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  2. INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE

    One good thing—though at present only in the tentative stage-came out of the Crimean War. The great storm tin the Black Sea led the French ...

    Article : 86 words
  3. LADIES.

    Is it because there aren't enough pretty girls to go round? Not a bit of it. Every one knows that pretty girls are as plentiful as blackberries nowadays. And ...

    Article : 546 words
  4. GENERAL GATHERINGS.

    Speculators and investors who are taking stocks in South African gold mining and other ventures will road with interest the following letter ...

    Article : 390 words
  5. SHORT STORY.

    The widow (says a writer to the "World") may be said to have lived one life to the end and started to begin another, bringing with her, however, all ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,253 words
  6. A Gift.

    A dear old soul, but very deaf, believed she had a fine musical voice. One Sunday she went to a strange church, and joined in the singing with all her might. ...

    Article : 111 words
  7. The Language of Stamps.

    The language of stamps may thus be given.—If a postage-stamp be placed upside down on the top left-hand corner of the envelope, it means that the writer ...

    Article : 226 words
  8. Napoleon and the Gunner.

    After the distribution of the at Partis the Emperor proceeded for a similar purpose to Boulogue, where a portion of the army was encamped in ...

    Article : 357 words
  9. The General and the Fiddlers.

    The San Francisco "Chronicle" tells the following story:— The last echo of one of Sousa's overtures was just dying away over the ...

    Article : 216 words
  10. Fruit as a Food.

    Especially in winter, people are apt to take too little fruit and vegetables, with the result that they become constipated, and their complexions suffer in ...

    Article : 598 words
  11. Names of Reigning Families.

    "Old and Young" explains that Hohenzollern is not the family name of the German line that is now upon the throne. Its true name is Zollern, Thassilon, the ...

    Article : 289 words
  12. Healthy Reading.

    It behoves, in these decadent days, the mother to carefully master the general scheme or tone of all books destined for the perusal of the girls in her charge. ...

    Article : 364 words
  13. A Disappointed Yankee

    "I'm endeavouring to become quite English," writes a Boston man in London, "because it will save me from the tips of the first magnitude which ...

    Article : 188 words
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    Friend: "How did you lose your place as foreman of the 'Daily Hustler'?" Ex-foreman (dolefully) "The editor wrote a column of letters from old subscribers ...

    Article : 106 words
  15. Paid by Note

    According to the Italian papers, one of the principal tenors at the Scala Theatre has been paid on a rather curious principle—not for each appearance, but for ...

    Article : 236 words
  16. She Was.

    I caught her in the hall. And twenty times I kissed her. And then contritely said: "I thought you were my sister!" ...

    Article : 55 words
  17. Lean Year Etiquette.

    "I am going to resign," said the editor in charge of the how-to-behave column of a periodical. "What's the matter?" i0nquired the ...

    Article : 64 words
  18. Quite Appropriate.

    White the fire fiend was getting in his work on a recent fire a literary gentleman who was looking on, asked a friend; "What three authors would you name ...

    Article : 60 words
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