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  2. A BUDDHIST PRIEST.

    In one of San Francisco's quaint commercial houses is a Japanese who has just laid aside the coveted privilege of wearing the purple robe of the Buddhist priesthood in a ...

    Article : 1,736 words
  3. THE SCIENTISTS AT LORD HOWE.

    Speaking of the trip and its results to our special representative, Mr. Frank Farnell, M.L.A., expressed his regret that the weather conditions should have prevented any ...

    Article : 2,649 words
  4. STAGE, SONG AND SHOW.

    The present production, "The Cotton King," at the Theatre Royal will run for some time yet. Audiences nightly are so large that the piece looks good for another ...

    Article : 1,750 words
  5. A GHOST STORY.

    It was some years ago (says an English writer), while I was stopping at the hotel in Lawton, a little village in one of the Western States of America, that the following ...

    Article : 747 words
  6. WIG AND GOWN.

    Very long and brilliant is the list of wit conflicts between bench and bar, most of the best efforts being too well-known to bear repetition". A few comparatively new ones-- ...

    Article : 622 words
  7. TRACE BACK YOUR ANCESTORS.

    Anybody may be a descendant of royalty. The man who hauls your garbage or mends your umbrella may have in his blood a trace of blue. It is a matter of hereditary, not of ...

    Article : 514 words
  8. A WONDERFUL LAMP.

    If all the indications point correctly, Thomas Edison, jun., has just perfected a wonderful advance in economic commercial lighting, says the New York "World." ...

    Article : 578 words
  9. A RACE OF PIGMIES.

    In Major Harris's "Highlands of Aethiopia," published some sixty yars ago, we read"--"Beyond the extensive wilderness which bounds caffa on the south of ...

    Article : 455 words
  10. TAMPERING WITH THE UNION JACK.

    Designs for a new Royal Standard and Union Jack, which the Welsh members of the House of Commons have sugested to Parliament, have been shown at the House ...

    Article : 101 words
  11. AN ELEPHANT STORY.

    There appears in an Indian paper a characteristic story of an elephant. The animal had run amuck, killed a child, and then, turning on the mahout, seized him, dashed him to ...

    Article : 93 words
  12. CLEOPATRA'S REMAINS.

    When Cleopatra died, 2000 years ago, her body was embalmed. A bunch of wheat was placed in her hand and a comb in her hair, and so she was buried. To-day, in a glass ...

    Article : 71 words
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