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  2. THE FIRST BICYCLE.

    IT was a canny Scot, of the names of M'Millan, a blacksmith by trade, who first conceived and carried into propel himself on two wheels, with his feet off the ground. ...

    Article : 185 words
  3. POULTRY NOTES.

    EVERY fancier has his own way of preparing birds for exhibition. Some do very little, others too much, and just a few the happy medium. L. C. Verrey, the great Leghorn ...

    Article : 786 words
  4. THE LONG AND THE SHORT.

    A CIRCUS proprietor has discovered, what he claims to be the tallest woman, that ever lived. Her name is Ella Ewing and she is 9ft high. She is only 24 years of age, but it ...

    Article : 161 words
  5. A MADMAN IN A SIGNAL-BOX.

    AN occurrence almost unique in the annals of railway traffic took place on a recent night just outside the southern terminus at Brussels. The officials in the station were greatly ...

    Article : 146 words
  6. THE USE OF "HORSE SENSE."

    THERE is a horse over in Marin county, says a San Francisco contemporary, that has a phenomenal amount of "horse sense." He got a stone in his foot one day and went ...

    Article : 335 words
  7. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT.

    THERE was recently issued to the miners' lodges in Northumberland, England, a circular having reference to the recent conference of miners' leaders on the Workmen's ...

    Article : 310 words
  8. THE ART OF "SKI"-ING.

    THE ski (pronounced she) may be called a a modification of the skate, and its origin was purely practical. The great snows in the North of Europe—in Greenland, for ...

    Article : 305 words
  9. FEATHERED TRICKSTERS.

    BIRDS deprived of the use of limbs do not always "go to the wall." A writer in a contemporary has seen a finch with a wounded wing sustaining life by robbing ...

    Article : 340 words
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    Advertising : 3,174 words
  11. A "WONDERFUL JOURNEY."

    HE who would invade Tibet must evidently do so by stratagy. A letter has been received in Bombay from Mr. Henry Savage Landor, who has just reached the frontier of India, ...

    Article : 281 words
  12. AN ODD FESTIVAL.

    THE "Butcher's Leap'" is a curious custom hmong the butchers of Munich. Every year, on what is known as Carnival Monday, the last Monday before Lent, the butchers' ...

    Article : 273 words
  13. FORMATION OF HAILSTONES.

    ALTHOUGH hailstorms are not infrequent in England, there still remain many unsettled points with reference to their formation. During a recent storm of great severity Dr. ...

    Article : 242 words
  14. EVERY WATCH A COMPASS.

    "SEVERAL weeks ago in London," said an English tourist, "I was standing beside an American acquaintance, when I expressed a wish to know which point was the north. ...

    Article : 243 words
  15. "DECORATED" NURSES.

    IN the long list of Jubilee honours conferred by the Queen, none has given greater satisfaction than the bestowal of the Royal Bed Cross upon the brave and devoted Sisters of ...

    Article : 311 words
  16. VALUE OF A MINUTE.

    NAPOLEON, who know the value of time, remarked that it was the quarter-hours that won battles. The value of minutes has been often recognised, and any person watching a ...

    Article : 324 words
  17. SCOTTISH DUELS IN THE OLDEN DAYS.

    THE Scots took a practical view of duelling. Under the Stuarts a license was necessary to fight a duel; to kill a man without one was murder. Not only did they thus reduce the ...

    Article : 273 words
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