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  2. MRS. BROWN'S TREASURES.

    [?] wants the money." [?] Molly." [?] ma says I mus'n't [?] it." ...

    Article : 2,069 words
  3. AN OIL KING'S SQUANDERED FORTUNE

    The discovery of petroleum on the TransAtlantic Continent is invented with a good deal of [?], but probably nothing can exceed in grotesque extravagance the narrative of the man ...

    Article : 1,634 words
  4. HER REVENGE.

    It was a cold night. Pretty little Mrs. Arthur stood at the window watching the snow as it came down in great flakes. Presently she turned and, seating herself as a table, ...

    Article : 1,907 words
  5. A NIGHT IN THE ALPS

    In August, 1890, three members of the Alpine Club Messrs, Slingaby, Solly, and Smith, had a thrilling night adventure on the Dent [?] one of the very difficult peaks of the Alps. ...

    Article : 870 words
  6. THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS.

    A Consistory of Rome is always not merely an imposing ceremony, but an interesting event to the whole of Christendom. It is curious that the origin of this famous ...

    Article : 737 words
  7. THE CAPTAIN AND THE PIRATE.

    The tragic fate of Captain Wilson Hubbell commander of a trading vessel during the French war with the United States, in 1798, is recorded by the historian of Stanford, ...

    Article : 459 words
  8. SHORT AND SWEET.

    Though the great Napoleon was not accustomed to tolerate "talking back" on the part of the people about him, several instances are on record in which he not only forgave but ...

    Article : 307 words
  9. IRISH FACTION FIGHTS.

    The origin of these senseless, brutal and cruel conflicts is more or less shrouded in obscurity. It in abundantly clear that neither politics nor religion bad anything to say in the ...

    Article : 410 words
  10. JAPAN'S HAIRY ABORIGINALS.

    The only known race of human beings which have their bodies entirely with hair of varying lengths is the so-called "Dog Man" or "Hairy Ainus," of the Yeso group of islands, ...

    Article : 222 words
  11. TWO DINNERS.

    A distinguished American judge has a habit which is not altogether unknown on this side of the "hering pond"—be frequently brings [?] home to dinner quits unexpectedly. This ...

    Article : 87 words
  12. HE'D NEVER SEEN STAIRS.

    In Sarnoa, where he made his home for so many years Robert Louis Stevenson did much in the way of instructing the natives in European methods of work. He tells an amusing ...

    Article : 195 words
  13. WALKING BIRTH CERTIFICATES.

    It is quite common in Fiji and Samoa for a man to bear upon his arm or body a certificate of his body which is practically indelible. Tattooing is carried on in these islands so an ...

    Article : 169 words
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