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  3. THE WATER-BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER.

    The Meedham marshes, stretching away from the higher land, an which the village stood to a level horizon, looked grey and drear in the chill October twilight, 'There were times when this ...

    Article : 4,387 words
  4. STORIES OF THE STAGE

    The modern dramatic stage has furnished numerous casus displaying presence of mind in actresses, in the midst of general consternation. Some of these women have proved that the ...

    Article : 812 words
  5. A ROMANTIC CAREER.

    Harry Meigs, who fled from san Francisco a debtor to the public Treasury and hunted by the Sheriff, is the story of a Monte Cristo in flesh and blood, If the incidents of Harry ...

    Article : 1,538 words
  6. THE PUGILIST OF THE SEA.

    The swordfish is the pugilist of the sea, a pugilist who wastes no time in talking, and misses no opportunity to fight. Unlike the shark, the swordfish would rather fight than eat, ...

    Article : 492 words
  7. AMERICAN ELOQUENCE.

    A man on his trial for murder, in New York was successfully defended by his counsel in the following grandiloquent speech :-- Gentlemen of the jury, " Thou shalt not ...

    Article : 395 words
  8. THE GLASTONBURY CLOCK.

    In a transept, of Wells Cathedral the old abbey clock, which was one of the wonders off Glastonbury and of Europe. This very curious piece of antiquity is placed some 30 feet high in ...

    Article : 207 words
  9. A CURIOUS CABLE CODE.

    One of the curiosities of the cable code method of sending information is shown in a recent message announcing the loss by fire of a ship at sea. The whole message was conveyed ...

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  10. A HORSE WHICH EARNED THE VICTORIA CROSS.

    The horse of Lieutenant Robertson, of the Royal Engineers, ought to receive the equine equivalent for the Victoria Cross, if such there be. It calls to mind that wonderful history ...

    Article : 177 words
  11. MENTAL ARITHMETIC.

    Hor Majesty's Inspector of Schools was [?] cently holding his annual inspection at one of the large Board Schools in an important town in Yorkshire. ...

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  12. A ROYAL DENTIST.

    Peter the Great particularly delighted in drawing teeth, and he strictly enjoined his servants to send for him when auything of that sort was to be done. One day his favourite ...

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  13. WHY HE CEASED WHISTLING.

    One day as Field-Marshal Wrangel and the late Emperor Frederick were walking in Berlin they met an apprentice boy who was whistling a lively tune, but stopped as they came nearer, ...

    Article : 155 words
  14. EFFECT OF A POEM.

    After the battle of Baluelava, when the wounded were in the hospital, a chaplain read to them Tennyson's stirring lines, "The Charge of the Light Brigade." so delighted were the ...

    Article : 333 words
  15. LA SVENGALI.

    Well, we both taught her together--for three years--morning, noon and night--six--eight hours' a day. It used to split me to the heart to tee her worked like that! We took her ...

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  16. HIS EXCELLENCY'S PLEASURE.

    In publishing the following curious ancedote of a distinguished Russian general, the Russian Czas " expressly guarantees the authenticity of every detail therein set forth. It would ...

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