWIG'S ADVICE.

    Turn literary man. Look at me. I am the first novelist in Europe. I have ranged with eagle wings over the wide range of literature, and perched on every eminence in its turn. ...

    Article : 225 words
  11. THE SOLDIER'S PICTURE.

    A sword, a sash and a soldier's coat Are hung on the cottage wall— With a manly face in a golden frame And a banner enwreathing all. ...

    Article : 107 words
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