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  2. Short Story.

    I was talking to the doctor, in his study, on the day after my arrival as assistant master, when a servant announced that Miss Thompson had ...

    Article : 2,274 words
  3. Household Hints.

    For the bathroom and toilet-table borax is entitled to a place to which no other article can lay claim. It refreshes and invigorates the system, removes ...

    Article : 172 words
  4. The Home.

    A wife's most important duty is to please her husband and make his home happy, and pleasant. The good wife who I devotes herself too entirely to her ...

    Article : 190 words
  5. Pith and Point.

    The great art of life is to play for much and stake little. About 250,000 canaries are raised every year in Germany. ...

    Article : 952 words
  6. Spray.

    Customer: "What did you mean by selling me that stuff you called hair restorer, and telling me it would restore my head to its original condition?" ...

    Article : 75 words
  7. Livingstone and the Lion.

    A writer in "Heroes of Britain" thus describes Livingstone's encounter with a lion:— Not long before his marriage he had ...

    Article : 710 words
  8. The General's Cow.

    At Plymouth there is, or was, a small lawn opposite the Government House, over which no one was permitted to pass. Not a creature was allowed to ...

    Article : 144 words
  9. Brewing Tea.

    A certain woman whose tea is becoming famous in her set says that she follows the Hindoo rather than the Chinese methods of brewing it. Not ...

    Article : 141 words
  10. A Hint.

    A woman can never charm when she is taken up with herself. When she comes first in her own thoughts she comes second in every one else's. She must ...

    Article : 91 words
  11. What a European War Would Mean.

    Talking of the possibilities of a European war. Prince Bismarck forecast the financial aspect of it with his usually broad view of things. "It would mean," ...

    Article : 186 words
  12. Animals and Children.

    The women of Siam' choose queer nursemaids for their children, for, instead of trusting them to girls, they hand them over to the care of elephants; ...

    Article : 462 words
  13. House Cleaning.

    Begin, says a writer in the "Queen," with taking down the curtains, portieres, and hangings of every kind.... Whether their fabric be serge, velvet, ...

    Article : 556 words
  14. A Dream.

    Her spirit, like a stray moonbeam, lit up the dusk that lay between us; I saw her in my rapturous dream, a creature as fair as Milo's Venus. ... A ...

    Article : 121 words
  15. What's In a Name.

    Scene, the Stock Exchange, two men discussing the relative merits of their pointers. No 1 avers his dog won't go out with him when his cartridges don't ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. Why He Hesitated.

    The doting father was reflective. "You will find Mabel a splendid house- keeper," he said at last. The lover's face was blanched. ...

    Article : 299 words
  17. Wedding Presents.

    There would seem to be something indissolubly connected with a tax where wedding presents are concerned, remarks a writer in "St. Paul's." In ...

    Article : 281 words
  18. S'posing He Was.

    Some time back the play of "Hamlet" was being performed at a provincial theatre. In a scene with Polonius the crafty old courtier asks : "Do you know ...

    Article : 74 words
  19. A Snap Shot at a Whale.

    Whether a certain whale, that breakfasted, dined, and supped every day in the Santa Catalina Channel, went out one morning with the ...

    Article : 419 words
  20. Look 'Ee Here.

    The other day a provincial merchant set up a typewriter. The day after he had sent, out his first batch of correspondence by the new machine a ...

    Article : 95 words
  21. An Apology.

    It was customary in Baron Graham's day to suspend judgment in criminal cases till the close of the assizes and then deliver the sentences all in a lump. ...

    Article : 91 words
  22. "Private Bradlaugh."

    One of Messrs. Cassell's publications says that the late Charles Bradlaugh, when in the British army. was orderly-room clerk, and a newly-arrived officer ...

    Article : 313 words
  23. A Thrilling Moment.

    A cavalry company, part of that terrible squadron known as the Banded Bloomerites, was drawn in line just within the gates of the beleaguered city, ...

    Article : 251 words
  24. The Vendetta in Perugia.

    An interesting account of the vendetta in Perugia appeared in the "Magazine of Art," from which the following is an extract :—"The mediaeval history of ...

    Article : 266 words
  25. One Way to Get Them.

    "William," she said, " you need a new hat." "Do I?" "Yes ; and a new overcoat." ...

    Article : 76 words
  26. Two Bulls.

    A coroner in Limerick, on being asked by a tourist whether he could account for the unusual mortality during a certain winter, gravely remarked that he ...

    Article : 98 words
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