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  2. DEAD AT THE LOOM: OR. THE TRAGEDY AT MILLSOM'S MILL.

    Tom Ashton was naturally much shocked to hear of his uncle's death. Sixteen days had now elapsed since that Sunday afternoon when he and Maggie ...

    Article : 4,654 words
  3. THE MODERN GREEK.

    The average man among the modern Greeks is a veritable child in his fondness for sport, for adventure, for everything which involves hazard and chance. For solid, monotonous; ...

    Article : 735 words
  4. A ROUNDABOUT WAY HOME.

    A poor old countrywoman was found one evening in the Edgware-road, London, without a bonnet and with a bar of soap in her hand, she had not the least notion (except ...

    Article : 322 words
  5. BABY'S MARVELLOUS ESCAPE.

    The " New York World " records the marvellous escape from death of little Johny M'Alanan, the 13-months-old baby of parents residing ...

    Article : 607 words
  6. GUNNING OF THE INDIAN CROCODILE.

    The crocodile is, it appear a much more intelligent creature than its appearance seems to indicate. From a description given of his ...

    Article : 282 words
  7. THAT OLD SEA SERPENT.

    The fabulous sea-monsters of antiquity are all equalled if not exceeded by the wonderful animals, which, according to some modern accounts, inhabit the Norweigan ...

    Article : 337 words
  8. ON THE SUEZ CANAL.

    A starry night on the Suez Canal[?] I am standing on the forward deck of a tramp steamer, talking with a glib young French employe of the ...

    Article : 563 words
  9. DEVIL'S TOWER.

    A geological freak called the " Devil's Tower " is one of the greatest curiosities in the North-west. It is rarely visited by tourists on account of its distance from any [?] ...

    Article : 445 words
  10. BRITISH GOODS ONLY.

    That certain articles in universal use can be bought for too little money and that it is socially and politically wrong for one section of the community to benefit at the expense ...

    Article : 321 words
  11. TRIFLES THAT TELL.

    It is the little things which mark the gentlewoman -- little things which appear unimportant to the stupid woman, but which her clever sister regards as the true marks of a ...

    Article : 175 words
  12. ENCOURAGING TRADE.

    The most remarkable of all the advertisements in an old Newcastle paper is one which exhibits the Corporation of Newcastle as offering and giving subventions for the ...

    Article : 469 words
  13. ON A LONG SEA VOYAGE.

    A correspondent of the " Black and White Budget " tells the following story : To break the monotony of a long ...

    Article : 320 words
  14. A PUZZLING RIVER.

    For many years the Niger River was the great cou[?]drum if African geography. Nobody knew where its waters reached the sea, but many geographical experts had the wildest ...

    Article : 323 words
  15. THE BRITISH MATRON.

    Judging by modern fiction, the mother, as such, does not exist in English society. The female parent is not extinct, but her attitude to her daughter seems to be that of business ...

    Article : 412 words
  16. WILLOW TREES FOR EMBANKMENTS.

    It has been found by recent experiments that the value of willows is very great in holding together the banks of streams. They have a ...

    Article : 100 words
  17. LUCK IN BATTLE.

    Lord Welseley has spoken in public of how greatly luck influences the course of battles, and how deeply even the ablest leaders have been indebted to good fortune pure and ...

    Article : 150 words
  18. SELLING A BICYCLE.

    "I want a bicycle for my boy." " Yes, sir. Want a good one?" "Yes. What will a first-class machine cost ?" ...

    Article : 90 words
  19. LIFTING MAG[?]ETS.

    The handling of ship-plates and large boiler plates is greatly facilated by the use of the electric lifting magnet -- in fact a saving of ...

    Article : 171 words
  20. IN THE CONDEMNED CELL.

    A prison chaplain said to a condemned man on his last night, "You have been a bad man, a very bad man. but there is yet time for ...

    Article : 133 words
  21. GUESSES AT TRUTH.

    The principal motive that some very ambitious women seem to have for marriage nowadays is the pleasure they expect to derive from spending their husband's money. ...

    Article : 49 words
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