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  2. THE JESTER.

    A London curate the other day received en astonishing answer to an inquiry after a parishioners health. "Well, sir," said the latter, " sometimes I feels anyhow ; ...

    Article : 499 words
  3. VARIOUS VERSES.

    God bless the little orchard brown Where the sap stirs these quickening days, Soon in a white and rosy gown ...

    Article : 145 words
  4. FIRESIDE FANCIES.

    One of of the strangest of brain diseases is that which causes the patient to behold everything upside down. " I have treated more than one case ...

    Article : 257 words
  5. SPRAY.

    I rather like her style ; in truth Her looks and ways appeal to me ; I seem to catch her fancy, too— I wonder what her age may be ? ...

    Article : 1,346 words
  6. NEW SERIES OF STORIES.

    " You're mad !" said Dr. Blackman roughty. His distinguished patient stirred among his rugs. He was sitting up in a big ...

    Article : 1,987 words
  7. THE ARMCHAIR.

    If you want a genuine old Stradivarius violin, don't go to Stradivaria, as Cremona, the birthplace of the great fiddle-maker, has been called. Hundreds of curio ...

    Article : 704 words
  8. FIVE LITTLE MOTOR-CARS.

    Five little motor-cars, Starting at the door, One wouldn't go at all, And then there were four. ...

    Article : 93 words
  9. WHAT ENGLISH RAILWAYS DO.

    As a country England is very rich in the matter of railways, and the railway companies of the United Kingdom represent an accumulation of wealth which is simply ...

    Article : 213 words
  10. MONKEYS AS MAID-SERVANTS.

    The cleverness and imitative faculty of the monkey, has been utilised by mankind in many ways during late years, and today this hairy animal acts as clerk, ...

    Article : 864 words
  11. WHOLE TRUTHS.

    Speculation is when you lose; investment when you win. There should be music in every home excepting the one next door. ...

    Article : 160 words
  12. POPULAR CONCEPTIONS THAT ARE WRONG.

    You hear the strains of brass instruments out in the street (says an English paper. A lively waltz is being played, and you begin to wish you could dance. ...

    Article : 898 words
  13. MAKING " FANCY" VALUES.

    Quite recently £16,275 was paid at Christie's auction-rooms in London for a rock crystal vase, mounted in enamelled gold, only about a foot high. The bidding ...

    Article : 196 words
  14. PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT.

    The Mikado of Japan has been a great reader, and is specially well informed regarding French, literature. It is a favourite remark of the Duchess ...

    Article : 705 words
  15. ONE SECRET OF SUCCESS.

    Estates to the value of over £264,000,000 were left by about 62,000 people in the United Kingdom last year. That fact proves that we live in an age of thrift. ...

    Article : 193 words
  16. PEOPLE FAVOURED BY THE LAW.

    Our laws theoretically are supposed to be absolutely impartial (says on English paper), but in practice this is by no means invariably the case. ...

    Article : 690 words
  17. IRRESISTIBLE.

    The Jap's patriotism and politeness are well known. Doctor Aoyama, a celebrated Japanese physician, owes his life to those virtues. He had caugtht the plague, and ...

    Article : 137 words
  18. LONG STEPS.

    The rector of a certain country parish is in the habit of taking his church choir for an annual outing. On the last occasion it was to the Zoological Gardens, ...

    Article : 147 words
  19. NEW TERROR FOR SHOPPERS.

    An enterprising German has taken out a patent for a device for fitting phonographs as an attachment to doors. The opening of the door to let some one in ...

    Article : 109 words
  20. HOW TO PRESERVE A HUSBAND.

    Select a nice, kind, amiable, industrious, and generous man, and prepare him for the ordeal by making him go through a long engagement, which effectually renders ...

    Article : 124 words
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