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  2. ODDITIES OF MARRIAGE.

    The wedding-ring finger of the Romans was the thumb. Spanish peasants believe that the water in which a wedding-ring has ...

    Article : 161 words
  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE. HE NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT.

    The vessel had struck upon a sunken rock, and was rapidly settling down in the water. Some of the passengers were lashing themselves ...

    Article : 141 words
  4. IN OTHER LANDS. WORLD’S LARGEST LAKE.

    The Caspian Sea, with its 680 miles of length and its area of 169,000 square miles, is really a huge salt lake, and, of course, the ...

    Article : 312 words
  5. AN ORDEAL BY FIRE.

    Jack Willoughby stood on the [?]erandah outside his door and looked straight in front of him, with an of contented proprietorship. ...

    Article : 1,878 words
  6. OUR GREATEST POSSESSION.

    At the mere mention of India what visions the name conjures up! We think of the fabled wealth of the East, or gorgeous retinues of native ...

    Article : 1,585 words
  7. A DEAD BARGAIN.

    The late Roman Catholic Bishop, of Newfoundland was of a merry disposition. He had a piano of which he desired to dispose, and which a ...

    Article : 162 words
  8. A SURPRISE FOR THE WARDER.

    Visitors to Switzerland are familiar with the famous bears of Berne. Many years ago, when criminals were still executed in Switzerland, the ...

    Article : 195 words
  9. MASTER AND MAN.

    A worthy canon who had been greatly displeased by an act of disobedience perpetrated by one of his gardeners sought an interview with ...

    Article : 144 words
  10. UGLIEST PEOPLE ON EARTH.

    The ugliest people on earth are the celebrated Canoe Indians, about the lowest type of savages—lower even than the earth-eating niggers of the ...

    Article : 387 words
  11. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Bolivia and Siam are the only civilised or semi-civilised Powers without a National Debt. The most rapidly flowing river is ...

    Article : 540 words
  12. AND HE GOT MARKS FOR IT.

    "Do you know, mamma," said Young Hopeful, "there were only three boys in school to-day who could answer one question that the ...

    Article : 126 words
  13. A TRAIN LOAD OF MONKEYS.

    A plague of monkeys some years ago sorely troubled the officials at a small station on the Saran Railway in North-West India. Trucks ...

    Article : 207 words
  14. A GENT OF NO IMPORTANCE.

    "Hallo, James! How are you? You seem to have a nice office here. How are you getting on?" "Splendidly, thanks! I’m the ...

    Article : 227 words
  15. OUR GREATEST WORKHOUSE.

    The largest workhouse in the United Kingdom is that at Liverpool, which is capable of accommodating 5,000 paupers, though it is not often ...

    Article : 81 words
  16. SPORTING IF YOU LIKE!

    The horse had taken fright! A motor-horn had too-tooted right in the centre of its car, and off it dashed like a house afire. ...

    Article : 244 words
  17. A MAGICIAN MYSTIFIES.

    Two men sat in the hotel lobby glowering at the smoke which they blew towards the ceiling. At intervals they broke into argument, ...

    Article : 148 words
  18. THE LARGEST FOUNTAIN.

    The largest fountain in the world forms part of the Soldiers’ Monument at Indianapolis. The flow of water is 7,000 gallons a minute at ...

    Article : 146 words
  19. STUDYING ECONOMY.

    "I want you to paint a portrait of my wife," said the wealthy, but mean, man. "I want to give it to her for a birthday present; but I ...

    Article : 169 words
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