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  2. BIDDY AT THE BANK.

    "Is this the Bank of England?" "It is, ma'am." "This is where ye kope people's money safe and sound for them?" she asked again. ...

    Article : 522 words
  3. AR INNOCENT BURCLAR.

    On the North Side, Within inst than a [?]is[?] shut of Cass-street, there is a family [?]ans[?] which until within a weet way un[?]han[?]. The mother of the family died, ...

    Article : 523 words
  4. A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

    I suppose you all Know Tom Scroolooss And if you don't, you know others like him. He is always on the bring of making a fortune. In fact, he can balance himself upon ...

    Article : 567 words
  5. THE BURCLAR.

    Mr. Brasser, who lives on Ninth-svenne, lias a son about 12 years old, named Claudins; and one evening this boy received permission to allow a neighbour's son so stay all ...

    Article : 625 words
  6. THE ISLANDS OF SEAWEED.

    Only a bit of flouting seaweed that the restless surf washed upon the beach, and yet the mere sight of it carried my thoughts hock to one of the most important events in ...

    Article : 867 words
  7. AVENGED BY A SNAKE.

    Buried in the depths of the great Thursday [?] jungle lay the little [?]lage of Pandiyan. Half a dozch low, round mud-hute, with conical ro[?]fs, thatchod with rice straw, each ...

    Article : 1,803 words
  8. A BIG NOSE.

    Richard Smith, of Indian River, Lewin County, New York, has a most remarkable nose. He says it is a birthmark; that his father. Michael. came home intoxicated one ...

    Article : 208 words
  9. UNNATURAL PARENTS

    The curtains were not lightly drawn, and it was with no great difficulty that the crowd collected outside was enabled to perceive the family group in the front parlour. The ...

    Article : 397 words
  10. UNEXPECTED RESULTS.

    Edison's phonograph is now magnificently appointed., and you can investigate and enjoy this fascinating instrument to your heart's content. Beautiful young ladies ...

    Article : 801 words
  11. A SERMON TO THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION.

    A well-known preacher was invited by the Doctor Pigou to occupy the pulpit at Doncaster. The Mayor and the Corporation came, and the Corporation came, and the church was crowded:-- ...

    Article : 520 words
  12. CAPTAIN SICSBEE AS AN ARTIST.

    One day in the spring of 1875, when the "Daily Graphic" of New York, was in full swing of its meteoric career, a modest looking young mad called at the art ...

    Article : 299 words
  13. WHERE MONEY DON'T COUNT.

    A lawyer had come all the way from California to pay a 10,000 dollars legacy over to Uncle Jerry Hopefield, who lived all his life in a little town in Ohio, and alter ...

    Article : 702 words
  14. LIMIT OF BIG TELESCOPES.

    Professor K. E. Barnard, of the Yerkes observatory, has recently published an article in the Astronomical Journal giving a series of measures of the position, angle, and ...

    Article : 297 words
  15. A LECTURERS TROUBLES

    Under the title of "Some Rominiscences of a Lecturer," Dr. Andrew Wilson, the popular science lecturer, has published a little volume of amusing anecdotes, chiefly ...

    Article : 365 words
  16. WHEN THE SENSES GROW KEEN.

    I made bold to say to Dr. Nansen that thousands upon thousands of men who were not specially interested in Arctic work had read his book with delight, and that to me ...

    Article : 247 words
  17. A GREAT SCHEME.

    Mr. Moneybags was sitting at his leak in Wall-street, reading a card which bore the following inscription and postscript in lead pencil: ...

    Article : 413 words
  18. THE WONDERS OF A MAGICAL NUMBER.

    Everybody knows the tricks that can be played with the number 9--that mysterious property known as the" power of nine." But strange things are sometimes discovered ...

    Article : 289 words
  19. A PUFF FROM THE FAR-EAST.

    Here is a literal translation of a Chinese inkmaker's advertisement in a Canton paper "at the shop Shung Wang, very good ink, very fine; ancient ...

    Article : 165 words
  20. TURKISH BATHS FOR HORSES.

    One of the beet known trainers is said to be giving his horses Turkish baths. And they like it. The horse is led into a roomy but, as far as possible, air-tight stall. A water ...

    Article : 161 words
  21. COOKING BY THE SUN'S HEAT.

    An inventor in Italy has construed an apparatus for cooking by the heat of the son. It consists of a box made of wood and fined with reflecting mirrors, at the bottom ...

    Article : 142 words
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