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  2. A STRANGE STORY OF A TREASURE.

    I was only three-and-twenty when I accepted a very tempting after of lucrative employment with a firm of high standing at Monterey. I found, upon arriving at my destination, that ...

    Article : 3,176 words
  3. THE TALE OF A GREAT TRAGEDY.

    In "The Life of Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon K.C.B.," the tale of the "Victoria's" disaster is retold. Many accounts have been written of the ...

    Article : 998 words
  4. CONNUBIAL BLISS.

    I do not moure, sweet wife of mine, Became those ruby lips of thine— That marble brow— Were kissed by one who might have been, ...

    Article : 1,146 words
  5. T'OTHER DEAR CHARMER.

    COULDN'T cough ; you wouldn't have heard me." "You might ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,108 words
  6. ZULU MARRIAGES.

    There is freedom of choice in the matter of marriage among the Zulus. The only restriction is that the young people must select one another out of the regiments "told off" to ...

    Article : 726 words
  7. SOMNAMBULISTS' FREAKS.

    A well-known physician gives an account of an Irish gentleman who swam more than two miles down a river, got ashore, and was sub equently discovered sleeping by the roadside, ...

    Article : 191 words
  8. THE SPEED OF BIRDS.

    The speed of pigeons and of birds in general has been much discussed in recent times by different zoologists. Many authorities are inclined to give too high figures. Thus, ...

    Article : 288 words
  9. THE UNION JACK.

    In the olden times the national flag of England was white, with a plain red cross upon it. The cross was that of St. George, our patron saint.— No alteration was made in the design ...

    Article : 355 words
  10. A CLEVER ROGUE.

    While a well-to-do Parisian was returning recently by train from Havre, during the first hour his only fellow-passenger in the compartment was a young man who made himself very ...

    Article : 281 words
  11. BURIED IN WHISKY.

    Charles Bramlette, aged 80 years, died on January 2nd. He owned several farms in Harrison County, U S.A., and had been a prosperous business man all his life. At a low ...

    Article : 221 words
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