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  3. THE MASTER THIEF OF ENGLAND.

    the fearless Captain of the Highway, was born at Chipping Norton, Oxon, in 1618. His father, a simple saddier, had so poor an appreciation of his son's maguanimity, that he apprenticed him ...

    Article : 1,740 words
  4. A NUN'S ADVENTURE.

    In days gone by it was the custom in France for those daughters of noble families who could not find a husband to enter a convent. That many took the voil very much against ...

    Article : 1,954 words
  5. THE CONVICT'S SISTER.

    She was a beautiful woman, despite the hunted look in her dark eyes--a woman people delighted to gaze upon. Even children would run back, having passed her, for another glance at ...

    Article : 2,341 words
  6. UNDETECTED CRIMES.

    There is no doubt that contemporaneously with the wonderful strides of art and literature which distinguished the first two centuries of modern history, the [?] of poisoning was in ...

    Article : 777 words
  7. OLD BUT EVER NEW.

    "Hoh!" sniffed the bachelor boarder, as his coldly critical eye swept disdainfully over the somewhat frugal breakfast table, "this is a daisy lay-out, ain't it? Can't you give us a bit ...

    Article : 150 words
  8. POINTS IN A WIFE.

    A certain sort of talent, says Robert Louis Stevenson is almost indispensable for people who would spend years together and not bore themselves to death. But the talent, like the ...

    Article : 169 words
  9. BREASTED A CANNON BALL

    William III. used to say that every shot has its commission, a notion also expressed in the proverb. "Every bullet has its billet." A notable exception to these wise sayings occurred ...

    Article : 400 words
  10. THE DOCTOR'S DRAM.

    The late Dr. Norman Macleod was a most facetious man, and noted for his love of a good joke. The following story is told in corroboration of ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. AN ENGINEERING FEAT.

    A man's fitness for a position is determined in various ways, often by tests which could scarcely be embraced in any series of set questions. A unique but successful civil service ...

    Article : 375 words
  12. OLD JOHN'S COUGH.

    In a small village in Lancashire there is an old worthy known locally as" Old John," This man, among other ailments incident to old age, suffers from a very severe cough. One day ...

    Article : 108 words
  13. ABSENT MINDED.

    Probably the worst instance of absence of mind is that recorded of a well-known University professor. He had gone to spend the evening at a friend's house. When he was about ...

    Article : 98 words
  14. MUST TAKE ITS TURN.

    In the day of General Sam Houston, the great American soldier and politician, duelling was much in vogue. After removing to Texas, of which State he was made governor, General ...

    Article : 302 words
  15. OUR WONDERFUL BODIES.

    We have (says Sir John Lubbock, in his "Pleasures of Life" (over 500 muscles, each nourished by almost innumerable blood-vessels, and regulated by nerves. One of our muscles, ...

    Article : 262 words
  16. WANTED A SHWIM.

    Barry having for years been an actor in Dublin was on very familiar terms with the most sarcastic, impudent, and familiar audiences. The colloquies they held together-- ...

    Article : 249 words
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