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  2. Poetry of the Week.

    Thou to whom with heartfelt love and sighing, Carest not to what I implore; Can my love which is for aye undying, ...

    Article : 113 words
  3. Facts & Fancies.

    The origin of gold-leaf is lost in antiquity. On some of the most ancient mummies discovered, goldleaf has been used on the skin, ...

    Article : 201 words
  4. PRIMITIVE TELEPHONES.

    Writing from German Africa, a tourist says:-- "We found here in the dense forest, among people who know nothing of modern scientific ...

    Article : 139 words
  5. THE AERONAUT AND HIS LOVE.

    Come, fly with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, Of the hawks undisturbed domain, Exultant in our monoplane. ...

    Article : 105 words
  6. Random Readings.

    In the "New York Times" literary supplement Ernest Hunter Wright, in an article on the death of Dr. Frederick James Furnivall, ...

    Article : 240 words
  7. INKSTANDS WITH CUPIDS.

    Few if any inkstands can compare with the famous one in bronze which once belonged to Ariosto, and which Shelley saw in the library at Ferrara, ...

    Article : 132 words
  8. A Complete Story.

    "Will you be best man at my wedding Bill?" said Tom Anderson, leaning across to his companion, and speaking very fast. He was a ...

    Article : 4,834 words
  9. LAWS AGAINST KISSING.

    Among old laws against kissing those of Iceland appear to have, been the mose severe. Banishment was the penalty laid down for ...

    Article : 84 words
  10. American Humour.

    A Simpleton having had occasion to seat himself sat on a Pin, whereupon he made an outcry to Jupiter. A Philosopher, who happened to be holding ...

    Article : 147 words
  11. A PIONEER OF AVIATION.

    In the "Journal des Seavans" of December, 1678, is an interesting account of the invention of a locksmith of Sable, in the Department of ...

    Article : 165 words
  12. FORTUNE TELLING.

    The fortune telling of the gipsies, or "dukkering," as they themselves call it, is a wonderful thing, declares a writer on the American gipsy in ...

    Article : 257 words
  13. AUTOMATIC FOLDING CHAIR FOR THEATRES AND AUDITORIUMS.

    An automatic folding chair, which folds into the floor the moment the occupant arises from it is illustrated. When the chair folds down, its back ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 188 words
  14. A PROBLEM IN FINANCE.

    Mrs. Compton set a large, knobby package on the library table, and fell into the easy-chair which was drawn up to the fire opposite her husband's. ...

    Article : 551 words
  15. WHEN THE DUTCH DIE.

    A Dutch funeral is a very solemn affair, and the hearse itself looks very gruesome, for on each corner of the canopy are placed in relief ...

    Article : 131 words
  16. BLACK, WHITE, AND LONG PEPPER.

    When the berries of the pepper plant are growing, says Mr. James Scott, in an article in the "Magazine of Commerce and British ...

    Article : 168 words
  17. HUGE SPIDERS.

    One of the commonest spiders found in Trinidad is the big house spider whose body is as large round as a penny, and whose eight ...

    Article : 168 words
  18. SHAKESPEARE'S WEALTH.

    The question of Shakespeare's financial position in the later years of his life is raised by Charles William Wallace in the "Century ...

    Article : 169 words
  19. BLACK HAWK.

    "It is one of the most pathetic horse stories of the war," declared the colonel. Then, when the veterans of the blue pressed him, the old ...

    Article : 554 words
  20. THE ORIGIN OF NURSERY RHYMES.

    "Three Blind Mice" is in a musicbook of 1609. 'Little Jack Horner" is older than the seventeenth century. "A Froggie would A ...

    Article : 162 words
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