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  2. Advertising

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  3. The Romance of a Great Sale-room.

    The retirement of Mr. Tom Hodge, the world-famous salesman of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, from an active share in the work of the business, recalls to mind ...

    Article : 344 words
  4. Items of Interest.

    The up-to-date artificial arm is quite a miracle of mechanism. In fact, it can do almost anything that an arm of flesh and bone can do. With it a man can carry a ...

    Article : 78 words
  5. Freaks of Lightning.

    "Lightning has been responsible for many amazing freaks. I recall (says a writer in a London paper) one case in which, after a man had been struck in ...

    Article : 113 words
  6. A Baboon's Fight.

    A remarkable battle between two dogs and a savage baboon took place recently at the Rietkul farm, in the Vitcnhage district, Cape Town. Natives seeing a ...

    Article : 190 words
  7. Electrified Pants.

    Pauls warmed by electricity is the latest war invention. It is the idea of an. Innsbruck professor at present serving in the German army. Max Beck by name, and ...

    Article : 144 words
  8. Humors of Conjuring.

    We give (says a London paper) a few interesting anecdotes from the unpublished diary of the late Charles Bertram, the well-known conjurer. ...

    Article : 509 words
  9. Good St. Nicholas.

    The national nicknames of the patron' faint of Christmas time are as multifarious as Iris personal disguises. The name of Santa Claus is derived. ...

    Article : 117 words
  10. World's Latest Cargo Steamer

    The largest steamer ever built for cargo-carrying is (says a London paper) the Milazzo, a new Italian merchant ship. She is built as no other ship has ever been ...

    Article : 307 words
  11. Length of Wars.

    Each of the two Balkan wars of 1912-13 was a matter of weeks. So were the Serbo-Bulgarian war of 1885 and the Turco-Greek war of 1887. The Crimean war was a ...

    Article : 141 words
  12. The Way of Thieves.

    The kleptomaniac who hides a flimsy-blouse in the concealed pocket of a muff, I or the shoplifter who wears four or five stolen coats, seldom eludes discovery, but ...

    Article : 327 words
  13. Humors of the Church.

    Among the minor interests of the philanthropist and social reformer, Joshua Rown-tree, was the collection of stories about preachers. The following are some that he ...

    Article : 190 words
  14. Some Curious Taxes.

    In England's long history there have been numerous strange experiments in taxation. Henry VIII. taxed beards and graduated the tax according to the status ...

    Article : 193 words
  15. Famous Cripples.

    Many persons crippled in early ago have, notwithstanding their infirmity, made a name for themselves in the history of the world. The notorious, or famous ...

    Article : 121 words
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