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  2. Light and Healthsome

    Yeast was invented in the year liven; gambling in the year won; pianos in the year forte; aestheticism in the year "too;" the German negative in the year "nein;" ...

    Article : 1,326 words
  3. Agricultural, &c.

    All vegetables that are grown for their leaves or stems require an abundant of nitrogenous manures, and it is useless to attempt vegetable gardening without it. To ...

    Article : 121 words
  4. Carrier Pigeons in Time of War.

    The French Government has just decided upon the establishment of a central pigeon-house in Paris, which is to be followed by that of others in the provinces, all to be ...

    Article : 318 words
  5. On Oratory.

    Twenty entries ago last Christmas. there was born in Attica, near Athens, the father of oratory, the greatest orator of whom history has told us. His name was ...

    Article : 614 words
  6. Louis Riel, the Canadian Rebel.

    "Louis Riel appears to have come honestly enough by his revolutionary ideas. His father was a revolutionist before him, and on the 17th May, 1849, when his compatriots, ...

    Article : 896 words
  7. The Wrong Man.

    I am certainly the most unfortunate man in the world. If not, how does it happen that I am not married to Miss Priscilla Prichard, only child and sole heiress of the late not ...

    Article : 1,687 words
  8. ROTTEN WOOD FOR STOCK.

    Milch cows, calves, sheep, hogs and poultry, and sometimes horses and mules, need some acid-absorbing substance to be taken into the stomach every few days, or else ...

    Article : 260 words
  9. Do Women Propose?

    It is a well-known and freely-acknowledged fact that if a woman makes up her mind she wants a man, she wants him real badly, and will move heaven and earth to ...

    Article : 221 words
  10. Stage Frights.

    Without going back to the days of Garrick or Macready, and a host of other tragedians who alwaps kept in bed nearly the whole of the day to calm their nerves before acting a ...

    Article : 355 words
  11. The Night Policeman.

    Beside a noisy tavern door The night policeman stands, And a foaming pint of half and half He clutches with eager hands; ...

    Article : 252 words
  12. Well Known to the Police.

    One of the most amusing of Sergeant Ballantine's, the well-known English barrister, experiences is thus told: One night, late—it might be early morning—I was in ...

    Article : 232 words
  13. The Clown in Private Life.

    The clown in private life is a popular mystery. Like many other very popular mysteries, that of his everyday existence is hardly worth penetrating. Off the stage, ...

    Article : 522 words
  14. Conjugal Tiffs.

    The wonderful trials of temper imposed by matrimony can scarce ever be known to an outsider. The provocative power of a woman, which is naturally considerable, ...

    Article : 436 words
  15. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

    YOUNG AUSTRALIAN.—Your verses received. There is a saying by a familiar poet to the effect that "whom the gods love die young." We hope in your case for a speedy fulfilment of the ...

    Article : 557 words
  16. Keeping a Right Balance.

    The remarkable swordmanship of the Tartars is proverbial. Their favorite weapon is a long curved cimetar, quite different from that of the Turks. It is made of the ...

    Article : 343 words
  17. Securing a Prima Donna.

    Few London managers of the present day would condescend—or, for the matter of that, be able—to carry out such tricks as those recorded of Rich, who occupies so ...

    Article : 458 words
  18. Can't Find 'Em.

    The guard of one of the railway trains says he is seriously thinking about handing in his resignation. Not that he doesn't like his job, but that the station master is all ...

    Article : 118 words
  19. A True Christian.

    An incident came under our observation last Sunday evening at a suburban church that was a fair illustration of what true Christianity really is. A visiting minister ...

    Article : 166 words
  20. Bit Himself.

    A friend of ours lately speculated in a new set of teeth. On the evening of the day they came home, he went to see "Called Back," at Her Majesty's Opera House. Finding the ...

    Article : 89 words
  21. A Coming Cat-astrophe.

    A feline scientist says that in just sixty one years and twenty-six days there will be one hundred cats where there is one to-day. Each dwelling house of the future will, ...

    Article : 67 words
  22. He! Hau!

    When is a Scotchman like a donkey? When he stands on his "banks and braes," ...

    Article : 19 words
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