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  2. EARTHQUAKES AND SKY-SCRAPERS.

    On March 21, at 1 o'clock in the morning, when most people were peacefully slumbering, an earthquake suddenly shook nearly all of New England, almost to the doors of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 948 words
  3. THE KING OF DIAMONDS.

    "Is there no hope, doctor?" "Absolutely none—now." "If she had gone to the—workhouse infirmary would she have lived?" ...

    Article : 2,356 words
  4. RIDING A TORPEDO.

    The most terrible of naval weapons is the recently invented navigable torpedo, by which one man, with little risk, can with unerring certainty consign a battleship and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 329 words
  5. POETRY OF DRESS.

    'A strange, fascinating, bewildering performance—if one may so describe it—was provided this week by Lucile, a dressmaker, who has been acclaimed the "Poet ...

    Article : 934 words
  6. THE CANT OF THE EDUCATED.

    It is not difficult to understand why the factors of modern art and science have not fulfilled their calling, and cannot fulfil it (writes Count Tolstoi). They do not fulfil ...

    Article : 736 words
  7. A MINE AT SEA.

    For mining operations to be carried on under the sea is no new thing, but a mine at sea is something of a novelty (says a London paper). The Old Wherry tin mine, ...

    Article : 530 words
  8. "SCARS OF HONOR."

    Fighting for fun duds which are by no means funny, but serious encounters, in which the combatants strive their utmost to damage each other's features, is the ...

    Article : 595 words
  9. COURTSHIPS IN STRANGE PLACES.

    Cemeteries and courtships seem difficult to think of in conjunction, yet a Baltimore burial-ground proved a most attractive trysting-place to a bereaved widow and ...

    Article : 588 words
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    A pair of sparrows have built their nest underneath the gong of a large electric signal bell outside Hampton Court Railway-station, England. Although the gong ...

    Article : 90 words
  11. THE STORY OF A SLAVE-SHIP.

    This picture, from the Leisure Hour, takes us back a hundred years and more in the history of civilisation. It reminds us of the awful traffic in slaves between ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 339 words
  12. THE SLEEPING SICKNESS IN EUROPE.

    Attention was recently called to the fact of two Europeans having been attacked at Antwerp and Rotterdam respectively, by the sleeping sickness after their return from ...

    Article : 289 words
  13. HYPNOTISM EXTRAORDINARY.

    A Paris telegram, dated May 5, says:—Madame Magdeleine, who may be described as a somnambulist-dancer, gave an extraordinary exhibition this afternoon of ...

    Article : 536 words
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