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  2. ORIGIN OF RUGBY FOOTBALL.

    The publication of a report to the Old Rugbeian Society, the date of which is governed rather by the date of the Rugby and Marlborough match than by the imminence ...

    Article : 777 words
  3. WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A JOCKEY.

    A great jockey on a great race-horse is the ideal of thousands of young men. They see the brilliancy and glitter of the thing, and it turns their heads. ...

    Article : 750 words
  4. QUEER BARBERS.

    Shaving in Japan is a peculiar operation. Mr. F. A. Bather, M.A., of the British Museum, tells us much that is interesting in connection with it in the first number of ...

    Article : 900 words
  5. COOING COUPLES.

    A HARD CHOICE. I would not marry a poor girl! No; that would never do; For what is torrapin for one ...

    Article : 1,167 words
  6. THE MOON QUEEN.

    "There she is! what do you think of hor, Martin?" "A beautiful compact and wonderful affair; and if, as you fancy, she can cleave ...

    Article : 2,668 words
  7. THE MOLE AND HIS FUNCTIONS.

    The Row Augustus Jessop, in an article on moles in the "Nineteenth Century," describes them us the natural enemies of the ground beetles that have of late been the ...

    Article : 799 words
  8. A MISSOURI ENOCH ARDEN.

    The story of a second Enoch Arden comes from Wilton, Boone county, in the free West. In 1861 Rowland Griggs, a strapping young fellow of 25 years, left his home near ...

    Article : 350 words
  9. A PEARL FARM.

    There is only one pearl farm in the world. It is in the Torres Strait, at the northern extremity of Australia, and belongs to James Clark, of Queensland. Mr. Clark, who is ...

    Article : 249 words
  10. DOMESTIC LOVE.

    "I never," says Wendell Holmes, "saw a garment too fine for a man or a maid; there never was a chair too good for a cobbler, or a cooper, or a King to sit in; never a house ...

    Article : 223 words
  11. OVERHEARD AT LORDS.

    The young ladies of the period take a keen interest in athletics of all kinds. To golf, tennis, and cycling they have devoted themselves with a large measure of success, ...

    Article : 153 words
  12. CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT WATER.

    The fastest things upon the ocean are not the trans-Atlantic greyhounds or the swiftest of torpedo-boats, but the big follers that produce the uncomfortable swell so familiar ...

    Article : 212 words
  13. THE FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL.

    Robert Raikes has been much belauded as the originator of Sunday Schools, but when he was a small boy, with all his philanthropies in the future, a neighbour of his, living 12 ...

    Article : 172 words
  14. A MARRIAGE STORY.

    Years ago there lived in a certain town a Justice of the Peace known as "Square" Simmonds, a man noted for the shortness of his memory. He carried about with him a ...

    Article : 248 words
  15. AS THE COUNT RECOUNTED IT.

    It was in the smoking-room of the club and Count Von Nithaben was waxing confidential. "It vas like dis, mine front," he said. "I go to de Herr Goldmore und I say to ...

    Article : 206 words
  16. A WATERLOO INCIDENT.

    An incident of the battle of Waterloo, heard from the great Duke himself, was told by Lord Shaftesbury, the philanthropist, to the late Sir George Burns, in whoso biography ...

    Article : 179 words
  17. RAGING WITH SNAILS.

    According to a Paris correspondent, a story is current to the effect that Government clerks have enough time on their hands to play at "snail races" during official ...

    Article : 168 words
  18. RUSSIAN JURYMEN.

    Some curious stories are told of the ways of Russian jurymen. Thus, the foreman of one jury declared that he would not send a poor fellow to prison because it happened ...

    Article : 152 words
  19. A DEAD MAN PLAYS CARDS.

    A ghastly story illustrating the devices the natives of India employ to avoid the detection of plague cases in their houses. A party of searchers cases upon a group of ...

    Article : 130 words
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