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  3. MEN WHO WEAR VEILS.

    Mr. Felix Dubois, a French traveller, in his book, "Timbuctoo the Mysterious," just published by William Heinemann, gives a sketch of the Touaregs, a remarkable desert people, of ...

    Article : 662 words
  4. THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS.

    A Consistory of Rome is always not merely an imposing ceremony, but an interesting event to the whole of Christendom. It is curious that the origin of this famous ...

    Article : 730 words
  5. TRAINING OUR OFFICERS.

    There are few people who could walk from the village of Camberley through the woods to the Royal Military College without being struck by the beauty of the neighbourhood. The estate ...

    Article : 845 words
  6. A RACE WITH THE TIDE.

    THE decayed port and bathing village of Parkgate on the Dec, opposite the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,590 words
  7. THE DOCTOR'S STORY.

    A violent peal at my door bell one afternoon--it was in days when I was struggling against tide, and had not too many patients to take me out hour after ...

    Article : 1,838 words
  8. A CATCH.

    The Colonel was a bluff old fellow, and all the officers liked him except for one thing, and that was his jealousy of the commanding officer of a neighbouring post. He would grow ...

    Article : 235 words
  9. COINCIDENCES IN NAMES.

    Curious instances of the above occur from time to time in the columns of the daily Press. Recently at the Marlborough-street Police-court, for example, John Lusher was charged ...

    Article : 415 words
  10. A GIRLS' HORROR PARTY.

    Who would ever suppose that pleasure could be derived from horror? Lately some girls in New York hit upon an original idea, which, when carried out, gave all who ...

    Article : 434 words
  11. A WONDERFUL TRICK CYCLIST.

    It is asserted that one of the most remarkable trick bicycle riders in the world is Master Robert Bayer, a five-year-old youngster of Greenville, a small country town in Ohio A ...

    Article : 305 words
  12. A REMARKABLE SEAWEED.

    One of the most extraordinary seaweeds is the nereocystis, the stem of which occasionally attains a length of the hundred feet, though extremely slender, even at the top, where it is ...

    Article : 264 words
  13. UNLUCKY PUNISHMENTS.

    A chat with a stalwart trooper the other day elicited the following interesting details concerning the military goal and mode of punishment:--"The prison is a chill, forbidding place, ...

    Article : 256 words
  14. PERHAPS TRUE AFTER ALL.

    A gentleman was taking a walk one day in the vicinity of a lunatic asylum near Edinburgh, when he was accosted by a man of respectable appearance, and the asylum referred to formed ...

    Article : 175 words
  15. APPLIED MATHEMATICS.

    Professor Drummond relates that on one occasion four of his carriers ran away. There were three others of the same tribe in the company, and, though the professor know nothing ...

    Article : 108 words
  16. RATHER SULTRY.

    "Well, sir, they have the hottest weather and the deadest towns down in Georgia that I ever struck. Did I ever tell you what happened when I was in Restingtown last Summer?" ...

    Article : 117 words
  17. THE MONSTER IN PERSON.

    The following anecdote supplies an amusing sequel to a well-known story:--"Everyone knows the story of a gentleman's asking Lord North who that frightful woman ...

    Article : 112 words
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