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  3. Here and There.

    It is announced that the Society of Sculptors in St. Petersburg has discoveerd a peasant worker in metal, who, it is claimed can do in iron what Benvenuto Cellini ...

    Article : 85 words
  4. FORTUNE FROM A RECIPE.

    The death recently occurred of the head of a firm the name of which has been carried to every corner of the globe—Mr. Walter Lazenby, of Elizabeth Lazenby and ...

    Article : 290 words
  5. NEWSPAPERS AS TEXT BOOKS.

    An experiment is being tried in the public schools at Dantzig of teaching the children by means of making the daily paper the reading text-book. The teachers exclude ...

    Article : 86 words
  6. MILLIONAIRES IN BERLIN.

    There are 1256 millionaires in Berlin. So report the Commission appointed to inquire into the taxation of the Prussian capital. The millions are, however, reekoned in ...

    Article : 85 words
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  8. ROYAL CONFESSIONS.

    The Queen of Greece possesses an album in which the crowned heads of Europe are asked to contribute answers to questions put to them. Some of the responses are ironical ...

    Article : 108 words
  9. A DREADFUL LEGEND.

    A great comfort, has conic to the Parisians in the floods of their distress. A dreadful legend lias arisen that it was no longer safe to drink the wines, barrelled and bettied ...

    Article : 178 words
  10. PRIESTS AS INVENTORS.

    An important, invention for extinguishing fires in the open country was submitted to the French Government by PAbbe Daney, Cure in the Landes. The numerous forest ...

    Article : 196 words
  11. ANOTHER YELLOW PERIL.

    After Chinese pork we may expect the Japanese sardine, and already some of our Paris contemporaries are sounding a note of alarm. It seems that pari passu with the ...

    Article : 119 words
  12. THE GRANDCHILDREN OF A MICROBE.

    Professor II. E. Crampton informed us a short time ngo that a bacillus loss than one five-thousandth part of an inch in length multiplies under normal conditions at a rate ...

    Article : 504 words
  13. BIRTHDAY OF THE OMNIBUS.

    It is just two centuries and a half ago that the first omnibus ran in Paris. To be prod so, the first of those vehicles appeared on March 18, 1662, in the reign of Louis ...

    Article : 133 words
  14. HABITS OF SEALS

    The habits of seals are very interesting. The very young soul is holpleas in the water until he is taught his mother to swim. She takes him into the water daily on her ...

    Article : 159 words
  15. REMAEKABLE CLOCKS.

    A Munich professor has invented a remarkable sickroom clock. When a button is pressed aw electvie lamp behind the dial throws the shadows of the hours and hands ...

    Article : 139 words
  16. FRENCH POLITENESS UP-TO-DATE.

    The venerable Bishop of Versailles, Monignor Gibier, was distributing relief to the sufferers from the floods at Carbeil. The Minister of Public Works, M. Millerand, and ...

    Article : 178 words
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