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  2. FIRST APPEARANCES.

    "Whatever dazzling heights of success an actor may reach," Sir Henry Irving once said, "he never forgets, humiliating though the memory may be, his first ...

    Article : 636 words
  3. THE BEER STRIKE ON MULLOCKY HILL.

    Though not of historical eminence in the annals of heroic conquests and bloodless feuds of Western Australia, the beer strike of Mullocky Hill in ...

    Article : 1,179 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 603 words
  5. THE GLORIOUS SCARLET AMARYLLIS.

    The glowing Scarlet Lily—loveliest of all the many lovely flowers produced by Africa—has at last been accorded appropriate official recognition in ...

    Article : 1,071 words
  6. Advertising

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    Advertising : 291 words
  7. A CHEAP WATCH.

    We have the best of reasons for asserting that the "B. and W. Guinea Special" Watch, advertised on this page, by Messrs. Bruce and Walsh, is ...

    Article : 154 words
  8. WASHING BANK NOTES.

    It costs the United States Government about three farthings to manufacture a dollar bill. When the bill becomes soiled through continual ...

    Article : 116 words
  9. FROM BURNED CITY TO DREADNOUGHT.

    Physicists say there is the same weight of matter in the world now that there was at the Creation, and nothing is lost. After the rebuilding ...

    Article : 131 words
  10. FREAK SMOKERS.

    The Paris smoker who recently kept a cigar alight for two hours and seventeen minutes desired to show how slowly one may smoke. Others have ...

    Article : 104 words
  11. YES—HE KNEW!

    A certain man was under examination (says "Green Bag") by a member of a New York law firm, with reference to his qualifications an a juror in an important ...

    Article : 220 words
  12. BUTTER CHURNED WHILE YOU WAIT.

    A New York grocer has combined an advertising novelty and a sources of profit in a butter churn, which is in almost constant operation in his store. The ...

    Article : 94 words
  13. A CURE FOR WRITER'S CRAMP.

    The New York "Medical Record" tells about a paymaster who, after recovery from an operation, found that his signature was no longer uniform, was ...

    Article : 185 words
  14. THE TAX COLLECTOR'S SMILE.

    "When you hand money to the average man he smiles. The rent collector and the tax collector are exceptions. It is said that they rarely smile when you ...

    Article : 343 words
  15. A GREAT ENGLISH HISTORIAN.

    Thos. Babaington, Baron Macaulay, the son of Zachary Macaulay, an African merchant, and a leading mover in the agitation against the slave trade, was born at ...

    Article : 320 words
  16. A BUTTON'S WORTH.

    "He was a little bit of a chap," began the surgeon, "scarcely up to my knee, but when he was brought in with crushed legs and one arm hanging by ...

    Article : 315 words
  17. A PROBLEM OF SEX.

    In Miss Wood's kindergarten class there were eight pupils, four girls and four boys. One of the boys, however, had not yet reached the estate of kilts ...

    Article : 139 words
  18. FRENCH HOUSES.

    French houses, Mr. Edison declares, are abominable. They are built in a style which might have been good enough centuries ago. Not any ...

    Article : 127 words
  19. BITS BY THE WAY.

    The oldest large bridge in Europe is that at Ratisbon, over the Danube. It was built in 1134, and is 924 feet in length. ...

    Article : 113 words
  20. PADLOCKED PICTURES.

    The Louvre authorities are experimenting with a new mechanism for preventing the theft of pictures. The essence of the scheme is that an ...

    Article : 130 words
  21. DRINKING MADE EASY.

    An Irishman entered a country inn and called for a glass of the best Irish whisky. After being supplied he drank it, and was about to walk out when the ...

    Article : 93 words
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