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  2. SINGULAR RAIL SMASHES.

    In the railroad world the only thing that can safely be expected is the unexpected. If you don't believe this, read some of the accounts of railroad wrecks ...

    Article : 517 words
  3. THE WIDE WORLD.

    [Certain catcchisms, conveying instruction in religious and political matters, having lately been published, and having been received with favor by the public, I have arranged with a ...

    Article : 551 words
  4. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    In olden days when girls went to school and had to sit for hours at a desk effort was made, by drilling and the backboard, to prevent the shoulders ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 656 words
  5. THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE.

    An exhibition will be opened during the month of June at Bruges to illustrate the history of the Order of the Golden Fleece. A British committee has ...

    Article : 126 words
  6. WIT AND HUMOR

    "You made the most of your opportunities?" "I did," answered the dashing financier. "I managed to put mortgages on some of my ...

    Article : 629 words
  7. HOMELY FARE.

    Cake of Cold Fish. -- Required: Half a pound of cold fish, two ounces of breadcrumbs, one onion, half an ounce of fat or butter, half a gill of milk, ...

    Article : 573 words
  8. PERILS OF SEA FOG.

    The fact that three liners ran aground on the same day in the British Channel, partly, if not wholly, through baffling mists, calls attention to the ...

    Article : 515 words
  9. THROWN TO THE WOLVES.

    Advices from Buda-Pesth report that Johann Horvath, a peasant of Kapi, the other day threw his eight-year-old son to wolves to save his own life. ...

    Article : 176 words
  10. MYSTERIOUS CASE.

    From Ottowa on 5th March, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:-- The greatest anxiety still prevails, ...

    Article : 173 words
  11. THE FUTURE BATTLESHIP.

    A paper of great importance, indicating what the battleship of the future will be like, was read at the meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects at ...

    Article : 264 words
  12. BOY COOKS.

    A school where boys learn cooking and shooting, Latin in conjunction with carpentry, gardening as well as French and algebra, is the latest educational ...

    Article : 344 words
  13. ROUGH ON WILLIAM.

    Two public-school boys, aged 17 and 16 respectively. accompanied their uncle and aunt to a provincial theatre to see a performance of "The Taming of the Shrew." They showed ...

    Article : 88 words
  14. HOUSEWIFERY.

    There is a story, not altogether fabulous, told of an Irishman, whose journeys took him once to a remote Irish inn. The one waiter of the place served him ...

    Article : 737 words
  15. THE MAORI TATTOOER.

    Men do not know the skill Of the operator in driving his Sounding chisel along, O Hiki Tangaroa. ...

    Article : 483 words
  16. WINDLASS FOR HOISTING PIGS.

    The following description and illustration, which appears in an American paper, will be found very useful to farmers when killing pigs. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 174 words
  17. AN UNFAILING TEST.

    One-armed tramp at kitchen door: Please sir, could you assist a poor man? I was a railway porter, and lost my arm on the line. Man of the house: Just come in and shut the ...

    Article : 84 words
  18. NURSERY NOTES.

    An amiable, but d[?]ngerous assump[?]n, on the part of parents, and more especially on the part of mothers, is that their children have it in them to be ...

    Article : 624 words
  19. HE HAD "POWER" ENOUGH.

    The colored minister was tall and powerful of frame, and as he preached he whacked the pulpit cu[?]ion, with the hammer-like strokes of his massive fist. But his preaching ...

    Article : 91 words
  20. UNBORN RIGHTS.

    A curious and interesting point arose in a case heard in the Appeal Court, London, on March 19th. In 1854 one George William [?]ush ...

    Article : 240 words
  21. TEXAS STYLE.

    The villags carpenter had given so generously of his services and sound advice towards rebuilding the little memorial chapel that when it was completed all the summer ...

    Article : 102 words
  22. KNEW HIS PLACE.

    An Englishman who arrived in an American backwoods town where there was only two "hotels" facing each other from opposite sides of the single street, stood irresolute which to ...

    Article : 299 words
  23. ACTRESS HEROINE.

    People crossing Westminster Bridge on Tuesday night (12th March) were witnesses of a child's narrow escape from death and a very plucky rescue ...

    Article : 274 words
  24. MURDER BY TIME-TABLE.

    Russian Terrorists are now so confident of their victims, that they announce Assassinations before they take place. ...

    Article : 131 words
  25. HUMAN CINDERS.

    On 14th March a correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote from London :-- All-night search parties with ...

    Article : 478 words
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