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  2. ASTRONOMY MADE EASY.

    "No, there aim't so much made out of this line as induce me to advise anybody to take to it for a living," recently remarked a man in the street, who, standing deside a large ...

    Article : 469 words
  3. AN INDIAN MASSACRE.

    The awful condition of life in the Northern territory at the American Continent little more than a country ago can be gathered from the following description of an incident within the ...

    Article : 1,117 words
  4. A TENDERFOOT AT POISON GULCH.

    Things were decidedly dull at Poison Gulch. Three whole days had passed without a fight. True the accidental discovery of two aces of spades in one pack had caused a slight ...

    Article : 747 words
  5. HOW PAUPERS GET POCKET-MONEY.

    The beneficent guardians of the poor in this country have not as yet taken into their consideration the advisability or otherwise of granting allowances of pocket-money to those ...

    Article : 675 words
  6. SOME QUAINT TENURES.

    Very old customs [?] with regard to the possession of property in out-of-the-way corners of the kingdom, customs which date back centuries, and of which all trace of origin has ...

    Article : 542 words
  7. IN THE GRIP OF THE CUTTLE FISH.

    It has been disputed in Enrope whether the octopus over attacks human beings. No native of Polynesia ever doubts the fact. A fisherman rarely goes alone in search of the octopi. ...

    Article : 670 words
  8. CANNIBALISM AMONG THE ARABS.

    Our usual food on the march, says a military writer, consisted of the abrek, or broken native bread, which we carried dry in leather bags, just as the Arabs do to-day, and ate soaked in ...

    Article : 527 words
  9. MAKING HIMSELF AT HOME.

    In a small country town in the County C, there lived some years ago a doctor named O'Mare, who was as renewned for his potations as for his love of fun of all sorts, at the same ...

    Article : 268 words
  10. A FAMOUS TOBACCO BOX.

    About 132 years ago there was a popular churchwardea named Monck, who bought for the sum of fourpence a tobacco-bux at Horn Fair, from which, at the meetings of the ...

    Article : 322 words
  11. A FATAL DOUBLE.

    Following the story of the Phoenix Park murders this susedote of the strange circumstance which might have led to the assassination of "the wrong man," a valuable public servant, is ...

    Article : 407 words
  12. A WILL STORY.

    A romantic story of a missing will is recorded in "Chambers's Journal." The house keeper to a farmer in Aberdeenshire had a gratifying surprise in this way. A farmer is the ...

    Article : 354 words
  13. A GOOSE IN RED FLANNEL.

    Last New Year a very amusing event occurred in my poultry yard, where I had a flock of geese, which I was planning to keep through the winner. That morning I fed them as usual, giving ...

    Article : 428 words
  14. GOT AN ORDER.

    A travelling tailor, calling at a farmhouse the other day, pressed for an order, extelling his wares in the usual elequent manner, but was again and again refused. When the farmer set ...

    Article : 205 words
  15. A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

    A thrilling ballooning story about the late Fred Burnaby, is given in the recently published "Memoirs of Sir Claude C. de Crespigny." "The most dreadful aeronautic ...

    Article : 276 words
  16. FINESSE.

    Through the hat dusty roads of Kansas a would-be homesteader was pursuing his way to the Chorokee strip, in search of one of Uncle Sam's free homes. He had his family and goods ...

    Article : 198 words
  17. A PAPER RESTAURANT.

    A novel structure has been erected in the port of Hamburg is the shape of an eating house built entirely of paper. Its walla consis of a double layer of paper strips on frames ...

    Article : 131 words
  18. HOW IT HAPPENED.

    "Too bad about Shelby, wasn't it ?" "What's the matter with him ?" "He had a terrible shock day before yesterday and may not recover. Hadn't you heard ...

    Article : 103 words
  19. A MAMMOTH PIG.

    The largest hog in the world has just been discovered on the farm of a mass in one of the small towns in Texas. It is quite an abnormal animal, and its propoctions bear no relation ...

    Article : 212 words
  20. A PATENT FLYCATCHER

    A machine for catching flies off the backs of cattle, and son affording the animals relief and comfort, has been invented by a farmer in Madison country, Ky. The flycatcher is a kind ...

    Article : 174 words
  21. THE ENGINEER'S ASTONISHMENT.

    There is a smart little town out in North Dakota, and its inhabitants imagine they are a great deal smarter. They have an excellent opinion of their city, as they term it, and blow ...

    Article : 271 words
  22. NO TIME TO AIM.

    It is a strange fact that the human hand, eye, and nerve are so constituted as to act automatically and correctly at the proper moment, almost without conscious effort on the owner's ...

    Article : 266 words
  23. WEDDED BY STRATEGY.

    A young couple in a Lancashire village bad been courting for several years. The young man one day said to the woman: "Sail, I [?] marry thee." ...

    Article : 240 words
  24. PALMED IT OFF.

    A gentleman travelling on a journey, having a light sovereign, which he could not pass, gave it to his servant and desired him to pass it on the road. At night he asked him if he had ...

    Article : 95 words
  25. THE SULTAN.

    The "London Chronicle" says that the Sultan of Turkey is descended from a French lady. His great-grandmother, Nachasadi Sultans, consort of Abdul Hamid I., was born ...

    Article : 206 words
  26. HOW IT HAPPENED.

    Josh Medders: I understand that Amos Whetrock got hurt, somehow, while leavin' Miss Dorinda Oldgal's house the other night. Do you know how it happened ? ...

    Article : 151 words
  27. AS FULL AS A TICK.

    This expression is common enough in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and always has reference to the parasites infesting dogs and sheep. Mr. J. Nicholson's "Folk Speech of ...

    Article : 120 words
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