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  2. SCIENCE.

    The title ts applied by Mr. W. J Gordon, in "Pearson's Magazine," to the London and North-western Railway From a description of what it costs to ...

    Article : 599 words
  3. VARIETY

    Some authorities now argue that the "Christmas Carol" was the real foundation of the Annual. If so, it is curious to note that the editio princeps appeared ...

    Article : 389 words
  4. ROME.

    Dr. Gordon Stables, in the "Weekly Scotsman," says:—"I think too much cannot be said in favour of Judicious rest in the recumbent position for ...

    Article : 224 words
  5. SPRAY

    Tomkins is one of those gentlemen of kind disposition who are ever on the outlook for a chance to improve their a[?]bours' minds. Seeing a man, apparently ...

    Article : 140 words
  6. ODMENTS

    It is just a hundred years since Aloys Seanefelder, or, as it is usually spelt, Senefelder, son of a poor actor, himsel[?] a jack-of-all-trades, invented, by the aid ...

    Article : 530 words
  7. Snoring Debarred.

    Many years ago the minister of Forbes, in Aberdeenshire, was a Mr. Benjamin Mercer, a man of great bodily strength and of great eccentricity of habits. One ...

    Article : 147 words
  8. The Rocking Chair

    The use of a rocking chair, in a medical sense, will be a novelty to most readers. It has lately been stated that in some cases of indigestion the use of such a ...

    Article : 109 words
  9. Smart Judges.

    An American Judge, sitting in chambers, seeing from the amount of papers in the lawyers' hands that the first case was likely to be hotly contested, asked: ...

    Article : 103 words
  10. Glycerine for Coughing.

    A foreign medical journal is authority for the statement that a tablespoonful of glycerine in hot milk or cream will at once relieve the most violent ...

    Article : 188 words
  11. Science and Agriculture.

    The farm poet of the "Rural New Yorker" puts in a plea for the use of plain English by scientific professors, such as common every-day folk [?]ay ...

    Article : 260 words
  12. At the Wrong End.

    Artemus Ward was once riding on a very slow train in the Southern States. He thus addressed the conductor : "Conductor, are passengers allowed to make ...

    Article : 92 words
  13. St. Andrew of Scotland.

    Why was St. Andrew selected to be the patron saint of Scotland? This question has exercised clerical and lay curiosity, hut has not been satisfactorily ...

    Article : 103 words
  14. Presents.

    The man who possesses the gitt of giving appropriate presents is often far more successful in his love affairs titan a blunderer in this respect Not that a ...

    Article : 339 words
  15. Can Cats Really Converse

    Theories of articulate language in the animal kingdom are advanced every day. Some of them are serious, like Professor Garner's notion of an ...

    Article : 546 words
  16. A Young Major.

    Before the days of Civil Service examinations, and when the army abounded in abuses of all kinds, children were sometimes gifted with commissions in ...

    Article : 97 words
  17. Teaching His Son to Box.

    The other day, while at the house, Chief of Police Jack Keefe was telling his boys how he used to don the gloves and how he had been so expert with ...

    Article : 466 words
  18. Cool Rejoinders.

    The great Dr. Chalmers, when informed by a lady, who was setting her cap at him, that everybody was saying that, they were going to be married, replied ...

    Article : 415 words
  19. Chilly. Very.

    One day while M[?]àis was engaged in painting his famous picture, "Chill October." among the reeds and rushes on the banks of the Tay. near Perth, a ...

    Article : 82 words
  20. A Full House

    No self-respecting actor will admit that his show is not drawing full houses every night. One of the profession who plays juvenile parts recently met a ...

    Article : 149 words
  21. Cricket Comes First.

    Mr. Augustine Birrell, Q.C., M.P., told a good story in a lecture on Johnson recently. He said that Bonnor the Australian cricketing giant, was present at ...

    Article : 121 words
  22. A Proved Footballer.

    Mr. James Payn tells a seasonable story. He says a younp man was paying his attentions to a "beloved object," contrary to the wishes of her father ...

    Article : 137 words
  23. Is It As?

    Rockaby. baby, your mamma has gone. She's out for a century and will be till dawn. She wore papa's knickers, and in them ...

    Article : 101 words
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