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  2. BONUSES FOR BRIDES.

    By the will of a French emigrant who, starting his career as a pedlar, became one of the wealthiest cotton planters in the State of Louisiana, ...

    Article : 225 words
  3. CANAL UNDER MOUNTAIN.

    Connecting the North Sea with the Mediterranean, an inland waterway recently completed by French engineers after nearly 100 years, runs for ...

    Article : 90 words
  4. GREAT GAMBLERS.

    The youth of Count Coningsmark gave no clue as to the nature of his later career. Born in Dresden, the youngest of a large family, he was ...

    Article : 1,530 words
  5. CONQUERING LEPROSY.

    The report of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association states that leprosy was formerly regarded as incurable, but recent researches ...

    Article : 251 words
  6. THE ETERNAL BOY.

    Mischievious boys, a schoolmaster said recently, very often turn out to be successful men. The ingenuity which they show in getting ...

    Article : 950 words
  7. STRANGE YET TRUE.

    Alsatian dogs live, on an average, to the age of sixteen years, and cost about ten shillings a week to keep. The fashion for bobbed and ...

    Article : 536 words
  8. AN INVENTOR OF OMELETTES.

    On a tombstone near Dijon, France, is this epitaph. "Here lies, mourned by his family and lamented by his patrons, Pierre Mercier, restaurant ...

    Article : 58 words
  9. AN ENGINE'S "BREATHING."

    The puffing of a railway engine is a common enough sound, but few people know by what it is regulated. Actually the number of puffs made by ...

    Article : 120 words
  10. MARRIAGES MADE BY MISFORTUNE.

    Cupid is, as all lovers know, a creature of surprises; and there is nothing he loves better than to aim his darts exactly when and where ...

    Article : 737 words
  11. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    A polished gentleman is not necessarily a very bright one. Visitor (gushingly): "I hear your husband invents things. How ...

    Article : 463 words
  12. FORTUNES MADE THROUGH ROYALTY.

    A steeplejack, who has just returned from South Africa, confesses that he owes his prosperity to the Prince of Wales. He was down on his luck ...

    Article : 606 words
  13. SAILING VESSEL REVIVAL

    Sir George Hunter, the veteran shipbuilder, believes that sailing vessels are likely to re-appear in large numbers upon the seven seas. He ...

    Article : 407 words
  14. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME.

    Cover oatmeal with cold water, let it stand all night, and fifteen, minutes' boiling will cook it sufficiently in the morning. In addition, ...

    Article : 412 words
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