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  2. Laying a Ghost.

    During the month of June, 1803, a ghost began to walk at dusk in the neighbourhood of Hammersmith, where it frightened the ...

    Article : 315 words
  3. BANNOCKBURN.

    After six hundred years Bannockburn is still as fresh a word on Scottish lips as Waterloo on British. It was not merely a victory ...

    Article : 854 words
  4. Perils of Diver's Work.

    Referring to the death of a diver engaged on the Empress of Ireland wreck, a writer in the Manchester Guardian says that the first ...

    Article : 349 words
  5. Wild Woman of the Woods

    The ease of a woman who has taken to the woods and is living the life of a primitive human being, is puzzling the police and people of ...

    Article : 232 words
  6. (Copyright.) CONVICT DAYS.

    It can be no other than that scoundrel and murderer, he thought, and yet if it were a friend? As his even became more ...

    Article : 2,444 words
  7. Trivial Cause for a Duel.

    One morning a Prussian officer came to an inn and ordered a pickled herring, which was soon brought to him in a caper sauce. ...

    Article : 264 words
  8. The Rush to the Rand.

    Up to 1884 there was scarcely a suspicion of gold in the Transvaal, and the country was regarded as a barren land, lacking in all resources ...

    Article : 234 words
  9. Women on Horseback.

    Among other things that men tell women they should not do. may be mentioned the practice of riding astride, and the German ...

    Article : 179 words
  10. Why Things Have Rainbow Hues.

    To break open an opal in order to observe its hues would be the equivalent to killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. Neither ...

    Article : 479 words
  11. A Nine-Foot Giant.

    King Alfonso took a great interest at a recent circus performance in Madrid in a French giant named Eugenie Arceau, who is aged ...

    Article : 164 words
  12. Pearls of Great Price.

    There has lately been exhibited at a Court jeweller's in Bond Street a striking collection of pearls. One magnificent rope is valued at no ...

    Article : 394 words
  13. Got It.

    A certain good-looking portrait pointer got a commission to paint the portrait of a rich city magnate. He improvised a studio down ...

    Article : 378 words
  14. Struck by Lightning.

    Last summer in France was one of the most stormy remembered for some years. An intensely tragic event took place during the ...

    Article : 232 words
  15. BULLS—NOT IRISH

    It was a Scotswoman who said that the butcher of her town only killed half a beast at a time. It was a British magistrate who, ...

    Article : 85 words
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