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  2. THE LADY FREE-MASON.

    Woman has entered into almost every interest of human life; will she ever make her way, a joyfully accepted comrade, into the mysterious gatherings of the ...

    Article : 706 words
  3. HITS AND BITS.

    "You've heard Brown's married again?" "No, has he? Stupid donkey! He didn't deserve to lose his first wife." "Japan says she proposes to demolish ...

    Article : 1,004 words
  4. CORPSE CANDLE.

    The superstition of "Canwyll Gorph" appears to be peculiar to South Wales. These mysterious lights were always considered as the forerunners of funerals, and ...

    Article : 306 words
  5. SHOWERS OF FROGS AND FISH.

    Parisians have been favoured by the Tunis correspondent of the "Journal des Debuts "with the news that "an abundant shower of frogs has fallen at Bizerta after a ...

    Article : 1,341 words
  6. THE PRODIGAL FATHER.

    Miss Kendall, sitting in her pleasant room awaiting the call to breakfast, heard,a strong resonant voice say at the door below her window: ...

    Article : 1,564 words
  7. PUSSY AND RAVISHING MELODY

    Gretry, the French composer, was presented by the Marquis de Guebriant with a favourite cat named Lucifer. The cat seemed very fond of music, and ...

    Article : 577 words
  8. GIVING UP THE CIGARETTE.

    "Did I ever tell you how I managed to cure myself of the cigarette habit?" asked a man who was formerly an inveterate smoker No, was the reply. ...

    Article : 232 words
  9. A GLUT OF SOVEREIGNS.

    It is not often in modern times, that any nation has so much gold on hand as to produce a glut in the market. especially among a people professedly civilised. Five years ...

    Article : 270 words
  10. EVERYTHING DONE BACKWARDS.

    Everything relating to the Orient is of interest. The Chinese do everything backward. They exactly reverse the usual order of civilisation. ...

    Article : 156 words
  11. A WONDERFUL FREAK OF NATURE.

    Among the many wonderful freaks in nature there can be none in the geological line that can possibly excel that known as "The Giant's Head." It stands, or rather ...

    Article : 278 words
  12. FEMININE FINLAND.

    In Finland women are making marked progress. For more than 25 years the gymnasiums have admitted both sexes,and in the University of Helsingfors there are now 200 ...

    Article : 118 words
  13. THE EMPEROR AND THE BAKER'S WIFE.

    We are all familiar with the old story of King Alfred and the burnt cakes. He is not, however, the only king who met with discourteous treatment of this kind. When ...

    Article : 331 words
  14. PARSIMONY WON.

    When Philip III., King of Spain, sent his ambassador to treat with' the States of Holland about their independency,he was shown into an ante chamber, whore he waited to ...

    Article : 230 words
  15. DANGERS OF SCIENCE.

    In 1864 Tyndall performed the experiment of separating light from heat. In the course of the investigations which enabled him to do this he made a most daring experiment. ...

    Article : 204 words
  16. HOW OUR KINGS HAVE DIED.

    It is not only interesting, but instructive, to search the roll of history and investigate the cause of death of our rulers for the last thousand years. Previous to the Norman ...

    Article : 367 words
  17. A WONDERFUL SEAWEED.

    A most extraordinay seaweed is the Nereocustis, the stem of which occasionally attains a length of 300 feet, though extremely slender, even at the top, where it is ...

    Article : 311 words
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  19. THE ARMY GOING BACKWARD

    While Englishmen on the whole are steadily improving in physique, it is rather strange to be told that the Army is just as steadily going backwards. The cause is, there can ...

    Article : 295 words
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