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  2. A NOVEL GHOST STORY.

    Authentic ghost stories are apt to have less point than the ghost stories of literature. Hamlet's father does not revisit the glimpses of the moon for nothing. Banquo has every ...

    Article : 1,673 words
  3. A SHARP BISHOP.

    The traveller towards Prussia from Liege may see, at the distance of about three miles from that town, on the summit of a mountain on his left hand, the walls of a little ...

    Article : 528 words
  4. A CLUB OF CRIMINALS.

    THAT the idea of bloodshed may be ever present to prowlers in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,172 words
  5. HITS AND BITS.

    Isaacs: Haf a cigar, Cohen ? Cohen: Vat's der madder mit it ? Bobbie: Honest, now, grandpa; was papa so very good when he was a boy ? ...

    Article : 1,044 words
  6. IN SEARCH OF THE SOUTH POLE.

    The Belgian Antarctic expedition will make land departure from Sandy Point, a Chilian settlement in the Straits of Magollan regularly touched by mail steamers, ...

    Article : 1,113 words
  7. GUIDES OF LONDON.

    "Guide-mein Horr—signor—monsieur ?" "Vat for ? I haf a Bacdeker." "Bacdeker ?" retorted the dapper little man, with a touch of scorn. "Bacdeker ? ...

    Article : 779 words
  8. AN EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.

    A most curious event is said to have occurred in the year 1571 in Hereferdshire. On the 17th of February, which was Saturday, at six o'clock in the evening, the earth ...

    Article : 292 words
  9. ESCAPE FROM TORTURE.

    During the American war of Independence several of Montgomery's Highlanders, stragglers from the traversing parties, fell into the hands of the Indians, being taken ...

    Article : 318 words
  10. A LADY IN HIS SLEEPING BERTH.

    An amusing incident took place the other day on board an Australian liner. A shy Australian major, after spending the first evening very late with his friends in ...

    Article : 238 words
  11. AN EXTRAORDINARY RIOT.

    In the year 1866 there happened a most striking and remarkable incident in Leeds. A certain Dr. Chorley, J.P., of Park-square, prosecuted his cook for stealing and selling ...

    Article : 177 words
  12. PROVISION FOR BOTH.

    Smith was met the other evening with a box of chocolates under one arm and a big parcel of beefsteak under the other. "Hello, Smith," said Brown, " going in ...

    Article : 99 words
  13. THE SMALLEST CYCLISTS IN THE WORLD.

    Commodore Foote and his sister, of Fort Wayne, Ind., are the smallest cyclists in the world. The commodore rides a wheel geared at 56, height of wheels twenty inches ...

    Article : 108 words
  14. SHEDDING HIS FINGER NAILS.

    Dr. Douglas W. Montgemery describes the following very curious case. A man, a native of Les Basses Phyenees, in excellent health, had been troubled ever since birth ...

    Article : 150 words
  15. A LONELY POST-OFFICE.

    The loneliest, as well as most novel postoffice in the world is located on the southern extremity of South America. For several years past a small barrel has been fastened ...

    Article : 130 words
  16. ALL SORTS OF PIE.

    "You have all sorts of pic, I see by the sign in the window," said the facetious customer, as he went into a bakery and addressed one of the young women who ...

    Article : 81 words
  17. THE LAW AND THE DAIRY.

    " I hear that the great law firm of Gouge and Gobble has engaged extensively in the dairy business." "You don't say !" ...

    Article : 215 words
  18. THE FINAL TRIUMPH.

    All his life he had been an ardent lover of that noblest animal—the horse. He had driven the finest trotters, owned the finest racers, and knew every point of excellence in ...

    Article : 251 words
  19. A CHINESE WOMAN DOCTOR.

    Hu King Eng, a young Chinese woman who studied medicine in the United States, taking the degree of M.D., is now in charge of the Siang-Hu Hospital at Foo-Chow, and ...

    Article : 212 words
  20. THERE IS DANGER.

    "It seems odd," remarked Mrs. Tenspot, " that with all the words in the English language an ordinary person's vocabulary is only 2,500 words.' ...

    Article : 69 words
  21. WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE.

    WHEN you listen to her singing. You haven't any choice ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 114 words
  22. EXPLAINED.

    "So that young man says he would lay his fortune at your feet?" said Mabel's father. "Yes." " But he has'nt done so." ...

    Article : 52 words
  23. A MODERN INSTANCE.

    Weary Watkins : Dis here newspaper says that half the cause of de hard times is de overcrowdin' of de professions. Hungry Higgins : It's gittin that way in ...

    Article : 38 words
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