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  2. Before and Behind.

    To show more clearly the comicalities and absurdities of stage life we cite a few incidents, which are the results of personal observation, and which to the unthinking ...

    Article : 254 words
  3. Haceling

    A little boy, sentenced to be whipped said: "Very well; go ahead. All I ask is to take chloroform before you begin." "Why did the boy stand on the burning ...

    Article : 1,280 words
  4. Waists and Corsets.

    A lady writer says:—" Pinched waists, far from becoming rarer by reason of the strictures recently bestowed on tight-lacing by lecturers in connection with 'The ...

    Article : 482 words
  5. OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

    This week we present to readers two pictures, which contrast strongly in appearance. In the first we have one of nature's wildest freaks in the representation of an ...

    Article : 752 words
  6. Handsomely Rewarded.

    Young, ardent, sanguine, of a poetical and [?]tic temperament, given to castle-building in the air, and prone to falling in love [?]tively, I hailed, one day in my early ...

    Article : 2,402 words
  7. El Mahdi.

    This great heathen and full-blown prophet was once a poor boy, without a dollar in his pocket. Years ago, when little Mahdi used to snare suckers along the White Nile, no ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 839 words
  8. Modern Proverbs.

    Every back has its pack. Home is the rainbow of life. Sighs are poor things to fly with. A white lie often makes a black story. ...

    Article : 183 words
  9. What the Mother Says.

    Yes, I know there are stains on my carpet, The traces of small muddy boots; And I see your fair tapestry glowing, And spotless with blossoms and fruits! ...

    Article : 202 words
  10. Antique Yarns Modernised.

    An artist, most forlorn, who dwelt In a wonderfully classical region, Had a care amongst others the chief—(The remainder amounted to legion)— ...

    Article : 421 words
  11. Lucky Editors.

    When the late N. Villemessant, the proprietor of the Paris Figaro, died, he left the paper to the three men who had done the most of aid him. But there were many old ...

    Article : 214 words
  12. Decline of the Nose.

    The gradual decline of the human nose is the result of the introduction and general use of handkerchiefs. The Romans never used handkerchiefs, and their noses, as we ...

    Article : 248 words
  13. Spring Verselets.

    'Tis now the busy housewife gets in her little work, while his part of it the husband will deliberately shirk. She spends the day in scrubbing on the windows and the walls; ...

    Article : 238 words
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