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  2. ANIMAL LIKES AND DISLIKES.

    Instances of purely instinctive, inexplioable antipthy between animals are naturally not common, but there are very marked and definite examples. It is quite impossible to accouut for ...

    Article : 857 words
  3. A BETTER WEAPON.

    One night I strolled into tho Haymarket Theatre, took a stall ticket, and soon comfortably settled myself to enjoy the play. By the time the third act came I was deeply ...

    Article : 1,497 words
  4. DEATH AND DUTY.

    The dawn of an early winter morning was just creeping through James Walker's signal-box—situated about half-way between two stations in Kanses, U.S.A.—as the signalman ...

    Article : 1,080 words
  5. THE DRAMA UNDER CANVAS.

    To begin with, I was born in n booth! A curious birthplace without a doubt, but an uncontrollable course of events led to the occurrence. Facts are stubborn ...

    Article : 3,214 words
  6. UNFORTUNATE.

    An old gentleman, a merchant, had no only daughter, possessed of the highest attractions, moral, personal, and pecuniary. She was engaged, and devotedly attached to a young ...

    Article : 579 words
  7. WOMEN AS BULLFIGHTERS.

    The Barcelona bull-light is quite different from the same kind of sport in the other Spahish cities, for it is there that the women bull-fighter is born and bred and makes her ...

    Article : 499 words
  8. A PUZZLING RIVER.

    For many years the Niger River was the great conundrum of African geography. Nobody knew where its waters reached the sea, but many geographical experts had the wildest ...

    Article : 324 words
  9. THE GENTLE BURGLAR.

    "Contrary to my usual custom,' said the retired burglar, "I went one night in a house that I had called at straight upstairs and explored the rooms on the second floor, with fair ...

    Article : 418 words
  10. THE WAY OF WOMAN.

    They were sitting on a log as the twilight deepened into night. "And you love me?" he asked, "Can you ask it?" she answered, with a ...

    Article : 170 words
  11. EMBALMED ALIVE.

    Professor Mappero, the renowned Egyptologist, is authority for the statement that among the Royal mummies unbandaged in 1866 was one of a young man who had evidently ...

    Article : 109 words
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