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  3. HOW DIFFERENT.

    The locomotive of 1837 was only about 15 to to 19 feet over all, with a waggon for coal behind. The "Dunalastair" is 53 feet 4 inches, including the tender. The ...

    Article : 713 words
  4. THE GHOST THAT MADE THE BOOK SELL.

    An adventurous bookseller had ventured to print a considerable edition of Drelincourt's "Book of Consolation against the Fears of Death." translated by M. ...

    Article : 395 words
  5. BURGLARS' SPIES.

    To the uninitiated the knowledge of the whereabouts in a house of jewellery and plate displayed by burglars, as revealed by newspaper accounts, is almost marvellous. ...

    Article : 833 words
  6. AN EXPLOSIVE INDUSTRY.

    The peach-copping industry was once attempted upon a large scale in Atlanta. It was during the hot summer of 1866 that several enterprising Northern men combined their ...

    Article : 542 words
  7. COOING COUPLES.

    She's stylish and pretty and passably witty, And wise, I am told, as a sage; She's bright and vivacious, extremely sagacious, And not of an uncertain age. ...

    Article : 1,172 words
  8. A PAYING GUEST.

    A Lady, having a larger house than she needs, would be glad to ...

    Article : 1,562 words
  9. HINDOO JUGGLERS RIVALLED.

    The Navajo Indians are wonderfully adroit [?] jugglery, and sometimes [?] from feats quite as wonderful as those of the famous Hindoo magi[?]s . Ci[?]ed [?] may observe and ...

    Article : 289 words
  10. AFTER YEARS.

    She'd been up in the attic, This little wife of mine, A-rummaging and tumbling, For what, I can't divine. ...

    Article : 184 words
  11. A MILLIONAIRE LEARNING TO WRITE.

    Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt lost his ability to write when he was stricken with paralysis. For several months he gave no attention whatever to business matters, ...

    Article : 422 words
  12. THE ORIGINAL JACK HORNER.

    Jack Horner, of the Christmas pis really existed though whether be deserved the title of "good boy" is exceedingly doubtful. He however, was a fortunate rogue. ...

    Article : 284 words
  13. A LESSON FOR HARKINS.

    Harkins is one of those genial souls who likes to be polite to everybody, and the other day when he sat down by a gentlemanly-looking old man in the street car, Harkins said:-- ...

    Article : 255 words
  14. AIR THAT KILLS.

    One of the surgeon's greatest horrors is an operation among the great blood-vessels of the neck, for the strange reason that these voina, being so near to the heart, have a great ...

    Article : 195 words
  15. STOOD TO REASON.

    The great criminal lawyer was defending a man indicted for larceny. An old food existed between the lawyer and the prosecuting attorney, and they neglected no opportunity to hit ...

    Article : 169 words
  16. ACTORS' SLANG.

    A well-known member of the Green Room Club has been justifying stage slang. Some people have said unkind things about it. They think that "cracking a wheeze" is no ...

    Article : 208 words
  17. THE FIRST OMNIBUSES IN PARIS AND LONDON.

    The first omnibuses were started in Paris in 1762, by three nobles to whom the king granted a special license. The idea is said to have originated with the great astronomer Pascal. ...

    Article : 175 words
  18. A CRUESOME PRICE CURRENT.

    The following ghastly record, to be found in the archives of Old Paris, throws a certain gruesome light upon the capital penalties of former days. It is the executioner's price list, ...

    Article : 255 words
  19. HOW JUDGES PUNISH.

    If any reader designs to become a habitual criminal it will interest him to know what punishment he may expect to have meted out to him as be progresses from crime to crime. ...

    Article : 271 words
  20. TO COLOUR A CLAY PIPE.

    There is a certain fascination to some smokers in colouring in clay or a meerschaum. This is the method of procedure of a man who has made clay-colouring an art, and who has won ...

    Article : 169 words
  21. SALUTING APPLE-TREES ON CHRISTMAS MORNING.

    It is not generally known that in some parts of England the curious custom is observed of saluting apple-trees on Christmas morning. The inhabitants of a village around which there ...

    Article : 139 words
  22. HOW TO TRACK DEBTORS.

    The leading paper in a French provincial town recently published the following matrimonial advertisement: "A young lady of [?]ormous wealth, who is prepared to pay off all the ...

    Article : 144 words
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