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  2. THE SONG OF THE SWORD.

    I leap from, my sheath like a flash of light, And Mankind looks on afraid, They shrink in affright from the deadly bite Of my sharp and pitiless blade, ...

    Article : 488 words
  3. THE DEATH PENALTY

    The evening was calm—autumn tints of varied hues in unspeakable loveliness capped the pine-top of the gardens on the eastern slope of Corio Bay, and on ...

    Article : 2,187 words
  4. SCIENCE NOTES.

    The successful transplantation of the cornea (the projecting transparent, part of the coat of the eyeball), literally giving a blind man sight through another's ...

    Article : 149 words
  5. WHY WOMEN SHOULD NOT SMOKE.

    Smoking has been practised by a few women, in all probability, ever since tobacco was introduced into these islands. Peasant women, many of them, have for ...

    Article : 1,005 words
  6. THE RETORT DISCOURTEOUS

    An American contemporary prints some amusing examples of native wit and the replies called forth by it in various debates and stump speeches. As ...

    Article : 495 words
  7. Headache, Indigestion and Constipation.

    It will interest sufferers to Know that a valuable medicine, called Frootolds, has been discovered, which is now completely curing eacli of the ...

    Article : 531 words
  8. VARIABLE SPEED TURBINE ENGINE.

    A turbine has been patented in England which, by means of two sets of steam admission ports, into either of which steam may be admitted at will, ...

    Article : 176 words
  9. THE LARGEST SUNDIAL IN THE WORLD.

    Among the remarkable antiquities of India is the great sundial at Delhi. It is 58ft. high. the length of the oblique edges being 116ft., and the radius of the ...

    Article : 166 words
  10. ROUND THE WORLD IH FORTY DAYS.

    The earth contracts. A generation ago Jules Verne described the seemingly impossible feat of circling the globe in eighty days. To-day it is possible to go around the world ...

    Article : 987 words
  11. A WHITE MAN'S WORLD.

    "The world of modern intellectual life is in reality a. white man's world." And, adds Mr. W. S. Thomas in an article on "The Mind of Woman and the Lower ...

    Article : 982 words
  12. GIRL STEEPLEJACKS.

    The exploit of Miss Elsie Heins in ascending the other day the lifty spire of All Saints' Church, Hereford, England, although a phicky enough proceeding, ...

    Article : 328 words
  13. MOCK-LITERATURE.

    A writer in the New York "Nation" has a particularly sensible article on "The Science of Literature." Anybody who has practised the art of writing ...

    Article : 540 words
  14. FASTING FOR FIFTY DAYS.

    How long can a human being live without food? The answer to this query, seems to he that, given even the most favorable conditions, 50 days appears to be ...

    Article : 307 words
  15. TWO COLLECTING STORIES.

    I remember some oak panels bought by an enthusiastic American friend from a dealer in Yarmouth, whose eyes, looked you straight, in the face—so conscious ...

    Article : 448 words
  16. TYPING RECORD.

    The world's record in rapid typewriting was broken in London on Thursday by a young man from Newcastle-onTyne, who accomplished the astonishing ...

    Article : 186 words
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    Advertising : 427 words
  18. ARTIST'S INCOMES.

    Twenty thousand a year seems pretty good payment for an actress. That is the sum at which the salary of a French artist, of whom we have been hearing, ...

    Article : 225 words
  19. THE AMATEUR DRESSMAKER

    The question of dresses of light washing materials is assuming importance in the eyes of the home dressmaker, many women wisely taking time by the ...

    Article : 300 words
  20. PIRATES HOARD.

    The recent earthquake tremor in Portugal has been responsible for a remarkable find of wealth. At the fishing village of Nazareth, in ...

    Article : 164 words
  21. BRIDE AS "BOY."

    Mile: Desehamips, who was about to be married on Tuesday, in Normandy, discovered that the marriage would be illegal, because in the eye of the law she ...

    Article : 143 words
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