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  2. POPULAR ERRORS IN LIVING

    Dr Charles W. Purdy contributes to the "North American Review" for June an interesting practical article on "Popular Errors in Living." ...

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  3. A NEGRO POET.

    Mr Paul Laurence Dunbar is a negro "without admixture of white blood;" his father and mother were both slaves; he himself "was before and after he began ...

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  4. MARY.

    My eldest sister Mary is the clever one of our family. Nina is the beauty. I am only the useful one. Tom is the useless member, but he does not ...

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  5. REMARKABLE SHOTS.

    Ever since our race has inhabited these islands, sport has been the Briton's birthright and inheritance; and as in ancient times our lands were well ...

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  6. THE AMERICAN HEAT WAVE.

    Chicago. July 4.—The wave of torrid weather under which the Central States sweltered last week showed no abatement to-day. From Pittsburg to ...

    Article : 1,640 words
  7. TOLD TO AMUSE.

    An amusing story is told cencerning Professor Duncan, of St. Andrew's University. who was, in his younger days, a teacher in Dundee. The embryo ...

    Article : 160 words
  8. MARMALADE AND FISH.

    When orange marmalade was first introduced into this country, it was extensively advertised as an "excellent substitute for butter." ...

    Article : 152 words
  9. BIDDY AND THE TICKET-COLLECTOR.

    A Great Northern train from Liverpool pulled up at Beeston, and several collectors were taking the tickets. On corning to a third-class compartment. ...

    Article : 185 words
  10. IT WAS WHITE.

    The other morning, hearing our chickens cackling. I sent my little servant down the garden to the fowlhouse to see if there was an egg. ...

    Article : 106 words
  11. FIRING OUT OF TURN.

    An amusing, if painful, episode. took place among the Highlanders before the Battle of Kerbekan, in the Soudan. The Highlanders were well covered, and ...

    Article : 112 words
  12. THE CHEERFUL WOMAN.

    There are emergencies in every household which call for the display of a statesman's skill. The cheerful woman is pre-eminent on such occasions. She ...

    Article : 236 words
  13. MAKIN' AN AWFU' FUSS ABOOT IT!

    A beadle in the West of Scotland heated his church so effectually one winter's day that the building took fire, and was burned to the ground. ...

    Article : 101 words
  14. "NOW WE SHA'N'T BE LONG!"

    He was an earnest teacher, and was intructing a class in history, at the same time profiting by the occasion to instil a true patriotic feeling in the breasts of ...

    Article : 97 words
  15. ANOTHER MOTOR-CAR STORY.

    The sight of a motor-car in the streets of London has already ceased to exiete much curiosity, but in the country they are a source of great wonder to the ...

    Article : 104 words
  16. "OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN," Etc.

    A Londoner fell out of employment and was obliged to pawn some of his belongings, including a watch. When he got into collar again all his ...

    Article : 141 words
  17. AN AXE TO GRIND.

    Benjamin Franklin used to relate an anecdote, when the occasion served, concerning, his childhood. "One cold winter's morning, I remember being ...

    Article : 280 words
  18. POOR OLD MRS SMITHS WARNING.

    Some time ago, while staying in a village in Hertfordshire, I overheard the following conversation between two village gossips:— ...

    Article : 78 words
  19. LAZY TO THE LAST.

    The other day as a number of miners were waiting to be lowered down to the pit bottom they began chaffing a fellow by the name of Swinger, noted for his ...

    Article : 113 words
  20. HE DIDN'T PICK UP HIS CHANCE.

    A smart but not very well mannered young man was driving his gig one rainy day, when lie came to a toll-bar and demanded what was to pay. ...

    Article : 88 words
  21. IN NELSON'S DAYS.

    It is the boast of an old sailor, who is at present commissioned in one of H.M. ships at the Cape, that his father was one of Nelson's officers, who fought ...

    Article : 96 words
  22. WEARING THE COLORS TO THE LAST.

    One day I had occasion to go into a draper's shop on business. A little girl came running in, and, going up to one of the assistants, she ...

    Article : 114 words
  23. WELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON.

    There are some interesting stories in the recently published reminiscences of Mr Corbould, the drawing master to Queen Victoria's children. Here is one ...

    Article : 261 words
  24. WELL TRIED.

    Several officers were dining at a well-known club, and speaking in praise of their various regiments. Among them was a colonel of militia; ...

    Article : 95 words
  25. THAT OLD CORK LEG.

    In the time of the Crimean war a regiment of infantry was ordered to a position where some sharp work was going on. ...

    Article : 119 words
  26. WOMAN'S DIPLOMACY.

    "Now you have done it," scornfully declared a Detroit mother with half a dozen eligible daughters. after she and her husband had retired the other ...

    Article : 323 words
  27. ENGLAND'S ALLIES.

    'Tis false that England stands alone, 'Tis true she stood apart From those whom fear hath driven To union without heart— ...

    Article : 291 words
  28. NATIONAL INDEBTEDNESS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 297 words
  29. A SMART DEDUCTION.

    Recently some boys were romping in the play-ground of a local school, while apart from them stood a tall, lanky boy (with legs bearing a strong resemblance ...

    Article : 91 words
  30. Advertising

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    Advertising : 103 words
  31. COMMERCIAL HARBORS

    Commercial progress in the East is fast becoming a question of harbors (writes the travelling correspondent of the "Dundee Advertiser.") From the ...

    Article : 205 words
  32. PUZZLED THE GOOD WELSH PEOPLE.

    When the North-Western railway line from Chester to Holyhead was being made, some persons residing in a village four miles from Bangor heard that ...

    Article : 116 words
  33. TWO TIPPLERS IN ONE PACK.

    A well-known peer, recently deceased. kept a pack of fox-hounds, one of the dogs being called "Tippler." His lordship one day found his huntsman, with ...

    Article : 77 words
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