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  2. REMINISCENCES OF THE CZAR.

    Count Semen Rodinoff, who was for two years one of the bodyguard of Czar Nicholas II., gives an interesting account in the “Monthly ...

    Article : 388 words
  3. FAMOUS FIGHTS OF THE “LION.”

    It is some years since a "Lion" has figured in the Fleet, as the last vessel of that name, an 80 gun ship launched in 1847, and finally paid off ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,495 words
  4. PLAYING TO THE GALLERY.

    In every walk of life wo come across the "Watch Me” type of man. One day he is a wag in the railway carriage, who never loses a chance ...

    Article : 315 words
  5. THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT.

    "You look tired.” said Mrs. Pulstrum to her neighbour. “I am tired,” admitted Mrs. Firmar. “This thing of selecting ...

    Article : 736 words
  6. A GREAT AMERICAN INDUSTRY.

    A New-York manager, Henry B. Harris, has been at pains to procure details from which he has digested a series of figures that will amaze many ...

    Article : 379 words
  7. LADIES’ COLUMN.

    Our first illustration shows a smart costume developed in fine white serge. The lower part of the skirt is of black charmeuse. The tunic appears ...

    Article : 312 words
  8. WOMEN OUTLIVE MEN.

    Women are called the weaker sex; but the fact is that when tested by the length of their life, and by their power to endure suffering and to ...

    Article : 494 words
  9. PERILOUS MOMENT OF WAKING.

    “Many more crimes are enacted during a state of profound somnambulism than is generally known." Dr. Forbes Winslow, the mental ...

    Article : 283 words
  10. THE HISTORY OF FOOTBALL.

    When was football first played in England? The ‘"Philadelphia Record’ in an interesting article on the football, sets out to answer this ...

    Article : 578 words
  11. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    When choosing apples, take those that weigh heaviest. They will be the best fruit. Damp salt will take off the ...

    Article : 241 words
  12. REBUKED.

    A raw recruit from a remote corner of the Green Isle was engaged for the first time in a field manoeuvre on outpost duty. The sergeant ...

    Article : 139 words
  13. THE LAST WORD!

    The following is a Sydney journalist's description of a "great” scene in a popular sensational drama— “Crouching like tigeresses making ...

    Article : 246 words
  14. GERMANS AND SAILING SHIPS.

    The Germans, almost alone among seafaring races, have refused to write the epitaph of the deep-water square-rigged ship. They have ...

    Article : 270 words
  15. CHINA'S CRAZE FOR CULTURE.

    Colleges have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain in all the provincial capitals. Ten years ago there were probably less than 300 students ...

    Article : 175 words
  16. A DELICATE CHILD.

    A Suffolk widow of eighty-five years of age recently lost her only daughter a spinster of sixty-five. She gave way to excessive grief, for which the ...

    Article : 141 words
  17. HIS WEDDING DAY.

    Like most great geniuses, Edison is extraordinarily absent-minded. One of the best stories of this phase of his character is told by one of his ...

    Article : 127 words
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