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  2. LATELY PENNED.

    Is August, 1887, two Germans, Lanmer nod Lotria by came, undertook the ascent of the WtUethom by the Western flunk, a route which had only once bean followed by Mr. ...

    Article : 593 words
  3. THE STORYTELLER. ZITIGGLI’S CIRQUE.

    If you want to know what life really is I would advise you to join a travelling circus. They sny that a half of the world cannot tell how the other half lives. Well, I don’t ...

    Article : 2,877 words
  4. CONFEDERATE SAL.

    During the latter part, of the war the Confederates went into camp about Columbia, on Duck River, in Tennessee. The soldiers weie half-clad, half-fed. and ...

    Article : 984 words
  5. CLOSE QUARTERS.

    An English resident of India relates that he once had occasion to make a short journey by rail in June, and was invited by a friend, who was in the railway company’s service, to ride ...

    Article : 450 words
  6. AFTER BEING HANGED.

    In the "good old days” people sentenced to death occasionally, either by accident or by collusion on the part of the authorities, succeeded in cheating the gallows even after ...

    Article : 404 words
  7. A ROMANCE OF FLORIDA.

    Poncerle Leon had his first experience of warfare with tlie Moors; and when Columbus was on the look-out for capable adventurers, with a little useful military ...

    Article : 910 words
  8. WHY HE COULD NOT SIT.

    A police-court, even in Paris, is a prosaic place so far as scenery is concerned; but a great deal of colour was observable the other day in the witness-box, as it may be called, of the ...

    Article : 340 words
  9. CHASED BY A SHARK.

    Deputy Surgeon-General Paske, in his [?] rospect of Life and Travel in Lower Barmah," describes a visit which he and a brother doctor paid to a sea-side resort, and an adventure that ...

    Article : 391 words
  10. A WOMAN WITH A HISTORY.

    A well-dressed and sharp-faced woman passed nto the lawyer’s office and Terr shortly was; his desk beg your pardon eaid. m-jrou spare m taw moments ...

    Article : 271 words
  11. A KING ON A CIRCUS HORSE.

    When Francis Joseph [?] Emperor or Austria and King of Hungary, was crowned, he had to undergo a much more perilous coronation ceremony than Queen Victoria, In the middle of ...

    Article : 177 words
  12. SHE EXPLAINED.

    Defending Lawyer (to witness): Did you see the prisoner clearly at the window? "Yes; it was a moonlight night.” "Was your husband awake at the time?” ...

    Article : 159 words
  13. A READY SALE.

    In a small Midland town an innkeeper, to get rid of a book pedlar’s importunities, bought an almanac from him, and, putting it into his pocket, left the inn, his wife just then coming ...

    Article : 150 words
  14. AN IRISHMAN’S APPETITE.

    Pat had been in the [?] for a week through an accident. The doctor, in going his rounds, came to his bedside and asked: ""Well,my [?] nadhow do youu feal this ...

    Article : 142 words
  15. THE GAOL-KEEPER'S “DAUGHTER.”

    A carious story was that of Maria Stella, Lady Newborough, who had originally been a ballet dancer at Florence, and who was reputedly the daughter of one Chiappini, the ...

    Article : 138 words
  16. THE BROTHER FROM THE COUNTRY

    It is a serious offence for a German soldier to appear in public except in uniform. Even when he is on furlough he must always wear it. A certain Lieutenant Ritter, who was ...

    Article : 172 words
  17. HE HAD HIM THERE.

    Scene: Down a Yorkshire coal mine. Deputy (to lad who has placed his lamp on the ground contrary to rules of colliery): Nah. lad, what’s thy name? Ah shall hav to report thee for ...

    Article : 170 words
  18. A COOL QUESTION.

    A Highland gentleman on the point ef atirtiag for tbe United States, by accident left bia parse, containing one hundrod pounds, at the railway station. ...

    Article : 152 words
  19. A CHEERFUL CENTENARIAN.

    A gentleman from London visiting Scotland, having heard that a Man residing in the district where he had put up had just completed the 100th year of his age, and being anxious to ...

    Article : 152 words
  20. NO MORE COAL BILLS.

    A well-known scientist calls attention to the Fact that, alter the supply of coal on earth is exhausted, the heat of the interior of our globe may be used as a source of power. ...

    Article : 241 words
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