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  2. A SINGULAR CASE.

    I am in the employment of the well-known Astre Insurance Company. I held a good and trusted position my work being special and varied, from its very nature, since for ...

    Article : 1,912 words
  3. HITS AND BITS.

    Rockefeller, the American oil king, [?] a lazy boy, whose highest ambition was to be a trapeze performer in a circus. His wealth is now estimated at £40,000,000. ...

    Article : 830 words
  4. BRAIN POWER IN PLANTS.

    There is a very interesting article on this subject by Mr. Arthur Smith in the "Land Magaziac" He points out that those acquainted with the habits of plants know ...

    Article : 404 words
  5. THE CITY OF THE FUTURE.

    The modern industrial city has been dependent for its rapid expansion on its superior advantages with respect to coal—that is, it must have either a navigable water ...

    Article : 405 words
  6. THE ARMY SURGEON IN ACTION.

    Let us accompany the medical officer of an infantry battalion into action. He has probably been reused before daylight from a very rough bivouac, and, after a scanty meal, ...

    Article : 726 words
  7. THE ELEVENTH MAN.

    When travelling in America we stopped at a flag station to take up a couple of men, and as they came into the smoker all saw that they were handcuffed together. It was easy ...

    Article : 451 words
  8. A BEE-HUNTING REVIVAL.

    In the old colonial days of America, beehunting was a recognised form of sport in New England. Then came the detraction of the forests, and the bee-hunter became ...

    Article : 221 words
  9. CHRISTMAS WITH THE QUEEN.

    Christmas brings with it to the Queen a variety of very diverse associations. It was on a Christmas morning, 1858, that her engagement to the late Prince Consort was ...

    Article : 322 words
  10. ADVENTURES OF A ROYAL CRADLE.

    The oak cradle in which Mary Queen of Scots was rocked is very handsome and well preserved though it has panned through many vicissitudes. She was born on the ...

    Article : 336 words
  11. JUDICIAL WIT.

    A few months ago Mr. Justice Day, in the Queen's Bench Division, had a case before him of some duration and many technicalities. Towards the conclusion of a long speech ...

    Article : 240 words
  12. A WET BLANKET

    "Miss Dewdrop," begins the ardent wooer deftly concealing his feet beneath the chair he occupies, "we have been acquainted but a few abort weeks, yet when I look at your ...

    Article : 199 words
  13. WHEN HIS MAJESTY TRAVELS.

    For days before the Czar travels along any railway line the latter is petrolled on both sides by sentinels, who ant stationed at a distance of two hundred yards from one ...

    Article : 288 words
  14. THE ROSE.

    Early in the New Year, lovely artificial flowers will be offered us, made by a new process—out of wood pulp. And so delicate will be the appearance of the blossoms, that ...

    Article : 207 words
  15. A COMPETENT CRITICISM.

    Once, when Admiral Gainsborough was on leave and visiting his old home he attended the village church. The day was warm and the Admiral nodded during the ...

    Article : 158 words
  16. REALISM IN EXCELSIS.

    In the "Revue dee Revues" there is a most interesting article on the Theatre in Japan, from the pen of Dr. Bauzemont:— "The Japanese are psychologists who demand at the ...

    Article : 175 words
  17. TOO ECONOMICAL.

    There are worse things than having one's feelings hurt, according to Uncle Pomp, an old darkey who has lived in a New England household for nearly forty years. ...

    Article : 175 words
  18. IDENTIFIED.

    The tram car struck the rear wheel of the bicycle. The bicyclist described a parabola and fell upon a pile of bricks. The bicyclist raised on one elbow, reached back an arm ...

    Article : 151 words
  19. DO METALS BECOME TIRED?

    Various instances are on record where metals, while not showing any appreciable wear, have literally fallen to pieces, and that without any assigned cause. On one ...

    Article : 185 words
  20. FROM THE TALMUD.

    The Jewish Talmud has some interesting sentences about women:— "A housewife never allows herself to be disturbed from her work; even while ...

    Article : 150 words
  21. WHEN CLOCKS CHANCE.

    "Many people remark that the clocks in the towers of big new buildings are invariably wrong," said a clockmaker. "Yet the clocks which hare been in very old buildings ...

    Article : 190 words
  22. LORD SALISBURY'S CHOICE.

    The Marchioness of Salisbury is the daughter of Baron Alderson, who was one of the ablest judges of his time, and she is niece to Mrs. Opie, whose writings were once very ...

    Article : 237 words
  23. HOW A WREN FEIGNED DEATH.

    A writer in "Nature Notes" tells the following curious story: "Hearing a sort of rustle in some newspapers under one of the dining-room windows and at the same time ...

    Article : 391 words
  24. INSANITY IN ANIMALS.

    That animals are, to a certain extent, subject to the same mental maladies as human beings has not been a popular belief among insanity experts. It has, however, become ...

    Article : 301 words
  25. RUSSIAN MAGNIFICENCE.

    No Western imagination can easily conceive an idea of the splendour with which the Russian rulers are habitually surrounded. Chairs and tables of solid silver, ivory thrones, ...

    Article : 145 words
  26. THE RICHEST BABY IN THE WORLD.

    It is not generally known that the little Grand Duchess Olga, the elder baby of the Czar, is one of the richest persons in the world. She is not yet two years old, but ...

    Article : 228 words
  27. THE WONDERFUL JIM.

    A piece of old board ia the back of the steed, His saddle, old carpeting, gorgeous indeed. His legs were the rounds of an old kitchen chair. ...

    Article : 192 words
  28. BAD COINS IN FRANCE.

    "Smashing " has always been a favourite ndustry in France, but of the many bad coins incirculation none are so curious as some 5fr. pieces whose spuriousness the ...

    Article : 135 words
  29. ANIMALS THAT DON'T DRINK.

    How long would you be contented without a drop of water to drink? There are many different kinds of animals in the world that never in all their lives sip so much as a drop ...

    Article : 136 words
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