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  2. WARDROBE MYSTERY SOLVED.

    A CHINESE Government representative. who was new to American ways, went to the home of an eminent New York banker for a week's visit. It was winter, but he was ...

    Article : 135 words
  3. AUCTION OF WIVES.

    THE astonishing statement made by a solicitor in the English courts recently, to the effect that in some districts of Wales miners have been known to sell their wives, ...

    Article : 289 words
  4. LONDON IN CLOUDS.

    "EVERY great city impresses itself upon me atmosphere, and has a kind of aerial double. Smoke, dust, rising beat currents, and many other things give a particular character ...

    Article : 102 words
  5. THE COW WEARS STOCKINGS.

    AN Illinois farmer, having been kicked by a cow at milking time, and seeing the cause in a fly on her leg, made her wear stockings. Pretty soon, according to a news-writer, ...

    Article : 109 words
  6. ODD SCENE IN A MOTOR CAR.

    A TRUE story from America illustrates the swiftness and skill of a bird's flight. A minister was motoring in the State of New York, with John Burroughs, the famous ...

    Article : 201 words
  7. TRAIN IMPERILLED BY A RHINOCEROS.

    STORIES of big game hunting were told by Lord Dewar to the boys of the County Secondary School, Parley (England), writes a "Daily Chronicle" correspondent. ...

    Article : 193 words
  8. HEROIC FEAT IN THE CLOUDS.

    THE heroic deeds done during the war have not yet been half told. The last comes from Russia, where two British flying officers, Pilot Walter Anderson and Observer John ...

    Article : 159 words
  9. NELSON'S LOCKS.

    FOR a lock of hair cut from the head of Napoleon when on his deathbed at St. Helena, the sum of £25 was paid in Paris recently. ...

    Article : 142 words
  10. TALKED TO MONKEYS.

    THERE died in Chatanooga, Tennesse, lately. a man who became widely knows by his attempts to learn and interpret the language of chimpanzees and gorillas; and he objected ...

    Article : 243 words
  11. NEW MAID GOES OFF WITH A FORTUNE.

    MME. BOUVARD. the wife of a wealthy Parisian architect, engaged a chambermaid quite recently. At nine one morning the girl started ...

    Article : 71 words
  12. WRITING ON THE TRAIN.

    MOST people know how difficult it is to write well on a train that is travelling very fast. Yet the waiter in the dining-car will make out your account with perfect ease. ...

    Article : 170 words
  13. THE BIGGEST BABY.

    A BOUNCING baby arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson, of Oil City, Pennsylvania, recently. He weighed 17½lb. at birth, and physicians claim this ...

    Article : 72 words
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