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  2. VARIETIES.

    An ancient German was, by tribal custom, not allowed to out off his flowing beard until he had killed his first man in battle. About the year 200 B.C. the Roman Emperor Scipio ...

    Article : 206 words
  3. LORD BELLHAVEN.

    Lord Bellhaven, whom Mr. Hare met at Winton Castle thirty years ago, thus described the drinking habits of his early days: -- ' I just remember the old drinking days; ...

    Article : 176 words
  4. OSSIAN.

    The ghost of Ossian has appeared at Crieff! But, after the manner of ghosts, it made no revelation. The farmer and his 'man' who were privileged to Bee the ghost ...

    Article : 381 words
  5. PEOPLE LIKE YOU.

    It is people like you who throw things out of top windows, and are shocked if they smash in the head of some innocent passerby. ...

    Article : 211 words
  6. THE EVOLUTION OF THE CHAIR

    Archaeological research has never yet succeeded in revealing who it was who constructed the first chair, nor has it even been able to determine the particular age or nation ...

    Article : 220 words
  7. AMERICAN HENRY VIII.

    The matrimonial career of Abraham Rhimes of Fulton county, Indiana, is believed, in the point of number of wives, to be without parallel in the United States. ...

    Article : 617 words
  8. PERSONALITIES.

    It is related that Mr. Balfour recently inveigled Lord Salisbury into his first and only indulgence in golf. The prime minister was on a visit to his distinguished nephew ...

    Article : 98 words
  9. HERCULES: HIS TERMS.

    George Starr, who travels through Asia and Africa gathering together tigers and lions for a menagerie, and members of strange tribes for a Western 'Congress of ...

    Article : 227 words
  10. BEAUTY HINTS.

    An hour's sleep before twelve at night and an hour's walk before breakfast are the best tonics for a good complexion. Women who have dark skins are best suited with dark ...

    Article : 155 words
  11. ENGLISHMEN.

    The late Henry C. Bunner, editor of 'Puck,' developed symptoms of strong Anglophobia on his first visit to Westminster, and it was only in the Poets' Corner that he ...

    Article : 91 words
  12. BOOK WORMS.

    Those nasty little creatures that often cause considerable havoc in our libraries are by no means confined to one species, but to go into their respective scientific genealogies ...

    Article : 128 words
  13. CZAR'S FAVOURITE MOUNT.

    The horse that the Czar rode on the occasion of his coronation is an English-bred mare 13 years old named Norma. She is light grey in colour. Norma is the Czar's ...

    Article : 161 words
  14. A SLY JOKER.

    A victim of omnibus pickpockets determined to get even with them, so he put into his pocket a pocket-book containing only a slip of paper, on which were written ...

    Article : 128 words
  15. PITY THE POOR LAWYERS!

    While the status of the solicitor has improved, his earnings have decreased. It is only the barrister who has grown in wealth and social position at the same time. Both ...

    Article : 215 words
  16. CUTTING NEW TEETH AT SEVENTY

    From a New York dentist comes one of the most remarkable stories of third dentition of which the dentist ever heard: ' An old lady of seventy bad been toothless for many years, ...

    Article : 183 words
  17. A ROYAL SUITOR.

    There was recently published in a Continental magazine a letter of Prince Charles de Solms, one of the numerous suitors for the hand of Queen Victoria in her early days. ...

    Article : 169 words
  18. MISCELLANEOUS.

    There is a great difference of opinion as to the cause of the change of colour in the fur of some animals at different seasons of the year. Take for example, the occasional ...

    Article : 232 words
  19. POPULAR NAMES.

    Gladys enjoys high favour at present; it is a beautiful name, though, not always rightly bestowed. What is the use of giving it to a child who by all the laws of heredity ...

    Article : 196 words
  20. MR. HALLIDAY SPARLING.

    Mr. Halliday Sparling, who married Miss May Morris, daughter of the poet-Socialist whose loss intellectual England is still mourning, is an active journalist, who finds ...

    Article : 107 words
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