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  2. THE DREADED ORDEAL OVER.

    Professor D’Arcy Thompson was distinguished for his tact and courtesy, a fact the following anecdote illustrates. While conducting some ...

    Article : 243 words
  3. AMUSING INCIDENTS. Before Him.

    A matron of the most determined character was encountered by a young Canvasser. "May I see Mr. —?" he asked of ...

    Article : 85 words
  4. A Girl from the South All Rights Reserved. CHAPTER XV.

    She begin to dance, and the audience leant back in their comfortable seats and watched her after the manner characteristic of a roomful, an ...

    Article : 2,436 words
  5. Suiting the Action to the Word.

    A woman asked her husband to go in the cellar and draw a jug of beer. He consented, but at the head of the cellar steps slipped and fell, headlong ...

    Article : 96 words
  6. His Apology.

    At the railway refreshment room one of the passengers was in a hurry. "Please’ pass me them pertaters, mister," he said, addressing an ...

    Article : 149 words
  7. THE SCARLET THREAD.

    Every one of the thousands of ropes used in the British naval service, from the smallest heading line to the largest hawser, whether it be used on ...

    Article : 190 words
  8. The Stakes.

    In a small country town there once lived a couple of young fellows whohad gone into partnership in a barber’s business, and in order to pass ...

    Article : 149 words
  9. LADY AVIATOR’S ESCAPE.

    Mile. Helene Dutrieu, the French actress who is learning to fly, had a miraculous escape recently at Issy les Moulineaux while practising with her ...

    Article : 115 words
  10. One To Her.

    She was a sweet young thing, and had come down to visit her brother at the barracks. Her relative being on duty, his chum ...

    Article : 199 words
  11. ADVERTISING MAXIMS.

    Under the heading, "The American Bid for Canadian Trade," "The Times" is publishing a series of articles from a correspondent who recently ...

    Article : 266 words
  12. NATURE AS ENGINEER.

    Nature is an accomplished engineer in the construction of the bones alone. She made, them hollow to give the maximum strength with the minimum ...

    Article : 163 words
  13. The Confidence Trick.

    One day a young man of Mr. Russell Sage’s acquaintance—in fact, the grandson of an old friend of other days—approached him on the subject ...

    Article : 263 words
  14. THE AMBER HARVEST.

    The poor people who earn a precarious livelihood by gathering amber on the shores of the Baltic Sea work only in the roughest weather. When ...

    Article : 464 words
  15. AN ECCENTRIC GENIUS.

    The late Mr. Drax, whose pictures were sold in London last month, was known as "Alphabet" Drax, owing to the extraordinary number of his ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. CREATURES OF MOOD.

    Men of genius are notoriously creatures of mood. Grief and adversity have often been a real help to them, rather than a hindrance. Poe, it is ...

    Article : 281 words
  17. SANTOS-DUMONT WORKS LEVER WITH HIS BACK.

    M. Santos-Dumont has adopted a, little fixture attached to the hack of his coat as a unique and effectual means to work the warping lever of ...

    Article : 198 words
  18. CHAPTER XVI.

    Suddenly the Marquis, stopped, stood as if hesitating for a moment; then retraced his steps and, standing at a little distance and in the shadows, ...

    Article : 2,759 words
  19. CHAPTER XVII.

    The evening on which Dolores had saved Mansanarez’s life, Heriot Broughton wearily climbed the stone stairs, entered his sitting-room, and ...

    Article : 2,271 words
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