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  2. CATCHING ALLIGATORS.

    On the great "bayons" or swamps In the neighbourhood of New Orleans are men who make a living by catching alligators and their young. ...

    Article : 521 words
  3. ONE OF NAPOLEON'S MISTAKES.

    Napoleon's great measure,of 1806 just over a century ago -- was the blow almed at the commerce of England and comprised in his celebrated ...

    Article : 768 words
  4. AT THE CRY OF "FIRE!"

    Keep cool, to bo sure. Sooner said, than done. It is not very easy to keep either your skin or your nerves cool when flame and smoke are ...

    Article : 1,333 words
  5. PEOPLE WHO NEVER LAUGH.

    There is Supposed to be only one tribe of people in the world who never laugh, and they are the Veddas, the aboriginal inhabitants of ...

    Article : 474 words
  6. TOWED BY A WHALE.

    A party of five pleasure seekers had an exciting experience the other week off New England coast in the 45ft. sleep Kate Maxwell. ...

    Article : 615 words
  7. A BRITISH SOLDIER IN INDIA.

    An infantry regiment was stationed at P --. "in India, at the same time aa a certain battery of artilfery was quartered there. There was ...

    Article : 327 words
  8. WHY? WHY? WHY?

    The unpleasant consequences of a burn are due to the peculiar effects produced on the surface tissues by a sudden and exhaustive transference ...

    Article : 713 words
  9. GHOST OF A MURDERED MAN.

    The power of imagination is strongly illustrated in the following ghost story : One of the most famous murder cases in Australia was discovered ...

    Article : 168 words
  10. A BRITISH SOLDIER IN THE SUDAN

    During the last Sudan War (writes an ex-soldier), I was one of the Guards' Camel Corps up the Nile, and before starting across the ...

    Article : 230 words
  11. POOR, BUT HONEST.

    An old farmer who lives in a rural district through which a railway passes, had the misfortune to lose a valuable colt. The animal jumped ...

    Article : 179 words
  12. EVOLUTION OF THE BATTLESHIP.

    It is not quite a hundred years since the first wooden three-decker of 120 guns was launched and put into commission, and the men of ...

    Article : 392 words
  13. WOMAN'S CURIOUS PROFESSION.

    To be a professional wine-tastcr ond yet a strong advocate and follower of the strictest temperance principles; to take wine into the ...

    Article : 312 words
  14. MADMAN'S FIGHT FOR DEATH.

    A labourer named Martin Burns, of Annagh, county Mayo, threw himself into a lake at Islandeady, near Castlebar, and attempted to ...

    Article : 143 words
  15. WHEN HE STARTED!

    An elderly man, who had been working for a city firm for forty-two years, was called one morning into his master's private office. ...

    Article : 84 words
  16. SIXTEEN DAYS IN A WELL.

    At Doddington, a village in Kent, two men happened to look down into what is called a chalkwell, or one of those deep, though narrow, pits ...

    Article : 288 words
  17. IN MID-AIR.

    An amusing incident lately occurred in the Mediterranean, on board one of His Majesty's ships. The commander is very particular ...

    Article : 201 words
  18. IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

    Not long ago, a missionary was distributing copies of St. Paul's "Epistle to the Galatians" -- just translated into Turkish -- when the ...

    Article : 190 words
  19. THE PURCHASER'S TURN.

    The winkle-man sat by his stall, a hungry man was he ; and he thought. "I just could do a feed of winkles for my tea." And when he'd had a ...

    Article : 165 words
  20. GETTING EVEN.

    She was not very young, but she had money. "Dearest --" he began, but she stopped him. ...

    Article : 116 words
  21. READY MONEY.

    A boy was recently Bent on an errand to a grocer's shop, which, on his arrival, he found crowded. He waited patiently for some time, but his patience becoming exhausted, he ...

    Article : 100 words
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