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  3. A TALE OF THE TURF

    As a rule the path of the average backer of horses is rough and thorny, and often interspersed with tracts of a "stormy " nature, but there are few who cannot recall to memory ...

    Article : 1,745 words
  4. A PROBLEM IN ETHICS.

    David and Jonathan had been cronies at Eton and chums at Oxford, and were still as the former expressed it, as thick as thieves. Whatever David's faults were--and that military ...

    Article : 3,044 words
  5. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

    It was "a difference of opinion,'' as the lawyers say, which caused me and my mate Bill Flowers to separate. Not that we had a violent quarrel or anything of that kind, it was ...

    Article : 1,400 words
  6. NELSON'S PREPARATIONS FOR DEATH.

    The wind was now from the west, and the breezes were light, with a long, rolling swell upon the sea. Nelson signalled to bear down on the enemy, ...

    Article : 388 words
  7. NAPOLEON AFTER WATERLOO.

    On the 15th of July, 1815, Napoleon surrendered himself on board the British man-of-war Bellerophon. Of his appearance and bodily condition during ...

    Article : 315 words
  8. THE GYMNAST'S BROKEN BACK.

    ''The most horrible accident I ever witnessed, and at the same time one that resulted in what is probably the most remarkable recovery in the annals of surgery,'' said an old time circus ...

    Article : 632 words
  9. STANLEY'S EARLY TRAVELS.

    The experiences of a frontiersman and Indian scout with whom Mr. Stanley conversed throw a lurid light upon Western barbarism. He reports the following dialogue, which took place ...

    Article : 638 words
  10. ROMANTIC MARRIAGES.

    One of the most romantic marriages on record is that of the Shah of Persia--Nasr-ud-deen. One day His Majesty--the "Asylum of the Universe " as he is called-- while out on a ...

    Article : 523 words
  11. THE ART OF LYING.

    According to the Psalmist all men-- and men embrace the women--are liars. In fact, ninetenths of the human race can't tell the truth when they see it. ...

    Article : 305 words
  12. LOST FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.

    Recorded in an old register in Bedlington Church, Northumberland, is a strange story. It tells how, many years ago, a parishioner named R. Brown bade his future wife, R. ...

    Article : 269 words
  13. UNPARDONABLE.

    Sir Andrew Agnew, the last of the hereditary sheriffs of Galloway, had a strong prejudice against the French, and plumed himself on his ignorance of their language, Once, while ...

    Article : 125 words
  14. THE RETORT COURTEOUS.

    In officer came late to dinner at Talleyrand's table, and, by way of apology, he had the importinance to say that he bad been detained by a pequin--using the slang term applied by ...

    Article : 88 words
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