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  2. CURIOUS JAPANESE CUSTOM

    Many foreigners will have noticed dur-ing the last few days (says, the "Kobe Chronicle") a number of women standing about the streets, with' long, narrow ...

    Article : 409 words
  3. A MILLIONAIRE'S SON.

    No more striking way of handling a fortune (writes "Collier's Weekly") has been discovered than Mr.Gordon M'Kay's bequest of four million dollars to Harvard ...

    Article : 422 words
  4. WHO ARE THE JAPANESE?

    Who are the Japanese and whence did they come to "Japan? (asks a writer in "St.James Gazette"). It is a question which has baffled the researches of ...

    Article : 703 words
  5. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ACTOR.

    Mr. Raymond Blathwayt has been interviewing Mr. Beerbohm Tree, the great actor manager, and in the last number of "Cassells Magazine" he gives some interesting details ...

    Article : 1,606 words
  6. A NEW SONG FOR SOLDIERS

    Will you listen while I tell you of the Red and Green and Brown? When the Green's the Green of England that is better than the town; ...

    Article : 377 words
  7. DO ANIMALS REASON?

    From an interesting article, the following examples are taken:— That all animals, and, to descend lower, in-, se[?]ts, have "brains capable of thought and ...

    Article : 1,803 words
  8. THE STOLEN SUBMARINE

    Many, of the events which are hereafter to be related practically came about through the chance meeting of an Englishman and a Frenchman—or to be more ...

    Article : 1,762 words
  9. THE MISERABLE RICH.

    The London "Daily News" writes:— "It is a pitiful picture that Mrs. Humphry Ward gives us of the vacuous and pernicious life of society in an article in ...

    Article : 443 words
  10. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

    Mine. Curie, the famous lady scientist and co-discoverer of radium, is but 36 years, of age. With fine, regular features, light blue eyes, and a good ...

    Article : 1,046 words
  11. A WARDOUR-STREET KING.

    An unlovely but singular personality expired recently in the death of Norodom I., King of Cambodia, who had for some time been under the protection of ...

    Article : 507 words
  12. DECIDING DEATH BY DICE

    A correspondent of "Notes and Queries" refers to a custom of "casting lots" which obtained in the armies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ...

    Article : 396 words
  13. VANITY FAIR.

    Never have fashions been so pretty or picturesque as they are at present, and never have there been such a variety of styles-from which to make a selection. Evening dress ...

    Article : 940 words
  14. HUMOR AT SCHOOL.

    A lady in a village school was about io give a, lesson on our domestic fowls, and, by way of preliminary, she asked (addressing one little lad):— ...

    Article : 692 words
  15. AMUSING.

    "Have you [?]ver had palpitation of the heart?" asked the insurance examiner. "Well," replied the young man, blushing vividly, "I'm engaged to be married." ...

    Article : 229 words
  16. LIFE IN ARGENTINA.

    An occasional counterblast to the perpetual trumpeting in this country of the glories of Argentina, comes to us ("S.M. Herald") from correspondents in Buenos Ayres. One of ...

    Article : 613 words
  17. A "MADE-UP" AFFAIR.

    Beauty: My mind is made up. The Beast Well, as soon as your face is we shall be ready to go. ...

    Article : 24 words
  18. "CLUBS FOR WOMEN.

    "Are there clubs for women in this town? asked the American visitor to Melbouene. "Certainly not," replied the gallant Victorian; "we can handle Women without clubs. ...

    Article : 33 words
  19. "BULLDOGMATIC."

    Did you ever get into an argument with him?" "Yes, indeed.". He's quite dogmatic, isn't he?" ...

    Article : 23 words
  20. HURRYING TIME.

    B[?]iks Time runs on, [?]? Now what makes Time run on? Bjunks: The spur of the moment, spose. ...

    Article : 24 words
  21. NEW BREAKFAST FOOD.

    Benson: Bought a sawmill, [?]? What are you going to do with it? Jenson: Bring out a new breakfast food. ...

    Article : 28 words
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