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  2. TRIALS THAT HAVE COST FORTUNES.

    The Thaw case has cost the family £70,000. And the end is not yet. Probably when that exceedingly desirable consummation is at length ...

    Article : 340 words
  3. SNOWFLAKES.

    I am only a poor little snowflake; still, insignificant as I appear, I have a most interesting history. Unless you have looked at me very ...

    Article : 896 words
  4. THE KUROPATKIN STORY.

    Reading General Kuropatkin's remarkable apoligia we see the veil which screens the story of war drawn aside. The cowardice of the rank and ...

    Article : 556 words
  5. A REMARKABLE HOUSE.

    The most remarkable house in the world is undoubtedly that owned and occupied by Mr. Knapp, at Troyes. It has cost him no less than ...

    Article : 331 words
  6. MARS AND ITS CANALS.

    Polar expeditions, says a writer in the "New York Herald," are the fad of the hour. Perhaps this is because they combine the maximum of ...

    Article : 1,134 words
  7. GOOD STORIES I HAVE HEARD.

    I heard an excellent story this week of a very rich and very economical financier who was making preparations for a Christmas ball some ...

    Article : 1,070 words
  8. THE EGYPT OF TO-DAY.

    Ten years ago Egypt was a country of the dead. Its interests lay in the graves of another age. Its landmarks were obelisks and pyramids, ...

    Article : 349 words
  9. SAVED HIS LIFE.

    A good story comes from China which would seem to point, to the fact that John Chinaman has assimilated some Western ideas on the ...

    Article : 155 words
  10. A STOLEN TRADE SECRET.

    The manufacture of tinware in England originated in a stolen secret. Few readers need to be informed that tinware is simply thin ...

    Article : 166 words
  11. TOASTS.

    By all means.—May we live till we die! May the married be happy and the single as they are. ...

    Article : 253 words
  12. HUNTING FOR "KRUGER TREASURE."

    It is Interesting to note, now that yet another expedition is on its way to try and recover the lost "Kruger treasure" from the wrecked schooner ...

    Article : 296 words
  13. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    Four-wheeled cabs in England cost about £70; hansoms about £55. Dorking fowls have five toes; ordinary fowls usually four. ...

    Article : 481 words
  14. DUKE, ACTRESS, AND THE BOUQUETS.

    A Russian Grand Duke, finding himself with a few days to spare in, Paris, went one evening to the theatre, and, being a person of some ...

    Article : 464 words
  15. THE ONLY WAY.

    Perkins had been appionted tutor to the young lord of the manor, and together they were making a grand tour. Perkins was congratulating ...

    Article : 252 words
  16. YOUR BEST AND WORST NERVES.

    The most easily tired nerves in the body are the nerves of smell. They can detect the faintest whiff of perfume. As you pass a rose in the ...

    Article : 259 words
  17. HOW HIS GARDEN CREW.

    The lord of Acacia Villa was more than angry. For the fourth time this spring the seeds which he had sown in the largest bed of his small ...

    Article : 227 words
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