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  2. INDIAN NEWSPAPERS.

    India can justly claim to have had a share — a very considerable share — in the birth of the newspaper. Ages before the European conquest every Court had a weekly, sometimes a daily ...

    Article : 1,200 words
  3. A HEATHEN FESTIVAL.

    The Sun Dance is the greatest annual festival of the North American Indians. It is atleast as well as a form of worship, and is an occasion of love-making and for the initiation of warriors ...

    Article : 626 words
  4. THE LATCH CLICK.

    It was about dusk. Cari and Nora were sitting by the glowing fire, with bright, happy faces, talking of their prospects, when (bey distinctly heard the latch rise and fall. Nora ...

    Article : 1,049 words
  5. PAVING STONES FOR A PILLOW.

    One of the most curious of New York's many curious characters is a man named John Galvin, who, with the exception of once recently, has not slept in a bed or under a roof for the past ...

    Article : 435 words
  6. A CURIOUS WILL.

    The following is a copy of a curious will made by Sir Charles Hastings, Bart :— I, Charles Hastings, being now of sound mind, And not cating a straw for the fools left behind, ...

    Article : 426 words
  7. A GHOST STORY.

    It was some years ago, while I was stopping at the hotel in Lawtin, a little village in one of the Western States of America, that the following incident occurred : ...

    Article : 737 words
  8. A SOLDIER HERO.

    The first battle fought in the Crimean War of 1854 was that of the Alma. The allied armies of the English and French arriving at the river Alma (about 20 miles to the north of Sebasto ...

    Article : 643 words
  9. VAMPIRE BATS.

    Among the products of the country around Para are Vampire Bats, which are so dangerous that the natives are obliged to guard carefully against their intrusion into their dwellings. A ...

    Article : 177 words
  10. USED TO FETTERS.

    Dr.Blane, of Cannes, who was one of the prisoners in Abyasiuia for the liberation of whom the war of 1867 was undertaken, tells a curious story of his experiences. His fetters ...

    Article : 208 words
  11. THOSE FUNNY SCISSORS.

    A noted pickpocket, wanting scissors for church purposes, went one day to a little manufacturer in Soho, and gave him a drawing of the kind of articles he desired made. ...

    Article : 236 words
  12. ARCADIA.

    Buckland-in-the-Mour, a secluded Dartmoor village, has not had a pauper among its inhabitants for close on twenty years, and manages without a public house, parson, or policeman. ...

    Article : 174 words
  13. A POWERFUL LIGHT.

    The most powerful light in the world, is at Fire Island New York Harbour. To ships it will be visible 100 miles out at sea. The light itself cannot be seen at that distance, owing to ...

    Article : 209 words
  14. CLEOPATRA'S REMAINS.

    When Cleopatra died 2,000 years ago bar body was embalmed. A bunch of wheat was placed in her hand and a comb in her hair, and so she was buried. To-day, in a glass case, at ...

    Article : 70 words
  15. OBEYING ORDERS.

    The late Lord Derby was decorating one of his country mansions, and was having the central ball floor painted. A young man, tall and powerful, was at work on one of the walls, when ...

    Article : 279 words
  16. 3,000 SKULLS.

    Collectors of skulls are comparatively common, and such collectors by no means exclusively belong to the medical profession. The skull of a member of any particular ...

    Article : 242 words
  17. AN ELEPHANT STORY.

    There appears in an Indian paper a characteristic story of an elephant. The animal had run smuck, killed a child, and then, turning on the mahout, seized him, dashed him to the ...

    Article : 94 words
  18. HIS PROXY.

    In the year 1829, when the Russians had taken Varna, nobody would venture to break the news to the Sultan Mahmoud. The Vizier Khosru (at that time Searskier and General in ...

    Article : 253 words
  19. ANCIENT LAMPS.

    The lamps originally used by the Hebrews, the Egyptians, and the Greeks, were simple flat vessels with a small handle at one end, and at the side a little projection with a hole forming a ...

    Article : 245 words
  20. A USEFUL SERMON.

    The late Archbishop Tail, of Canterbnry, once made an effective use of a sermon. Driving down Holloway Hill, he was confronted by a runaway horse, with a heavy dray, making ...

    Article : 104 words
  21. THE COOK'S EPITAPH.

    Among the many curious eiptaphs which still figure as local attractions, one of the most remarkable is in the onurchyard at Wood Dilton, near Newmarket, and marks the grave of ...

    Article : 180 words
  22. A RACE OF PIGMIES.

    In Major Haris's "Highlands of Ethiopia," published some sixty years ago, we read :— "Beyond the extensive wilderness which bounds Cuffa on the south of Ethiopia are the Doko, a ...

    Article : 462 words
  23. BURMESE MARRIAGE CUSTOMS.

    With all respectable Burmese families it is an invariable rule that the child's name must begin with one of the letters belonging to the day on ...

    Article : 372 words
  24. ROYAL PAGES.

    It is only at the Imperial and Royal [?] of Europe that " the pretty page with the dimpled chin," so sweetly sung by the poet, and who constituted one of the most picturesque and ...

    Article : 416 words
  25. ELDERLY SWIMMERS.

    An odd scene was witnessed the other day in a thriving town in the South of England. A new public swimming bath of unusual size and excellence was to be opened by the Mayor and ...

    Article : 122 words
  26. THE STRANGE GUEST.

    There is in circulation a pretty story concerning Prince Christian of Denmark which recalls Alfred of old and the cakes. The other day Prince Christine had to review some troops ...

    Article : 295 words
  27. DOCTORED DIAMONDS.

    Diamond experts say that stones can be so skilfully coloured that detection is next to impossible : that there is a mint of money in such a scheme for the man who can do the colouring ...

    Article : 270 words
  28. WHEN CLASS WAS SCARCE.

    It is, indeed, not difficult, to imagine and to believe that there was a time when glass, which has been so common since we were boru, was scarce and proportionately more valuable. ...

    Article : 275 words
  29. COSTLY FURNITURE.

    The Shah of Persis owns the most valuable arm-chair in the world. It is made of solid gold, inlaid with precious stones. About a year ago some of the stones were stolen from ...

    Article : 196 words
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