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  2. Traveller.

    WHO has not heard of Musolino? Who did not know that two entire regiments of soldiers, together with 'carabinieri' and ...

    Article : 1,552 words
  3. SHORT STORY [?]

    'We were just sitting down to supper,' said the latter, 'when we heard a scream from Agnes in the kitchen, and a heavy tread in the hall. Three men burst into ...

    Article : 3,186 words
  4. Science.

    INVENTORS have evidently not said their last word in regard to profitable means of disposing of sewage. The latest proposal on the subject ...

    Article : 282 words
  5. Personalities.

    AMONG the many excellent stories told by Howard Paul in his book, 'Dinner with Celebrities,' the following is one of the best:— ...

    Article : 116 words
  6. QUEENS.

    The greetings wherewith Londoners invariably acknowledge Queen Alexandra must convince her how deep is the hold she has on the affections of her subjects. ...

    Article : 304 words
  7. Varieties.

    THE engineering operations recently undertaken at Stonehenge in order to restore some of the gigantic monoliths to an upright ...

    Article : 99 words
  8. RENOVATING LINOLEUM.

    Linoleum or oilcloth in a hall can have its freshness restored by the application of a little beeswax and turpentine. It must be first washed in the ordinary way ...

    Article : 184 words
  9. THE SCENTS OF ROYALTY.

    Our late Queen's choice of perfumes was made long ago; for fifty years she remained faithful to patchouli. Queen Alexandra, on the contrary, has no great ...

    Article : 115 words
  10. ORIGIN OF CHOIR BOYS.

    From the days of King Solomon, when worship music was seemingly raised to the very highest point of perfection, and the large choral bodies of adult male ...

    Article : 415 words
  11. HINTS ON GALVANOMETERS.

    Galvanometers intended to measure small currents passing through a circuit of high resistance are wound with a great many turns of very fine wire, while those ...

    Article : 273 words
  12. AMBULANCE DOGS.

    An experiment made in the great ambulance manoeuvres Karlsrahe in Baden, by the general commanding the Fourteenth Army Corps ambulance was ...

    Article : 206 words
  13. GREAT ELEPHANT'S TUSK.

    For years it had been known that some African elephants have unusually long and heavy tusks, but it is not easy for foreigners to get any of them, since they ...

    Article : 164 words
  14. PICRIC ACID, MELINITE, LYDDITE, MAXIMITE.

    Many years ago it was discovered that indigo could be nitrated, and that the product, instead of being blue, like indigo, was a very brilliant yellow. This ...

    Article : 355 words
  15. COUNTESS OF ESSEX.

    When Queen Alexandra, according to royal custom, holds court directly after her coronation, surrounded by her ladies, one of the principal ones will be Adela, ...

    Article : 147 words
  16. HORROR UPON HORROR!

    Lady Midas: 'And we bustled into the train anyhow, my dear Mrs. de Tomkyns, and only imagine our horror, when the train had started, at discovering that we ...

    Article : 76 words
  17. 'BEN BOLT.'

    The Rev. Dr. Matthew B Riddle, of the Western Theological Seminary, gave some interesting personal recollections of Nelson Kn[?]ass, the singer who made 'Ben ...

    Article : 159 words
  18. THE SAME OLD BUTTER.

    A friend of mine has just had a most unpleasant experience. He has married a widow, and by some coincidence took her to the same hotel where she stopped with ...

    Article : 84 words
  19. ROYAL SIMPLICITY.

    Household fetitch[?] among the Bonapartes are the book and the little hat of Napoleon—that monarch who worked harder than any dozen men in his empire. ...

    Article : 174 words
  20. IN A TEXAS NEWSPAPER OFFICE

    'We hopx,' lately said a leading article in a Western American paper, apologetically, 'that our rxadxrs will pardon thx appxarancx of this wxx[?]'s 'Intxiligxacxr,' ...

    Article : 155 words
  21. A HEROINE'S EYES.

    Farmer Hodge (reading novelette): (I'm out of all patience with that Gladys Fitzallwyn in the story—the way she's abusing her beautiful eyes. She don't ...

    Article : 142 words
  22. COAL FIELDS.

    It appears from the estimates of the most trustworthy authorities that the coal-fields of the world cover an area of about a million and a quarter square ...

    Article : 108 words
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