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  3. THE DREAD AND FEAR OF KINGS.

    The monarchs of the world place so little reliance on guards of police and soldiers that several of them always go about armed. The present Emperor of Russia, on his return from ...

    Article : 1,021 words
  4. THE POET'S DOG.

    In the last days of his life Lamartine the French poet and statesman, lived in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, in a little house given to him by the nation. ...

    Article : 601 words
  5. YOUTHS AND MAIDENS.

    She was versed in mathematics, physics, calculus, quadration, and the compass's declension that the mariners deplore, And to her cube root's extraction was as simple ...

    Article : 1,086 words
  6. HANS VON OPPEN.

    I had been some five years with my corps, yiog at Bultfontein House, on the South African diamond fields, when, much to my annoyance, I was transferred to the Colesberg ...

    Article : 2,221 words
  7. THE STORY OF A DEVIL-BIRD.

    I'm one hundred and nineteen years of age come St. Switbio's--a hundred and nineteen! and my claws, and eyes, and beak are as good as ever; and the narrow squeaks I've had in ...

    Article : 2,188 words
  8. PHILOSOPHY.

    A Scottish woman who resided in a small village had a habit taking what is called a "philosophical" view of things. Her favourite expression was, "It might has been waur," ...

    Article : 193 words
  9. A QUEER FISH.

    It is announced in the American papers that a lepidosiren has been caught at the mouth of the Amazon river, Dr. Emil Geoldi, Director of the Museum at Para, reports with pride and ...

    Article : 455 words
  10. VALUABLE RECORDS.

    Relic-hunters always have plenty of money, if we are to judge from the prices they pay for intrinsically worthless objects. There is now a regular trade in autographs, and a number of ...

    Article : 196 words
  11. A BURIED CITY.

    When one hears of a buried city it is very difficult to realised what it can look like--still more as to realise how a city can be buried so deep as to be utterly lost, and the place of it ...

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  12. A CURIOUS POSTMAN.

    A Russian proprietor several years ago, wishing to learn the direction of flight of the many varieties of birds that visited his estate, caught a certain number of these birds, and attached ...

    Article : 181 words
  13. DEATH BY ELECTRICITY.

    Scientists think that death by electricity or lightning is painless. They do not know that it is so, but infer that is from those facts:-- The nurses communicate the sensation of ...

    Article : 309 words
  14. RUINED THROUGH IGNORANCE.

    The founder of the Vendome column in Paris met with financial ruin in his contract through ignorance of science. The French Government, when they decided to occur that notable column, ...

    Article : 170 words
  15. THE HAPPY DESPATCH.

    The Dyeks have a peculiar way of carrying out the death sentence on their convicts. Their government is conditional, and trails are fairly conducted on the jury system, the ...

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