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  2. HOW RIFLE BORES ARE TESTED.

    A very instructive article appears, in the March number of the " Windsor Magazine," dealing with the musing and testing of the weapons that " Tommy " is now being called ...

    Article : 543 words
  3. HUMOURS OF ORGAN BLOWERS.

    "The service went very well this morning, air," the pumper will say to you when you are changing your shoes. If you are a newcomer it is hardly likely that he will ...

    Article : 492 words
  4. PRINTERS' PRANKS.

    "Speaking of typographical errors and newspapers bulles," said on old newspaper man and employing printer. "reminds me that the average printer is a week ...

    Article : 820 words
  5. A CHINESE FEAST.

    The following is the menu of a dinner given in the court of Dr. Crosses hospital, Eng Chhun, in honour of the visit of All Connell, Convenor of the Foreign Missions ...

    Article : 358 words
  6. A THESPIAN DETECTIVE.

    The village police-station—and a delicate piece of business to be effected in it. I wanted a show of the force, and yet I did not want the force itself to have a ...

    Article : 3,223 words
  7. SMOKELESS POWDER OUT OF MATCHES

    An ingenious way of getting a smokeless powder out of the heads of Japanese matches has been disclosed in the Philippines. A report received from Panay, Visayan Islands ...

    Article : 339 words
  8. THE GREATEST UNSOLVED PROBLEM OF ASTRONOMY

    "One of the most beautiful stars in the heavens, and our that can be seen most of the year, is a Lyre, or Alpha of the Lyre known also as Vega. In a spring evening it may be ...

    Article : 237 words
  9. A DUEL IN HONDURAS

    We were invited to witness a duel between two natives, one selected from each army, says a magazine writer. Hostilities were entirely suspended for the time being, and ...

    Article : 293 words
  10. PECULIAR MARRIAGE RITES.

    Northern India and the island of Banquey can certainly claim to have the most peculiar marriage rites of any country. In the former, a cow and a calf are invariably required at ...

    Article : 165 words
  11. THE COLLEGE BONE MAN.

    Two young men who must have been [?] students boarded an Angora car late Sunday night with a fully articulated skeleton Each had one arm lanked with ...

    Article : 287 words
  12. SOMETHING NEW IN GOSPEL SONGS.

    This is Moulton's story—Moulton, of Standish Moulton is a Democrat Being a Democrat, he allows that the other side will swallow anything that the party leaders ...

    Article : 600 words
  13. ROSE TO THE OCCASION.

    The following story, for which the "Detroit Journal " vouches, illustrates a woman's quick tact in on emergency. It is about a college president, who is a great ...

    Article : 167 words
  14. MAKING GOOD USE OF HER PASS

    One of the island of Panama Bay used to belong to an enterprising old woman from Connecticut, the widow of a sea captain, sad the lived all alone there in a little cabin for ...

    Article : 509 words
  15. THE YEAR'S WORK OF A LOCOMOTIVE.

    There are 19,914 locomotives at work on the railways of the United Kingdom, and each of these on en average rune 19,096 miles in a year, and earns for this ...

    Article : 316 words
  16. THE MOST WONDERFUL TRAIN IN THE WORLD.

    The "Princess Christian " is the, perhaps, most wonderful train in the world. It is unique for several reasons—in the first place, of course, because it approaches nearer to ...

    Article : 370 words
  17. "SOGGY" SANDERS'S GREAT SPEECH.

    "Soggy" Sanders, a noted full blood Cherokee, who held office ever since he was old enough, talks the English language brokenly. When United States Senators ...

    Article : 298 words
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