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  2. TALES AMD TALLIES.

    The old Houses of Parliament in Britain were burnt down about eighty years ago, during the burning of vast quantities of wooden tallies, ...

    Article : 218 words
  3. COURTSHIP BY CARDS.

    The visiting card is pf Chinese origin. The Chinese have always observed the strictest ceremony with regard to the paying of visits. It is ...

    Article : 180 words
  4. COMPLETE SHORT STORY.

    Lieutenant Carter of Troop C. of the First Virginia was ambitious. This story will sbow why. The place was Richmond, and the ...

    Article : 1,519 words
  5. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    It is hopeless hoping for the best unless you are also working for it. Hatred is like a gun with the end of the barrel plugged up. Its recoil ...

    Article : 513 words
  6. TO LET—£10,000 A YEAR.

    It is an odd kind of world in which one man would count himself supremely happy on £100 a year and would think £20 an extravagant ...

    Article : 990 words
  7. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Cleopatra's Needle weighs 186 tons. The world uses 600,000,000 pins a week. One mile of railway takes 270 tons ...

    Article : 222 words
  8. PAVLOVA'S REMEDIES FOR FOOT ILLS.

    Madame Pavlova here gives some valuable advice on the ills provoked by poor shoes. "Let us consider corns. It is my ...

    Article : 800 words
  9. SMILES OF OTHER DAYS.

    The late Dr. Thorold, Bishop of Rochester, used to superintend personally the preparation of young men who proposed to take clerical orders ...

    Article : 720 words
  10. FLOWER GEMS IN GLASS.

    Marvellous artificial blooms that resemble Nature's finest specimens in every respect, except scent, are now being made by expert glassblowers. ...

    Article : 168 words
  11. THE KINGDOM OF JEWELS

    The emerald still reigns supreme over the kingdom of jewels, and there is no reason to fear it will soon be dethroned. The emerald possesses a ...

    Article : 223 words
  12. THE CUNNING CUTLER.

    There is at Charing Cross a very fine statue of Charles I. on horseback. After the decapitation of that monarch, the statue was taken down, ...

    Article : 214 words
  13. DOES PETROL COME FROM FISH

    According to Professor J. N. Macfarlane, of the University of Pennsylvania, the true source of the world's petroleum lies in the ...

    Article : 321 words
  14. FIRST WEATHER FORECASTS.

    The weather forecast that we read in our morning paper is the outcome of long hours of patient experimenting. ...

    Article : 205 words
  15. BARONETS AS 'BOBBIES.'

    Few novelists are capable of inventing more stirring romances than are to be found in the British peerage. What writer, for example, would ...

    Article : 203 words
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