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  2. A SUCCESSFUL INVENTION.

    Mr. A. H. Chapman, a sheep farmer of Kurow, New Zealand, claims to have discovered an improved method of treating frozen meat of all kinds whilst in the ...

    Article : 269 words
  3. FROM VALET TO PRINCE.

    There are few, if any, stories more remarkable than that told of Camillo Ventura, who a few years ago was a domestic servant, and is now the Prince of ...

    Article : 307 words
  4. "THE WHITE DEATH."

    Of all the natural phenomena peculiar to the Rocky Mountain region in North America, none is more strange or terrible than the mysterious storm known to the ...

    Article : 549 words
  5. EXECUTION BY DROWNING.

    This mode of capital punishment has not long since ceased in Europe, fend is probably still in use in other parts of the world. As early as the first century of our era, the ...

    Article : 318 words
  6. TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF A FRIGHT.

    I was but nineteen years of age when the incident occurred which has thrown a shadow over my life; and, ah me! how many and many a ...

    Article : 3,077 words
  7. Facts About the Human Body.

    The heart is a little larger than the fist. About 174 million cells are contained in the lungs. The average height of a newly-born infant ...

    Article : 241 words
  8. The New Star, Nova.

    At a recent meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society several interesting communications upon the new star in Perseus were read. A photograph of the region ...

    Article : 255 words
  9. Treatment of Cronje in St. Helena.

    Cronje is not imprisoned as a criminal and therefore he is not doing "hard labour," as a great many people believe him to be. Cronje is only "detained." Nothing more ...

    Article : 284 words
  10. Almsgiving a Penal Offence.

    Almsgiving was an offence punishable by law in England on several occasions. When the ravages of the Black Death had dislocated the industrial system of England ...

    Article : 214 words
  11. A Remarkable Genealogy.

    At Hatfield there hangs on the grand staircase a curious portrait. It represents one of the Cecils, the fourth Earl of Salisbury. It was discovered when cleaning this ...

    Article : 182 words
  12. What Is Beer?

    The weak point of all the various "Pure Beer" Bills that have come before the House of Commons (the "Daily Graphic" says) is that they are based upon an arbitrary ...

    Article : 274 words
  13. Members and Debtors.

    On the 9th March, 1542, Mr. George Ferrars, while taking part in the deliberations in the House of Parliament, was arrested for debt and sent to the Compter ...

    Article : 166 words
  14. Novel Targets for Rifle Practice.

    An ingenious idea has been taken up in the German army, and email globes of silk, called balloon targets, are to be substituted for the wooden dummies hitherto in use to ...

    Article : 203 words
  15. A New Disease—"Opsomania."

    Much sympathy is often evoked by accounts of cases of dipsomania, kleptomania, etc., but compassion is now demanded (says "Science Sittings) for a new form of malady ...

    Article : 152 words
  16. A Magnetic Island.

    In the Baltic, the Danish island Bornholm, which is situated about twenty-four miles, east by south, from the nearest point of Sweden, may be regarded as a huge ...

    Article : 137 words
  17. The Sultan's Alarms.

    According to reports, fear of assassination is driving the Sultan of Turkey rapidly alone the high road to madness. Sometimes at table terror seizes him that the food and ...

    Article : 233 words
  18. How Flies Spread Disease.

    There can be absolutely no doubt that flies and such insects are important factors in the spreading of disease germs. A moment's thought will prove the truth of ...

    Article : 110 words
  19. The Original "Dead Heads."

    We suppose everyone knows that the person who goes to a theatre with a free ticket is styled a "dead head" by the management. In the museum at Naples ...

    Article : 135 words
  20. Princess May and Prince Edward.

    A little bit of poetry has been introduced into the Royal visit. When the two young Princes, Edward and George, were here about twenty years ago, they planted at ...

    Article : 162 words
  21. Hadn't Heard of It.

    "What did he want?" asked the head salesman of the wholesale grocery house. "It was some follow who had taken a drop too much, I fancy," replied the new ...

    Article : 82 words
  22. The Sun Shrinking Daily.

    In the course of a lecture recently at the Royal Institution, London, Sir Robert Ball said the sun was getting smaller every day. The sun is nine inches smaller to-day than ...

    Article : 165 words
  23. Maple Sugar.

    One of the striking characteristics of this choice variety of sugar is its increasing scarcity in the market. The maple trees of Canada and other parts of North America ...

    Article : 137 words
  24. Thoughts from "Josh Billings."

    Most men are like eggs, too full of them­selves to hold anything else. Pleasure is like treacle. Too much of it spoils the taste for everything ...

    Article : 95 words
  25. A Safer Place.

    "My man," asked the magistrate of a soldier who had delivered himself up to the civil authorities as a deserter, "what induced you to leave the regiment ...

    Article : 80 words
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