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  2. STRANGE ANTIPATHIES.

    A case is related of a monk who would faint on seeing a rose and who never quitted Ms cell at the monastery while that flower was blooming. ...

    Article : 306 words
  3. REMARKABLE INSECTS.

    The most valuable faculty possessed by insects is their sense of smell. Most insects hear very poorly, and ants in particular are absolutely deaf. With ...

    Article : 361 words
  4. RANDOM READINGS.

    The origin of the name Canada is strange enough. The Spaniards visited that country previous to the French, and made particular search for gold ...

    Article : 139 words
  5. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

    About 300 species of turtle and tortoises are known. Some of these attain a very large size. It is estimated that ...

    Article : 786 words
  6. "Fetters of Silence."

    In a few minutes Fane returned, carrying a stable lantern and a bunch of keys. The bicycle was safely housed in the coach-house, which ...

    Article : 2,708 words
  7. EARLY BRITONS BORN TO-DAY.

    The Britain of to-day is an Anglo-Saxon nation, and the average Britisher is more of the Anglo-Saxon type—tall, big-boned, and more or less fair. But ...

    Article : 217 words
  8. LEARNED FROM EXPERIENCE.

    "Now look here, Jim. Mind, when those people are here to-night, that you go to bed without any nonsense, otherwise you'll suffer for it, my son!" ...

    Article : 173 words
  9. COMBINATION WARDROBE AND TRIPLE MIRRORS.

    A compact combination wardrobe and triple pier glass, now being marketed in Franco, bears the exterior appearance of a mirror frame and the interior ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 81 words
  10. WHISTLER.

    Few modern painters have been more discussed than Whistler, who died on July 17, 1903. He was, it is true, proficient in the "gentle art of making ...

    Article : 227 words
  11. SOME LONELY ISLANDS.

    Though scientific progress has made it possible to do a double journey between England and America in a fortnight, there remain many lands with ...

    Article : 213 words
  12. SMARTLY REBUKED.

    The smart boy is sometimes intolerable, and deserves the rebuff he occasionally gets. An old, well-intentioned lady and a smart youth were the only ...

    Article : 171 words
  13. JAMES CHALMERS.

    "Of the many gallant men," the late Lord Shaftsbury once said, "who have done heroes work as scouts of the Empire, I know none who has a braver ...

    Article : 319 words
  14. CHEQUES DUE TO FOGS.

    It is claimed that the business world owes the idea of the bank cheque to nothing else than London's fogs. These fogs are sometimes of such a ...

    Article : 220 words
  15. BETTER COT RID OF.

    A physician calling one day on a gentleman who had been severely afflicted with gout, found to his surprise, the disease gone, and the ...

    Article : 123 words
  16. TO GET HIS WAY.

    A story is told of a certain well-known theatrical manager, who has a habit of, by hook or by crook, getting his own way. ...

    Article : 77 words
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