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  2. "An Australian Millionaire,"

    Was Socrates the serene-tempered benedict he is represented to be, think you? Not he Xantippe was chosen as an escort that she might serve for a ...

    Article : 5,642 words
  3. LOVE LIVES ON TRIFLES

    "In matrimony, to retain happiness and make it last to the end, it is not a question for a woman to remain beautiful; it is a question for her to remain ...

    Article : 276 words
  4. AMUSING INCIDENTS.

    A Scottish sheriff is widely known for his eccentricity and his judgments savour often of humour rather than law. The other day the writer paid a visit ...

    Article : 182 words
  5. TRY TO BE CHEERFUL.

    Nothing contributes more to the highest success than the formation of a habit of enjoying things. Whatever your calling in life may be, whatever misfortunes or ...

    Article : 207 words
  6. RETORTED.

    A certain football club, with one win to its credit as the result of a season's work, found itself in financial difficulties. ...

    Article : 180 words
  7. A SCIENTIFIC PROPOSAL.

    In the early seventies, when Lord Kelvin was Sir William Thomson, he took up as a recreation the question of simplifying the method of signalling at sea. He had ...

    Article : 143 words
  8. A BLIND BOY WHOSE EYESIGHT WAS RESTORED.

    A minister living in an American village received a call one night from a parishioner. " Will you go to Indiana-polis for me ?" he asked. "We have ...

    Article : 382 words
  9. THE TROUBLES OF LIFE.

    We have in life many troubles, and troubles are of many kinds, Some sorrows alas ! are real enough, especially those we bring on ourselves ; but others, ...

    Article : 234 words
  10. WOULD NEED IT.

    A young lady was touring in Aberdeenshire, and when Sunday came she went to the kirk of the village where she was staying. She found a seat in a ...

    Article : 144 words
  11. DISTRUST.

    Distrust the man who tells you to distrust; He takes the measure of his own small soul ...

    Article : 111 words
  12. NOT FORGOTTEN.

    Some time since, in a rather remote country parish in Scotland, the minister of the kirk, accompanied by the ruling elder, went a rather long distance to ...

    Article : 239 words
  13. THE HEN'S POWERS.

    "A French Scientist" declares that the average healthy hen generally contains about 600 eggs; and that as a rule it takes seven or eight years to lay them. He ...

    Article : 166 words
  14. FOUR WEDDINGS AND ONE HUSBAND

    One of the most remarkable things I have ever heard of in my life has just been told to me. This is a woman who has just been married for the forth ...

    Article : 214 words
  15. NATURE FIGHTS THEM.

    "Microbes! flow much needless alarm these scientific bogies have caused in the popular mind. What a rush for disinfectant preparations to ...

    Article : 186 words
  16. A VERY SMART DOG.

    "Speaklin' of smart dogs," said Mr Stretchit, "reminds she of a clog I owned [?]other year. That are dog knowed when it was Sunday, an' wouldn't chase a ...

    Article : 259 words
  17. IN THAT CASE.

    Two witnesses were up the other day at a South of Ireland Assizes in a case which concerned long-continued poultry stealing. As usual, nothing could be ...

    Article : 111 words
  18. WORTH KNOWING.

    Norway is by far the healthiest country in the world. Blind men outnumber blind women by two to one. ...

    Article : 250 words
  19. HOW THE CLERGY CAME TO WEAR BLACK.

    Black seems to be regarded so much as the right colour for the clergy to wear, that many people would feel quite scandalised by their clerical friends ...

    Article : 296 words
  20. POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

    When a man has difficulty in finding an opportunity to propose he can make up his mind that the girl doesn't want him. ...

    Article : 174 words
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