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  2. AN ADVENTURESS'S STRANGE CAREER.

    The real name of Emilia Chlome, alias George Duprez, is Emmeline Mary H. She was born in England nearly 50 years ago of cultured and fairly well-to-do parents. The elder H. was a ...

    Article : 1,468 words
  3. BACKING THE WRONG HORSE.

    Jack Barham was hard at work in his big, bare room—half studio, half sitting room—when the door was unceremoniously burst open, and a young man of about his own age—five and ...

    Article : 1,772 words
  4. A NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE.

    There died in Santa Crax, California, the other day, a veritable Robinson Crusee—a man whose experience on a cannibal island in the South Pacific was [?] at any yarn of ...

    Article : 1,699 words
  5. PRINCESS CARABOO.

    Hone, in his "Every-day Book," gives the following account of this impostor:—Late one evening in the spring of 1817, the rustic inhabitants of Almondsbury, in Glouces ...

    Article : 836 words
  6. THE SMUGGLERS' CRIME.

    In Mr. Charles S. Harper's book, The Portsmonth Road" some terrible stories are told of the crimes committed on that great high way. Among them is a very thrilling and ...

    Article : 739 words
  7. CURIOUS MARRIAGES.

    The particulars of many curious marriages are not revealed to the public, but during the last certify less reticence was observed in the matter ; the ages of the respective parties were ...

    Article : 570 words
  8. HACKMEN'S CHARGES.

    Here is a somewhat new story of the Niagara Falls hackman. Two tourists, a lady and a gentleman, stopped off at the Falls between trains. A hackman engaged them for a brief ...

    Article : 203 words
  9. SAW WATERLOO.

    Those who saw the battle of Waterloo are becoming very few, but James R Green, of Ellsworth, Ohio. 97 years of age, is one of them. He is an Englishman by birth and in ...

    Article : 230 words
  10. MR. BALFOUR'S HOME.

    Whittinghame in East Lothian, the ancestral home of Mr. Balfour, is described by a representative of the "Christian Commonwealth," who has just paid it a visit, as a beautiful place. ...

    Article : 247 words
  11. LABBY AS LESSEE.

    Author politican, Mr. Labouchere, had a much more intimate connection with the stage. He was practically the first tenant of the Queen's Theatre in Long Acre, built by ...

    Article : 272 words
  12. THE DETECTIVE'S OPPORTUNITY.

    Maxime Viquetre was aching to distinguish himself and the new espionage bill he declared. His one desire was to serve his country by the discovery of some ingenious plan to rob France ...

    Article : 1,056 words
  13. AN UNKNOWN GUEST.

    Into a maiden's heart a fair guest came. She did not know his face, nor yet his name. By night the mystery vered her, and by day. She knew him her, and yet she bade him stay. ...

    Article : 149 words
  14. IT REMAINED.

    Her head had dropped upon his shoulder. "If only," he whispered, "thy cheek could remain there forever!" Little thought he what was to be. ...

    Article : 69 words
  15. AT CROSS PURPOSES.

    "Do you miss him much?" She, to the surprise of the questioner, smiled "Not so much as I used to, Even a woman can learn to throw straight when the distance ...

    Article : 130 words
  16. An Almost Extinct Races.

    On the colony of Victoria there are now only seven hundred and eighty natures where there were formerly fifteen thousand. There is every prospect, that the race will become ...

    Article : 37 words
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