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  2. REMINISCENECES OF MADAME PATTI.

    Madame Patti is writing her reminiscences in the "Strand Magazine." She says:—Perhaps that which touched me most was that which His ...

    Article : 344 words
  3. BOOTH TARKINGTON’S DOG.

    Booth Tarnington, the American novelist, says that in no State in the Union have the newspapers more "journalistic enterprise" than in his ...

    Article : 284 words
  4. NOTHING SERIOUS. AN ACTION FOR DAMAGES.

    Proof was being given as to the fact of a certain Mr. Smith having been on board a steam-boat when her boiler exploded. Mrs. Smith, who ...

    Article : 121 words
  5. MOZART.

    Mozart never seems to have grown up. He was the Peter Pan of musicians. It is all very well to read complacently of his extraordinary ...

    Article : 366 words
  6. VEDDAH'S DYING OUT.

    The oldest inhabitants of Ceylon are passing away. These are the famous Veddahs. Fifty years ago it was estimated ...

    Article : 224 words
  7. PHAROAH-HUNTING IN EGYPT.

    Pharoah-hunting is essentially a winter sport, its chief season is between October and March, when the climate of the Nile Valley is at ...

    Article : 1,539 words
  8. AFTER BUSINESS HOURS.

    A chemist's night bell rang loudly in the small hours, and when he went down he was met by a placid man, who ashed for a bottle of soda ...

    Article : 92 words
  9. ELECTIONEERING.

    An Illinois politician, who once delivered what seemed to him a striking speech on the trust question, was most anxious to ascertain ...

    Article : 120 words
  10. CASTRO DETHRONED.

    The best-known of the latter-day South American presidents is president no longer. Venezuela has at last grown tired of President ...

    Article : 716 words
  11. THE EXPRESS.

    The bleat of the sheep in the field by the railway is the only sound that has not been muffled by the snow. The lights of the distant ...

    Article : 760 words
  12. TASTE AND SMELL.

    Those two senses are closely associated and are also dependent in a certain degree on the sense of vision. A had cold in the head by ...

    Article : 367 words
  13. STORIES AND ITEMS.

    The last words of William IV., alluding to Waterloo, were "Ah, that was a glorious day for England!" Of a different character were the ...

    Article : 793 words
  14. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    A horse’s strength, roughly speaking, is equal to that of about five men. The lion's roar carries further ...

    Article : 718 words
  15. IN RURAL ENGLAND.

    A clergyman preaching in a country church for the first time was delighted to find the congregation very attentive, and told the verger so ...

    Article : 763 words
  16. MAGIC GLASS.

    One of the most curious inventions is what is called platinised glass. A piece of glass is coated with an exceedingly thin layer of a liquid ...

    Article : 260 words
  17. UNPLEASANT SURPRISE.

    Miss Sarah Brooks once had a very disconcerting experience whilst forming one of a house party in the country. Worn out with dancing, she ...

    Article : 151 words
  18. A WATCHWORD.

    Wherever wrong is done To the humblest or the weakest. 'Neath the all-beholding sun— That wrong is also done to us, ...

    Article : 45 words
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