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  2. INGENUITY OF SMUGGLING

    A device was planned by a Jew, nickuamed Bu[?]y, who Was a very active agent in illicit transactions. Some hundreds of tubs were prepared at Bo[?]gue, their shape and colour ...

    Article : 342 words
  3. THREE WEIRD ADVENTURES.

    Ihey wero talking about terrible things. They were all young men, and one of them had just finished a story of a man who had been scared to death by a ghost. Not one of ...

    Article : 1,276 words
  4. KILLED AND BURIED HIMSELF.

    Jose Mendez was a Mexican Indian who killed himself in 1862. in San Jose, Cal. At the time of his death Jose was 36 years of age. He had all his life been au exceedingly ...

    Article : 916 words
  5. A GERMAN WEAVING VILLAGE.

    An intelligent, correspoudent has written an account of his visit to a little-known district of Germany, from which we take the following: — About 200 miles from the German capital, in ...

    Article : 1,623 words
  6. HOW TOM GOT THE LICENSE.

    Lucinda was late that morning. Sha came in long after breakfast was over, and after a long string of rambling excuses set about her preparations for dinner. ...

    Article : 1,661 words
  7. MILLIONAIRES OF THE RAND.

    The story of the rise of the gold-mining industry of the Transvaal, when one day it comes to be written by somebody who bits lived and moved iu the inner ring of Johannesburg ...

    Article : 641 words
  8. A TRAIN 400 MILES LONG.

    Not many days ago Mr. C. H. Jones, the assistant locomotive superintendent of the Midland Railway, was kind enough to communicate a number of interesting facts about the ...

    Article : 234 words
  9. MALINGERING IN PRISON.

    Thn Rev. Harry Jones tells a story drawn from Portland Prison which is worth reproducing. On going into the library Mr. Jones asked what were the favourite books of the ...

    Article : 143 words
  10. THE KING'S BOOK.

    The original book upon which all our kings from Henry I. to Edward VI., took the coronation o[?]th is now in the library of a gentleman i[?] Norfolk. It is a manuscript of the four ...

    Article : 161 words
  11. WHAT AN ATTORNEY IS.

    An action was brought by an attorney against defendant for calling him a thief, a rogue, and a [?]end; and, as the plaintiff had no proof of any pecuniary special damage, he had to rely, ...

    Article : 234 words
  12. ONLY POACHERS IN DISGUISE.

    An amusing incident occurred lately at a Scotch Lunatic A[?]ylum. It appears that a harmless patient, who had received an injury to his head in an affray with ponchers, when ...

    Article : 240 words
  13. AN INDIAN SNAKE DANCE.

    A correspondent gives the following description of the famous snake dances practised by the Arizona Indians: — "This 'snake dance ' occurs only once in two years, and a ...

    Article : 429 words
  14. A GIANT CAKE.

    One of the giants of Her Majesty's Jubilee was the enormous cake of Messrs. Guntur. Months previous the firm asked permission of Her Majesty to present her with a Jubilee cake, ...

    Article : 86 words
  15. ROYAL MATCHMAKING.

    That Bluff King Hal was a good wooer we know, but it is odd to find him playing the part of a matchmaker for others. Yet here is a letter from the burly monarch to a Mrs. Coward, a ...

    Article : 366 words
  16. FEMALE SHERIFFS.

    Nicholas, Earl of Thanet, was succeeded by his next brother John, the fourth earl, born 7th August, 1638. He also succeeded his mother, Mr[?]garet, Counters of Thanet, as Buron ...

    Article : 295 words
  17. THE SUPERSTITIOUS MOUNTAINS.

    Among the natural wonders of the Southwestern States of America are the Superstitious Mountains, which loom up from the arid desert to the east of the Salt River Valley ...

    Article : 298 words
  18. ENGINE-DRIVING.

    It has always been said that the driver of a railway train has a great deal of unpleasant resposibility, but according to a little incident told by one of them, the wife of a man in his ...

    Article : 177 words
  19. CAREFUL REPORTING.

    An American contemporary, having been cast in heavy damages for incautious reporting, declares that it will be more reserved in its statements in future, and asks its readers how they ...

    Article : 153 words
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