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  2. A Goddess of Africa

    A desperate man engaged in a hopeless enterprise may be capable of displaying a bravery far beyond the ordinary standard. ...

    Article : 3,154 words
  3. HAUNTED HOUSES.

    Mr. S. Baring-Gould, in his work "Strange Survivals," provides a good deal of amusement for folk-lore realties, and offers the following explanation of ...

    Article : 305 words
  4. COOL IMPUDENCE.

    A thief once wrote to the editor of the "New York Tribune": 'Sir--Please advise your readers always to leave their names and addresses in their ...

    Article : 225 words
  5. DANGERS OF BEING BURIED ALIVE.

    The late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, who had made the subject of trance, catalepsy, and other death-counterfeits one of patient investigation, and who ...

    Article : 425 words
  6. MR. GLADSTONE AND BEACONSFIELD.

    Mr. Gladstone used to tell how Disraeli once visited at his house. When the Bulgarian atrocities debates were at their fiercest, Disraeli one ...

    Article : 229 words
  7. IS WAR NECESSARY?

    The great social force which operates in giving prominence and predominance to the monarchy is war; and, though war is unquestionably an evil, it is an ...

    Article : 211 words
  8. STORY OF THE CLAIMANT.

    Sir Henry Hawkins was, it is curious to hear, at one time a believer in the Claimant's bona fides, and advised Hodgman to back him. Afterwards, ...

    Article : 173 words
  9. BLUNDERS OF SPEECH.

    All amusing style of blunder is the "bull," for which the Irish pet most credit. It was an Irish editor that exclaimed, when speaking of the wrongs ...

    Article : 332 words
  10. WARNING FOR SMOKERS.

    Professor Furst, of Lerpsig, solemnly warns those who "chew' their cigars that they cannot escape infecting the membranes of their months with ...

    Article : 174 words
  11. ATMOSPHERE OF THE SUN.

    It some of the latest results of astronomical investigation are to be accepted, the atmosphere of the sun is 3 ooo miles deep, and is composed ...

    Article : 138 words
  12. ROBES OF STATE.

    The robe or mantle worn by the King on state occasions is very voluminous and very long--indeed, it forms quite a train. The outside is of rich crimson velvet, ...

    Article : 270 words
  13. THE TRACLDY OF MODERN LIFE.

    The age of Byroniam, as it used to be called, is over. Possibly, says F. Marion Crawford, tragedies are more real and frequent in our day than when ...

    Article : 211 words
  14. ARRESTED AFTER MANY YEARS.

    The case of the man Lilywhite, arrested in New Zealand and taken over to England on suspicion of being the person who committed a murder at ...

    Article : 206 words
  15. DURING A STORM.

    'Captain,' said the mate of the good ship 'Cauliflower,' while the storm was at its height,' the ship has sprung a leak, the water-tight ...

    Article : 121 words
  16. GENERAL CLERY AND HIS CHEF.

    General Sir Francis Clery, who has been "placed on retired pay," is in many respects a remarkable man. In appearance, Sir Francis is striking; in ...

    Article : 197 words
  17. WHAT MAMMA SAID.

    Little Tommy: 'Papa.' Papa: 'Yes, Tommy?' 'Mrs. Brown was here to-day, and guess what she said about you?' ...

    Article : 224 words
  18. A DROLL MISTAKE.

    Before the Paris Exhibition was open to the public, and when the building contained only the cases which were being ranged for the respective exhibits, ...

    Article : 122 words
  19. TROUBLE OVER WINE.

    A correspondent writes to the London 'Standard':--I was recently staying in one of the largest hotels in London. I ordered a bottle of wine for lunch. Not ...

    Article : 124 words
  20. CRITICS CRITICISED.

    In his sermon on the death of Lord Tennyson, Dean Farrar used the following strong expression:--"The insolent incompetence of critics, ...

    Article : 145 words
  21. OFF THE WHISKY.

    Dean Ramsay recounts an illustration of fertility of resource in the story of the dying rustic who 'speered' at the parish minister if there would be any ...

    Article : 100 words
  22. MEMORY.

    A little village far away; A cottage near a hill; A verdant dene through which there flows ...

    Article : 67 words
  23. CHANGE GIVEN IN CHURCH.

    A novel incident occurred one Sunday at a black country parish church. The idea that a contribution to an offertory might be given with a coin of greater value than the donor ...

    Article : 108 words
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