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  3. THE LATCH CLICK.

    It was about dusk. Cari and Nora were sitting by the glowing fire, with bright, happy faces, talking of their prospects, when they distinctly heard the latch rise and fall. Nora ...

    Article : 1,088 words
  4. A CURIOUS WILL.

    The following is a copy of a curious will made by Sir Charles Hastings, Bart :-- I, Charles Hastings, being now of around mind, And not caring a straw for the fools left behind, ...

    Article : 483 words
  5. PAVING STONES FOR A PILLOW.

    One of the most curious of New York's many curious characters is a man named John Galvin, who with the exception of once recently, has not slopt in a bed or under a roof for the past ...

    Article : 437 words
  6. INDIAN NEWSPAPERS.

    Indian can justly claim to have had a share-- a very considerable share-- in the birth of the newspaper. Ages before the European conquest [?]rery Court had a weekly, sometimes a daily ...

    Article : 1,177 words
  7. A GHOST STORY.

    It was some years ago, while I was stopping at the hotel in Lawton, a little village in one of the Western States of America, that the following incident occurred : ...

    Article : 732 words
  8. A HEATHEN FESTIVAL.

    The Sun Dance is the greatest annual festival of the North American Indians. It is a feast as well as a form of worship, and is an occasion of love-making and for the initiation of warriors ...

    Article : 624 words
  9. A SOLDIER HERO.

    The first battle fought in the Crimean War of 1854 was that of the Alma. The allied armies of the English and French, arriving at the river Alma (about 20 miles to the north of ...

    Article : 644 words
  10. VAMPIRE BATS.

    Among the products of the country around P[?]ra are Vampire Bats, which are so dangerous that the natives are obliged to guard carefully against their intrusion into their dwellings. A ...

    Article : 180 words
  11. USED TO FETTERS.

    Dr. Blanc, of Cannes, who was one of the prisoners in Abyssinia for the liberation of whom the war of 1867 was undertaken, tolls a curious story of his experiences. His fetters ...

    Article : 210 words
  12. ARCADIA.

    Backland in the Moor, a [?]eoluded Dastmoor village, has not had proper among its inhabitants for close on twenty years,and manages without a public house, person, or policemen. ...

    Article : 180 words
  13. THOSE FUNNY SCISSORS.

    A noted pickpocket, wanting scissors for church purpose, went one day to a little manufacturer on Soho, and gave him a drawing of the kind articles he desired made. ...

    Article : 237 words
  14. A POWERFUL LIGHT.

    The most powerful light in the world, is at Fire Island New York Harbour. To ships it will be visible 100 miles out at sea. The light itself cannot be seen at that distance, owing to ...

    Article : 217 words
  15. CLEOPATRA'S REMAINS.

    When Cleopatra died 2,000 years ago her body was c[?]med. A bunch of wheat was placed in her hand and a comb in hair, and so she was buried. To-day, in a glass case, at ...

    Article : 69 words
  16. OBEYING ORDERS.

    The late Lord Derby was decorating one of his country mansions, and was having the central hall floor painted. A young man, tall and powerful, was at work on one of the walls when ...

    Article : 273 words
  17. 3,000 SKULLS.

    Collectors of skulls are comparatively common, and such collectors by no means exclusively belong to the medical profession. The skull of a member of any particular race-- ...

    Article : 241 words
  18. AN ELEPHANT STORY.

    There appears in an Indian paper a characteristic story of an elephant. The animal had run muck, killed a child, and then, turning on the mahout, seized him, dashed him to the ...

    Article : 96 words
  19. HIS PROXY.

    In the year 1829, when the Russian had taken Varna, nobody would venture to break the news to the Sultan Mahmoud. The Vision Kho[?]ru (at the time Sourskier and General in ...

    Article : 261 words
  20. ANCIENT LAMPS.

    The lamps originally used by the Hebrews, the Egyptians, and the Greeks, were simple flat vessels with a small bundle at one end, and at the side a little projection with a hole forming a ...

    Article : 238 words
  21. A USEFUL SERMON.

    The late Archbishop Tait, of Canterbury, once made on effective use of a sermon. Driving down Halloway Hill, he was confronted by a runway horse, with a heavy dray, making ...

    Article : 106 words
  22. THE COOK'S EPITAPH.

    Among the many curious ciptapha which still turn no local attractions, one of the most remarkable is in the churchyard at Wood Dilton, near Newmarket, and marks the grave of ...

    Article : 197 words
  23. A RACE OF PIGMIES.

    In Major Haris's " Highlands of Ethiopia," published some sixty years ago, we read :--" Beyond the exclusive wilderness which bounds Caffa on the south of Ethiopia are the Duke, a ...

    Article : 455 words
  24. BURMESE MARRIAGE CUSTOMS.

    With all respectable Burmese families it is an invariable rule that the child's name must begin with one of the letters belonging to the day on which it was born. They have a notion that ...

    Article : 370 words
  25. ROYAL PAGES.

    It is only at the Imperial and Royal courts of Europe that " the pretty page with the dimpled chin," so sweetly sung by the poet, and who constituted one of the most picturesque and ...

    Article : 421 words
  26. ELDERLY SWIMMERS.

    An odd scene was witnessed the other day in a thriving town in the South of England. A new public swimming both of unusual size and excellence was to be opened by the Mayor and ...

    Article : 122 words
  27. THE STRANGE GUEST.

    There is in circulation a pretty story concerning Prince Christian of Denmark which recalls Alfred of old and the cakes. The other day Prince Christian had to review some troops ...

    Article : 286 words
  28. DOCTORED DIAMONDS.

    Diamond experts say that stones can be so skilfully coloured that detection is next to impossible : that there is a mint of money in such a scheme tor the man who can do the colouring ...

    Article : 270 words
  29. WHEN GLASS WAS SCARCE.

    It is, indeed, not difficult, to imagine and to believe that there was a time when glass, which has been so common since we were born, was ...

    Article : 284 words
  30. COSTLY FURNITURE.

    The Shah of Persia owns the most valuable arm-chair in the world. It is made of solid gold, inlaid with precious stones. About a year ago some of the atones were stolen from ...

    Article : 193 words
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