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  2. UNFORTUNATE DANGERS

    A writer of sixty years age describes a seene a Almack's, the most fashionable and exclusive resort of the day, which would now be disgraceful in any dancing-room ...

    Article : 501 words
  3. HOBSON'S CHOICE.

    " Lientenant Hobson's deed of bravery on the Merrimac," writes an Army officer, may remind us of an English boy of the same name—Hobson—born at Bonchurch. ...

    Article : 525 words
  4. AN INNOCENT BURGLAR.

    On the North Side, within less than a pistol shot of Cass-street, there is a family mansion which until within a week was untenanted. The mother of the family died ...

    Article : 544 words
  5. UNEXPECTED RESULTS.

    Ealison's phonograph is now magnificently appointed, and you can investigate and enjoy thin fascinating instrument to your heart's content. Beautiful young ladies ...

    Article : 805 words
  6. A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

    I Suppose you all know Tom Scrooloose. And if you don't, you know others like him. He is always on the brink of making a fertune. In fact, he can balance himself upon ...

    Article : 580 words
  7. AVENGED BY A SNAKE.

    Burled in the depths of the great Thorshuda jungle lay the little vidage of Pandiyan. Half a dozen low, round mud-huts, with conical roofs, thatched with rice straw, each ...

    Article : 2,183 words
  8. UNFAMILIAR JAPAN.

    It is difficult for us to understand the fact that the Japanese wife loves her own parents more than she does her husband, and a Japanese husband loves his wife with an ...

    Article : 312 words
  9. UNNATURAL PARENTS.

    The curtains were not tightly drawn, and it was with no great difficulty that the crowd collected outside was enabled to perceive the family croup in the front parlour. The ...

    Article : 401 words
  10. ABSORPTION AND REFLECTION OF LIGHT.

    No one can have failed to notice that the foam along the shore of the sea or of a lake is white. No matter how deep the blue of the water may be, there is the same ...

    Article : 467 words
  11. WHERE MONEY DON'T COUNT.

    A lawyer had como all the way from Callfornia to pay a 10,000 dollars legacy over to Uncle Jerry Hopefield, who had lived all his life in a little town in Ohio, and after ...

    Article : 506 words
  12. AFRAID OF THE GLASS EYE.

    A year or two ago an artist from San Francisco who were a glass eye came to Yokohama and established himself in a little bungalow on the outskirts of the city. ...

    Article : 279 words
  13. THE AUDIBILITY OF THUNDER.

    While lightcing may be seen and its illumination of clouds and mists may be rocognised when it is even 200 miles distant, thunder is rarely audible more than ten ...

    Article : 284 words
  14. A LECTURER'S TROUBLES.

    Under the title of "Some Reminiscences of a Lecturer," Dr. Andrew Wilson, the popular science lecturer, has published a little volume of amusing anecdotes, chiefly ...

    Article : 361 words
  15. CURIOSITIES OF THE OCEAN'S DEPTHS.

    The temperature at the bottom of the ocean is nearly down to freezing point, and sometimes actually below it. There is a total absence of light, so far as sunlight is ...

    Article : 256 words
  16. LIMIT OF BIG TELESCOPES.

    Professor E. E. Barnard, of the Yerkes observatory, has recently published an article in the Astronomical Journal giving a series of measures of the position, angle, and ...

    Article : 395 words
  17. TRANSPLANTING MUSCLES.

    The wonders of surgery will, it seems, never cease. Among the most Important achievements is the transplanting of the muscles. This has been successfully dona in ...

    Article : 242 words
  18. QUAINT THINGS FROM A CHESHIRE PARISH.

    Over is an interesting (Cheshire parish lying between Chester and Middlewich, on the borders of the salt district. If particularly interested in anything, it is in brine and ...

    Article : 361 words
  19. HOMELY AND HUMOROUS.

    Many years ago there were two brothers named Joel and Jonathan, who were famous throughout wayne Countg, Ind., because they were both such frights. One day they ...

    Article : 296 words
  20. KERBSTONE CONJURORS.

    The pedlars who stake out their claims to a square foot of London pavement are most entertaining personages. Long practice seems to enable them to conjure with the most ...

    Article : 201 words
  21. TURKISH BATHS FOR HORSES.

    One of the best known trainers is said to be giving his horses Turkish baths. And they like it. The horse is led into a roomy, but, as far us possible, air tight stall. A water ...

    Article : 120 words
  22. COOKING BY THE SUN'S HEAT.

    An inventor in Italy has constructed an apparatus for cooking by the heat of the sun. It consists of a box made of wood and lined with reflecting mirrors, at the bottom ...

    Article : 144 words
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