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  2. THE PROBLEM OF FLIGHT.

    No method of animal locomotion excites more Interest than the flight of birds. The power of flight is possessed by many other animals ...

    Article : 1,449 words
  3. ITALY IN LONDON.

    The balconies and other lounging places in the salubrious piazzas that spring from Leather-lane were deserted on Sunday afternoon. The population, down to the ...

    Article : 756 words
  4. IDEAL FRIENDSHIPS.

    Friendship between men and their friends' wives—those over-intimate friendships of modern life—are a ways regarded with suspicion, with ...

    Article : 1,258 words
  5. GIBRALTAR.

    M. Henri de Noussaime writes in the "Daily Mail":— I propose to recount, as briefly as possible, what we think in France about ...

    Article : 1,467 words
  6. FALL OF THE CAMPANILE.

    Venice looks with consternation upon the irreparable catastrophe of Venice's grandeur, something of her yesterday. Her women weep and her ...

    Article : 1,254 words
  7. WHY SOME MEN ENLIST.

    Mr E. J. Hardy, the well-known army chaplain, in a little book, "Pen Portraits of the British Soldier" (Unwin), just published, tells us that men enlist for ...

    Article : 572 words
  8. THREE KAISERS.

    In Germany there is an ancient prophecy which says that "In one year three Kaisers shall reign, and the youngest of the three will have seven sons, and bring ...

    Article : 260 words
  9. SETTING A HOUSE ON FIRE

    A crowd of Cheltenham people took an extraordinary revenge lately for what they consider to be an infraction of their right of way on ...

    Article : 396 words
  10. BLESSED HURRICANES.

    Hurricanes, that scourge of the West Indies, are especially violent in Martinique, and again and again have caused widespread havoc in a few hours. ...

    Article : 231 words
  11. WOMEN AND THE WHEEL.

    It would really seem that with a very large number of people, principally women (says "The Cyclist") confidence on and control of ...

    Article : 236 words
  12. SANDWICHES.

    Nicely-prepared sandwiches constitute a palatable and convenient dish, and by the aid of a little garnish they may become an elegant one. But owing to ...

    Article : 206 words
  13. CORDELIA ON THE RAILWAY.

    Laden with a miscellaneous assortment of bundles and babies, she was projected into the third-class compartment which up till now I had shared with a singularly ...

    Article : 540 words
  14. RESEMBLANCE.

    It is said that no two men are exactly alike, but some bear a striking enough resemblance to lead ocasionally to awkward situations. "South Africa" ...

    Article : 375 words
  15. COFFEE.

    It is said that the first use of coffee by man was made by the prior of a convent. He was told by a goatherd of the exciting effect of the berries when eaten ...

    Article : 309 words
  16. CHILDREN.

    Sympathy is the key to human relations and ours have been times of great expansion of sympathy especially, perhaps, between the once irreconcilable age and ...

    Article : 223 words
  17. ROYAL KINDNESS.

    On the top flat of a nursing home in the West of London lies day after day, month after month, and year after year, one of the silent martyrs of humanity. A ...

    Article : 185 words
  18. "OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN."

    The cavalry barracks at Windsor have been thrown into a state of great excitement over an affair which occurred recently. The junior officers of the 2nd Life ...

    Article : 208 words
  19. NAUTICAL TERMS.

    An old tar has recently prepared a handbook of nautical terms, says a contemporary, for the use of persons who intend to follow the sea. In ...

    Article : 211 words
  20. THE HATLESS LEAGUE.

    Why are people who walk without their hats always supposed to be wandering lunatics? This objection to a novel and reasonable proceeding might be easily ...

    Article : 177 words
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    "Genuine pseudo-Panama hats" are now being advertised in America. Licenses were taken out for 422,693 dogs last year in Ireland, the amount ...

    Article : 26 words
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