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  2. AN OBJECT LESSON IN BRITISH MARKSMANSHIP.

    The exact results of the practice are being announced by megaphone to the battleship, which, after some long distance firing with the guns, has approached within half a mile of the riddled target. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 39 words
  3. COMIC CUTTINGS

    Conversation is often the art of appearing to listen. First Girl: "Was she happily married?" Second Girl : "Very ! Why, her ...

    Article : 646 words
  4. THE SKETCHER

    In a way the forged picture dealer may be said to have achieved greatness. En terprising, resourceful, imaginative, and represented by his works in more than ...

    Article : 1,284 words
  5. SPRAY

    A certain cornchandler of London had just engaged an assistant who hailed from a little village near Leeds. This youth was remarkably "green," and ...

    Article : 1,227 words
  6. Records of Music.

    Making musical records for phonographs, as practised at the Edison Laboratory at Orange, N.J., is an interesting process, which forms the subject of ...

    Article : 577 words
  7. SHORT STORY

    To some people the fact that they have never seen a ghost is quite sufficient proof that such apparitions are not to be seen. "Wait until I sen a ghost, and then I'll ...

    Article : 3,805 words
  8. Stage People in Summer.

    In summer what becomes of the numbers of stage people who return to the metropolis, penniless at the close of the season ? How do they live ? These ...

    Article : 443 words
  9. Squirrel 1, Rabbit 2.

    Almost all animals know how to swim without having to learn it. As soon as they fall into the water, or are driven into it, they instinctively make the proper ...

    Article : 217 words
  10. Vanished Varnish.

    The violin-dealer was talking about the mystery of the old violin varnishes. "The wonderful tone of the old violins," he said, "depended on the varnish a great ...

    Article : 149 words
  11. Eskimo Language.

    Commander Peary, the Arctic explorer, was talking to a small bunch of news paper men at Saratoga not long ago, and they were asking him a number of ...

    Article : 143 words
  12. Kind Consideration.

    A village clergyman has this ingenious bit among his records :—One day he was summoned in haste by Mrs. Johnston, who had been taken suddenly ill. He ...

    Article : 135 words
  13. Railway Across the Anars.

    The railway across the Andes, between Chile and the Argentine Republic, which was projected twenty years ago, is at last to be completed, the Chilean ...

    Article : 126 words
  14. Modernising the Dowager.

    It is only about three years since the Dowager Empress of China loathed for-eigners and everything foreign, but in that time the Chinese Court has been ...

    Article : 114 words
  15. Day and Night.

    Could day demand a gift of night, And night the boon bestow, Twould be that heaven of star-delight, Where dreams departed go. ...

    Article : 50 words
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