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  2. BURGLARS IN BOXES.

    The ingenuity which is sometimes displayed by thieves and swindles in their endeavours to [?] wealth in an unlawful manner is one ...

    Article : 1,117 words
  3. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    There are 17 metals which [?] more valuable than gold. Eight out at every 10,000 English people emigrate every year. ...

    Article : 864 words
  4. A SIXTY-ONE DAYS’ FAST.

    In 1796 a young man of studious and melancholy turn of mind, troubled with some symptoms of indigestion and internal troubles and aided ...

    Article : 403 words
  5. HUSBAND AND WIFE

    I don’t think I’ll try any more practical jokes on my wife. They don’t pan out well.” “Flucidate.” ...

    Article : 306 words
  6. TERRIBLE FOOTBALL DISASTER IN GLASGOW.

    An accident unparalleled in the history of football [?] the [?] match between England and Scotland which took place recently ...

    Article : 457 words
  7. ARTEMOS WARD’S EXPERIMENT.

    In the early days of the [?] Club (writes Mr Howard Paul) it was the meeting place of the wits of [?] and on the Saturday. ...

    Article : 775 words
  8. WILL YOU GO TO SIBERIA?

    The Russian Government has issued an English booklet evidently aimed al imbuing some of out countrymen to emigrate to Siberia. ...

    Article : 227 words
  9. LORD WOLSELEY.

    Lord [?] trip to South Africa has [?] a good deal of [?] and the doubt is very generally expressed that it is prompted ...

    Article : 233 words
  10. A SEVENTY-FOOT LIZARD.

    A fossil [?] sent out by the American [?] discovered one of the largest skeletons of extinct [?] found in America. ...

    Article : 150 words
  11. A SHEEP-DOG TRIAL

    An interesting article In this mouth’s “Windsor Magazine” deals with the training of sheep-dogs for competition in the celebrated trials ...

    Article : 796 words
  12. FLIGHT OF THE BOOMERANG.

    The wonderful flight of the boomerang, described by travellers, is seldom seen to-day, and, though there are many natives in Australia who ...

    Article : 495 words
  13. LANGUAGE IN A DOG’S TAIL.

    In the case of all hunting dogs such as foxhounds or wolves which [?] and is very [?] ...

    Article : 384 words
  14. BANANA V. WHEAT FOR BREAD.

    The banana is a true child of the [?] and grows in the greatest luxuriance, demanding little exertion from those who cultivate it for their ...

    Article : 319 words
  15. TWO PRAIRIE DOGS AND A RATTLESNAKE.

    The sight of rattlesnakes entering or leaving the house of the prairie clog gave rise to the belief, formerly held. that the reptiles and the small ...

    Article : 391 words
  16. AT THE RIFLE BUTTS.

    In a passage of his recently published book. The Book of the [?] the Hon. T. F. Freemantle tells the following amusing story. ...

    Article : 206 words
  17. DECLINED WITH THANKS.

    A bookseller lately advertised in the papers for a porter and a man of-all-work for his bookshop. Among the applicants appeared a ...

    Article : 179 words
  18. WHAT HAPPENED.

    “Tony, ” said a moody British officer to his soldier servant, “something tells me that I shall never come back from the Boer war alive. ...

    Article : 183 words
  19. LARGEST OVEN IN THE WORLD.

    The world’s largest oven is in a temple in Itajputana, in India. At the annual fair or pilgrimage to the shrine of Kwajah Chisti, in the ...

    Article : 145 words
  20. MOST ANCIENT OF GOLD SEEKERS.

    A mining centre probably worked as early as 2,500 B.C., has been discovered by Mr. C. J. Afford, between the red Sea and the Nile. ...

    Article : 112 words
  21. TO FOIL THE ASSASSIN.

    A protective vest devised by Jan [?] the polish school-master inventor, is most remarkable as a product of the weaver’s art. The ...

    Article : 95 words
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