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  3. MAKING HISTORY WITH A HOBBY

    No motorist has followed the development of the car more intently than King Alfonso, and he is as fearless a driver as can be found anywhere ...

    Article : 460 words
  4. TRUTH MAY BE STRANGER But Fiction Often Comes First.

    There has just been brought to light a curious story of a "deformed, bluegoggled beggar," who, though the whole of his handsome income was ...

    Article : 552 words
  5. LIFE OR DEATH

    About forty years ago, when serving one of our tropical colonies, it was left to me by force of circumstances practically to decide the life ...

    Article : 478 words
  6. NOT NEPTUNE'S FAVORITES A SAD STORY OF THE SEA.

    I am the youngest of five brothers, and am the only male member of my family who did not follow the sea for a living. Every one of my ...

    Article : 456 words
  7. THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF MBS. CUBBINS Founded on an Incident which Occurred in a Workhouse Infirmary.

    "You'll be Mrs. Gubbins' first visitor," remarked the sister, as she conducted me down the infirmary ward. "That drunken brute of a husband ...

    Article : 523 words
  8. ABOUT LEGS

    "When I was young, a girl of eighteen who showed her knees in public would have been a public scandal. At that age every girl who valued her ...

    Article : 570 words
  9. LETTER OPENING

    Have husbands and wives a right to open and read each other's letters? Have parents a right to open and read their children's letters? ...

    Article : 530 words
  10. JUST OUR FUN!

    A member of Parliament recently sang and recited to his constituents. We understand, however, that no real harm was done, as he is extremely ...

    Article : 153 words
  11. "ROBIN ADAIR" ROMANCE.

    "Robin Adair" is perhaps the world's most plaintive and romantic song. Certainly it will live as long as love has any meaning at all. ...

    Article : 238 words
  12. THE "GOOD OLD DAYS."

    A list of rules governing the scholars at the Robert Smith School at Danville, Indiana, hearing the date of 1816, is now in the possession of Mrs. A. J. ...

    Article : 99 words
  13. THE TURKEY—A PARADOX.

    The Christmas turkey offers a strange paradox in domestication of animals. Though native to America, it reached the poultry yards of the ...

    Article : 297 words
  14. A WEIRD TRUE STORY.

    The following events happened when I was about thirteen years of age, in the year 1899. We had recently moved into a large; old-fashioned ...

    Article : 486 words
  15. THE HORSE AGAIN IN FAVOR.

    "Is the horse coming back? A Liverpool veterinary surgeon, recognised as an authority on horse traction in England, declares Old Dobbin is galloping ...

    Article : 425 words
  16. HOW SCENT TRAVELS.

    Every huntsman knows that scent seldom stays quite still. Sometimes it hangs low, when hounds work steadily along, heads down, and snuffling ...

    Article : 413 words
  17. MARRIAGE DANGER YEARS.

    "The first year of marriage and the years from the fifteenth to the twentieth are the most difficult." This is the conclusion, after ten ...

    Article : 121 words
  18. SWIMMING WHILE ASLEEP.

    Some of the freaks of somnabulists are so strange that they almost surpass belief. A tale is told of an Irishman who ...

    Article : 154 words
  19. TREACLE ON TROUBLED WATERS.

    That pouring treacle is just as good as pouring oil on troubled waters has been demonstrated to the satisfaction of Captain Bush and the crew of the ...

    Article : 144 words
  20. TRICKED.

    Although he lacked riches, Jones was not lacking in other respects. And thereby hangs a tale. A few days ago, while he was in ...

    Article : 240 words
  21. NEW METHOD IN OLD SWINDLE.

    The Hamburg police have just discovered an ingenious swindle for defrauding bookmakers by means of wireless (says the Berlin ...

    Article : 172 words
  22. THE DIPLOMATIC TOUCH.

    Badly wanting a drink and having no money, Bill had tried to borrow from several without success. He at last saw a man with whom some time ...

    Article : 139 words
  23. LIFE ON MARS?

    Color photographs taken during the last two or three years by two Californian astronomers with a thirty-six-inch refractor have afforded ...

    Article : 90 words
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