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  2. THE MISCHIEF-MAKERS.

    THERE are women who seem born to make mischief; who are never content until they create dissension between mutual friends. I fancy that the moving cause is jealousy ...

    Article : 681 words
  3. THE WONDERS OF BIRD ARCHITECTURE.

    THE architecture of nests is one of the most curious features in the history of the lower animals. Mammalia, fishes, and insects are very many of them nest-builders, ...

    Article : 2,952 words
  4. THE SLAVE STATES—FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    AMERICA is a continent so vast and of such varied interest that one is never tired of hearing the wonderful tales which travellers have to tell us respecting it. What ...

    Article : 2,933 words
  5. An Ocean Tragedy.

    ALTHOUGH Finn's calculations showed very well upon the chart, it will not be supposed I could find anything in them upon which to ground that hope of ...

    Article : 10,724 words
  6. SCIENCE AND ART JOTTINGS.

    CONTRACTORS working for the United States Government in matters requiring scientific knowledge and practical mechanical skill, such as ship-building, &c., are so ...

    Article : 715 words
  7. SCIENCE

    THE notion that disease is inevitably a factor or cause which shortens life, is naturally one which is supported by the facts of existence, as we see these facts fairly ...

    Article : 2,798 words
  8. IDIOSYNCRASIES.

    EVERY author has his parish; every parish keeps an author. I have my authors. It would take away half my pleasure to tell you who my favourites are, because ...

    Article : 368 words
  9. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS.

    IT is a curious fact that mothers of ability frequently have helpless daughters, and that mothers who are by no means what is called "capable" in Yankeeland, ...

    Article : 550 words
  10. SHE PAINTED HER LIPS.

    A VERY funny incident happened at a reception where a bright woman, who was out for the first time after a long illness, was the victim. Just before she left home ...

    Article : 356 words
  11. A PAINTED DIAMOND.

    THERE is one pawnbroker in Washington who has lost all faith in human honesty. Several months ago a nicely dressed man entered his shop and displayed a pair of ...

    Article : 255 words
  12. MAKING THE MOST OF IT.

    CHARLES DICKENS, on a visit to Edinburgh, wished to visit a noted locality, but was refused admittance by the aged woman who kept the gate, on the ground that he ...

    Article : 170 words
  13. MAKING THISTLE-POMPONS.

    PERHAPS some of the young people will like to be told how to make thistlepompons —the dainty cream-coloured balls, dotted with glossy seeds, that can be made ...

    Article : 175 words
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