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  2. NELSONS PREPARATIONS FOR DEATH.

    The wind wAs now from the west, and the breezes were light, with a long, tolling swell upon the sea. Nelson sigualled to bear down on the one my. ...

    Article : 384 words
  3. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

    It was "a difference of opinion," as the lawyers say. which caused me and ay mate Bill Flowers to separate. Not that we had a violent quarrel or anything of that kind, it was ...

    Article : 1,412 words
  4. A TALE OF THE TURF

    As a rule the path of the average backer of horses is [?]ugh and thorny, and often interspersed with tracts of a "stormy" nature, but there are few who cannot recall to memory ...

    Article : 1,769 words
  5. A PROBLEM IN ETHICS.

    David and Jonathan had been cronies at Eton and chums at Oxford, and were still, as the former expressed it, as thick as thieves. Whatever David's faults were—and that military ...

    Article : 3,163 words
  6. NAPOLEON AFTER WATERLOO.

    On the 15th of July, 1815, Napoleon surrendered himself on board the British man-of-war Bellorophon. Of his appearance and bodily condition during ...

    Article : 328 words
  7. THE GYMNAST'S BROKEN BACK.

    "The most horrible accident I ever witnessed, and at the same time one that a suited in what is probably the most remarkable recovery in the annals of surgery," said an old time circus ...

    Article : 637 words
  8. STANLEY'S EARLY TRAVELS.

    The experiences of a frontieraman and Indian scout with whom Mr. Stanley conversed throw a lurid light upon. Western barbarism. He reports the following dialogue. which took place ...

    Article : 667 words
  9. ROMANTIC MARRIAGES.

    One of the most romantic marriages on record is that of the Shah of Persia—Near-ud-deen. One day His Majesty—the "Asylum of the Universe as he is called—while out on a ...

    Article : 532 words
  10. THE ART OF LYING.

    According to the Paalmist all men—and men embrace the women—are liars. In fact, nine-tenths of the human race can't tell the truth when they see it. ...

    Article : 298 words
  11. LOST FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.

    Record in an old register in Bedlington Church, Northumberland, is a strange story. It tells how, many years ago, a parishioner named R. Brown bade his future wife. E. ...

    Article : 186 words
  12. UNPARDONABLE.

    Sir Andrew Agnew, the last of the hereditary sherffs of Galloway, had a strong projudion against the Fiench, and plumed himself on his ignorance of their language. Once, while ...

    Article : 109 words
  13. THE RETORT COURTEOUS.

    An officer came late to dinner at Talleyrand's table, and by way of spology, he had the impertinsance to say that he had been detained by pr[?] using the along term applied by ...

    Article : 57 words
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