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  2. ORIGIN OF THE ORDER OF THE BATH.

    On October 11, 1399, at the Tower of London, then a Royal residence, Henry IV., in the presence of his cousin and predecessor. Richard II., ...

    Article : 377 words
  3. THE GREAT OIL CITY OF BAKU DEVASTATED.

    While Russia has been fortunate in settling her bloody and costly dispute with Japan, the most lamentable internal disorders in all her ...

    Article : 732 words
  4. MY MOTHERS GARDEN.

    Her heart was like her garden, Old-fashioned, quaint, and sweet, A wealth of buds and blossoms Hid in a still retreat. ...

    Article : 136 words
  5. HOW A CALIFORNIA FRUIT INDUSTRY WAS SAVED.

    The fruit crop of the State of California for the year 1903 was estimated to be worth £7,000,000. These figures give some idea as to the real ...

    Article : 849 words
  6. CARRIED OFF BY A LION.

    Game-Ranger Wolhuter, of the Transvaal Government game reserve was riding on his patrols, well-amounted, and carrying a good ...

    Article : 643 words
  7. ARTIFICIAL FERTILIZERS.

    Besides a general understanding of the functions of manures, and a knowledge of their differences in action, there is still a necessity for ...

    Article : 1,550 words
  8. A GOAT THAT WORRIED THE POLICE.

    goat; very cheap. Apply Police Secretary, C. A. W. NICHOLS: Police Secretary Nichols had this "ad" inserted in the newspapers asn ...

    Article : 559 words
  9. QUEER LITTLE PEOPLE.

    Of all interesting aboriginal tribes of men there is none more strikingly, so than the little community of Eskimos whose habitat is the west ...

    Article : 1,184 words
  10. SPINSTERS BATTLE WITH WILDCATS.

    Misses Sue and Cady Carton, spinster sisters, who live at Steel Creek and cultivate a little farm with the assistance of an old negro and his ...

    Article : 569 words
  11. GOOD STORIES OF THE LATE SIR HENRY IRVING.

    Sir Henry Irving once told a story of a lady-admirer who, some twenty years ago, wrote to him asking him if it were true that he was getting ...

    Article : 699 words
  12. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    Most of the world's supply of fur is obtained from Russia. The hunters of Russia and Siberia annually capture 3,000,000 er[?]nes. 16,000, ...

    Article : 572 words
  13. HIS WAY OUT OF THE DIFFICULTY.

    They had not been engaged very long, but already Ernest had made it apparent that the salary of a junior shor-assistant did not admit of ...

    Article : 154 words
  14. THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR INDEMNITY.

    When the envoys of M. de Rothschild paid the war contributions of Paris at the close of the siege, an alleged counterfeit 25 thaler bill ...

    Article : 304 words
  15. KING PETER FEARS FOR A TRAGIC END.

    King Peter of Servia occupies an uneasy throne and an alleged conspiracy to murder him and also Prince Fedinand of Bulgaria has just ...

    Article : 178 words
  16. TWO CLEVER DOGS.

    A gentleman in the County of Stirling kept a greyhound and a pointer, and, being fond of coursing, the pointer was accustomed to find the ...

    Article : 312 words
  17. A STORY OF SIR JOHN MILLAIS.

    When Sir John Millais was a student at the Royal Academy, he rejoiced in the friendship of a fellow student of the name of Po[?] ...

    Article : 259 words
  18. CHAUNCEY DEPEW.

    Mr. Chauncey Depew tells an amusing story of an incident which occurred during an illness from which he suffered some years ago, describes ...

    Article : 166 words
  19. A RADIUM CLOCK.

    The Rapid Review gives particulars of an interesting clock which has been invented by the Hon. H. G. Strutt. It is very unlike the ordinary ...

    Article : 143 words
  20. SO WOULD SHE.

    A woman who had been selling fish entered an omnibus with the empty basket on her arm, still giving forth an unmistakable odour of the finny ...

    Article : 108 words
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