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  2. WHAT I SAW IN THE WALLED-IN CITY.

    It was my third visit to Shanghai, or more correctly speaking "Shunghai," about the time of the subsidence of the Boxer rebellion. ...

    Article : 3,422 words
  3. MY EXPERIENCE AS A SNAKE CATCHER.

    In the year 1895 (says Sergeant Barton in "Yes or No"), the battalion to which I belonged, the Manchester, was stationed at Dinapore. ...

    Article : 404 words
  4. THE CERMAN FLEET.

    Relatively weak as the German fleet is at present, the plans which are now maturing will ensure it a significant and prominent position ...

    Article : 365 words
  5. IN NATURE’S GARDEN.

    Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, where Captain M'Kenzie has been murdered by natives, is a British station on land cast up by volcanic ...

    Article : 440 words
  6. REJECTED STRADS.

    One hundred and seventy years ago Antonio Stradivari carried the secret of his violins with him to his grave in the city of Cremona. Among ...

    Article : 506 words
  7. A BREAD GOOSE.

    It was nearing the end of the year when I received a commission to journey to a nobleman’s mansion in North Lincolnshire, for the ...

    Article : 707 words
  8. A TRAGEDY OF THE ALPS.

    A young man of five-and-twenty, on his honeymoon, visited the Alps, and ventured alone on to the higher part of a glacier. ...

    Article : 397 words
  9. SAVED BY A CIGARETTE.

    The intense cold, combined with the fatigue attendant on a trans-Continental journey, induced me to seek the comfort of bed at the early hour ...

    Article : 587 words
  10. THE BEDSIDE MANNER.

    Abeniethy, the famous doctor, was supposed to influence people by a brusqueness amounting to absolute rudeness. It is related that one day ...

    Article : 158 words
  11. NEMESIS.

    The fierce light that beats upon a throne usually prevents the monarch from being seen clearly:but King Leopold of Belgium has 60 often ...

    Article : 344 words
  12. HER MAJESTY’S JEWELS.

    Queen Alexandra, in addition to a safeful of diamonds and pearls, owns some wonderful coloured gems—rubies, sapphires, and emeralds— ...

    Article : 246 words
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