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  2. A SANGUINARY DUEL AND ITS END.

    A well-known clown, Jimmy Gwynn, who has just died in Paris, is famous for a joke which be played some years ago on a young ...

    Article : 168 words
  3. New, Odd, Interesting.

    The clarionet was invented in 1690. In a mile of railway there are about 2112 sleepers. The Persians have a different name ...

    Article : 764 words
  4. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

    A woman died some time ago in a Philadelphia hospital who had been for some time an object of interest to medical men. The disease ...

    Article : 110 words
  5. For Young Folks.

    Have you ever wondered why the big sheets of paper which you usually get to write on at examinations are called foolscap? It is an old ...

    Article : 171 words
  6. Random Readings.

    There is an interesting French legend concerning the magpie and the robin redbreast. During the agony in Gethsemane our Lord was ...

    Article : 314 words
  7. MARRIED v. SINGLE.

    The new curate had organised a football club, and the band was on the field, to celebrate the occasion of its opening game--a match, Married v. ...

    Article : 154 words
  8. TELL-TALE FINGER-NAILS.

    The Chinese believe that character can be judged from finger-nails. Thus tapering nails mean intellect; hard and thick nails mean old age; ...

    Article : 87 words
  9. WOMEN OF CHINA.

    "We are apt to think of the Chinese woman as timid and browbeat on, but considering the adverse conditions under which she lives she ...

    Article : 710 words
  10. HOW WAR RELICS ARE FAKED.

    A careful observer who has visited many of the world's great battlefields declares that the greater part of the mementoes, of which ...

    Article : 183 words
  11. SOME USEFUL EXERCISES.

    The number of people who go in for gymnastic exercises in order to reduce weight and to be made strong and healthy has greatly increased ...

    Article : 642 words
  12. A SPRING LEGEND.

    The old Greeks had a beautiful idea that the whole earth, the woods and the waters, were all peopled with spirits, something like ...

    Article : 274 words
  13. THE WOMAN IN THE CASE.

    A mother-in-law had stayed so often with her daughter as to cause a quarrel with the husband. One day she found her daughter ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 75 words
  14. THE LAND FOR FAT WOMEN.

    In England and America the fat woman has never been considered very attractive; but in the land of the Moors things are exactly ...

    Article : 260 words
  15. ABSENT-MINDED HUSBANDS.

    A dear distracted old scientist I know keeps his wife on the anxious seat every moment when they dine out, says Isabel Gordon Curtis in the ...

    Article : 612 words
  16. MORAL REFLECTIONS.

    What we do to-day determines our to-morrow. Self-indulgence deprives a man of everything that might make him ...

    Article : 386 words
  17. MOTHER COULDN'T ANSWER THIS.

    One of those momentary silences had fallen upon the party at the luncheon-table. It was broken by the little girl, who had come with ...

    Article : 61 words
  18. BRAVE DONALD.

    George and Sammy were sitting an the back doorsteps with Donald, their city cousin, who had come to visit them. Donald was ...

    Article : 305 words
  19. PLAYING THE SAME GAME.

    A colonel of a British regiment in South Africa who were repairing a railway after one of General De Wet's many breakages, discovered a ...

    Article : 243 words
  20. FACIAL INDICATION.

    Of the features of the face, the nose fasts longest, undergoing little change with the lapse of years. The brow becomes wrinkled, and crows' feet ...

    Article : 142 words
  21. A PROBLEM IN NUMBERS.

    If you take the four figures 3025, 98o[?], or 2025, you can get a result that no other combination of four figures will give. Divide each group ...

    Article : 115 words
  22. TAKE THE NEXT STEP.

    Do not be too anxious to see all the way ahead of you. It may not be best for you. The man who carries a lantern on a dark night can ...

    Article : 115 words
  23. THREE GREAT VIRTUES.

    There are three groat virtues to which everyone should be dedicated--the virtue of civilisation, which is politeness; the virtue of morality, ...

    Article : 56 words
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