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  2. STRANGEST MUSEUM IN ENGLAND.

    One of the quaintest little museums in the United Kingdom is to he seen at Hariyn Bay, on the north coast of Cornwall.' It is filled with ...

    Article : 723 words
  3. "BROTHER SAVAGES."

    In a modest house in an unpretentious thoroughfare off the Strand, where linger still the tranquility rind quietude of tho eighteenth century, ...

    Article : 656 words
  4. WORLD'S MAMMOTH DEBT.

    Some wonderful facts from, as it were, a bird's-eye "view oi the social progress of the civilized world, are given in a statistical abstract just ...

    Article : 614 words
  5. HOW TO READ A BAROMETER.

    A rapid rise indicates unsettled weather a gradual rise indicated settled weather. A rise with dry air mid cold air increasing in summer' ...

    Article : 175 words
  6. SIGHTS OF LONDON NEWLY SEEN.

    The beefeaters of the Tower of London are a fine, picturesque intelligent "body of men whose mission in life is to be" at once imposing ...

    Article : 1,342 words
  7. NOW NATIONS GREET EACH OTHER.

    Greenlanders have no particular method of salutation, and lough at the idea of one person being inferior to another. Islanders near the Phillppines take a person hand or ...

    Article : 278 words
  8. TO MAKE JAPANESE WARE.

    Everyone admires the daintily decorated articles we get from Japan, and it is quite possible for you to learn the elegant and easy domestic ...

    Article : 197 words
  9. ON A DERELICT LIGHTSHIP.

    In December last the crew of the Nentucket Lightship, situated in the track of the Atlantic liners, and tho first lightship to be sighted by ...

    Article : 559 words
  10. ELECTRICITY DIRECT FROM HEAT.

    The astounding news comes from Newark, New Jersey, that a practical apparatus has been devised which can convert coal into the electric fluid without tho intervention of boilers, ...

    Article : 430 words
  11. A BRITISH OFFICER IN THE SUDAN.

    Lord Charles Beresford describes an instance of religious fanaticism which occurred when he was in the Sudan. A great sheikh was captured and ...

    Article : 220 words
  12. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    Over 60,000 oil-wells have been sunk in the United States. Ono pint of milk produces, roughly speaking, one ounce of butter. ...

    Article : 350 words
  13. A HOMICIDAL LUNATIC.

    There were five of us hunting and fishing in the Queensland bush (says a traveller), when one rainy day a stranger appeared. He said he was ...

    Article : 268 words
  14. CARE FOR YOUR DOC.

    To keep your dogs healthy give them plenty of exercise and do not overfeed them. Let them at all times have plenty of clean water, ...

    Article : 163 words
  15. BEATEN.

    Atkinson : "I'll bet I can make you say fourteen against your will." Brown: "You can't." A. : "How many are six and four? ...

    Article : 100 words
  16. ADOPTING THEIR ADVICE.

    "Be observant, my son," said Willie's father. "Cultivate the habit of seeing, and you will be a successful man." ...

    Article : 124 words
  17. IF YOU ENTERTAIN THE KING.

    Those who are ambitious of the honour of a Royal visit nowadays must be prepared for something like complete internal reconstruction of their houses, if it should ...

    Article : 232 words
  18. SOME OF LIFE'S FIGURES.

    There are 3,064 languages in the world, and its inhabitants profess more than 1,000 religions. The number of men is about equal to the ...

    Article : 192 words
  19. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.

    'Seaman's return" tickets are issued by most railways at seaport towns to sailors, at reduced rales ; but when, the other day, a ...

    Article : 154 words
  20. BEST KEEP QUIET.

    A certain militia officer is much disliked by his men. One evening, as he was returning home, he slipped into some deep water. ...

    Article : 118 words
  21. THE BEE'S FAULT.

    A humble boy, with a shining pail, Went gladly singing ad own the dale. To where the cow with a brindle tail Oil clover her palate did regale. ...

    Article : 91 words
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