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  2. WHAT POSTERITY OWES US.

    If any century ever had came to boast of its accomplishments, surely the one now ended has more cause than all of them together, and the twentieth ...

    Article : 588 words
  3. THE REIGNING DYNASTY.

    His Majesty King Edward VII. occupies the throne by right of descent from his ancestress, Sophia of Hanover, granddaughter of James I. of England. ...

    Article : 214 words
  4. BILL GILPIN.

    Bill Gilpin was citizen, Of credit and renown; A jobbing painter eke was he Of famous London Town. ...

    Article : 162 words
  5. JUDGES WHO JOKE.

    Although the dignified mortals who dispense justice to erring beings in His Majesty's Courts are rarely given to the display of humour, it occasionally ...

    Article : 293 words
  6. The Track of the Goldseekers.

    The whole of the vessel within a radius of thirty feet from the centre of the explosion was completely wrecked. ...

    Article : 2,623 words
  7. Are Twins Degenerate?

    Dr. Cullere asks the question, "Is there a special insanity affecting twins?" and answers the question as follows. The special predisposition of twins ...

    Article : 176 words
  8. Captain Dreyfus's Book.

    Captain Dreyfus has just issued from the press a book entitled "Five Years of My Life," in which he gives an account of his sufferings from the ...

    Article : 747 words
  9. Sir William Harcourt.

    Sir William Harcourt is simply inimitable at a story-teller, and he appears to enjoy the humour of an incident just as thoroughly when the statement is ...

    Article : 186 words
  10. Consumption Amongst Negroes.

    Why is the negro to liable to consumption? He lives out of doors enough; the question of fresh air treatment cannot apply here. Dr. Harper ...

    Article : 169 words
  11. Driving an Engine By Light of Sun.

    A machine has been recently built which has had some success in harnessing the rays of the sun and making them work a steam engine. A huge "sun ...

    Article : 165 words
  12. Uses of Electricity.

    The uses of electricity are daily enlarging. It seems that some Russian scientists have been making interesting experiments on the effect of electricity ...

    Article : 127 words
  13. Kaffir Cure for Dysentery.

    Dysentery has wrought such havoc among the British Army in South Africa that the surgeons are trying the Kaffir cure. ...

    Article : 123 words
  14. The Spiritual Side of Embalming.

    All the funeral processes of the Pharaohs in Egypt had but one object—to insure the non-decomposition of purity of the body, because by that ...

    Article : 141 words
  15. Early Education of the German Emperoor.

    Some suggestive details concerning the early education of the German Emperor have just come out. It seems that William II. had in his early childhood ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. Sleep-Waiting.

    Perhaps no more remarkable instance of sleep-walking exists than that cited by Dr. Paul Durrler, a physician who practised in Paris at the conclusion of ...

    Article : 165 words
  17. Mars and Carbon Dioxide Snow.

    The theory has been advanced that ga[?]ea are constantly escaping into space from the atmospheres of planets, the kind and extent of the operation ...

    Article : 95 words
  18. Empty Vessels Make No Sound.

    A labourer was employed by a blind man to remove some rubbish, for which he was promised a penny for every load removed. ...

    Article : 176 words
  19. Sorry He Spoke.

    'My friend,' said one passenger to another in a train, 'excuse me, but is that whisky you are drinking?' 'It is that same.' ...

    Article : 93 words
  20. Twins or Merely Brothers?

    Here is an interesting subject for discussion. Twin brothers were born, one a few minutes before midnight on December 31st, 1900, the other a few ...

    Article : 82 words
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