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  2. VARIOUS VERSES.

    I would go home and be a little boy Safe on the far hill paths, and that gray shore Whereby the ships, slow passing ...

    Article : 171 words
  3. SPRAY.

    A report of a bloodless duel between two Frenchmen has the following interesting conclusion :— " Monsieur Lelache having fired his shot ...

    Article : 1,259 words
  4. PITH AND POINT

    Married life on an average lasts twenty-eight years. The Duke of Fife is the only total abstainer among the dukes. ...

    Article : 545 words
  5. THE SKETCHER

    To rub noses, as some of the poor untutored savages do, in token of friendship, seems to us at first blush one of the most idiotic observances of uncivilised man. ...

    Article : 962 words
  6. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY

    Mr. Arnold Bramsby. walking down the crowded city thoroughfare en route for his office, suddenly remembered that before leaving home he had omitted to tell his ...

    Article : 2,917 words
  7. LOVE THE BEST GIFT.

    One man had riches for his gift, and knew The emptiness thereof; Another, where fame's topmost summit's lift ...

    Article : 117 words
  8. THAT DAY.

    The day in which I first met you Is like a page of geld In some dull book I loiter through, The which I seize and hold ...

    Article : 183 words
  9. DOUBLE PUNISHMENT.

    A native traveller in Japan bought two snapping turtles, and, being afraid that he would be charged heavily for their transportation as live animals on the train, he ...

    Article : 210 words
  10. THE POWER OF CROSS-EXAMINATION.

    " George," said his father? with a countenance more in sorrow than in anger, " George, some one has cut down my favourite cherry tree. Do you know ...

    Article : 701 words
  11. POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

    You can't buy experience on credit. With the exception of yourself, every-body is more or lees deceitful. No man is a nonentity unless he is a ...

    Article : 66 words
  12. HOW THE EDITOR ESCAPED.

    A good story of his editorial days is told of Representative Brownlow, of Tennessee. He was running a country paper in that State, and had made things pretty warm ...

    Article : 270 words
  13. LIGHTENS THEIR LABOURS.

    A modern philosopher has expressed his approval of the man who sings at his work. A recognition of the fact that work is ...

    Article : 195 words
  14. WHAT CASTE MEANS.

    " Everybody has heard of caste," remarked an Anglo-Indian, " but few people outside India realise what it really is. " Take, for instance, the dhooly—the ...

    Article : 234 words
  15. BROWN RATS VERSUS BLACK RATS.

    The war of extermination waged upon the black rat by the brown is one of the romances of natural history. Till the end of the first half of the last century the ...

    Article : 207 words
  16. PROPER BREATHING.

    Thousands of people die every year because they do not know how to breathe, or, knowing how, they do not fill their lungs as they should. Thin, pale, sallow ...

    Article : 175 words
  17. MOTIONLESS FOR MONTHS.

    A most curious and sluggish creature is the tautawa, a small lizard, whose home is in New Zealand. The little animal has the reputation of being the laziest ...

    Article : 92 words
  18. ELEPHANTS ONLY.

    An explorer who has spent a great deal of time in Africa, tells a remarkable story about a cemetery in which the only bones are those of elephants. The cemetery, he ...

    Article : 184 words
  19. WITHIN AN ACE.

    "Humorous and exciting incidents are always happening at a "railway station," a stationmaster says. " I was once watching a couple of boys tossing up coins on ...

    Article : 198 words
  20. ORIGIN OF THE GOODWIN SANDS.

    To the south-east of England, about five miles from the coast of Deal, lies the most famous sandbank in the world. It is not remarkable for its size—being but ten miles ...

    Article : 162 words
  21. THE WAR OF THE FUTURE.

    The medical officer of the Austrian army has invented a humanitarian projectile in the form of a shell that, on explosion, distributes not fragments of lead ...

    Article : 145 words
  22. ACCORDING TO FANCY.

    Beauty appears to be purely geographical. The ideal of Japanese loveliness is a long, narrow face, with a high, receding forehead. The hair must be plentiful and ...

    Article : 86 words
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