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  2. CHRISSIE GRAHAM.

    It's smoke, John Marney, as sure as I'm a livin' woman," cried Mrs. Marney as she sprang out of bed; and hastily putting on one or two articles of dress, she groped her way ...

    Article : 3,912 words
  3. THE TROUSSEAU OF A JAPANESE LADY.

    In families of the rank of the governors of Nagasaki the bride is portioned with twelve robes, namely, a blue robe for the first month, embroidered with fir-trees or bamboos; a ...

    Article : 229 words
  4. The End of a Singer's Career.

    Signora Cuzzoni whom the inimitable Hogarth has introduced into one of his theatrical paintings, was short and squat, with a donghy cross face. She was not even a good actress; ...

    Article : 522 words
  5. THE MUSE OF PARODY.

    Reader, are you of those who cannot tole rate their favourite authors or their favourite poems being parodied? A lady-friend of the writer's lately said, in regard to one of ...

    Article : 917 words
  6. Trying a Health Exercise.

    I have just returned from a little two handed tournament with gloves. I have filled my nose with cotton waste, so I shall not soak this sketch in gore, as I write. ...

    Article : 736 words
  7. The household

    A fashionable quilt is made silk patch-work in every variety of colour. Pieces of embossed, shaded, and gros-grain silk of every possible shape, are joined together with gold silk in elaborate ...

    Article : 558 words
  8. Agricultural, &c.

    Slaked lime applied after a rain kills moss. Berkshire pigs are lean and make the best bacon. Eggs with a spot of blood on the yolk are from ...

    Article : 809 words
  9. Harqliae.

    "What's in an aim?" remarked Jones, as he fired at a burglar and put a bullet through the hall clock. "I hev often' noticed," says Josh Billings. ...

    Article : 710 words
  10. The Consequences of a False Report.

    General Grant is one of the few great men who had lived to read his own obituary. The signal for the telegraph operators' strike was "General Grant dropped dead on the ...

    Article : 602 words
  11. What a Fool he was !

    (Scene: A cottage in the suburbs.) Amateur: "Where did you get that picture from?", Owner: " I don't know," A. "What will you take for it?" O.: "A shilling." A. ...

    Article : 298 words
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