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  2. THE BIRTH OF A PEARL.

    When an oyster feels something tickling his tkin he does not—indeed, he obviously cannot — proceed to scratch the spot and apply counter-[?], as a quadruped or a biped would. ...

    Article : 496 words
  3. THE MAN IN THE GREY SUIT.

    Far beyond the lights of the Chateau, where the Countess de L— was receiving the tributes of the most noble families of France, stood two persons. One was Mme. D’Abrant and the ...

    Article : 1,282 words
  4. THE ROYAL RAT-CATCHER.

    The rat-catcher has almost disappeared as an every day acquaintance. But he still lingers in the Royal dockyards, and is occasionally to be seen in the old [?] ...

    Article : 424 words
  5. ROMAN MEALS.

    The first meal among the Romans was the ientaculum, or breakfast, generally taken about the third hour. It was very light, generally consisting of bread, sessoned with salt or honey, ...

    Article : 399 words
  6. A VALUABLE FIND.

    In the month of June “last an old man of eccentric habits died, leaving, as was well known by his few friends and relatives, a small fortune of £3,600 in stocks, but when an ...

    Article : 506 words
  7. CHINESE CRICKET.

    An absolutely unique performance was the Chinese cricket match played some years ago. A number of Englishmen, resident in China, got up a match, of which a large number of the ...

    Article : 187 words
  8. “GO TO HALIFAX !”

    The origin of this saying is a bit old. The woollen manufacture in Halifax being very great, and prodigious quantities of cloths, &c., being continually on the tenters, and liable to ...

    Article : 143 words
  9. THE DIVING HOUSE,

    They have had a strange attraction at one of the popular pleasure resorts at Seattle, says a San Francisco paper. A horse leaps 30ft down into the deep water of Lake Washington ...

    Article : 230 words
  10. A PRECIOUS EGG-SHELL.

    An American lady possesses an extraordinary relic of a great novelist. Mark Twain speaks of the lady who treasures a precious slice of bread from which Dickens had taken a bite. ...

    Article : 167 words
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