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  2. WHEN TURKS DIE.

    If a Turk dies, or looks as if her were dead, no physician or inspector comes to make sure that death has really taken place; but if it has not the fact will soon be established, thanks to ...

    Article : 421 words
  3. AN ADVENTURE WITH INDIANS.

    In 1879 a young officer of the American Army started west to join his company in Montans. A few days after reaching the post be was invited by an older lieutenant to go out a few ...

    Article : 545 words
  4. PHOTOGRAPHY IN A HOSPITAL.

    Oscar G. Mason is the most expert hospital photographer in the country, and a photographer for fun says the New York Press. He may be found six days out of seven in the ...

    Article : 489 words
  5. AMERICAN ELOQUENCE.

    A man on his trial for murder, in New York, was successfully defended by his counsel in the following grandiloquent speech:— Gentlemen of the jury, "Thou shalt not ...

    Article : 385 words
  6. THE LADIES—GOD BLESS 'EM.

    The following brief but brilliant speech was recently made at the annual dinner of the Newspaper Correspondents' Club in proposing the toast of "The Ladies":— ...

    Article : 444 words
  7. THE GLASTONBURY CLOCK.

    In a transept of Wells Cathedral is the old abbey clock, which was one of the wonders of Glastonbury and of Europe. This very curious piece of antiquity is placed some 30 feet high in ...

    Article : 209 words
  8. A CATTLE PLAGUE PSALM.

    The following is part of a psalm sung in Osmotherly Church, Yorkshire, above a century ago. It was composed by the parish clerk on the occasion of the murrain, a severe distemper ...

    Article : 247 words
  9. AN "ECONOMICAL" GAS CONSUMER.

    A Bristol gas consumer has broken the record for economy in gas consumption. When the meter taker went to read his meter the other day, the consumer, with a complacent air, ...

    Article : 78 words
  10. A SERVICEABLE LARYNGOSCOPE.

    Do you require, any for the examination of a case of sore throat, a means of brilliantly illuminating the interior of the mouth? If so; here is a method or procuring in a moment a ...

    Article : 97 words
  11. WILD DOGS IN PARIS.

    So many startling events happened from day to day during the Reign of Terror that the apparition of wild dogs in Paris is commonly overlooked. But it was quite natural The ...

    Article : 591 words
  12. CURIOSITY.

    It is related that the Duchess of Westminster put in her guest chamber a curious Swiss clock, to which was attached a printed notice—"Please do not touch." ...

    Article : 155 words
  13. NOT SO DAFT.

    A short time ago a man who was considered to be insane was sent to a lunatic asylum Some time after his brother visited him, and was surprised to find him in a ward, with a ...

    Article : 120 words
  14. MENTAL ARITHMETIC.

    Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools was recently holding his annual inspection at one of the large Board Schools in an important town in Yorkshire. ...

    Article : 205 words
  15. A DOCTOR AND HIS MEAN PATIENT.

    A Middlesborough doctor tells how he once frightened one of his patients, a man, who was unfavourably known as a wealthy skinflint, insolent, and overbearing withal, and a ...

    Article : 157 words
  16. A BEACONSFIELD ANECDOTE.

    One day when the late Lord Beaconsfield was walking in his ground at Hughenden Manor he was accested by a well-known parishioner noted for his ready wit. It being winter time time ...

    Article : 442 words
  17. DECEITFUL ANIMALS.

    In military stables horses are known to have pretended to be lame in order to avoid going to a military exercise. A chimpanzee had been fed on cake when sick; after his recovery he ...

    Article : 168 words
  18. A TRANSFORMATION SCENE.

    An American detective recently made a very clever capture. A lady and gentleman were travelling together in a Pullman car. They were strangers to each other. All at once the ...

    Article : 271 words
  19. A ROYAL ANECDOTE.

    A funny story is going the rounds about Lord Carrington, to the effect that at the last Drawing Room held by the Queen he, in announcing the names of the ladies present, ...

    Article : 107 words
  20. SOME OF IRVING'S WAYS.

    Mr. Irving became lessee of the Lyceum in 1878. The bulk of his fortune has been made in America; for although the majority of his Lyceum productions have been immensely ...

    Article : 201 words
  21. WHY IT WAS MIXED.

    The rather mixed composition of some of Albert Edward's house parties reminds a writer in the "St, James's Gazette" of a good story concerning Poole, the famous London tailor. ...

    Article : 149 words
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