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  2. PEOPLE WHO LISTEN WITH THEIR MOUTHS.

    No doubt this will be to some an almost incredible statement, yet it is a fact that some people who are absolutely deaf in the ordinary way can, on ...

    Article : 422 words
  3. SCIENCE & INVENTION.

    Sir James Sawyer the famous physician, lays down these rules for attaining longevity:- Eight hours' sleep. ...

    Article : 1,479 words
  4. NEWS AND NOTES.

    Sir John Tenniel is affectionately known as the Grand Old Man of "Punch." For nearly 50 years he has been on the staff of the famous journal. ...

    Article : 1,727 words
  5. STORY-TELLER

    I have always looked up to and admired the people of good birth and standing, and in consequence when I found myself wrecked on a desert island with ...

    Article : 1,543 words
  6. THE GREAT TRAGEDY.

    Bells! Bells mingled with our dreams and rang us from dreams to waking, on the morning of the Passion Play. They were church bells, calling the ...

    Article : 1,783 words
  7. TOPICAL ITEMS.

    It is easy to distinguish Frenchwomen—Parisiennes would be the more appropriate word—from our own countrywomen, who are as yet in a ...

    Article : 1,462 words
  8. THE ETHNOGRAPHER IN POLITICS.

    A good many years ago some learned persons, speculating upon the immense diversity of shape, hue, temper and appetites that is to be observed among ...

    Article : 807 words
  9. THE REDUCTION IN CABLE RATES.

    Several papers here see in the reduction of cable rates to New Zealand and Australia, offered by the Eastern Extension, Australasia, and China Telegraph ...

    Article : 1,084 words
  10. SOLDIER SETTLERS.

    Mr. Arnold-Forster claims no credit for the origination of the scheme which he advocates in the "Times" for the settlement on a large scale of military reserve ...

    Article : 1,365 words
  11. 112 MILES IN AN HOUR.

    A committee of the House of Commons presided over by Sir John Kennaway lately had before it a bill promoted by the Manchester and Liverpool ...

    Article : 282 words
  12. TREATMENT OF THE HANDS OF PIANOFORTE PUPILS.

    A modest young woman entered a drug store on Madison-avenue recently, and, walking to the end of the counter nearest the prescription department, mutely ...

    Article : 310 words
  13. THE FIGHTING MAN.

    Among the illusions which tempted the Boers to their doom was a belief that British soldiers could not endure long campaigning on the veldt. They would ...

    Article : 844 words
  14. THE PLAGUE OF WOMEN.

    To the storm of indignation which Mr. Treves has aroused by his severe denunciation, at the dinner at the Reform Club, of what he termed the "plague of women" in ...

    Article : 514 words
  15. FICTITIOUS SAYINGS WHICH HAVE BECOME COMMON KNOWLEDGE.

    While many people do not get due credit for the wisdom and wit of many of their utterances, on the other hand it is equally true that many phrases, good, ...

    Article : 456 words
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