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  2. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    Fire Brigade.—The engine station after this will be in Little Malop-street, next Mr. Bullock's store, where lamps will be kept burning all night, and a ...

    Article : 470 words
  3. A HAZARDOUS WOOING. CHAPTER III.

    "D—the jade," says I to myself, when I found that she had deserted me. "She's brought me on a fool's errand." I was stamping round old Faithful in ...

    Article : 2,222 words
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  5. THE UNKNOWN IRVING.

    One of Henry Irving's most, cherished quotations from the dramatist whose works he studied add loved with such intense devotion was: ...

    Article : 1,023 words
  6. STRANGE STORIES FROM THE FOREIGN PRESS. EMPRESS' SEWING MACHINE.

    The story of how it came about that President Roosevelt decided to make a present of a sewing machine to the Empress of Japan will have much interest ...

    Article : 232 words
  7. BACK FROM THE DEAD.

    Italian papers relate the romantic life story of Enrico Bandini, who, after being believed dead for 30 years, has now returned to his family at San ...

    Article : 345 words
  8. A PIE-MAKING MACHINE.

    Another severe blow for the arts and crafts has resulted from the arrival in Philadelphia of the pie-making machine. It has always been supposed that ...

    Article : 461 words
  9. SCIENCE NOTES.

    By pasting a bit of paper upon the eyelid of a photographic record has been made of the duration of time required in winking the eye. It has been found that a wink requires ...

    Article : 235 words
  10. WHY A TRAIN WAS STOPPED.

    The following story, contributed by a reader, appears in the "Augsburger Abendzeitung," under the heading, "The Highest Pitch of Conscientiousness":— ...

    Article : 213 words
  11. PROTECTION AGAINST ANTS.

    Too many recipes can scarcely be tried for this purpose, as many of those already in use are failures. It has been affirmed that recently hosts of these pests have been put to flight ...

    Article : 52 words
  12. HAIR STATISTICS.

    An eminent man of science has recently declared that red-haired people are far less apt to grow bald than those with other colored hair. The average crop on the head of a ...

    Article : 93 words
  13. TWELVE THOUSAND SHOTS A MINUTE.

    A new death-dealing instrument has been invented. A Lithurian gentleman, M. Feoder Troitz, has contrived a gun, worked by electricity, which will fire from 4000 to 12,000 ...

    Article : 77 words
  14. LISTENING A FINE ART.

    "The good listener is as important a member of the social circle as the brilliant talker," remarked a critical observer of daily life. ...

    Article : 149 words
  15. CHAPTER IV.

    At the back of the Bell Mound House was stored a stack of wood, and against this my conductress stayed her steps. "Pull those branches away, ...

    Article : 1,765 words
  16. COLORED WOOD.

    A considerable industry has recently been developed in Sweden on the basis of an invention made by Joseph Phister, an Austrian, whereby coloring matter is forced into ...

    Article : 111 words
  17. SUNDAY CORNER.

    The Christian life is the life of Christ within us. It is not imitation of Him. It is not our effort to be like Him. It is His own divine life at work in us. We receive it by ...

    Article : 711 words
  18. VANITY FAIR.

    If every Season does not bring forth entirely new fabrics, it introduces novelties which give an appearance of the materials being distinct from those of the previous year. For ...

    Article : 735 words
  19. COULD TUCK IN HIS EARS

    "Whenever I have nightmare," says an elderly patent attorney. "I dream of a man who possessed a horrible fascination for the youngsters in one quarter ...

    Article : 263 words
  20. LOST ARTS.

    Not as much as we used to, but occasionally even jet, one hears of some wonder accomplished by the ancients which cannot be done now. ...

    Article : 215 words
  21. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Barley Soup.—Procure a piece of scrag end neck of mutton, four ounces of barley, four turnips, three carrots, a bunch of leeks, and a little parsley. A few slices of potatoes help ...

    Article : 641 words
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  24. TO GUARD AGAINST FIRE.

    While a few nervous people live in daily dread of fire, the majority go to the other extreme, and take few or no precautions against it. ...

    Article : 210 words
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