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  2. POETRY.

    I wonder why it is that when I pictures draw of boys and men, And horses, too, for my mamma, She doesn't quite know what they are ...

    Article : 156 words
  3. PERSONALITIES.

    A prominent American politician once concluded a stately speech in Congress with a long, sonorous, and superbly modulated citation of a passage from ...

    Article : 148 words
  4. WAYS OF LIVING.

    The business of a foreign attache is to observe and criticise the doings, of the army to, Which he is attached, and the tactics of the general by whom it is ...

    Article : 1,181 words
  5. "VARIETIES."

    "Artillery in marching order with limbers and carilages is known as a train of artillery. A Pontoon is a light open boat, with a ...

    Article : 689 words
  6. 'BE A BIT MERCIFUL'

    A certain member of a well-known I Yeomanry regiment is if not exactly a miser, an individual with a leaning towards economy. Not being possessed ...

    Article : 184 words
  7. NOVEL.

    Mrs. Arbuthnot's afternoon 'At Home' was in full swing. The crowd had thickened till it fairly merited the appellation of a 'crush.' The gathering had, indeed, ...

    Article : 1,634 words
  8. AFRAID OF THEMSELVES.

    'I am often in more danger from my own laziness and fickleness than from outside intrusion,' confessed an artist the other day, 'and it is against these that I ...

    Article : 171 words
  9. CANDID.

    The con of a butcher had great difficulty in fractions, although his schoolmaster did his very best. 'Now let us suppose,' said the teacher, ...

    Article : 76 words
  10. COMPOSER AND INVENTOR.

    We all know Sir Arthur Sullivan, whose 'H.M.S. Pinafore" has been revived with great success, as a most popular composer; but Sir Arthur ...

    Article : 142 words
  11. CURING THE WRONG MAN.

    I noticed a little reminiscence of Dr McKano, of Augusta, in the paper recently that interested me greatly,' remarked a New Orleans clergyman. 'I ...

    Article : 315 words
  12. LIVED IN A HOLLOW TREE.

    A 'life in the green wood.' has its fascination, from one point of view at least, and there is certainly a romantic element about the story of a mountaineer which ...

    Article : 217 words
  13. CAPTAIN CLOSE.

    But Walton's rival's heart and brain were burning; and more liquor made matters worse. The horses were being brought around from the stable ...

    Article : 1,924 words
  14. A SCHEMING DEACON.

    Opposite the railroad depot 'down South' there was a grocery kept by a coloured man, and as we had some time to wait for the train three or four of us ...

    Article : 600 words
  15. SCIENCE.

    'It is quite a mistake,' said a doctor to the writer,' to suppose that there is any special connection between colds and cold weather. Colds are nothing like so ...

    Article : 237 words
  16. THE TRANSLATOR OF 'JOSEPHUS.'

    William Whiston is believed to have been in the mind of Goldsmith when he wrote the famous 'Vicar of Wakefield.' Being one of the seven children of a poor ...

    Article : 269 words
  17. USED AGAINST POSTS AND SHIPS.

    The struggle for victory between armour-piercing projectiles and the armour itself placed upon forts and ships is always going on. First one and then ...

    Article : 179 words
  18. ALL EYES AND EARS.

    Col. Baden-Powell of Mafeking fame, is perphaps the greatest scout of the day. He has reduced the art of observation in military reconnaissances to a science. ...

    Article : 264 words
  19. QUESTION.

    What is the sun's corona?—The sun's corona is a singular luminous appearance, an exquisite aurcola, which is seen aurrounding our luminary only when that ...

    Article : 136 words
  20. HUMOUR.

    'Do you call this stuff milk ?' inquired Mr. Dobbs, as he gazed into the depths of his milk pitcher. ' Of course I do replied the milkman ...

    Article : 141 words
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