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  2. CAPTAIN KIDD'S BURIED TREASURE.

    It seems odd that just at the dawn of the twentieth century a regularly incorporated company with a capital of £17,000 should be working night and day to recover the buried treasure ...

    Article : 1,465 words
  3. SOME FAMOUS DUELS.

    One of the strangest duels of which a record has been preserved is that fought between Charles I.'s Court dwarf Jeffrey Hindson and a Mr. Crofts. This little man, at one time ...

    Article : 1,775 words
  4. LIFE IN THE TUILERIES.

    The following extracts are taken from "Life in the Tuileries under the Second Empire," by Anna L. Bicknell, published by Fisher Unwin; With his intimates the Emperor never cared ...

    Article : 891 words
  5. HIS ONLY CASE.

    We were in Markham's "sung," a little room to which be was accustomed to retire "to cool," as he expressed it, in much odd minutes as a heavy home-practice in medicine left him. ...

    Article : 1,815 words
  6. A BATCH OF FAMOUS SPENDTHRIFTS.

    Henry VIII, had a remarkable facility, for getting rid of money. He spent in a very few years the huge sums which his father had accumulated, the Field of the Cloth of Gold ...

    Article : 905 words
  7. A DOCK AND A DOCTOR.

    Tramcar Driver: Me and my off horse has been working for the company for twelve years now. Passenger: That so! The company must ...

    Article : 70 words
  8. ATHLETIC LUNG.

    "Athletic Lung" is a medical term used to designate the abnormal development of lung possessed by some athletes. The condition is produced by those forms of exercise that call ...

    Article : 140 words
  9. A RARE DISEASE.

    According to a New York correspondent, a case of "scromygalia, the rarest of all known diseases," is now engaging the attention of the College of Dentistry in New York. A man who ...

    Article : 109 words
  10. A VALUABLE PARCEL.

    A man in rustic attire shambled along the streets of Berlin, carrying in his hand a packet which was scaled and addressed, and with an inscription in the dorner to the effect that it ...

    Article : 176 words
  11. POLLY WAS TOO SMART.

    "I gave you that parrot as a birthday present, did I not, Matilda?" he asked. "Yes: but surely, Albert, you are not going to speak of your gifts as if—" ...

    Article : 113 words
  12. THIS PARISH BANG-BEGGAR.

    On week days the beadle in some parishes superintended. when necessary, the use of the ducking-stool and the branks, or gag, for feminine scolds—brutal methods of ...

    Article : 252 words
  13. WITH A RING THROUGH HER NOSE.

    General Sir Hope Grant, on his return from the Indian Mutiny, in which he greatly distinguished himself, was invited to dine with the Queen at Buckingham Palace. After dinner he ...

    Article : 147 words
  14. A DWELLER AMONG THE TOMBS

    Two yearn ago a retired merchant, Mr. Jonathan Reed, of 75, South Ninth-street, Brooklyn, lost his wife She was buried in the family ...

    Article : 166 words
  15. LADY FLORISTS.

    The business of florist offers a large field for women, and a lady has secured great results from a garden of two and a half acres, witt only the occasional help of a skilled gardener ...

    Article : 68 words
  16. HE WAS SURE OF IT.

    "My father," said Simpson, solemnly, was more sensitive to colds than anybody I ever know. the slightest exposure gave him a cold." ...

    Article : 151 words
  17. FOR LOVERS OF SENTIMENT.

    A pretty little sentimental idea comes from Germany, the home of sentiment. It is a charm that can be hang on the watch-chair or on the chatelain, along with the twenty other absolute ...

    Article : 128 words
  18. WILD DOGS IN PARIS.

    So many startling events happened from day to day during the Reign of Terror that the apparition of wild dogs in Paris is commonly overlooked. But it was quite natural. The ...

    Article : 309 words
  19. ANCESTORS TO ORDER

    It in related of a celebrated literary man that be once bought it desirable to have ancestors. He therefore walked straight to Wardour-street. where one can usually pick up an ancestor of ...

    Article : 255 words
  20. LONG LOAVES.

    The biggest loaves of bread baked to be enter are those made in France and Italy. In the case of the pipe bread of the later country, the loaves are between two and three feed in length ...

    Article : 206 words
  21. A CLEVER SPENDTHRIFT.

    A good story is told of a young man who, besides being of the spendthrift order, is a splendid mimic, and can imitate his father's voice to a nicety. ...

    Article : 190 words
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