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  2. CRIMES CONFESSED DURING SLEEP.

    Criminologists say that the greatest terror that afflicts that fraction of humanity suffering from an uneasy nonscience is not dread of the ...

    Article : 745 words
  3. THE DOG AND THE DYNAMITE.

    A remarkable instance of a literary coincidence has occurred in America. Three writers of note—Jack London. Frank Norris, and Charles Forrest ...

    Article : 203 words
  4. FROM SOUTH AFRICA.

    In the main this late war has been ghastly and terrible, but the times a delightful comedy softened its tragedy. The cheapest "drunk" that ...

    Article : 475 words
  5. A COUNTERFEIT CLAIMANT.

    A mysterious woman calls upon Dr Erht, a famous London physician, at the ghostly hour of midnight, and personates him, for a consideration, ...

    Article : 3,429 words
  6. HUMORS OF FOX HUNTING.

    An acquaintance once said to a master of fox-hounds. "You might give me that puppy you told me would not turn out well, the other ...

    Article : 412 words
  7. ADVENTURE WITH A SNAKE.

    An Australian traveller says that he was one day walking in the thick scrub, collecting specimens, when he came upon a large light brown snake ...

    Article : 534 words
  8. THE BAFFLED LAWYER.

    A retired sea captain and a lawyer, who were always at loggerheads, lived next door to each other. One very windy night the lawyer ...

    Article : 143 words
  9. ADMIRAL KENNEDY TELLS THESE STORIES.

    A lady, meeting a smart young blue-jacket ashore, stopped him, and asked some ridiculous questions, such as "What ship do you belong to?" ...

    Article : 409 words
  10. A STORY FROM BOMBAY.

    From Baroda, in the north of Bombay, comes a wonderful story of a monkey's sagacity. A wild monkey in the cantonment had been ...

    Article : 314 words
  11. A BARRISTERS STORY: "THE WRONG LEG."

    There was an eminent sergeant-at-law some years who had a cark leg that was a triumph of artistic deception. None but his intimates ...

    Article : 263 words
  12. THEY CAN!

    Shortly after the famous charge of the Gordon Highlanders at Dargai, an Irishman made his first appearance in Glasgow, when he was ...

    Article : 108 words
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