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  3. ATLANTIC ADVENTURERS.

    Little did Henry May think what a dangerous .precedent lie was setting when he crossed from the Bermudas to England in in the year 1522.' He had been shipwrecked ...

    Article : 395 words
  4. HITS AND BITS.

    The air castles of most girls are covered with orange blossoms. " Do you say your prayers, little girl ?' " Naw! I tried it and it didn't work, so ...

    Article : 900 words
  5. EXCESSIVE "MEAT-EATING.

    Man belongs essentially to the class of omnivora, and therefore his physical mechanism has been so adjusted that his health is best promoted by drawing upon ...

    Article : 592 words
  6. CATCHING THE HORSE.

    " I wish you would go out with me this evening to bring Dandy in," remarked my wife to me in breakfast. Dandy is the family horse. A few weeks ...

    Article : 1,258 words
  7. SUNBURN.

    For sun and wind burn there is almost instant relief in Mio application of an cintment which will begin immediately to repair the damage done to the cuticle. A sunburn ...

    Article : 322 words
  8. AN AMPLE APOLOGY.

    " Look hero, sir," blustered Dumsquizzle, as he rushed up to Tillinghast and shook his fist under the hitter's nose, " I understand that yon have been talking about me behind ...

    Article : 324 words
  9. HOW WOMEN ARE WON.

    If wo are to believe our informants, fact is of all things the most necessary to gain a woman's a flections. Tact prevents a man from coming at the wrong time, saying the ...

    Article : 804 words
  10. WISE PROVISION OF NATURE.

    Some curious experiments have been tried with the ermine. Four or live were caught one summer in North America, und found to have rich coats of a mahogany brown ...

    Article : 243 words
  11. A MINER'S CLAIM TO AGE.

    In a remote in pot in Modern County. California, lives a unique and venerable man, who seldom sees and never mingles with Ids fellows. lie claims to lie 110 years old, and ...

    Article : 300 words
  12. BOULANGEIV'S FAITH.

    General Boulanger provided the journalists of Europe with some splendid " copy," and suffered intensely from the ravages of the interviewers. I remember dining with him ...

    Article : 303 words
  13. A TATTOOED WILL.

    Those who have read Rider Haggard's story of " Mr. Meeson's Will " will remember that in that talc a will was tattooed on the hack of a young lady. A somewhat similar ...

    Article : 113 words
  14. A " POOR SOLDIER,"

    Prince Charles of Denmark, had ho only been a king instead of a prince, would certainly outrival tho story of Alfred of old and the cukes. ...

    Article : 260 words
  15. PREPARED FOR BURIAL WHILE YET ALIVE.

    There are probably few men now living who have come so hear to being buried alive as the Rev. A. Kane, a chaplain in the United States Navy, and the story of his ...

    Article : 419 words
  16. THEN THERE WAS TROUBLE.

    The following amusing incident recently occurred in an English garrison-- It is the duty of an officer's servant to take his master's luncheon, tea, and anything he ...

    Article : 183 words
  17. HAIR TURNED WHITE.

    The editor of the " Philosophical Magazine " relates a crircumstance that came within his own knowledge many years ago in Scotland. Some silver spoon's having ...

    Article : 113 words
  18. A SINGULAR FAMILY.

    In the reign of King William the Third then: lived at Ipswich, in Suffolk, a family which, from the number of peculiarities belonging to it, was distinguished by the name ...

    Article : 325 words
  19. THE BARRISTER'S RETORT.

    A well-known County Court Judge tells a story about the cross-examination of a bad- tempered woman in ins court. She was an Amazonian person. Her husband, obviously ...

    Article : 87 words
  20. SEVEN TEMPLES FROM SEVEN STONES.

    Mayalipuram, India, is graced with seven of the most remarkable temples is tho world, each of these unique places of worship having been fashioned from a solid ...

    Article : 189 words
  21. DENNIS'S REST.

    Three Irishmen on trump, very tired and hungry, were making their way along, a country road one bright moonlight night, when, coining to one broad stream when was ...

    Article : 181 words
  22. THE REASON WHY.

    A certain farmer who travelled between- two towns, to the market in one and his home in the oilier, was in the habit of paying his fare at the end of the journey, and never ...

    Article : 130 words
  23. QUICK WORK IN SUIT MAKING.

    In the year 1811, John Thorkmorton, a Berkshire baronet, offered,to lay a wager of ' 1,000 guineas to the following effect:--That at eight o'clock on a particular evening he ...

    Article : 218 words
  24. A QUAINT CUSTOM.

    A unique proceeding in connection with the distribution of the White Bread Meadow Charity takes place annually during the first week in April, at Bourne, Lincolnshire. By ...

    Article : 205 words
  25. NOT ALLOWED A LATCHKEY.

    A couple of years ago I was among the spectators at a League match between Wrockwardina Wood and Wellington. Just before half-time the reforce somehow ...

    Article : 140 words
  26. THE RICH MM PUNISHED.

    A rich man, having lost a, box containing £100, promised £10 reward to anyone returning it. A poor man brought it to him, and demanded the £10; but tho rich man, to ...

    Article : 129 words
  27. WHERE AGE IS JUDGED' BY THE, HAIR.

    An old man in this country can generally be distinguished by bin grey-hair, but in Japan tho people can tell the ago of each other by the- manner in which the hair is ...

    Article : 165 words
  28. CANARD.

    The term as applied to newspaper inventions arose in the following manner:-- Norbert Cornelissen to try the gullibility of the public reported to the newspaper that he ...

    Article : 136 words
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