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  2. NATURALIST. THE HEDGEHOG.

    While spending a day in the country with some friends recently my attention was attracted to a hedge by the cackling of a hen in distress. On seeking for the ...

    Article : 166 words
  3. SKETCHER SOCIOLOGY.

    Every woman likes some man, and by that strange law of affinity or natural selection, call it what you will, which draws the sexes together, the man and ...

    Article : 964 words
  4. PERSONALITIES. A FORMER QUEEN OF THE STAGE.

    Adelaide Ristoria, a celebrated actress of former days, kept her seventy-eighth birthday recently. Before she was seventeen years old, Ristori was the ...

    Article : 244 words
  5. POETRY.

    She is surprising fair, and so I linger still her face to see; And oft I sigh, for well I know She dreams of golf and not of me. ...

    Article : 218 words
  6. NOVEL [PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.] 'UNDER THE SWORD,'

    'How charming that dear girl is looking to-day!' she observed in a confidential tone. 'And doesn't somebody think so too! Ah, dear Lady Montressor, I don't ...

    Article : 762 words
  7. TRUE STORY OF A PARROT.

    'Cassell's Saturday Journal' tells a true story of a parrot that protected her owner's house from burglars. The thieves entered through one of the front windows, ...

    Article : 185 words
  8. ROYALTIES AT HOME.

    Among the hundreds of Englishwomen who love and admire our beautiful Princess of Wales there are comparatively few who know anything of her up ...

    Article : 1,005 words
  9. ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY.

    The Chinese go fishing with trained cormorants, each of which has a ring round, its neck, to prevent its swallowing its prey. Welshmen go one better. They ...

    Article : 909 words
  10. HUMOUR. A STORY FROM STOCKSBRIDGE.

    A certain Member of Parliament was to make a speech in Stockebridge, but was unable to do so because the heavy rains had destroyed a portion of the little ...

    Article : 65 words
  11. DISAPPOINTED.

    'It's terrible,' said the politician, as he looked at the paper, 'to see how some of us public men suffer at the hands of these interviewers!' ...

    Article : 217 words
  12. AT A GARDEN PARTY.

    A rather good story is told of a certain wealthy gentleman whose education, to say the least, has not improved at the same rate as his banking account. ...

    Article : 212 words
  13. 'ESSAY' WRITERS.

    Not long back were circulated, on the authority of a schoolmaster—a clergyman —a few specimens of unconsciously funny 'essays' written by his boys. The ...

    Article : 738 words
  14. A DEFINITION.

    'How do you define the phrase 'as black as your hat'?' asked a finical professor of a student who had just used the expression. ...

    Article : 45 words
  15. CHAPTER VI.

    Mrs. Harrison was well pleased with her latest lion, and presented him freely to her friends. Some of the women agreed with her in regarding him as ...

    Article : 2,299 words
  16. WHAT'S IN A NAME?

    Some time ago a young couple brought twins to be baptised at a church in London. When asked the name of the children, they replied— ...

    Article : 91 words
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