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  2. Light and Healthsome

    A land slide is the most significant movement in real estate. The largest circulation of any paper in the world—Curl paper. ...

    Article : 1,297 words
  3. What it may come to.

    There is always a certain amount of sympathy amongst certain classes for even the greatest criminals; we have no doubt that tons of tears and waggon loads of pity were ...

    Article : 543 words
  4. A Page of English History.

    Egbert, King of Wessex, a warlike person, who parted his hair in the middle and wore straps to his trousers (12s 6d, ready made, antique crutch and toothpick cut), succeeded ...

    Article : 721 words
  5. Last Jokes by the Bootmaker.

    "Have you any side-spring boots?" "We have boots for all seasons, sir— side-Spring boots, side-Summer boots, side-Aut—" ...

    Article : 150 words
  6. Aged Beauties.

    History is full of the accounts of the fascination of women who were no longer young. Thus— Helen of Troy was over forty when she ...

    Article : 418 words
  7. An Unexpected Race.

    In one of the larger towns of Worcester County, Massachusetts, used to live a highly respectable minister, whom we will call Ridewell. He was of the Baptist persuasion, ...

    Article : 1,999 words
  8. A Fitting Rebuke.

    There are many men in existence who deem it no harm to speak slightingly of women; according to their idea, it is quite meet that the strong should assail the weak. One of ...

    Article : 151 words
  9. Thirty Years Ago.

    Just thirty years ago! I wonder how it fared With that sly imp who then swept down the Herald stair. That Printer's devil, having neither friend nor ...

    Article : 274 words
  10. Eight Hundred Pounds Given for a Dog.

    Mr. J. K. Emmet, having mourned a sufficient length of time over the death of his St. Bernard dog, Bayard, jun., for which he gave the sum of 2,500 dol. at the New York ...

    Article : 380 words
  11. He Had Plans.

    A wholesale house in Sydney, in which the firm consists of four partners, with a solid old gentleman at the head, took on a new traveller a few days ago. He was engaged and ...

    Article : 351 words
  12. A Human Bugle.

    At one time an officer belonging to one of the regiments stationed at Gibraltar possessed a rather curious accomplishment. Placing his hand to his mouth he was able ...

    Article : 658 words
  13. Agricultural &c

    A strong brine wash is a good remedy for sore head in chickens. Tobacco given in buttermilk is recommended as a specific for hog cholera. ...

    Article : 702 words
  14. "Tall Tales" from Ben Nevis.

    No one, says a Glasgow gentleman, who has not climbed the hill can imagine the difficulty of building a habitual dwelling on the highest peak in Britain and making a ...

    Article : 302 words
  15. Waiting.

    The scene was a cottage small. with ivy growing Around the gate. The day was fading fast, The sky was leaden, and the winds were ...

    Article : 179 words
  16. Unseasonable Carols.

    Struck by the incongruity of the Christmas carols recently in use in our churches, treating as they do of cold, ice, &c., in the height of the Australian summer, it has ...

    Article : 291 words
  17. One to the Landlord.

    "A certain actor"—we call him Smith—occupied a small room on the third floor of a house in the suburbs. The rent was terribly in arrear, and his relentless landlord ...

    Article : 298 words
  18. Label It.

    "Longshanks," said we, to the elongated mass of erudition who occasionally writes what he considers excruciatingly witty and humorous paragraphs for this journal, ...

    Article : 229 words
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