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  2. WHEN TRANSLATORS TRIP.

    The way of translators is hard. A missionary recently returned from the wilds of Central Africa translated, shortly after his first arrival there, ...

    Article : 705 words
  3. POSSIBILITIES IN PICTURES.

    During the recent champagne riots in France a cinematograph film of the scene was made. No one had any idea at the time that it would ...

    Article : 625 words
  4. STORM AND VICTORY.

    How the great Bastille Clock ticks (inaudiable) in its Inner Court there, at its ease, hour after hour; as if nothing special, for it or the world, ...

    Article : 888 words
  5. LADIES’ COLUMN.

    This little case was made out of one piece of green art serge entirely edged with cord of green and gold silk. The word music was worked ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 118 words
  6. A NEW MYSTERY OF THE SKIES.

    On the summit of Mount Wilson, in California, is the great observatory from which has just come the news of the birth of a now world, ...

    Article : 908 words
  7. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES A BALLOON ADVENTURE.

    I have been round the world several times in my younger days, and I have had many strange adventures and hairbreadth escapes at sea, but the ...

    Article : 209 words
  8. HE CHANCED IT.

    When on board the transport Tagus on our way out to South Africa, w anchored at Las Palmas to coal. The men answered themselves during the ...

    Article : 321 words
  9. JUDGING CHARACTER BY TABLE MANNERS.

    The nervous man generally consumes his food hastily. Sometimes he puts too large a piece into his mouth, and at other times a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 244 words
  10. A SURPRISE FOR THE WIFE.

    I am an agent for a parcels dolivery company, and in consequence of having to handle rough packages, always wear clothes that are perhaps ...

    Article : 259 words
  11. SALADS AND CUPS.

    Among the few things that the average man ever attempts in the culinary line are salads and cups. He thinks he can make a salad or ...

    Article : 517 words
  12. A RAND MINER’S STORY.

    Although it is now seventeen years ago, the following facts are still vividly impressed on my memory. In 1804 I was employed by one of ...

    Article : 319 words
  13. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Where there are several children coastantly in need of new shoes, the one who has to provide them will do well to try this: Cover soles of ...

    Article : 409 words
  14. NATURALLY REPAIRED.

    It was a murky afternoon, and the old sea captains were talking of a schooner which had been struck by lightning a few days before, and ...

    Article : 275 words
  15. PROVED IT.

    It was Friday afternoon, and the editorial staff were hard at work. Suddenly the pen of the chief subeditor ceased its inky scamper. ...

    Article : 247 words
  16. ON THE RIFLE RANGE.

    I was at one time a member of a Volunteers' corps, and was for some time a marker on the firing range, One day a large party of volunteers ...

    Article : 269 words
  17. OPEN-AIR INTRODUCTIONS. POINTS OF ETIQUETTE.

    If when walking with a friend you meet another friend and stop to speak to him, it is not at all necessary to introduce the two men to ...

    Article : 180 words
  18. YERY USEFUL.

    “This would be the very book to read to your wife." urged the book agent. “I don't read, I haven't a wife!” ...

    Article : 161 words
  19. THE TRAMP’S TALE.

    The other day a tramp called upon a pronounced advocate of woman’s rights. His tale was a very plausible one but did not seem to meet ...

    Article : 124 words
  20. A SERIOUS ILLNESS.

    "I want a good novel to read in the train, something pathetic!” said a woman to a bookseller. "Let me see; how would ‘The Last ...

    Article : 90 words
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