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  2. ONE OF ARCHIBALD FORBES’ ADVENTURES.

    "There was a good deal of fighting in the streets in the latter days of the Paris Commune," said my friend, "for the Versailles troops were ...

    Article : 344 words
  3. TRAINING FIGHTING BULLS.

    Nearly all the great cities of Spain have their bull-rings and their bullfights, but many will be surprised to learn that 50,000 bulls are annually ...

    Article : 622 words
  4. INTRESTING ITEMS.

    The torpedo was first made in 1777. Barometers were first made by Torricelli in 1643. Bomshells were first made in ...

    Article : 338 words
  5. A TALE OF THE BOER WAR.

    Mr. Bennett Burleigh, the war correspondent, tells an amusing story of the Boer War.—Whilst at Nq’Meli Mountain, 18 miles cast of Vryheid, ...

    Article : 393 words
  6. "HORSE SAUSAGE."

    Thousands of the best horses in the United Kingdom, thrown out of employment by the advent of the motorcar, are being- exported to the ...

    Article : 304 words
  7. THE BROWN TROUT’S STORY.

    As I know now, I was born in [?]tivity. You would never think it, [?] see me now, monarch of the pool, but it is true. My earliest, ...

    Article : 844 words
  8. CRIMINALS WHO HIDE IN PRISON.

    Many a cunning criminal, for whom the police have sought half the world over, has been at length run to earth in the place where one would think ...

    Article : 542 words
  9. WORLD’S RICHEST MEN.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 words
  10. NARROW ESCAPES FROM DEATH.

    Lord Roberts is a living example of the hazardous nature of the soldier’s calling. During the fighting before the walls of Delhi a bullet ...

    Article : 344 words
  11. FIGHTING BATTLESHIPS WITH PUNTS.

    The action of the hollicose minister of the lonely island of St. Kilda, who recently boarded a British cruiser at the head of a boatload of members ...

    Article : 315 words
  12. A WHISTLER PRACTICAL JOKE.

    Did you ever hear the story of Whistler, the artist, and the goldfish?" He was once staying in Switzerland, which shows that he ...

    Article : 352 words
  13. ABUSING NOTICES.

    The humour of notice boards is sometimes grim. A lady went to stay at the homestead of a New South Wales squatter, one of a family ...

    Article : 581 words
  14. A FIGHT WITH DEVIL FISH.

    This time we got it well within reach, but just as we were preparing to pull it on board the devil-fish appeared again, and, fixing one of its ...

    Article : 280 words
  15. TACKLING AN ALLIGATOR.

    A learned scientist, exploring the ancient ruins of Mexico and Central America, was surprised to, find the Indians, in some places, living upon ...

    Article : 451 words
  16. FREAKISH PHRASEOLOGY.

    The vagaries of the English language are many and wonderful. There is probably no other in which looseness of phraseology is so prevalent. ...

    Article : 367 words
  17. INDIAN SHEET STEALERS.

    Among the most dexterous of the vagabonds and fakirs of India are the sheet-stealers. I do not refer to the clumsy operator who takes the ...

    Article : 290 words
  18. MAN WHO TAMES FISH.

    Can fish be tamed? It seems impossible. But there exists a man who says he has done it, and photographs have been taken which prove ...

    Article : 375 words
  19. ILLOGIGAL LOGIC.

    There are some people whose very existence is guided by the science of logic. Logic rules their lives day by day and they refuse to believe in the ...

    Article : 268 words
  20. A STAGE DISASTER.

    Amateur theatrical companies are proverbially courageous, and perhaps that the reason that the Paddlecombe Thespians selected "Iolanthc" ...

    Article : 210 words
  21. THE ONE WHO WAS SHORT.

    The landlord, who, by his account had done a bit in the detective line in his time, was boasting to his customer over the bar that it would ...

    Article : 121 words
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