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  2. A DESPERATE DRIVE.

    The bell sounded for the last time. Driver Mattern kissed his wife, leaped to his engine, and with a shrill whistle the train slowly began to move. The village it was leaving consisted ...

    Article : 2,885 words
  3. THE STORY OF A FAMOUS MUTINY.

    The Bounty was an armed vessel comm[?] by Captain Bligh, which quitted England in the autumn of 1789 for the purpose of making discoveries and of trading among the Southern ...

    Article : 1,286 words
  4. WANTED—A WIFE.

    "Wanted—a wife." "And I want a husband!" thought Miss Laurella Wintergreen, She glanced toward the mirror between the ...

    Article : 899 words
  5. THE LIEUTENANT'S ROMANCE.

    In the midel of the Battle of the Wilderness, May 8th. 18[?], while the roar of murketry [?] and flowed all along the line, and hundreds of beeding soilders lay gasping under the ...

    Article : 2,349 words
  6. [ABE LINCOLN’S HONEST MAN.

    "When I first entered upon my duties as president," said Mr. Lincoln, grasping our arm in his peculiar way with one of his long, bony hands, while he ran his fingers through ...

    Article : 1,091 words
  7. ELEVEN HUNDRED NOVELS.

    The "New York Herald" recently offered a prize of two thousand pounds for the best novel of between fifty thousand and seventy-five thousand words by an American writer. The ...

    Article : 214 words
  8. A NARROW ESCAPE.

    "Were you ever shot in the war, Colonel?" asked the young woman of the warrior, after listening to some of his exceedingly bloodcurdling reminiscences of the late ...

    Article : 96 words
  9. TERRIBLE AMMUNITION.

    A recent visitor to Now Zenland has brought back an interesting story about Sir John Gorst It appears that, while living in Waikato some years ago, Sir John ran the Maori newspaper ...

    Article : 173 words
  10. YOUNG AT FIFTY.

    There are a couple of good stories in the August "Blackwood" of a famous French danscuse, Mile. Guilmard. Mile. Guimard determined, when she was young, that she ...

    Article : 172 words
  11. RETURNED WITH THANKS.

    A literary man in Vienna, possessor of the learned degree of doctor, used to take his midday reflection, a contemporary tells us, at a well-known case in the Austrian capital. One ...

    Article : 204 words
  12. The Harvest Calendar of the World.

    We are all taught that, by reason of the inclination of the earth’s axis, the several seasons happen at different times in different portions of our globe, so that seed-times and ...

    Article : 291 words
  13. SHE WANTED TO GIVE IT AWAY.

    George had proposed and been accepted for several weeks, but the girl's esteemed parents had not been informed of it and they were exceedingly anxious and curious to know how ...

    Article : 295 words
  14. Going to Angelina.

    Just at that time there Mas an intense rivalry among railroads to secure travelling over their respective lines to the Chicago Exhibitinn and summer resorts. One day a thin, ...

    Article : 485 words
  15. THE MAD WOMAN’S DELUSION.

    The road ran through a beautiful, half-cleared wood, and at the end, on a slight rise of ground, stood the madhouse. Of course it was not called a madhouse, or people would not have ...

    Article : 887 words
  16. Round the World in a WheelBarrow.

    The French geographer Gallias, who left Paris for a tour round the world some few months ago wheeling his wife in a wheelbarrow decked with French flags, and who ...

    Article : 354 words
  17. Her Ladyship’s Bike.

    The Countess of Warwick has taken to airing her opinions fearlessly, and she has lately given her view of bikes after a fashion which shows much common sense in the lady, and, at ...

    Article : 253 words
  18. WOMAN’S INCONSISTENCY.

    Mrs. Gradley (tearfully): I don’t care who knows it. My husband has got to give up either me or his lodge! He gets worse aud worse; don’t believe he’ll ever be any account, the ...

    Article : 128 words
  19. The Pope’s Annual Golden Rose.

    The golden rose which the Pope bestows annually goes to America for the second time, the recipient being Miss Mary Gwendolin Caldwell, of New York, whose magnificent ...

    Article : 100 words
  20. Fire-proof Paper.

    Paper indestructible by Ere has been invented by M. Meyer, of Paris. A specimen of it was subjected to a severe test—148 hour in a potter’s furnace—and came out with its ...

    Article : 67 words
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