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  2. JOHN RUSKIN.

    Just over fifty years ago a genius, the worth of whose writings, according to Mr. Frederick Harrison, is equal to that of any three thinkers ...

    Article : 1,396 words
  3. WHEN THE WORM TURNED.

    Mr. Jones, shopwalker in the laces and fancies departments of Blimmer's Stores, was the most respectable shopwalker in London. His smile was a ...

    Article : 2,586 words
  4. HOW ANIMALS SPEAK.

    After spending several years in the Sierra Nevada Mountains studying the habits of birds and animals, Mr. Charles Kellogg, the well-known ...

    Article : 387 words
  5. The Secret of the Oak Parlour.

    It was a silent group that stood in the long corridor. The light laugh, the merry jibe and jest, no longer fell from fair lips; alarm, even fear, had ...

    Article : 2,217 words
  6. TOBACCO TASTERS.

    In the French Ministry of Finance there is a class of official tobaccotasters who pass judgment on every kind of tobacco manufactured in ...

    Article : 278 words
  7. WHY THE MISER HOARDED.

    "Judge not!" is the moral that may be deduced from the life and death of a man who died recently in Vienna, leaving two million crowns to found ...

    Article : 244 words
  8. MODESTY OF A HERO.

    A French reporter encountered in a little village of the South of France a gardener who wore, pinned on his clean Sunday blouse, the ribbon of the ...

    Article : 201 words
  9. PROUD OF LARGE FAMILIES.

    The Chinese are proud of large families, and a large family living together under one roof is looked upon as a proof of the good temper and correct ...

    Article : 270 words
  10. WHERE QUEEN VICTORIA DREW THE LINE.

    It is a very well known fact that the late Queen Victoria was, to say the least, somewhat strait-laced, and possessed some remarkable ideas ...

    Article : 188 words
  11. MORAL REFLECTIONS.

    Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defence. Fidelity in little things is the indispensable training for greater ...

    Article : 326 words
  12. CHAPTER XX.

    The Desperate Move of a Scoundrel. Lady Catherine watched Austen cross the room and seat himself beside Winifred, and she shivered again ...

    Article : 1,229 words
  13. Turning the Tables.

    In some cases counsel receive answers to questions which they had no business to put, and these, if not quite to their liking, are what they justly ...

    Article : 157 words
  14. LIGHT WITHOUT HEAT.

    M. Dussand, the French scientist, claims to have produced light without heat, a feat easily performed by the glowworm, but one to which human ...

    Article : 138 words
  15. Roland for an Oliver.

    A learned counsel of my early days at the Bar prided himself on the juvenility of his appearance, and boasted that he looked twenty years ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. The Criterion of Danger.

    The Duke of Wellington once drove Sir George Warrender from Windsor in his carriage. The Duke drove so furiously that Sir George, dreading ...

    Article : 155 words
  17. Liverish.

    "Look heah, doctah! I've taken your, advice and tried a cantah round the park before breakfast, but it doesn't do my liver a bit of good." ...

    Article : 135 words
  18. A Disqualification.

    "I always was unlucky!" The speaker heaved a weary sigh. "What's the matter now, old-man?" he was asked. ...

    Article : 117 words
  19. The Limit of Laziness

    A tramp slowly extracted a match from his pocket and placed the tip of it against the iron tyre of a dogcart which was standing beside the ...

    Article : 68 words
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