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  2. A PSYCHIC SEANCE

    A friend's visiting card was my open-sesame at a most exclusive sensitive’s. She did it rather well. The room in which she sat was all pure ...

    Article : 344 words
  3. ARE WE LOSING THE USE OF OUR HANDS.

    That mechanical devices by doing the work formerly performed by hand labour are slowly but surely depriving us of the full use of our hands ...

    Article : 1,095 words
  4. “THE WHOLE TRUTH.”

    (Mr. Androw Archbold found the phial on his breakfast table, and looked at it carelessly. The label bore the words “Elixir of Truth. He ...

    Article : 653 words
  5. SEPARATING THE SCISSORS.

    This little trick is sure to puzzle all who have never seen it before, as at first sight it appears very difficult to do. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 182 words
  6. THE REAL SIBERIA.

    The stories we have read of Siberia—of long lines of prisoners chained together, and marching wearily along for about eighteen months ...

    Article : 1,126 words
  7. THE MENU.

    Duke Henry of Brunswick, who flourished nearly four hundred years ago, is credited with being the originator of the menu-card now in ...

    Article : 437 words
  8. SPORTING PLUCK.

    Some people’s idea of "pluck” begins and ends with saving a man’s life under fire in battle [?] deeds scuh as one reads on man in a ...

    Article : 748 words
  9. USEFUL FOR TRAVELLERS.

    The little pocket case shown here is quite likely to he as much appreciated by the lonely bachelor as by the ladies. So much is contained in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 107 words
  10. THE KLONDIKE UP-TO-DATE.

    The Klondike of yesterday is contrasted with that of to-day in an interesting article which is accompanied hy many picturesque ...

    Article : 443 words
  11. FOR WINTER CYCLING.

    A great disadvantage of cycling in winter is-the bitterness of the wind, which circles round your legs and blows up your arms. If you haven’t ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 69 words
  12. EXPENSIVE MODERN GIRL.

    Apropos of shopping I find myself just now the recipient of many confidences from my young lady friends on the subject of their allowances, ...

    Article : 223 words
  13. HERBERT SPENOER AND STRAWBERRY JAM.

    There is more than one delicious but well-authenticated story oi Herbert Spencer, which proves that the great philosopher of the nineteenth ...

    Article : 114 words
  14. FROM THE NEW BOOKS.

    If there wasn’t so many fools in the world, there wouldn’t he many lawyers; and if there weren’t so many lawyers there wouldn’t be so ...

    Article : 142 words
  15. RUNNING NO RISK.

    In the village of Poitou a woman fell into a trance. After the Poitevin custom, she was wrapped in a sheet to be carried to the cemetery; ...

    Article : 100 words
  16. MAKING MONEY.

    "Piper—extry speshul—piper!” "Here y’are, my lad,” bawled the city merchant. “Is it a 6.30? Right, you are! Got change of sixpence?” ...

    Article : 164 words
  17. A LITTLE DEAR.

    “What do you ask for this plaque, miss?” inquired an old gentleman of a pretty girl in charge of a church bazaar. ...

    Article : 54 words
  18. TROUBLE AHEAD.

    Johnny, aged nine, had just returned from school, and had been had several times for an “April fool.” Just before dinner, after wandering ...

    Article : 107 words
  19. A LOST RACE.

    "Oh yes,” Mrs. Smith told us, "my husband is an enthusiastic archaeologist, and I never knew it till yesterday. I found in bis desk ...

    Article : 85 words
  20. NOT A BAD IDEA.

    A poor man who could not pay his rent had put off the evil day until the landlord sent the bailiffs. The poor man met them at the back ...

    Article : 79 words
  21. AN INSUFFICIENT EXCUSE.

    T. B. Reed telegraphed a man to meet him in Pittsburg, and the recipient, wishing to escape the interview, took advantage of interrupted ...

    Article : 67 words
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