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    We were encamped about ninety miles south at Allahabad, and were about to start out one morning to beat up a tiger which had been marked down, when a couple of ...

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  3. VARIETIES

    If you want a good ending to a little party take all the guests into the dining-room and turn out the gas. Make them all sit around the table in the middle of which ...

    Article : 160 words
  4. BACON RECIPE.

    All that pork of any kind needs is the proper amount of reasonably pure salt. It is said that some salt has 10 per cent of lime in it. Such is not fit to use in salting meat or ...

    Article : 276 words
  5. A PARROT STORY.

    In a smart village in the weet of 'Yorkshire lived old Tom Mix, landlord of the village inn. He had in his possession a very clever ...

    Article : 218 words
  6. AUTOGRAPHS AT A DISCOUNT.

    At a sale at Covent-garden, London, among a quantity of miscellaneous property disposed of was a small collection of autograph letters. All the items sold at ...

    Article : 147 words
  7. A REMARKABLE FEAT.

    Alexander McIver Tyddall, the celebrated mind-reader, proposes to undertake a feat never before undertaken in America. This is to be burried alive for ten days, at the ...

    Article : 183 words
  8. HARD SOAP.

    Hera are directions for making hard scap out of beef tallow which has been tired out. Babbit's can be bought at many groceries; it comes in tin boxes, 5d or 6d, and has ...

    Article : 103 words
  9. DOGS OF HIGH DEGREE.

    Most people have heard of the care and attention bestowed upon their canine pets by certain wealthy people, but few, we should think, are aware that there is in New York a ...

    Article : 240 words
  10. SYRUP RECIPES.

    To make caramel syrup that will not go back to sugar, melt a cupful of dry granulated sugar in a perfectly clean frying pan, stir constantly while melting, have water ...

    Article : 262 words
  11. AN AWKWARD POLICE WITNESS.

    One of the most remarkable police officers that I ever met was Inspector Brennan, who was told off specially to attend the cases having reference to base money. He was a ...

    Article : 328 words
  12. FLYING TO THEIR DEATH.

    During a storm a light-house will often be surrounded by myriads of birds of many species. Having been so unfortunate as to start off in their migration on a falling ...

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  13. TRAVELLER

    Belluno is a small town in Venetia, at the foot of the Italian Dolomites. It stands on a steep promontory, formed by the rush of the great torrent-river Piave, as it sweeps ...

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  14. THE TROOPER'S SCHEME.

    One of the soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry made a find while he was in Chicago at the recent labor unpleasantness. He was a wise man and didn't try to overwork it. ...

    Article : 404 words
  15. NATURALIST.

    Following up a wounded Buffalo bull, I got in a second bullet as the animal charged. This, however, did not stop him; and having only one barrel loaded, I waited until ...

    Article : 309 words
  16. FROM THE WRONG SIDE.

    A Paris paper tells a queer story of the rejection of a popular dramatist's first play by the Pantheon Theatre. The reading committe of the house, which ...

    Article : 109 words
  17. HOUSEKEEPER

    A neighbor, who has recently come to my vicinity from an old country town has a rug of marvellous thickness and texture. No oriental rug ever excelled it in the thickness ...

    Article : 275 words
  18. SKETCHER

    In the year, 1883, began what we may call the epidemic of explosion in England. The opening scene was at the Government offices at Whitehall on the night ...

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  19. FEW SAILORS CAN SWIM.

    The loss of life by wrecks of all kinds amounts in the year to about 7,500 in those countries which have accurate figures of commerce, but the total loss is probably much ...

    Article : 174 words
  20. THE DOG.

    A very remarkable relation between the mind of dogs and that of mas is found in the fact that these dumb beasts, unlike all other inferior animals, except, perhaps, some of ...

    Article : 373 words
  21. MUSICAL DINNER SERVICE.

    By way of a London paper it is learned that an American woman has lately received what must be termed the most original of wedding presents. It is a musical dinner ...

    Article : 83 words
  22. THREE TABLE SPREADS.

    Three table spreads which I saw recently were so simple, inexpensive and easily made, yet tasteful and pretty, that I will describe them. The first was dark-red denim, the ...

    Article : 161 words
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