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  2. (Copyright.) A Morning in the LIFE of a Soldier's Sweetheart.

    A glorious April morning. The sun shone brightly on the rain drops that glittered like diamonds on the tiny blades of grass, which were ...

    Article : 1,545 words
  3. SOME ECONOMIES OF FUR.

    Our subject is wide and would lead us far afield. By the rude log huts of the hunters in the West, in the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, ...

    Article : 1,040 words
  4. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    The Azores islands have no beast or prey native to them. The muscles of the human jaw exert a force of about 5001b. ...

    Article : 391 words
  5. NOW TO DWARF TREES.

    The florists of Europe are endeavouring to produce dwarf trees laden with the most diminutive of oranges in imitation of those grown ...

    Article : 518 words
  6. LAW REFORM.

    Ever and anon we are promised that simplification of the law and sensible reductions in its cost, will break upon us. Any man of three ...

    Article : 1,168 words
  7. PAVING STREETS WITH BROKEN BOTTLES.

    Broken bottles are to be used to pave the French capital. Emile Gantier after stating in the "Figaro" that glass pavements have been ...

    Article : 281 words
  8. CAPTURED BY TELESCOPE.

    The telescope and the opera glass have more than once lent valuable aid for the purpose of detection if not espionage, notably on the ...

    Article : 379 words
  9. 20,000 AMERICAN MULES AND HORSES FOR ENGLAND.

    More than 120,000 mules and horses have been supplied to the British army in South Africa from Lathrop, Missouri, during the past, ...

    Article : 286 words
  10. ADVENTURE WITH A TIGER.

    When English officers in India want venturesome sport they invade the jungle with elephants in search of tigers, usually hunting for one ...

    Article : 270 words
  11. SUBMARINE PHOTOGRAPHY.

    Wonderful progress has been made lately in the art of photographing fishes under water. To photograph the fish in its native state with a ...

    Article : 277 words
  12. AMUSING SCENE IN A CHURCH.

    The congregation at a place of worship at Sparkhill recently experienced (says the "Birmingham Despatch") a sensation that few ...

    Article : 209 words
  13. A MILLIONAIRE'S METHODS.

    Dr. Saur gives the following account of Cecil Rthodes mode of life; an early riser, he is usually up aboul six o'clock; he rode till nine, ...

    Article : 202 words
  14. A NOVEL CORKSCREW.

    If you want to amuse your friends at an evening party you can draw a cork out of any bottle without a corkscrew. Of course they will ...

    Article : 202 words
  15. EUROPE'S COMMERCIAL FLORA.

    Out of the 4,200 species of plants gathered and used for commercial purposes in Europe, 420 have a perfume that is pleasing and enter ...

    Article : 112 words
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