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  2. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Many an amateur gardener grove Dotting hut disgusted. He: "I got a note from Stinge today, saying that he absolutely must ...

    Article : 519 words
  3. FE[?]ATS AS FUEL.

    [?]ore leaving Buence Aires, bound [?] stra[?] of Magellan and then [?] to [?]paraiso, the captain has for his chief engineer. ...

    Article : 634 words
  4. THE STORY OF STARCH.

    There can be but little doubt that starch was the invention of a vain woman with a grudge against her fellow-creatures. No other person ...

    Article : 165 words
  5. TURQUOISE MINES.

    Much as we may read of it in fairy tales, a great deal more than the use of magic words is required to open the vast rocks and caves of precious ...

    Article : 195 words
  6. A MODERN SAMPS[?]

    Amazing f[?] of strength by an athlete of Jawish [?]traction, residing in Vienna, are recorded by a correspondent in the Lancet. ...

    Article : 75 words
  7. ROYAL STRONG MEN.

    Augustus the strong of Saxony was famous as a royal Samson. He would often seize two of his courtiers, grasping one with his right ...

    Article : 244 words
  8. WORLD'S LAZIEST MAN.

    Who is the would's [?]est man? Lord Dunraven claims the [?] for a man he met in New York. "I went to see him one afternoon ...

    Article : 12 words
  9. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    A world's record was recently established at Dayton Ohio, when an officer in the U. S. [?]ying Service covered a distance of 240 miles in one ...

    Article : 22 words
  10. HOW DO YOU WALK?

    A woman's character can be told by her walk. A martial tread indicates the soldierly type of woman. An energetic spirit, lively tongue, and ...

    Article : 136 words
  11. FIRST CLOCKS.

    The first clock known to the world was placed in the tower of the church of St. Eustorgio, Milan, in 1809. This timepiece excited admiration ...

    Article : 61 words
  12. SECRETS OF EARTH'S CRUST.

    A very delicate piece of apparatus which can be used for divining the presence fo metals under the ground has been invented. ...

    Article : 8 words
  13. WHEN IS A SHIP NOT A SHIP?

    Only sailing vessels with square sails on all masts may be truly designated ships, and such clippers are fast disappearing from the seas. ...

    Article : 245 words
  14. A TEMPLE OF COMMERCE.

    Almost unperceived, a veritable palace of business [?] ari[?] in London. This is the new Bush House, situated at the south [?] of ...

    Article : 48 words
  15. "GLASS ISLAND."

    During the imprisonment of Napoleon on the island of St. Helena, the British stationed garrisons, on all the out of the way rocks in the ...

    Article : 81 words
  16. THE WELL-DRESSED MAN.

    There has been much talk of late about the huge sums some Society women spend on dress every year, but the amounts spent by men are in ...

    Article : 13 words
  17. A MYSTERY OF THE HEAVELS.

    Dull-looking though Saturn is, it has so fewer than ten moons to illuminate its surface, as well as a stupendous ring consisting of tiny ...

    Article : 44 words
  18. FIRE CAN'T DESTROY WRITING.

    Even the careful criminal, who destroys, as he [?] traces of evidence [?]rning documents [?] is not ...

    Article : 32 words
  19. IN GOOD COMPANY.

    [?] have heard often enough that it [?] good for man to live alone. [?] true without doubt. It is not [?] to live alone. ...

    Article : 270 words
  20. BEWARE OF PURE WATER[?]

    French [?] have made this startling declaration as a result of experiments they have been conducting ...

    Article : 26 words
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