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  2. OUR BLACKFELLOW.

    RECENT discoveries of fossil remains of extinct reptiles in Patagonia suggest that at one period of the earth's course Australia and America were ...

    Article : 1,190 words
  3. NAKED INTO BATTLE.

    "Did I ever tell you the story of Happy Jack ?" asked the Yankee Captain. " If I did, it will bear repeating. Jack came to our company in May, 18[?]1, with a Tommy ...

    Article : 1,082 words
  4. THE TWO QUEENS.

    M. Benjamin-Constant, who had the honour of painting the portraits of Queen Victoria and the Princess of Wales, contributes his impressions on these two Sovereigns ...

    Article : 805 words
  5. HAUNTED WESTMINSTER.

    There are ghosts and ghosts. Parliament has its own. They are real ghosts, too; or just so real as ghosts can be. Some bonor able members given a trifle to superstition ...

    Article : 1,968 words
  6. ROYAL AUTOGRAPHS.

    We have no evidence that any member of the Royal Family was able to write his name prior to the time of Edward III.; and the pictures ...

    Article : 341 words
  7. THE TYRANNY OF DRESS.

    In the days when the dandy was a kind of social dictator, dressing as he pleased, he gave the laws of fashion to tailors. Now tailors and modistes ...

    Article : 598 words
  8. STEAM NAVIGATION.

    In 1736 one Jonathan Hull took out a patent for a steamboat having paddle-wheels over the stern, which were to be worked by a steam-engine ...

    Article : 318 words
  9. FACTS AND FIGURES.

    The thinnest thing in the world is the film of a soap babble. Scientists say it would take fifty millions to measure an inch. One can scarcely conceive a greater tenuity than ...

    Article : 436 words
  10. THE DECLINE OF THE NIGHTCAP.

    Does anyone nowadays wear a nightcap ? Possibly a few old fashioned folks, who ching with pathetic tenacity to the ways and customs of a long-vanished past, may still ...

    Article : 533 words
  11. ONLY ME JONES.

    He had never seen a telephone, and his friend was showing him how it worked. It was in his office. He called up his house, and the wife came to the telephone. ...

    Article : 177 words
  12. A BOURGEOIS MONARCH.

    The Grand Duke of Luxemburg, who has lately been celebrating his golden wedding, is a rather quaintlooking old gentleman of eighty-live. ...

    Article : 271 words
  13. A CONFIRMED CYCLIST.

    The other day Dixon came out of his house, walked to the edge of the pavement, threw his right leg into air with a vaulting movement, and fell to the ground. ...

    Article : 98 words
  14. SUCH IS LIFE.

    Smith: What's wrong, old man ? Yon look worried. Jones : I am. Yon know I had my life insured last week. ...

    Article : 62 words
  15. SAYINGS OF THE QUEEN OF ROUMANIA.

    The woman who forgives unfaithfulness has cussed to love; true love does not know forgiveness. Jealousy is the flatter; of love. Husband ...

    Article : 164 words
  16. A BAD TEMPERED GROCER.

    Patrick MeGone kept a grocer shop near Youghat, and was occasionally worried by his customers' strange requests. This he sometimes resented in ...

    Article : 137 words
  17. SURE OF HER GROUND.

    Miss Chatteston: Charley says a fortune teller told him he was going to marry a brunet[?] Her Mother: Being a blonde, that does not ...

    Article : 56 words
  18. POSTPONE.

    Mis. von Blumer: When can I go to the theatre? Von Blumer: Any time you say. Mrs. von Blumer: Then, to-night. ...

    Article : 36 words
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