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  2. FACETI[?].

    FROM the prompter's box. Actor (in a whisper): "What have I to do now?" Prompter: "Exit." Actor: "Where?" Prompter: "In different directions." ...

    Article : 1,762 words
  3. YOUNG FOLKS' COLUMN.

    Alone on a tangle o flowers reclining, The long swaying grasses in frolic around, The sun on his poor little ru[?]ed head shining, No cloud grey tinted, no sorrowful sound. ...

    Article : 183 words
  4. MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

    INUNDATIONS IN HOLLAND.—Notwithstanding all the constant vigilance there are terrible stories told in Holland or inundation, It is recorded that during 13 centuries there has been one great inundation, besides ...

    Article : 1,648 words
  5. DARKER THAN DEATH.

    WE[?] eager and impatient steps, so that she might the sooner hear all about her beloved brother Isai, Ruth Mendoza led the way from the Terespolskaya Ulica towards the more thoroughly Jewish quarter ...

    Article : 4,336 words
  6. THE HARROW "ULYSSES."

    When Sir William Jones, the famous Oriental scholar, was at Harrow—where he received his early education—he seems to have been the foremost boy, not only in the schoolroom, bat also in the playground; and in all the ...

    Article : 387 words
  7. INDUSTRY AND INGENUITY.

    More than two hundred years ago was born Jean du Pre, who, when about thirty years of age, formed the design of hewing out of some rocks a hermitage, where he intended to live as a hermit. The hermitage is about ...

    Article : 274 words
  8. HOTTENTOT HERDSMEN.

    The Kaffirs, who are still their untiring persecutors, and who were the first cause of their national ruin, the Hottentots hate with an undying hatred to which the history of tribal ...

    Article : 922 words
  9. THE NILOMETER.

    There is scarcely any rainfall in Egypt, and yet the country is one of the most fertile in the world; wheat, barley, and other grains being extensively cultivated, and forming the wealth of the land. This fertility is ...

    Article : 346 words
  10. THE SWALLOWS.

    Fly away, swallows, for cold tile winds blow; Soon will the winter days bring frost and snow, Soon will the days be short, soon the nights long, Soon will be hushed the birds' chorus of song. ...

    Article : 185 words
  11. THE MAID OF SARAGOSSA.

    In the year 1809, when the city of Saragossa, in Spain, was being besieged by the French, a young woman named Augustina, belonging to the lower order of the people, greatly distinguished herself by her wonderful ...

    Article : 307 words
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