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  2. ENGAGEMENT RINGS.

    AMONG the Egyptians engagement rings were always of iron, indicating the mutual sacrifice or liberty. One of the earliest gems used in the engagement ...

    Article : 147 words
  3. GIRL IN THE PULPIT.

    IN an American paper we read how recently, at a place called Wareham, in Massachusetts, a sixteen-year-old girl filled her father's place in the ...

    Article : 172 words
  4. GHOSTS AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

    WINDSOR CASTLE having been declared to be haunted, it is almost a natural sequence that the White House at Washington should also have its ghost or ghosts. The principal ...

    Article : 152 words
  5. A MIDGET OF THE HORSE WORLD.

    THE Tom Thumb of a horse, which must, as all other things eventually do, find its way to London, is the property of the Marquis Carcano, a horse fancier of Lombardy, who ...

    Article : 179 words
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  7. WHY DO WE EAT FRUIT?

    1. BECAUSE it relieves thirst and introducers water into the system. 2. It furnishes nutriment. 3. It supplies organic salts essential to proper nutrition. 4. It ...

    Article : 159 words
  8. MARRYING A FLOWER POT.

    A VERY strange ceremony is from time to time witnessed in China in the shape of a flower pot taking the place of the bride-groom at a wedding. A wedding of this ...

    Article : 266 words
  9. THE CURFEW STILL RINGS.

    THE old Thames-side town of Barking, which, before the days of steam trawlers and fish-carriers, used to receive most of the fish brought from ...

    Article : 161 words
  10. THE BRITISH SOLDIER'S CAREER.

    SPEAKING recently in St. James' Hall, London, Lord Wolseley said he would like to see more of the men joining the regular forces. It was sometimes ...

    Article : 196 words
  11. THE "MIRACULOUS" OR "HOLY THORN."

    AT Glastonbury Abbey, in Somersetshire, once stood a thorn tree which, it is said, bloomed every Christmas morning. The first authentic account of it over written was in ...

    Article : 221 words
  12. A LEADING LADY ORATOR.

    MR FREDERICK DOLMAN gives as a wonderfully interesting appreciation in Pearson's Magazine of the best known women speakers in this country. We cannot refrain from ...

    Article : 379 words
  13. A ROYAL MUMMY.

    THE greatest discovery of mummies ever made en Egypt was in the year 1881, when the remains of 39 royal personages were brought to light at Deir-el-Bahari, Thebes. ...

    Article : 325 words
  14. AMERICA'S NAVY.

    Now that America is developing a foreign policy, the strength of her navy, of course, becomes a subject of world-wide interest. From that point ...

    Article : 273 words
  15. CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.

    HERE are a few curious specimens of advertisements which a writer has called from different sources:—"Wanted to exchange a boy of thirteen ...

    Article : 214 words
  16. THE "MACADAMISER" OF OUR ROADS.

    JOHN MACADAM, the inventor of the system of road-making which bears his name, says a London contemporary, was a road trustee in Ayrshire, where his estate was. Just a ...

    Article : 251 words
  17. "THE HAPPIEST MAN IN LONDON."

    THIS man was found living in a single room, says "Ladies' Home Journal," with his sick wife. For 25 years the wife had been paralysed, and her husband had been ...

    Article : 323 words
  18. A WOOL-GANGER IN TRODBLE.

    A WOOL-GANGER, of NO. 4 Globe-road, Circular Quay, by the name of Arthur Andrew Belfitt, interviewed the other day by a reporter, stated that he had for a long ...

    Article : 666 words
  19. TEETOTAL TIPPLES.

    NINETY-NINE per cent of "temperance" beverages in London, a scientific contemporary avers, are alcoholic. Material evidence on this point is to ...

    Article : 128 words
  20. THE KAISER AN DHIS MOUNTS.

    THE German Emperor's saddle horses (says a writer in a London journal) are selected with special care. The qualities required of an animal to which William II trusts himself ...

    Article : 448 words
  21. ABOUT COREAN MONEY.

    COREAN money is made of copper or brass, with a square hole in the centre. It takes six hundred of these coins to equal in value four shillings ...

    Article : 319 words
  22. A SAILOR'S SUPERSTITION.

    CAPTAIN WATSON had an experience in connection with a fire at sea which may as well be related, says a writer in a London magazine, although there was nothing specially ...

    Article : 378 words
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