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  2. MEETING THE CASE.

    Some little time ago a couple applied to a rural justice of the police in Texas for a total divorce. The justice called the bailiff and asked in ...

    Article : 229 words
  3. SWALLOWED BY AN ALLIGATOR.

    During a performance in a variety hall in Vienna, some years ego, a panic was caused by an occurrence which had the effect of unstringing ...

    Article : 898 words
  4. SCIENTIFIC ITEMS.

    Nowadays photographs and other pictures can be transmitted over the ordinary telegraph wires as [?] messages. The picture is inserted in ...

    Article : 1,676 words
  5. EVES UNDER THE SEA.

    Fishes that dwell at a depth of eighty fathoms under the sea have the eye already a good deal bigger than their nearest representatives ...

    Article : 599 words
  6. FUNNIBHOY’S CONUNDRUM.

    Be careful how you ask a man a riddle. You can put a poser to a man, but you cannot make him guess it. ...

    Article : 423 words
  7. VALUABLE VEGETABLE SOAP.

    An enterprising Algerian has succeeded, after numerous experiments at L’Arba, in tho fruitful vineyard and orange-growing country near ...

    Article : 149 words
  8. THE HIT OF THE SEASON.

    When at cricket au enthusiast was Augustus William Brown ; his prowess at the wicket was the wonder of the town. Late in life his pulse ...

    Article : 319 words
  9. CATS WHICH CATCH FISH.

    In the swamps and woods that cover the southern end of Barnegat beach, in South Jersey, U.S.A., a breed of cats peculiar to Jersey ...

    Article : 405 words
  10. HINTS ON HEALTH.

    Never lean with the back against anything that is cold. Never take warm drinks and then immediately go out in the cold. ...

    Article : 167 words
  11. MADELINE’S MISTAKE.

    “Miss Madeline,” the elderly bachelor began, clearing his throat, “I hardly known how to broach the subject I have come to”— ...

    Article : 529 words
  12. PREPARED FOR HIM.

    Old Jasper Belding, one of the inhabitants of a small American town has a very pretty daughter, Mary, on whom he keeps a sharp eye. ...

    Article : 156 words
  13. NOT ALWAYS.

    A member of a certain Board of Guardians in regarded by his fellowmembers—not altogether without reason—as “an unmitigated nuisance.” ...

    Article : 254 words
  14. THE MEDICINAL VALUE OF VEGETABLES.

    Asparagus is an excellent vegetable since it is cooling and easily digested, and is especially recommended for the lungs and kidneys. ...

    Article : 277 words
  15. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    An ingenious Transvaaler has invented a cycle with only one wheel. He claims that the machine will cover between thirty and forty miles ...

    Article : 329 words
  16. UNDER PRESSURE.

    The superintendent of a school in a provincial city directed the teachers the other day to ascertain the occupations of the parents of all the ...

    Article : 187 words
  17. BLAMELESS.

    Donald M’Guid an elder of the kirk, and a strict Sabbatarian, was particularly severe upon Sandy M’Tavish for his shortcomings. That ...

    Article : 95 words
  18. THE LAST STRAW.

    A blood-curdling melodrama of the good old-fashioned type was being pushed by the relentless hand of a very incompetent reading man to the ...

    Article : 76 words
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