My first distinct dramatic experiences dates back to a memorable Easter Monday ever so many years ago, when, in a certain deadly-lively town in the Midlands, I (then ...
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Article : 572 wordsBeware when a fat man says he will drop it on you as soon as he can. If you wish to keep your name untarnished, clean your door-plate night and morning. ...
Article : 1,293 wordsMonday, 1 p.m.—On my beat for a change. Saw little urchin making faces at me; pretended not to see him. Caught him a oner. Ordered hice-cream man to move on. Told ...
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Article : 455 wordsWhen the Duke of Wellington was Prime Minister, one of the morning papers gave the programme of a very important Government proceeding about to be adopted. It startled, ...
Article : 505 wordsFew incidents of the famous Greely expedition to the nothern seas make so vivid an impression upon the mind as one recorded by Sergeant George B. Rice, who did not live ...
Article : 351 wordsIn the Paper World is the following story of the way in which an elephant's tusks were used as a paper knife:—An Indian rajah who was pleasantly disposed toward the English, ...
Article : 331 wordsA cruel hoax was played off a short time back upon a German painter who is well-known both in Paris and Berlin. This clever man affects to be blase, and at a New Year's ...
Article : 472 wordsA list of the foibles of some of our noted men was published a short time ago, and it is being continually added to by those who wish to hand down to posterity the ...
Article : 660 wordsGeorge has for some time been attentive to a young lady, whom he has noticed on several evenings when he called busily engaged on a beautiful piece of embroidery, ...
Article : 627 wordsThere is rather a large demand in screams just now. Not that there is any falling off [?] sighs, but the latter are stationary, while the former are "looking up." We are ...
Article : 334 wordsWhy do not farmers co-operate more generally than they do in their work is a question that some agricultural writers who live in cities sometimes ask. Because co-operation among farmers ...
Article : 215 wordsPersons who send manuscript of any kind to the newspapers should always write plainly. The rejection of the manuscript of an unfamiliar author is perhaps oftener on account ...
Article : 207 wordsIt is reported that some time ago Mr. St. John went into a Kansas drug store and called for a glass of sodawater. His left eye accidentally twiched as the clerk gazed at ...
Article : 98 wordsIn many parts of the country, apple trees yield a crop of fruit only every alternate year, the year represented by an odd number (1879) being barren while that represented by an even number ...
Article : 234 wordsThe housemaid who has pricked her finger with a fork, appears very much alarmed. "Just think of it, madame," she says to her mistress; "If the fork is plated I might ...
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