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  2. PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT.

    It pleased him to be known as Captain James Fawkes, but he said nothing about his regiment or the particular service to which he belonged, and he had an effectual way of checking ...

    Article : 1,555 words
  3. PEEPS BEHIND THE VEIL.

    Forbidden knowledge, like forbidden fruit, has a sweet palatableness peculiarly its own. It were bootless to inquire why this is so. So much might be said, and has been said, on both ...

    Article : 1,466 words
  4. A VERY QUEER JEWEL CASE.

    Two men sat in a top room, in a dirty-looking house in a street to match, off the Strand. It was the private office of the proprietor of the After Dark Club, an institution ...

    Article : 2,127 words
  5. BREAKING THE BANK, MONTE CARLO.

    One evening, during a late visit to Monte Carlo, I was watching the play at a roulette-table, where some ladies were staking in a rather reckless manner, when I heard the ...

    Article : 1,430 words
  6. KNIVES AND REVOLVERS AT CHURCH.

    A religious war is in progress in Omaha, growing out of Church troubles. A battle was fought the other morning in the church building and about the grounds with revolvers, clubs. ...

    Article : 662 words
  7. CUT OFF THEIR WIVES.

    Some peculiar wills have been made by men who, so far as their wives were concerned, did not consider that they had been treated properly during life. ...

    Article : 645 words
  8. POLITE TO THE LAST.

    Frenchmen of the old school did at times tremendously polite things, such as breaking their necks to pick up a lady's fan, or setting fire to ...

    Article : 166 words
  9. THE SHANGANI PATROL.

    "They were men of men, and their fathers were men before them," were the words of old Umjan, the chief induna of the Imbezu Impi--Lobengula's Royal Regiment--as he described ...

    Article : 462 words
  10. HIS CANDID OPINION.

    A German sportsman said to a well-known Scottish Baronet the other day: "Talking about dogs with keen scent, I have one in Germany that will compare favourably ...

    Article : 422 words
  11. M. PICTET'S EXPERIMENTS.

    That digestion and food assimilation by the human body is really a species of com[?]u[?]tion, as, of course, nearly everyone knows, and that the human stomach may be likened to a ...

    Article : 278 words
  12. WEST VIRGINIAN CABINS.

    Few of the cabins of the mountaineers have windows, the door being the principal source of daylight. In some instances a few panes of glass are let into the wall. The rule is to reach ...

    Article : 178 words
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