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"Couldn't you give more'n six pea-nuts for a cent?"" was a question asked by a very small boy with big, staring eyes, of a candy vender at a circus booth. And as he spoke he looked wistfully at the quantity of nuts piled high up on the basket, and then at the six, each of which now looked so small as he held them in his hand.""Couldn't do it,"" ...

In the remembering, and in the retelling, of those war days when laughter sometimes saved men's reason, Cockneys the world over have left to posterity a record of noble and imperishable achievement.From the countless tales collected by the London Evening News these five hundred, many of them illustrated by the great war-time artist, Bert Thomas,...

La politique chôme; au dehors pas plus qu'au dedans nous n'avons cette semaine à signaler aucun événement d'une importance vraiment sérieuse; il semble qu'au moment où l'année finit, chacun se recueille pour jeter un regard en arriére et se préparer aux luttes nouvelles que nous réserve l'avenir. L'Assemblée nationale vote à la hâte les derniers...

La nouvelle combinaison ministérielle que nous avons enregistrée dans notre précédent bulletin a provoqué un vif mécontentement dans les rangs de la droite légitimiste et aura probablement pour résultat de détacher de la majorité gouvernementale une partie de ce groupe parlementaire; le gouvernement trouvera, il est vrai, d'un autre côté, d'ampl...

Perhaps there is no civilized institution to which, man has accommodated himself with so ill a grace as monogamy. Hardly a perversion of it has ever existed but may still be found. Polygamy is widely spread in the most advanced communities; temporary polyandrous ménages à trois are known to exist elsewhere than among the Nairs and Tibetans and a...

Slavery in the United States was abolished by force of circumstances. The appeal to arms in April, 1861, was made by the North for the purpose of saving the Union, but only within a few months after the breaking out of hostilities ""what shall we do with the slaves within our lines"" was the cry heard from all sections of the invaded territory. ...

A handful of men, frugal, hardy, and valiant, successfully defending their barren mountains and dearly-won independence against the reiterated assaults of a mighty neighbour, offer, apart from political considerations, a deeply interesting spectacle. When, upon a map of the world's eastern hemisphere, we behold, not far from its centre, on the c...

If the year 1848—""THE YEAR OF REVOLUTIONS"" was one pre-eminent among all others for the magnitude and interest of the events it brought forth, the year which has just expired—THE YEAR OF REACTION—is still more worthy of serious reflection, and affords subjects for more cheering meditation. If the first exhibited the whirlwind of anarchy let lo...

Upon the page of history are inscribed the names of many great men, uncrowned, but more illustrious than most kings, whose biography essentially involves the records of their country and times. The cases are very rare in which this occurs of an entire lineage; when through several successive generations the same extraordinary qualities are trans...

Henry Ward Beecher, preacher, orator, lecturer, writer, editor, and reformer, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1813. He was by nature and training a great pulpit orator. Mr. Beecher kept himself in perfect physical condition for his work. He has described a course of vocal exercises which he pursued in the open air for a period of three y...