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  2. Light and Healthsome

    Chaplain of the fleet—A sporting parson. Poverty developes genius, prosperity utilizes fools. When is a baby not a baby? When it's a ...

    Article : 1,114 words
  3. How to Treat Children.

    In wiping a child's nose, be extremely careful to leave the nose. Some parents use so much strength in doing this that they find when it is too late ...

    Article : 522 words
  4. The Musician and the Pawnbroker.

    The leader of the orchestra at one of the minor houses on the south of the Thames, gifted with that superiority of prudential considerations which is the peculiar attribute ...

    Article : 327 words
  5. Mr. Pudster's Return.

    Mr. Solomon Pudster and Mr. Gideon Maggleby were bosom friends; nor could they well be otherwise. They were both born on the 29th of May, 1815, in Gower ...

    Article : 1,903 words
  6. Women at Sea.

    One of De Quincey's similes to something or other, was that of a woman sailing over the water, awakening out of sleep to find her necklace untied and one end hanging ...

    Article : 631 words
  7. Pat's Shrewd Purchase.

    "Pat," said our reporter to a prominent political light of a suburban town, "I here you have been buying a house." "An' is it making' fun o' me ye are?" said ...

    Article : 451 words
  8. The Refractory Demon.

    "Oberon,—the name at once conjures up a vision of fairyland," says a contributor to the Era Almanack, "and fills the air with echoes of Weber's delicious melodies." ...

    Article : 470 words
  9. Effects of the Imagination.

    Many years ago a French physician, author of an excellent work on the effects of imagination, wished to combine theory with practise in order to confirm the truth of his ...

    Article : 377 words
  10. They had met before.

    Her aristocratic manner and rich elaborate toilet seemed somewhat out of place in the plebian surroundings of the third-class railway carriage which the entered at a ...

    Article : 249 words
  11. An Act of Chivalry.

    In one of the principal walks in Fitzroy Gardens is a rather badly chise[?]led statue of Pandora pulling opening her casket of ills. Pandora's raiment. I grieve to state, has ...

    Article : 589 words
  12. Duffy's Mistake.

    Duffy lives on a small farm near Winchelsea, where he makes a specialty of raising early chickens for the Melbourne market. This summer he has been greatly annoyed by ...

    Article : 169 words
  13. It is Said.

    That, when a man tries to kill a mosquito on the nape of his neck, he makes about a dozen wild smacks, which invariably miss the mosquito but never his neck, before he ...

    Article : 190 words
  14. A Brute.

    "Pears or greengages?" the hostess asked graciously, as she presided at the head of her tea table. It was noticeable that there was a generous dish of the pears, and only a tiny ...

    Article : 380 words
  15. Mrs. Jones on Pic Nics.

    Well, go to the pic-nic if you like. I can't hinder you, But if I were you I wouldn't nothing could make me. Pic-nics don't turn out well, according to my ...

    Article : 365 words
  16. He Lies.

    A patent medicine testimonial says: For six months I was unable to lie on my back. Since using your wonderful preparation I am now able to lie easily in any position. We ...

    Article : 79 words
  17. Romantic, Very.

    We have received a story of the most romantic character; it bristles with thrilling situations and gush. We give a passage from it, descriptive of the heroine's smile, which for ...

    Article : 124 words
  18. Good Shooting.

    Mr. Fausset, deceased, of Normantown (Q) because irritated fired three shots from a revolver into the head of his coy sweetheart, while she was making believe to run away ...

    Article : 104 words
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