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  2. THE ROMANCE OF A PORTRAIT.

    Jacques Bruhiere is an artist whose mythological pictures have a most delightful modern air. His Grecian goddesses look like Parishennes. Their wind-blown hair, their ...

    Article : 1,850 words
  3. AN UNANSWERED RIDDLE.

    "Why are the rings of Saturn like a child with the whooping cough?" That is the question which is agitating my mind just at present. It seems a silly ...

    Article : 346 words
  4. MESSAGES FROM THE UNSEEN.

    So much is said and written in regard to the materialistic side of the medical profession that people ia general have come to look for nothing else; but those who know ...

    Article : 1,608 words
  5. PATTI'S HARD BARGAIN.

    No one ever approached Mme. Patti in the art of obtaining from a manager the greatest possible sum that he could contrive by any possibility to pay. In 1882 ...

    Article : 626 words
  6. Yearnings of a Patriot.

    Tart Lady—What do yon want? Tramp—I don't want nothing to eat, lady. But of course you'll gimme 10 cents to help bay Dewey a gold watch ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 32 words
  7. Rather.

    "Great Scott, man!" cried the eastern cattle buyer as he pointed to the funnel shaped cloud in the distance, "there's a cyclone ...

    Article : 75 words
  8. What's Civil ?

    A little boy with an interest in the meaning, of unfamiliar wards said to his mother, "What is the meaning of civil?'" "Kind and polite." answered the ...

    Article : 63 words
  9. Disproving an Idiom.

    "Ma," remarked the small boy. "Isn't it funny that everybody calls little brother a bouncing baby?" "Why do you think it is funny ...

    Article : 51 words
  10. Perfect Happiness.

    Some claim that single blessedness is the happiest condition for woman, while others contend that happiness can only be found in matrimony, but one who ...

    Article : 50 words
  11. A ZULU BRIDEGROOM.

    The daughter of a Zulu in comfortable circumstances does not leave her father's kraal without much p[?]p and many queer rites. which doubtless are held by her people ...

    Article : 336 words
  12. Just Off.

    "And did your Uncle Jonas die well off?" "Not well off; no. But they say he was 'off', for at least a week before the ...

    Article : 45 words
  13. ACCIDENTAL RETRIBUTION.

    Here is an instance where retribution followed close in the footsteps of iniquity. An American who had spent nearly a year in Europe purchased in Germany at 25[?] ...

    Article : 258 words
  14. Sure Stem of Scorn.

    She—How that woman we just passed does bate me! He—She looked pleasant enough. She—That was done for effect, but if ...

    Article : 45 words
  15. There Are Some of This Kind.

    "Did you ever see a girl who was so homely that she would stop a clock ?" "No, but we've got a girl in our office who is so pretty that every fellow stops ...

    Article : 50 words
  16. He's In Great Luck.

    "Rather sad about Stotensburg." "What?" "He proposed to one of the twin summer girls lust night, and now he doesn't ...

    Article : 36 words
  17. All Scarce With Him.

    "They say that the silver dollar of 1895 was very scarce." remarked Squildig. "It is no scarcer. with me than the silver dollar of other. vintages." replied ...

    Article : 39 words
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