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  2. IN FUTURE HE WOULD NEVER DECLINE A DRINK.

    We were Heated at the card-table in the officers' club-room, playing poker with the pasttrader and drinking warm beer. The win lows had all been thrown open to admit the ...

    Article : 1,608 words
  3. REVIVAL OF CONVERSATION.

    There is a revival at present in conversation as an intellectual pastime. Loveliness of feature (says the "Lady") is not all nowaday. She whose soul shines in her ...

    Article : 587 words
  4. A PSYCHIC CROSS-FIRE.

    The first time I saw Bertha Wadsworth wearing the crown of a red-gold Psyche knot was at a long dining table in a cheery hotel in the Catskills. We had been seated by the head ...

    Article : 2,923 words
  5. A NINETEENTH CENTURY NARCISSUS.

    Oh, no I don't mind telling you about it, but you won't find [?]pretty. It is very "modern" though, another "human document," you know, and you like that kind of thing. ...

    Article : 2,554 words
  6. THE HEROISM OF ISABELLA.

    The interview of Columbus with Isa-* bella was encoriaging ut.il the matter of moneynecessary for the trip was touchedd upon. His anjesty was called in, and ...

    Article : 309 words
  7. THE TRUTH ABOUT APPLE PIE.

    A conundrum club had been started and every one was expected to come prepared with a number of good ones. "I have one," said Anderson, with on ...

    Article : 234 words
  8. SHE KNEW WHAT WANTED.

    He was only one of several hundred customers in a large Briggate establishment, and there was nothing to a casual observer that would have distinguished him from the ...

    Article : 409 words
  9. CUNNING CATERPILLARS.

    I find more interest in those caterpillars which, coming into the world without armour of any kind, and being savoury meat, elude death by cunning disguises, or ...

    Article : 324 words
  10. GOLD AS A PHYSIC

    All ancient authorities on medicine concurred in assigning great efficacy to gold. The difficulty of reducing gold to a form capable of being assimilated by the patient's ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. ROAST GOOSE.

    As a regiment was on the march to Gettysburg, some of the soldiers stepped out of the ranks and "confiscated" a couple of geese, and one of the drummers ...

    Article : 143 words
  12. HE CONVINCED HER.

    The other day an omnibus, full of passengers, drove up to its suburban terminus. Side by side rat a commercial traveller and a lady temperance lecturer. The ...

    Article : 412 words
  13. THE UNSYMPATHETIC SEX.

    Mrs. Dorces: "You look worried, my dear." Mrs. Cobwigger: "I have good reason, as I told my husband. A man allows the ...

    Article : 208 words
  14. TO HANG OUT.

    This phrase certainly occurs in the "Pickwick Papers." Bob Sawyer says to Mr. Pickwick: "Where do you bang out?" and that gentleman replied "that he was ...

    Article : 130 words
  15. NEW WAY OF DOING IT.

    Two men, who had been sitting together on the seat near the door of the car in a train running on one of the American main lines, became engaged in an animated ...

    Article : 200 words
  16. TOO PRACTICAL.

    "No Herbert," she said in a low tone. "it is impossible. I fear to trust my future with you." "And why?" ...

    Article : 90 words
  17. TEA INTOXICATION.

    A correspondent of the "Spectator" quotes Mme. de Sevigne to show that the immoderate use of tea of which we are now hearing so much., was common in the seven ...

    Article : 90 words
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