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  3. STORIES OF DEATH VALLEY.

    The place to which the rather forbidding name of Death Valley has been given is situated, says "Chambers's Journal," on the borders of California and Nevada. It is ore of ...

    Article : 898 words
  4. TURNING THE TABLES.

    "You may take my word for it, Frank, the boree is as well as over he was in his lite." "But lie was or seemed to be, a hopeless cripple when turned not of training." ...

    Article : 1,813 words
  5. KATRINA'S GRANDFATHER.

    The resistless tidal wave of business in New York has swept steadily farther and farther northward. Its legitimate channels-- the avenues-- have been too narrow to hold its ...

    Article : 2,362 words
  6. EIGHTY MILES AN HOUR.

    Wall, gentlemen, if you wish it, I'll tell you the story. When I was a youth of 19 and lived with my parents is the Pennsylvania tows, I had a taste for railway travelling and a boyish ...

    Article : 1,839 words
  7. CROSS PURPOSES.

    Mr. j.: "Miss Esmeralda, I love you--" Miss Esmeralda: "But's all a mistake about my being rich. I am a poor girl, Mr. J." "You didn't let me finish my sentence. I ...

    Article : 122 words
  8. A SMUGGLER'S DEVICE.

    Several years ago I was an inspector of customs, and during my term of office I ran across some rather unique devices arranged for the purpose of getting contraband goods into this ...

    Article : 165 words
  9. HOW GEN BUTLER LOST A HORSE.

    While in front of Petersburg, the general received information that his favourite horse, "Almond Eye," had been accidentally killed by falling into a ravine. Upon the departure ...

    Article : 164 words
  10. KNOCKOUT DROPS.

    The term knockout drops is used to designate a solution that persons of evil intent place in the liquor of good-natured, half-drunken men in order to render the latter sleepy and ...

    Article : 204 words
  11. A THIEF STOLEN.

    One of the strangest incidents in the annuls of roguery occurred in London forty years ago. Early in October, 1855, the house of Mr. Hume, in Harley- street, was broken into. Before the ...

    Article : 221 words
  12. COST OF A PICTURE.

    It in said that Marshal Soult, on being asked one day bow much his best picture had cost, r eplied, " One monk'," The meaning of this was that the picture was given in exchange for an ...

    Article : 57 words
  13. HE HAD DONE BOTH.

    Deverspike was married. His friend Giddings contemplated matrimony. "I suppose," said Giddings," that it comes a trifle hard to face a girl's father and ask him ...

    Article : 84 words
  14. QUEER EVOLUTION.

    Mr. H. D. Parry, in his story of Waterloo for Cassell's " Battles of the Nineteenth Century," gives an interesting series of quotations from the " Moniteur " announcing the escape ...

    Article : 163 words
  15. ROMANCE WITH A MORAL.

    The latest true story, the sequel of which is of unusual interest to merchants in general, is told in the following short romance in real life. A few weeks ago a young man bought a pair of ...

    Article : 149 words
  16. THE PROUD DUKE.

    This inordinately arrogant nobleman seemed little Jess in his conduct that if vested with regal honours. His servants obeyed by signs. The country roads were cleared, that he might pass ...

    Article : 356 words
  17. SOME CURIOUS MARRIAGES.

    Marriages have been made in many stangs and curious places. A Bristol man was married in a perambulator not long ago. Crippled and deformed from birth, the registrar obligiugly ...

    Article : 319 words
  18. SHE WAS A LADY.

    A short, broad- backed young man, with hair the colour of a parsnip and the honest sunburn of the cornfield on his face and hands, walked into the office of a Detroit hotel one night last ...

    Article : 283 words
  19. A POLITE QUARRYMAN.

    Professor Sedgwick was geologising in a quarry near a high road, dressed in a rough suit for the purpose, and striking vigorous blows with his hammer upon the rock, when a carringe ...

    Article : 265 words
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