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  2. ONE MAN FIGHTS SIX LIONS.

    A terrible incident occurred at the Zoological Gardens at Vienna. Rudowsky, the chief keeper, in dealing with the beasts of prey, became ...

    Article : 819 words
  3. HE STOPPED IT.

    A gentleman going down the river in a steamer the engine of which was on the deck. sauntered up to [?] the working of the machinery. N[?]ar ...

    Article : 222 words
  4. COURTSHIP IN THIBET.

    Wives are sometimes secured by a foraging expedition on a weaker tribe, and by seizing as many women as may be desired. ...

    Article : 507 words
  5. VENEZUELA'S STRANGE MOUNTAINS.

    While Africa has drawn many and if any a British adventurers naturalist explorer and missionary to the [?] inst marvellous forests ...

    Article : 615 words
  6. THE OLDEST KNOWN INHABITANT OF THE GLOBE.

    Several years ago; when the son-in-law of Karl Hagenbock, the animal trainer, was looking for interesting specimens be learned of the ...

    Article : 365 words
  7. MY LADY'S SIN,OR THE WICKED PLOT THAT FAILED.

    "Yes certainly !" responded the doctor with nervous haste. "You have only to explain them, Sir Robert. I am pledged to assist you ...

    Article : 2,884 words
  8. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    DEV[?] CREAM. [?]four or five quarts of new milk; and set away on the back of the stove or oven ; let the milk gradually ...

    Article : 80 words
  9. EVERTON TOFFEE.

    One pound of powdered white sugar. Pour upon this one teacupful of water : when the sugar has soaked up the water, add a quarter ...

    Article : 74 words
  10. CAPE TO CAIRO.

    Rapid progress is now being made with the construction of the Cape to Cairo Railway, and the route which the line will traverse towards ...

    Article : 247 words
  11. EVERTON TOFFEE.

    Quarter of a pound of treacle, quarter of a pound of butter, three-quarters of a pound of white sugar, 25 drops of essence of lemon, two ...

    Article : 49 words
  12. RUSSIAN TOFFEE.

    One small tin of condensed milk, one pound of moist sugar, two ounces of butter, one tablespoonful of vinegar. Put the sugar into a ...

    Article : 75 words
  13. HEIGHT OF THUNDER CLOUDS.

    A great cumulus thunder-cloud, towering up on the horizon like a huge flamboyant iceberg, is often higher than the highest Alps would ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. BUTTERSCOTCH.

    Take one pound of brown sugar, half a pound of butter, one teacupful of water. Put the sugar and water into a saucepan, set it over a ...

    Article : 82 words
  15. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    680,000 acres of Lincolnshire is land reclaimed from the sea. British lifeboats save, on an average, 550 lives a year. ...

    Article : 510 words
  16. STOPPING A WAR.

    The enormous inde[?]ties which have been paid to end strife between nations in the past make evident that the cost of stopping a war is ...

    Article : 591 words
  17. INSECT MECHANICS.

    The deliberate use of a tool by a little sand-wasp might well be supposed to indicate reasoning power. A well-known naturalist watched a ...

    Article : 264 words
  18. FOSSILIZED ABORIGINAL.

    Scientists in Adelaide are interested in a discovery made by Peter Salotti, an Italian, who dug up in his vineyard, what is claimed to be ...

    Article : 173 words
  19. "MY LADY'S SIN."

    Old Sir Robert Beauchamp marries a second wife -- a beautiful young Spanish widow with a daughter of her own -- and makes a new will, by ...

    Article : 260 words
  20. THE CANADIAN WOLF.

    Always a hungry animal, the wolf of Canada, when the prairies are frost-bound and prey scarce, becomes positively maddened by famine. He ...

    Article : 374 words
  21. HOW WE SEE THINGS.

    How do we see ? Did you ever chance to think? The majority of people imagine that they see with their eyes, but this is wrong. Did ...

    Article : 188 words
  22. A HOME-MADE VOLCANIC ERUPTION.

    Place at the bottom of a large flat glass vessel a little bottle containing some red wine. The bottle is sealed with a cork having only a ...

    Article : 328 words
  23. TRYING TO FIND IT.

    During a severe engagement an Irish pirvate was espied by his captain in the act of beating a hasty retreat. The man had been a ...

    Article : 143 words
  24. A NEW WAY TO CATCH RABBITS.

    When off duty Professor Richards, of Yale College enjoys a joke, and his pupils often come to him when they have heard a new one. He adds ...

    Article : 69 words
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