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  2. DARING DEEDS OF NAVAL BRIGADES.

    The adaptability of the "handy man." his resourcefulness, his courage. and his cheerfulness under dilliculties, have often rendered him an ...

    Article : 1,500 words
  3. SALVAGE ON SUNKEN SHIPS.

    A diver named John Pearce, living at Whitstable a favourite resort of men of his profession—had a curious experience while recovering the ...

    Article : 308 words
  4. INSECTS FOUND IN AMBER.

    Various opinions have been held in the past regarding the nature of-ambe[?] but to-day, according to the opinion of geologists, it can be ...

    Article : 257 words
  5. AMUSING SCENE IN A SLEEPING CAR.

    There was a disturbance in the sleeping car. There was no trouble in locating it. It came from one of the berths in ...

    Article : 870 words
  6. THE ICEBERG.

    When the great glaciers of Greenland creep into the sea huge masses of ice break off, and float away as the icebergs of the North Atlantic, ...

    Article : 558 words
  7. A POLICE-CONSTABLE'S CURIOUS EXPERIENCE.

    'A' story is told of a certain thief, whose chief line was the stealing of lead from the roofs of houses. One gainst the side of a shop, and was ...

    Article : 293 words
  8. PEGULIAR ENGLISH.

    A Frenchman was boasting that he had thoroubhly mastered the English language, when he was asked to write from dictation the following ...

    Article : 124 words
  9. A POINT OF NAVAL ETIQUETTE.

    One of the visits of the American Fleet to English waters, Admiral Erben, now retired, was in command with Captain T. Mahan, the writer ...

    Article : 182 words
  10. AN ILLUSTRATED TRAIN.

    To help the excited traveller to find his or her own seat, which may have been temporarily vacated in a long and crowded train, the ...

    Article : 189 words
  11. TRUE STORY OF A PARROT.

    A lady who is a regular attendant at the means of grace, owns a parrot which has a peculiar antipathy to beggars, and can give expression to ...

    Article : 179 words
  12. A SOLDIER'S ADVENTURE.

    A remarkable capture of pythons is reported in the "Madras Mail," Recently two men who were out shooting game in Mysore for the ...

    Article : 283 words
  13. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Great ocean currents number 25. In Sweden cousins may not marry. £6,000 is daily spent in cab hire in London. ...

    Article : 455 words
  14. A DEVICE OF THE CARD SHARPERS.

    Here is a card swindle which some years ago was very much worked in England. A couple of men enter a public-house and call for drinks, but ...

    Article : 303 words
  15. A MAN OF NERVE AND COURAGE.

    Major Vaksel, who lived in St. Petersburg in the reign of the Emperor Paul, was a man of imdomitable courage, and the biggest ...

    Article : 313 words
  16. TOOK HIM LITERALLY.

    The manager of a third-rate theatrical touring company was desperate. At the critical moment, the baggage man, who undertook the ...

    Article : 198 words
  17. ABOUT CANARY BIRDS.

    About 330 years ago a ship, returning from the islands in the Atlantic which people then called the Fortune Isles, but which were ...

    Article : 449 words
  18. THE LAST WORD.

    A bright, intelligent boy he was— oh, yes, and always ready with an apt reply. He rose to read a composition on ...

    Article : 115 words
  19. WHERE MEN OUTNUMBER WOMEN.

    In most colonies the men outnumber the women very considerably. In Western Australia, for example, taking the immigrant population, there ...

    Article : 280 words
  20. WHY HE COULDN'T PAY.

    The author had long been struggling to make a living, but editors did not seem to care about his effu- j sions. He wrote much but made little ...

    Article : 232 words
  21. TIT FOR TAT.

    He rejoiced in the not very humorous name of Wood, and he prided himself on his jokes and smart repartee. Few of his friends had ...

    Article : 231 words
  22. A WOODEN LEG AS A MONEY BOX.

    A curious and amusing scene was witnessed recently at Battersea. A man with a wooden leg was walking up Battersea Rise, when the wooden ...

    Article : 175 words
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