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  2. £1,000,000 NOTE FRAMED IN GOLD.

    THERE are probably thousands of people in London to whom it may be news to learn that there is in the heart of the city an old lady who has already passed her ...

    Article : 690 words
  3. FAMOUS ROYAL TALISMANS.

    SOME of the most powerful monarchs in the world are the possessors of talismans the loss of which would fill them with dire forebodings and dismay. ...

    Article : 766 words
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  5. QUAINT CORPORATION CUSTOMS.

    ONE of the most extraordinary civic customs that still survive is that of 'weighing-in' the Corporation of High Wycombe. After the election of the ...

    Article : 618 words
  6. MONEY EARNED WHILE ASLEEP.

    AN ancient adage has it that " he sups who sleeps," and there is a large degree of truth in it, but it might go farther and say that when a man sleeps he earns his ...

    Article : 1,172 words
  7. TO TUNNEL THE MEDITERRANEAN.

    M. BERLIER, the engineer who has prepared a project for a tunnel under the Straights of Gibraltar, says that the main feature of his proposal is the creation of a ...

    Article : 113 words
  8. THEY WANT TO MEET THAT QUIET MAN.

    THERE is a certain coffee-house in Leeds where five smart clerks may be seen taking their tea and buns most days. Recently their corner was invaded by a ...

    Article : 438 words
  9. WHERE THE FISH CAME FROM.

    A RATHER amusing story is told in connection with a certain angling club. The members recently held a roving match-- each competitor being allowed to fish ...

    Article : 197 words
  10. SMILED AT HIS OBITUARY.

    ON 28th September all the newspapers of the Canton of Glarus published details of the death of a rich Swish gentleman named Gehrig, stating that while bathing ...

    Article : 297 words
  11. MEETING THE CASE.

    AN old Irishman occupied a barber's chair recently, and he was drowsy. His eyes could not be kept open, and his head rolled about and dropped over upon his ...

    Article : 102 words
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