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  2. THE BANDITS LEAP.

    Lima, the Peruvian capital, in cut in twain by the river Rimac, which runs through the city from east to west. This river is spanned by a magnificent bridge of solid masonry, built ...

    Article : 1,363 words
  3. QUEER DEATHBED FANCIES.

    Amid the many varied forms which eccentricity has from time to time taken, curious wills and eccentric bequests have not been the least remarkable. Humour of the grimmest, ...

    Article : 1,658 words
  4. GENTLEMAN JACK'S LATE REPENTANCE.

    Bitting in a tavern on the old village turnpike were three men. They had been driven from city to city because of their misdeeds and general bad character. ...

    Article : 2,301 words
  5. LONGLEY'S MISTAKE.

    R LONGLEY'S mistake, the mistake of his life, grew out of his ...

    Article : 985 words
  6. IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA.

    A syndicate of English and Subti[?]tal capitalists has recently been formed by [?] Temple, of the Royal Navy, for the purpose of recovering treasure which is estimated to be ...

    Article : 828 words
  7. AN "UMBRELLA."

    " Cassell's Journal " describes a burglar's " umbrella' thus:—Among a collection of articles that were used by burglars when engaged in their calling is one particular article ...

    Article : 187 words
  8. THE SQUARE THING.

    The sheriff was talking politics when a constable drove up with a man in a buggy. " Majah this yere is Jim Howland, who has ben sentenced to jail fur ninety days by the ...

    Article : 419 words
  9. AN INGENIOUS PLEA.

    In 1769 a gentleman was passing one night over Pont Neuf (Paris) with a lantern. A man came up to him, and said. " Read this paper!" He held up the lantern, and read as follows ...

    Article : 262 words
  10. FIERCE BATTLE BETWEEN HORSES.

    A cavalry officer related the following story of a pitched battle between horses, says the North-west Magazine:— ' Just at sundown, and while we were at ...

    Article : 575 words
  11. ONLY A TRAMP.

    There is no telling what romance lies hidden in the heart or any man among the thousands that throng the city streets. Back of the most forbidding exterior the ...

    Article : 355 words
  12. IMPARTIAL.

    A remarkable instance of the impartial administration of justice is said to have occurred some years ago in a court of Texas, when a young Mexican, charged with having stolen a pistol, ...

    Article : 225 words
  13. CHANDELIER OF HUMAN BONES.

    In the centre of the arched roof of All Saints' Church, Sedlitz, in Bohemia, hangs a chandelier constructed entirely of human bones. The church in which this remarkable object is ...

    Article : 220 words
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