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  2. BOLD DEEDS OF BALKAN BANDITS.

    The capture of Miss Stone, recently, b brigands on the Turkish-Bulgarian frontier, recalls the many outrages committed upon travellers by these ...

    Article : 1,050 words
  3. MARVELS OF SKIN-GRAFTING

    Some of the marvels of skin grafting challenge belief, and cause wonder as to when the limit will be reached, if ever. The under wings of a young fowl have ...

    Article : 764 words
  4. A ROMANCE OF THE WAR.

    The ladies of the committee were getting tired. They had had a busy afternoon and evening. for it was the day for receiving the last batch of the various garments which ...

    Article : 854 words
  5. SPARKLETS.

    "In my business," declared [?] stockbroker, "it is impossible to succeed without pluck." "You mean 'plucking,' don't ...

    Article : 521 words
  6. COULDN'T RESIST IT.

    A retired signalman tells a strange story of a mental disorder that seized him, after many years' fortunate work on the railways. ...

    Article : 308 words
  7. STORIES OF MR. KRUGER.

    The innate prejudice cherished by Mr. Kruger in respect to the most familiar forms of English etiquette is amusingly exemplified in the following ...

    Article : 262 words
  8. THE DATCHET DIAMONDS.

    Mr. Cooper, who, while his former friends were being captured, had, much against his will been handcuffed to a policeman, called to Mr [?]land. ...

    Article : 2,570 words
  9. WHERE EMERY COMES FROM.

    Not the least important of the several important minerals at present largely used is emery, which chiefly comes from the island of Naxos, in ...

    Article : 182 words
  10. DIDN'T TALK SHOP.

    "Very interesting scenery, sir," said a loudly dressed Cockney to a grim looking Scot on board the Loch Katrine steamer. ...

    Article : 280 words
  11. WRONGLY NAMED.

    Irish stew is a dish entirely unknown to the Irish, while Kidderminster carpets are made in Brussels, and Brussels carpets in Kidderminster. ...

    Article : 130 words
  12. PROPER NAMES STRANGELY PRONOUNCED.

    Why should, "Abergavenny" be pronounced "Aborgenny," and why should the word "D[?]by" be called "Darby"? Even the late Mr. Dillwyn's most ardent admirers ...

    Article : 363 words
  13. HOLDS A MORAL.

    Once upon a time a donkey fell into a hole, and, after nearly starving caught sight of a passing fox, and implored the stranger to help him out ...

    Article : 199 words
  14. A PROPOSAL BY TELEPHONE.

    He was a busy young man, a very busy young man. A score of business interests were pulling him in a score of different directions. Some days he ...

    Article : 524 words
  15. NOT IN HIS CASE.

    During the hearing of a case in court the other day, a funny answer by the prisoner convulsed the court in laughter. ...

    Article : 520 words
  16. A PRIMITIVE TELEPHONE SERVICE.

    People often wonder how the natives in Africa contrive to transmit news with apparently miraculous rapidity across miles of bush and ...

    Article : 136 words
  17. "I MUST GO!"

    Wellington's tastes and habits, like those of most great men, were very simple. He eared not for pomp or show of any kind. Instead of ...

    Article : 182 words
  18. THE LAWYER ENLIGHTENED.

    "I presume my good fellow, you're a laborer ? said a lawyer examining a plainly-dressed witness. "You are right. I am a workman, ...

    Article : 388 words
  19. MOTHER'S MISTAKE

    She was a dear old lady, in whom all her friends felt a separate sense of possession, and whose capacity for committing [?] blunders made her just a little bit dearer ...

    Article : 362 words
  20. A BIG STEP IN THEATRICAL PROGRESS.

    The latest of Mr. Ca[?]gie's ideas is the [?] that he might profitably endow a theatre--or rather two theatres--one in London and another in New York. So ...

    Article : 253 words
  21. AS A RESULT.

    The proprietor of a certain restaurant, has "leased" the reverse side of his bill of fare to a carriage manufacturer, who prints advertisements ...

    Article : 238 words
  22. THE "SMOKE PENNY."

    Probably very few people outside the Isle of Man knows what is meant by the "smoke penny." Some hundreds of years age a certain bishop of the island, named Mark, was ...

    Article : 308 words
  23. KNOWN AS CAR-TOWN.

    Old railway carriages have been utilised for summer-houses, coffee-stalls, and even for bungalows (there is gu[?]e a small village of these ...

    Article : 148 words
  24. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.

    Mr. Evans, an artist recently returned from Jamaica, West Indies, had in his new York studio some paintings of Jamaica [?] One day a man who had been ...

    Article : 204 words
  25. A GEORGIA MARK TAPLEY.

    John Johnson met with the accident of having his left leg cut off, but he was fully in[?]red, and will now have enough money [?] go into business on his own account. We ...

    Article : 123 words
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