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  2. THRILLING ADVENTURE WITH A TIGER.

    THE oldest inhabitant of Millbro' declared that the excitement was as great as that caused by the victory of Waterloo. All through the quaint village blazed huge posters, decorated ...

    Article : 2,544 words
  3. HOW PRESS NEWS IS WIRED.

    When Mr. Gladstone, or other political lion makes a great speech the telegraph office presents an interesting sight. Tho humdrum methodical and deliberate routine usually observed is ...

    Article : 919 words
  4. TEA ROOT CARVING.

    For more than a hundred generations, there has been a guild ot artists in the populou[?] Chinese province of Fo-kien whose life work is the conversion of the ...

    Article : 618 words
  5. QUEER MARRIAGE CUSTOMS.

    THE curious ceremony of welcome which awaited Princess Mario of Edinburgh on her return from her honeymoon to the capital of Roumania may be compared with the marriage ...

    Article : 622 words
  6. AN IMPORTANT MATTER.

    A gentleman filling a responsible position in an office of one of the railroads Which teach out to the great North-west from Milwaukoo, tells the following as a perfectly true story. He ...

    Article : 718 words
  7. HOW I TRIED TO KEEP MY HAIR ON.

    A TALE OF BITTER EXPERIENCE. Not long since, I made an alarming discovery with regard to the state of my hair. Perhaps I should say that it was made for me ...

    Article : 1,023 words
  8. A FAMOUS ACTRESS'S FIRST APPEARANCE.

    THE[?] many curious stories told of the beginning of famous actresses. They usually are the children of poor professional people. That is the regular story their poverty and ...

    Article : 498 words
  9. SILENT INFLUENCES.

    THE most powerful influences in Nature are often those which are least seen and noticed. A traveller visiting the gorges (canons) of California, is astonished to hear ...

    Article : 603 words
  10. THE ART OF THINKING.

    Did you ever notice how bunglingly some men think ? There is as much or more difference in the way some men use their mental faculties as there is in the way they ...

    Article : 477 words
  11. THE FUTURE OF ALUMINIUM.

    ALUMINIUM, which itself possesses a high degree of specific heat, does not readily absorb heat, and thus is not liable to the chief objection to iron buildings in hot ...

    Article : 415 words
  12. A SUPERSTITIOUS VILLAGE.

    An old woman in a village near Salzburg recently died. Her death gave great satisfaction to the other villagers, for she was looked upon as a witch, and feared ...

    Article : 311 words
  13. COMPANY MANNERS.

    THE "wife and mother" writers have for years been preaching to the effect that a woman ought to wear her best dress at home for the benefit of her house ...

    Article : 306 words
  14. DUKE OF PARMA.

    THE history of racing contains few more highly successful coups than was broughtoflf in connection with the Cesarewitch of 1875, which, as most old turfites will remember, ...

    Article : 219 words
  15. DRANK THEMSELVES TO DEATH.

    "I READ to-day of a dreadful case where three men drank themselves to death," said Bloobumper to his wife. "Tell me about it." ...

    Article : 95 words
  16. "'TWAS A DONKEY CART!"

    WHAT in the world are you crying for, youngster?" asked the doctor in surprise, for the boy, having cheerfully announced that his leg wasn't hurting him a bit, had ...

    Article : 316 words
  17. TALENT.

    THE value to the world of any natural gift or talent depends on two separate powers that of producing excellent work and that of bringing it to the notice of ...

    Article : 154 words
  18. A QUEER BUSINESS IN CHINA.

    IN China a bald-headed man of almost any age can, within the space of 48 hours, be transformed into a blooming youth, as for as the hair is concerned ; or a beardless ...

    Article : 165 words
  19. DISCIPLINE BY TELEPHONE

    There is a household in this city where the father is sole administrator at present, the mother having gone away on a visit to some relatives for a short stay. ...

    Article : 158 words
  20. A VACATION FAREWELL SYMPHONY.

    The tennis grounds are vacant, The tennis-courts are still, And from the grove of maples Calls the lonely whip[?] ...

    Article : 139 words
  21. ALMOST ANY KIND OF A MAN.

    It was a dull day in the court. A constable was sent out to bring in a man to serve on a jury. At the front door he met a lawyer. ...

    Article : 105 words
  22. POSTAGE STAMPS.

    PARIS is the great postage stamp market of the world. There is a regular bourse held every Thursday and Sunday in a corner of the Champs Elysees, where hundreds ...

    Article : 77 words
  23. A DRASTIC MEASURE.

    Young M. D. : "I wish I know what to do. The four daughters of the Mayor whose family doctor I am, are constantly oiling, and will allow no one but myself to ...

    Article : 61 words
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