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  2. THE BURCL[?]

    Mr. Brasser, who lives on [?] avenue, has a son about 12 years old, [?] [?]dina; and one evening this boy [?] permission to allow a neighbour [?] to stay all ...

    Article : 558 words
  3. PAYMENT ART.

    A phase London street life is described by C. L. McCiner Stevens, who introduces the reader to the "artists" who gain a precarious living by decorating pavements with ...

    Article : 500 words
  4. IT WASN'T A MURDER.

    Everybody was hard at work in Newspaper row in Camp Wikoff when the sound of an altercation made itself heard near the end of the row. Those ...

    Article : 231 words
  5. TEETH EXTRACTED BY LIGHTNING.

    A New York paper says that William B Remick, who was one of Union River's heaviest lumber operators a few years ago, and is now a resident of Marinville ...

    Article : 509 words
  6. BIDDY AT HE BANK.

    "Is this the Bank of England?" "It is, ma'sm." "This is where ye kape people's money safe and sound for them?" she asked again. ...

    Article : 500 words
  7. CAUGHT BY THE FLOOD.

    "It only it was not quite so near the river, George," Mrs. Roden said, in answer to the husband's inquires as to how she liked the house they had taken ...

    Article : 1,873 words
  8. WORLD'S KISSING RECORD.

    St. Louis boasts a woman who holds the kissing record of the world. The lady bears the unromantic patronymic of Rainwater, and she is married. In ...

    Article : 196 words
  9. HIS LITTLE GAME.

    There were only a few people dining in a Strand restaurant a few days ago when a man suddenly hustled in and approached the white-aproned waiter. ...

    Article : 189 words
  10. A BIG NOSE.

    Richard Smith, of Indian River, Lewis County, Mew York, has a most remarkable nose. He says it is a birthmark; that his father, Michael, came home intoxicated one ...

    Article : 209 words
  11. SINGULAR EXECUTIONERS.

    "Wanted—Public executioner for South American State; compensation 3,000 dols. per annum. State qualifications and enclose photograph. ...

    Article : 511 words
  12. A PECULIAR CHERRY TREE.

    A peculiar botanical phenomenon is reported from Linden. In the yard of the Rev. W. J. Dudley, stands a large cherry tree, which several days ago ...

    Article : 190 words
  13. A SERMON TO THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION.

    A well-known preacher was invited by the Doctor Pigo[?] to occupy the pulpit at Doncaster. The Mayor and the Corporation came, and the church was growded.: ...

    Article : 457 words
  14. A WOMAN'S CARRIAGE.

    Much of an English woman's beauty lies in her proud carriage the erectness of her figure and the poise of her head. The aristocratic carriage is within reach ...

    Article : 122 words
  15. CAPTAIN [?]CSREE AS AN ARTIST.

    One day in the sprig of 1875, when the "Daily Graphic" of New York, in full swing of its meteoric career, a modest looking young man called at the art ...

    Article : 263 words
  16. A FEARSOME MACHINE.

    The most astounding invention of recent years is " Tesla's system of electric transmission through natural media." All other discoveries in the realms of ...

    Article : 149 words
  17. HUNG ON TO LIFE.

    Probably the most remarkable example of old age is furnished by Thomas Parr, of England, "The Old, Old, Very Old Man," as John Taylor calls him. When 30 years of ...

    Article : 280 words
  18. HE SAID TOO MUCH.

    "Mr. Wandsley," said the hostess, at a recent Colonial Club function, " I want to introduce you to Miss Brinkstone." ...

    Article : 113 words
  19. "ONE MAN ONE DRINK."

    A correspondent has made the discovery that near Liverpool-street Station, London, there exists a public-house where any customer who enters ...

    Article : 151 words
  20. WHEN THE SENSES GROW KEEN.

    I made bold to say to Dr. Nansen that thousand upon thousands of men who were not specially interested in Arctic work had read his book with delight, and that to me ...

    Article : 254 words
  21. A CURIOUS CUSTOM.

    In the Omeneea country, it is the custom of the Carrier Indians, when one kills another, that the murderer gives his life to the killed man's relatives. The ...

    Article : 114 words
  22. HOW SHE READ IT.

    A young officer in India left his regiment on sick-leave, and went to a hill-station, where it happened a lovely girl was staying. They became engaged, and an early date was ...

    Article : 424 words
  23. IT NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 words
  24. A GREAT SCHEME.

    Mr. Moneybags was sitting at his desk in Wall-street, reading a card which bore the following inscription and post[?]pt in lead-pencil: ...

    Article : 352 words
  25. WHO LAUGHS LAST.

    Some students of the Harvard Medical School, who were hostile to women entering the profession, met their match in one lady student upon whom they ...

    Article : 107 words
  26. AN ELECTRIC TREE.

    A German authority on forestry announces the discovery in the primeval forests of India of a tree with most curious and inexplicable characteristics. ...

    Article : 128 words
  27. THE WONDERS OF A MAGICAL NUMBER.

    Everybody knows the tricks the can be played with the number 9—that mysterious property known as the "power of nine." But strange things are sometimes discovered ...

    Article : 231 words
  28. A BAD PRECEDENT.

    Mrs. Motherhood: "WHy is it I have such a time finding a nurse girl for my children?" Employment Agent: "Well, you see, mum, some time ago, a ...

    Article : 156 words
  29. A PUFF FROM THE FAR EAST.

    Here is a literal translation of a Chinese inkmaker's advertisement in a Canton paper: "At the shop Shung Wang, very good ink, very fine; ancient ...

    Article : 133 words
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    Powers, the sculptor, writing to a friend on what people call the folly of marrying without the means to support a family, expresses frankly his own fears when he found ...

    Article : 117 words
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