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  2. ONE OF NAPOLEON'S MISTAKES.

    Napoleon's great measure of 1806 just over a century ago—was the blow aimed at the commerce of England, and comprised in his celebrated ...

    Article : 815 words
  3. CATCHING ALLIGATORS.

    On the great "bayons" or swamps in the neighbourhood of New Orleans are men who make a living by catching alligators and their young. ...

    Article : 516 words
  4. (All Rights Reserved.) — OR, —DORINCOURT'S TEMPTATION HONOUR AGAINST INTEREST.

    For its part, "the object," to do it justice, does not seem intensely anxious to do anything of the kind. It resolves itself, on a nearer view, into a ...

    Article : 1,632 words
  5. RAILWAYS IN WAR.

    Many surprises and great feats of the war have been due to railways. The Germans prepared strategical railways years ago in preparation for ...

    Article : 1,042 words
  6. CHAPTER XII.

    Left to his own reflections, which, as we have seen, were not so fraught with love of his own species as they might have been, the Water Rat ...

    Article : 2,312 words
  7. CHAPTER XI.

    Down among the dirt and slime and refuse of the great city—down among the wharves and stripping, the warehouses and sailors, boardinghouses of ...

    Article : 2,399 words
  8. WOMAN'S CURIOUS PROFESSION.

    To be a professional wine-taster and yet a strong advocate and follower of the strictest temperance principles; to take wine into the ...

    Article : 304 words
  9. THE PURCHASER'S TURN.

    The winkle-man sat by his stall, a [?]ungry man was he and he thought, "I just could do a feed of winkles or my tea." And when he'd had a ...

    Article : 101 words
  10. A BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

    The counsel prosecuting in a breach of promise case was youthful and fresh, and delighted in showing himself off. The defendant had entered ...

    Article : 414 words
  11. EASILY EXPLAINED.

    A short time ago a man went home the worse for drink. On arriving at his house he tried to unlock the door, but could not get the supposed ...

    Article : 109 words
  12. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    The river Nile is 5,000 miles long. The tuberose is no rose, but a species of olyanth. Pompey's pillar has no historical ...

    Article : 159 words
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