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  2. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    Over 7,000,000lb. of tobacco was produced in the Transvaal in 1908. The Vatican contains 208 staircases and 1,100 different rooms. ...

    Article : 932 words
  3. SOME TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

    Literally staggering in their dramatic features as well as in their actual results have some railway accidents been. If the reader were ...

    Article : 1,003 words
  4. IN THE GARDEN.

    Mr. S— offered a young coloured man fifteen cents to cut the grass about his home. Returning a few hours later, Mr. S—saw the darkey ...

    Article : 188 words
  5. MY DOG WALLACE.

    One evening I was to meet my cousin at his counting house, and at the time fixed went there, my dog, of course, accompanying me. On ...

    Article : 1,048 words
  6. DOOMESDAY BOOK.

    Everyone knows something of it. We are continually hearing it quoted as a great historical evidence. It seems, indeed, to lie at the very ...

    Article : 1,103 words
  7. OUTBREAK OF THE RUSSO JAPANESE WAR.

    Russia’s failure to carry out the Manchurian Convention, by which she had agreed to evacuate Manchuria by April, 1903, was considered ...

    Article : 451 words
  8. WISE AND OTHERWISE. HIS POSITION.

    "You have been with that firm a long time," remarked the old school friend. "Yes," answered the man with the ...

    Article : 113 words
  9. AN UNLUCKY ADMIRAL.

    The fate of Admiral Villeneuve, whom Nelson defeated at Trafalgar, was a sad one. Hesitating and unwilling he had gone forth to the ...

    Article : 1,019 words
  10. A COUPLE OF ASSASSINS.

    Monsieur Deverne was waiting at a station in Ireland for his train, when two Irishmen came on to the platform, and engaged in the ...

    Article : 105 words
  11. CRUSHING THE HECKLER.

    Daring a recent strenuously-fought by-election, one loud-voiced member of the audience at a meeting kept calling out, with irritating ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. BESIDE THE WATER BUTT.

    The four-year-old descendant of a line of Baptist ministers was found on tiptoe, struggling to immerse her kitten in the rain-water barrel. The ...

    Article : 165 words
  13. OVERPOWERING.

    She was newly married, and did not know much about either housekeeping or shopping, and she was giving her first order. It was a ...

    Article : 144 words
  14. THEN THEY WERE BITTER ENEMIES.

    Two young lady friends met, and after an interchange of the usual salutations, one remarked:—"O May, I’m so glad to see you. ...

    Article : 181 words
  15. THE CAUSE OF POSTPONEMENT.

    "And so," remarked the man with closely-cropped hair, as he concluded a long discourse about himself, "I am going to be married at the end ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. DENNIS'S COMPLIMENT.

    Dennis Mulligan was paying his addresses to a widow, who, on giving a shudder, made use of the common expression that someone was ...

    Article : 65 words
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