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  2. THE RAT-CATCHER.

    He is still to be found in remote country districts, even in these days of scientific research and marvellous poisons—a disreputable-looking ...

    Article : 721 words
  3. AN OUTPOST OF EMPIRE.

    Peshawar is situated on the northwestern frontier of India, totally surrounded by snow-capped mountains. It is a magnificent sight on awaking ...

    Article : 946 words
  4. SHALL THE GRAY STROKE BE BARRED?

    A writer in the "Observer” proposes seriously—not that the "Observer” is ever given to frivolity— that the losing hazard stroke at ...

    Article : 658 words
  5. PICTURES OF INSECT LIFE.

    A French inventor, M. Bull, has recently perfected an ultra-rapid cinematograph camera, by which pictures of insects in flight may be taken. ...

    Article : 457 words
  6. THE YEAR 1915.

    As 1815, bringing with it the overthrow of Napoleon, is a landmark in the history of Europe, 1915 will be a critical year in the world’s history. ...

    Article : 1,396 words
  7. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES

    It happened "way down in Tennessee," in the year 1909—quite a stormy one in the South, Arkansas and Texas being visited by severe ...

    Article : 266 words
  8. THE TRAVELS OF A BAD SOVEREIGN.

    A few years ago while conversing with a friend of mine, he incidentally remarked, "Just have a look at this sovereign; it sounds like a had ...

    Article : 413 words
  9. THE GULLER GULLED.

    Puccini, the composer of ‘"The Girl of the Golden West," was responding to a toast on music at a dinner in New-York. ...

    Article : 347 words
  10. THE SHEPHERD AND HIS DOG.

    A shepherd once, to prove the quickness of his dog, who was lying before the fire in the house where we were talking, said to me in the ...

    Article : 217 words
  11. A FORLORN HOPE.

    While serving cn one of H.M. ships at Rio De Janeiro during the Brazilian revolt of 1893, and the resulting conflict between the Naval Forces ...

    Article : 312 words
  12. QUITE OBVIOUS.

    A farmer, returning home late at night, found a man standing beside the house with a lighted lantern in his hand. “What are you doing ...

    Article : 115 words
  13. APPALLING.

    "I’ll tell you how you can do me a good turn—if you should happen to feel like it," said the wine agent. "Delighted to do you a good turn, ...

    Article : 262 words
  14. A HOUSE IN POMPEII.

    One house in Pompeii had evidently been in a state of repair when the volcano buried it. Painters’ pots and brushes were scattered about. ...

    Article : 109 words
  15. DOGS TO PROTECT BANK MESSENGERS.

    Since a number of ruffians in the streets of Paris have victimised bank messengers and others imprudently carrying fabulous sums of money ...

    Article : 142 words
  16. THE WHOLE TRUTH.

    “Ya-as,” drawled the Yankee, “I once knoo a man, sir, who fell off a window-sill in a flat twenty stories high, and never hurt himself, beyond ...

    Article : 111 words
  17. SITUATIONS—VACANT.

    The rich bachelor sighed, and looked fixedly at the beautiful girl. “Things with me," he murmured, "are at sixes and sevens. I feel the ...

    Article : 98 words
  18. TO SAVE POSTAGE.

    An Irishman, settled in Canada, wrote home to his old mother living in Dublin, and asked her to send him an ulster from a well-known shop in ...

    Article : 78 words
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