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  2. GERMAN OFFICER AS FRENCH CASHIER.

    A most. striking instance of the daring and skilful manner in which the -Germans, even before the Peace Treaty had come into force, are again ...

    Article : 346 words
  3. AN ELEPHANT WITNESS.

    On July 18th, 1879, an elephant. was brought into court as a witness. The action arose out of the visit of a lady to the Alexandra Palace, where ...

    Article : 182 words
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  6. ACROBATIC FIREMEN.

    Extraordinary feats of srtength were performed by New York firemen in rescuing 16 families from a blazing tenement in the lower portion of ...

    Article : 272 words
  7. WHY RAISE YOUR HAT ?

    Many of the customs in everyday life have long since lost their real purpose. Take, for instance, the practice of shaking hands. When two foes ...

    Article : 184 words
  8. A CARNEGIE STORY.

    A well-known American clergyman tells an excellent story of the late Mr. Andrew Carnegie, when the latter was earning £60 a year as a ...

    Article : 157 words
  9. DANCER TO PRINCESS.

    The life of the Maharani of Kapurthala, whose life is a romance, reads like fiction. Twelve years ago she was a dancer m a cafe in Spain, kept ...

    Article : 106 words
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  11. PLENTY TO CHOOSE' FROM.

    "Will you send up a card, sir ?" asked the maidservant of Buffalo Bill cowboy, who called to see a friend in the West-end. ...

    Article : 146 words
  12. RAIN WHICH NEVER FALLS.

    In the Colorado Desert, America, there are rainstorms during which not a drop of water touches the earth. The rain can be seen falling from the ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. WHY CLOCK DIALS SAY " 1111."

    Clock dials usually represent the hours by use of Roman numerals, but there is one curious variation. The number 4 in Roman numerals is ...

    Article : 247 words
  14. THE PRINCE AND THE DANCES.

    The Prince of Wales showed while he was in Halifax that he knew how- to reach the hearts of the girls there, and the Canadian girls generally. No ...

    Article : 118 words
  15. STARTLING SIMILARITY.

    Mark Twain was constantly receiving photographs from men who had been told that they looked like him. One came from Florida, and ...

    Article : 80 words
  16. HUSBAND S LOVE--£100,000.

    Mrs. London Wallick, a New York woman, is suing Mrs. McHirsch, also of New York, for £100,000, the value of her husband's love, alleging ...

    Article : 98 words
  17. OF COURSE.

    It happened at school. They had been discussing British Sovereigns, and the teacher said :-- " Who came after Henry the ...

    Article : 57 words
  18. LUCKIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD.

    Twenty million sterling is supposed to be a moderate estimate of the wealth which Mrs. Roswell Miller, the only child of Andrew Carnegie, will ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. A NEW ALARM.

    "Ha, ha!" said the head clerk. " I'm glad to notice that you're arriving: punctually now, Mr. Slocombe." " Yes, sir. I've bought a parrot." ...

    Article : 119 words
  20. HE DIDN'T AGREE.

    The visitor to the lawyer's office stood in amazement. " I say, old man!" he exclaimed. "What ever has happened to you? ...

    Article : 110 words
  21. ECONOMICAL.

    " The servant who works for me must be very, very economical," said the boarding-house mistress to the applicant for work. ...

    Article : 120 words
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