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  2. A FORGOTTEN FIGHT.

    On January 12, 1617 occurred on of the most potable naval actions, in our records remarkable also as being the only such conflict during the ...

    Article : 249 words
  3. A BOER TRAIN-WRECKER.

    They caught him in the [?]. His pony’s pastern had been sinashed by a bullet and so he could not get away. He was a mean type of ...

    Article : 454 words
  4. A ROMANCE OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

    Perhaps the most romantic history attaching, to the Bank of England note is the one now in the possession of a famous collector of ...

    Article : 493 words
  5. A DEALER IN GENIUS.

    Major, Pond, In his entertaining book “Eccentrichies of Genius,” recently published by Messrs. Chalto and Windos, tolls how be became, “the greatest manager on ...

    Article : 1,306 words
  6. MRS. JACK JOHNSON’S WEEKLY COLUMN.

    I fancy few women have had greater. chances than myself of studying those of my own sex who beck after remunerative employment. The knowledge that one ...

    Article : 1,452 words
  7. CHINESE JUGGLING.

    A writer in the “New York Times” gives some interesting details as to feats of Chinese Juggling. In the course of his remarks he says:— ...

    Article : 593 words
  8. AN INCH OF RAIN ON THE ATLANTIC.

    Lieutenant Maury has computed the following effect of a single inch of rain falling upon the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic includes an ...

    Article : 111 words
  9. HE NEVER FAILED.

    A prosperous country merchant who had installed a telephone near the front door of his shop one morning stepped up to the transmitter to answer a call. ...

    Article : 199 words
  10. “QUAINT SAYINGS OF CHILDREN.”

    The following are a few extracts from a Volume recently published by Mr. David Macras, entitled. “Quaint Saying of Children”:—The schoolmistress was reading ...

    Article : 475 words
  11. A WONDERFUL PAGAN TEMPLE.

    There are now being conducted at Alexandria Egypt, what promise to be some of the most important excavations of modern times. A ...

    Article : 337 words
  12. AS GOOD AS NEW.

    One of our leading generals on his return from South Africa, brought with him a flag all tattered and torn and [?] with bullets which ...

    Article : 81 words
  13. HOPED FOR THE BEST.

    John Fox, jr., in his study of the Southern mountaineer in the Scribner’s relates that a travelling evangelist, Mr. Barnes, once stopped at a mountain ...

    Article : 137 words
  14. APPRECIATED HIS COURAGE

    The late Li Hung Chang (says the Shanghai Mercury”) was very apt to revile in the lowest Billings-gate if any one offended him Orice ...

    Article : 233 words
  15. VERY STRIKING.

    An elderly lady, who is rathe proud of her classic features went to have her photograph taken. “Now then she said to the ...

    Article : 57 words
  16. THE DARKEY’S DELIGHT.

    An old darkey (says a New York paper) went to Memphis the other day to get his pension check cashed. After receiving his money which amounted to ...

    Article : 179 words
  17. TOO MUCH OF IT.

    Medium: “I can tell you about a buried treasure.” Patron: “Please don’t ! My husband” is always tooting that into my ...

    Article : 113 words
  18. FATAL OPPOSITION.

    Social Reformer: I have heard that the opening of your bathing establishment with [?] baths for one day was a failure, is it so? ...

    Article : 44 words
  19. MAN WITH A HISTORY.

    First Bookman: The school director who just left us has an interesting history. Second Bookman You don’t say! How do you know? ...

    Article : 51 words
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