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  2. THE GREAT OIL CITY OF BAKU DEVASTATED.

    While Russia has been fortunate in settling her bloody and costly dispute with Japan, the most lamentable internal disorders in all her ...

    Article : 738 words
  3. WHERE THE EARTH WAS WEIGHED.

    To drop in the scales and weigh the whole world with all that is in it is an exploit that ou[?]ases Atlas and the man who first did it was the ...

    Article : 1,160 words
  4. ORIGIN OF THE ORDER OF THE BATH.

    On October 11, 1399 at the Tower of London, then a Royal residence, Henry IV., in the presence of his cousin and predecessor, Richard II., ...

    Article : 403 words
  5. GOOD STORIES OF THE LATE SIR HENRY IRVING.

    Sir Henry Irving once told a story of a lady-admirer who, some twenty years ago, wrote to him asking him if it were true that he was getting ...

    Article : 407 words
  6. CHAUNCEY DEPEW.

    Mr. Chauncey Depew tells an amusing story of an incident which occurred during an illness from which he suffered some years ago, describes ...

    Article : 140 words
  7. MY MOTHERS GARDEN.

    Her heart was like her garden, Old-fashioned, quaint, and sweet, A wealth of buds and blossoms Hid in a still retreat. ...

    Article : 137 words
  8. SELF-TORTURE IN INDIA.

    Heathenism is still heathenism. At least, it is so in India, it needs something stronger than culture and the devices of civilization to change ...

    Article : 410 words
  9. QUEER LITTLE PEOPLE.

    Of all interesting aboriginal tribes of men there is none more strikingly, so than the little community of Eskimos whose habitat is the west ...

    Article : 1,218 words
  10. A COAT THAT WORRIED THE POLICE.

    FOR SALE--Good, strong, healthy goat ; very cheap. Apply Police Secretary, C. A. W. NICHOLS. Police Secretary Nichols had this ...

    Article : 551 words
  11. WHY IT IS YOUR OWN FAULT IF YOU CATCH A COLD.

    The further scientists drive into the mysteries of disease genus the more certain they become that it is impossible for anyone to dodge them ...

    Article : 318 words
  12. WHEN IT WOULD BE CLEARED UP.

    A gentleman, attacked by a serious illness, anxious to know the real opinion of his doctors, who were a bout to hold a consultation, directed ...

    Article : 108 words
  13. LANCE BOATS OF THE GERMAN CAVALRY.

    It has always been a matter of no small difficulty to provide bodies of cavalry with suitable vessels for crossing streams. Only in cases of ...

    Article : 634 words
  14. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    The annual amount of sickness in human life is thirteen days. About 1,200 persons have been buried in Westminister Abbey. ...

    Article : 470 words
  15. A STORY OF SIR JOHN MILLAIS.

    When Sir John Millais was a student at the Royal Academy, he rejoiced in the friendship of a fellow student of the name of Potherd. ...

    Article : 229 words
  16. THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR INDEMNITY.

    When the [?] of M. de Rothschild paid the war contributions of Paris at the close of the siege, an alleged counterfeit 25 thaler hill ...

    Article : 337 words
  17. HIS WAY OUT OF THE DIFFICULTY.

    They had not been engaged very long, but already Ernest had made apparent that the salary of a junior sh[?]-assistant did not admit of ...

    Article : 162 words
  18. A RUNNING DEBATE.

    A young man and lady were being chased by a cow, when the young lady said : "Mercy, George, that cow is ...

    Article : 105 words
  19. SO WOULD SHE.

    A woman who had been selling fish entered an omnibus with the empty basket on her arm, still giving forth an unmistakable odour of the [?]inny ...

    Article : 92 words
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