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  2. AROUND THE WORLD.

    Long feather boas have for some time been fashionable, and their use has suggested a novel idea for head and neck covering. Very shortly, says ...

    Article : 83 words
  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    "I care not who makes the motors of the nation," said the man who had just received a cheque, "provided I make the repairs!" ...

    Article : 330 words
  4. GHOST STORIES.

    About Christmas time, some years ago, being officer on duty, I was seated at the mess-table at Aldershot. There were ten or twelve other officers present and ...

    Article : 1,933 words
  5. PAPER TYRES FOR MOTOR CARS.

    Materials innumerable have been suggested as substitutes for rubber in the manufacture of tyres for automobiles, but it has remained for an American ...

    Article : 88 words
  6. ECCENTRIC TRAVELLERS.

    An Englishman once went abroad with the design of taking an extensive tour on the Continent, but was diverted from his purpose by finding himself so ...

    Article : 382 words
  7. WORLD'S RECORD IN GUNNERY.

    The gunlayers' competition of the Second Cruiser Squadron has just been held, and the results are as follow:— Rounds. Hits. ...

    Article : 83 words
  8. MURDEROUS DUEL BY POST.

    The editor of an Italian paper recently received a letter couched in the following terms:—"Sir,—One does not send seconds to a scoundrel like you. I ...

    Article : 120 words
  9. RED INDIAN MAGIC.

    Once during the border days I found myself camped near a village of Pawnees. The Pawnees paid our camp a formal visit, and to amuse them one of our ...

    Article : 487 words
  10. IN ANOTHER WAY

    A Congressman of indiana, in the heat of debate, once called an [?]inois Congressman an ass. It was necessary for the epithet to be withdrawn and ...

    Article : 88 words
  11. PARIS STREET DRAMA.

    Four showily-dressed women were standing together in the Rue Geoffroy-Maric, close to the entrance of the Folies-Bergere musical hall, Paris, when ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. HEROIC SACRIFICE.

    A sunlight shower was falling, and Mr. Ferguson discovered, when on the point of starting for church, that there wasn't an umbrella in the house fit for ...

    Article : 256 words
  13. A CHEAP COTTAGE.

    Mr. Munro Ferguson, of Raith, paid a visit to the "Garden City" of Letch-worth, and was so struck with the houses there that he instructed his clerk of ...

    Article : 177 words
  14. THE SPORTING INSTINCT

    Mr. H. W. Lucy, in his new book, "The Balfourian Parliament," tells, among others, the following story:—A member of the Irish Constabulary was posted on ...

    Article : 132 words
  15. THE KAISER AND THE PEASANT.

    An amusing anecdote about the Kaiser is told by the "Frankischer General-Anzeiger." While visiting his chateau, Schiltz, the Kaiser one day lost ...

    Article : 173 words
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  17. FINGER LOST IN CHALKING CUE.

    Under curious circumstances a Reading (England) salesman named Thomas Henry Clark claimed £100 damages in Southwark County Court last month. ...

    Article : 174 words
  18. A MARRIAGE TANGLE.

    A curious confusion of identity bids fair to prevent a young workgirl of Paris from marrying. Two years ago her elder sister wrote on the eve of her ...

    Article : 158 words
  19. CRUSHED BY RATES.

    In the House of Commons recently Mr. John D[?]war asked the Secretary for Scotland if he was aware that the ratepayers in the parish of Barra had ...

    Article : 199 words
  20. WOMAN CAPTURES A BURGLAR.

    From Windsor, England, comes a remarkable story of how a young domestic servant named Kathleen Bartlett captured a burglar, recovered £200 worth ...

    Article : 378 words
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