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  2. MOVING A TOWN.

    It is no unheard-of thing for families who have lived in a house until it is neither clean nor habitable to overcome the difficulty by moving into ...

    Article : 340 words
  3. MAKERS OF DOTS AND DASHES.

    Professor S. F. B. Morse, inventor of the electric telegraph, is said to have been the first man to whom the appellation "crank" was applied, and ...

    Article : 590 words
  4. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HORSE.

    Your rampant three-year-old horse cannot be held against his wiil by a neavy man, yet a sixty-pound lad can gallop him and do what he pleases ...

    Article : 811 words
  5. A Girl from the South Cassell and Co., London & Melbourne. All Rights Reserved. CHAPTER X.

    Dolores fled to her room, closed the door softly, and turned the key. She stood, still, with her hands clenched at her bosom as if to still the ...

    Article : 2,702 words
  6. THE KRUPP HOTEL.

    There is probably only one hotel in the world which is run at a loss of £20,000 a year. It is run in the little town of Essen, in Germany, and is ...

    Article : 161 words
  7. THE KING’S SPEECH.

    It may not be generally known that the reading of a Speech from the Throne by the Sovereign, even when present to open the session in person, ...

    Article : 310 words
  8. A UNIQUE EXPERIMENT.

    If a needle is shoved into a cork until just the tip-end shows on the opposite side and the needle is then broken off so that the upper end is flush with ...

    Article : 385 words
  9. THINGS TO REMEMBER.

    Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.—Emerson. ...

    Article : 246 words
  10. SEVENTY YEARS OF EATING.

    If a man of seventy years were starving, it would probably be little comfort to him to think that he had consumed in the course of his life 53¾ ...

    Article : 283 words
  11. THINGS TO REMEMBER.

    Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. The religion of faithful service may ...

    Article : 375 words
  12. HOW TO KEEP YOUNG.

    Two notable men who do not believe in the too-old-at-forty theory, celebrated their birthdays last month, and, though one was seventy, and the ...

    Article : 323 words
  13. Surprised Her.

    A gentleman who had spent the greater portion of his life in Canada relates an amusing experience which befel him. ...

    Article : 238 words
  14. NO DANGER FROM THE COMET.

    To calm the fears of an inquirer who expressed alarm as to the possibility of a collision with Halley’s comet, Sir Robert Ball published the following ...

    Article : 173 words
  15. Dangerous.

    Little Daughter (reading): In winter every animal puts on a new fur coat. Father: Don’t speak so loudly, my pet. Mamma is in the next room. ...

    Article : 60 words
  16. CHAPTER XI.

    Possessed by the one idea—that of flight—Dolores walked quickly into Holborn and towards Oxford-street, without any thought of where she was ...

    Article : 3,561 words
  17. A Hint to Inventors.

    "I see someone has just invented a new baby-carriage that will shut up." "Yes; but will it shut up the babies?" ...

    Article : 26 words
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