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  2. SHORT STORY.

    You see, Madame Vermont, constitu[?] d[?]fer. I am what you would call a [?] loving little maniac. I couldn‘t [?] serious, even at a funeral.’ ...

    Article : 3,573 words
  3. TRAVELLER.

    A gentleman who has been visiting Samoa describes a cricket match he saw in Apia. The match was being played in aid of the church fund . It had been in ...

    Article : 96 words
  4. FARM AND GARDEN.

    It is a common practice of foreign seedsmen to export second and third quality of sugar beat seed. In France and Germany a conimon practice is to plant ...

    Article : 205 words
  5. TIPPLERS AMONG BUTTERFLIES.

    It is stated that even butterflies may indulge too freely in intoxicants. In the course of a public lecture, a scientist shut up in a case male and female butterflies ...

    Article : 125 words
  6. JOURNALISM FLOURISHES THERE.

    A London journalist who has paid a visit to Japan, made the following interesting observations on Japanese journalism ‘There are hundreds of newspapers in ...

    Article : 224 words
  7. TOO MUCH UNIFORM.

    As everybody knows, our neighbours across the English Channel are an essentially military race, with a profound regard for the army. But that warriors, ...

    Article : 230 words
  8. SUGAR BOUNTIES.

    European nations are still trying by international agreement to abolish the export bounties on sugar, which have come to be an intolerable burden, but ...

    Article : 222 words
  9. WHEN DIGGING FOE DIAMONDS.

    ‘The soil of the South African diamond fields,’ said a colonist who is familiar with that region, is full of garnets as well as diamonds.’ ...

    Article : 562 words
  10. NATURALIST.

    King Charles II. once lost a dog. He lost his patience next, and inserted this advertisement, which is quoted in the ‘Fortnightly Review,’ in a brief history ...

    Article : 146 words
  11. OLEOMARGARINE.

    It is well for dairymen to understand how the proposed oleomargarine legislation is regarded at the headquarters of the oleomargarine industry. The Chicago ...

    Article : 583 words
  12. WITH UNUSUAL CUNNING.

    The wild dogs of India pursue a cunning but cowardly method of overcoming their enemy, the tiger. Having found their tiger, they proceed ...

    Article : 139 words
  13. EMBARRASSING.

    A very funny incident took place one Sunday in a country church. The minister is the possessor of a very fine collie named ‘Watch,’ and on this ...

    Article : 147 words
  14. VARIETIES.

    A grizzly bear is stronger than any other carnivorous animal. A grizzly weighing just four hundredweight has been watched carrying a heifer of more ...

    Article : 78 words
  15. HAVE ABANDONED CIVILISATION.

    From a Sailor familiar with the South Seas the writer recently heard some striking cases of what Darwinians would call a reversion to type, in tho case of ...

    Article : 221 words
  16. ALTHOUGH THEY ARE CRIMINALS.

    An examination of 4,000 criminals in the French army has just been concluded by a criminologist. The result is curious. It proves that the criminal soldier is a far ...

    Article : 82 words
  17. THE SMALLEST SHEEP IN THE WORLD.

    The very smallest of all kinds of sheep, says a contemporary, is the tiny Breton sheep. It is two small to be very profit able to raise, for, of course, it cannot have ...

    Article : 314 words
  18. DRAWN FROM LIFE.

    It may not be known to all readers of Dumas that the hero of ‘The Three Musketeers,’ namely, the invincible D’ Artagnan, was a real historical personage. One ...

    Article : 96 words
  19. ‘INCLUDING TIPS.’

    Everybody knows that great actors and singers of both sexes receive numbers of love letters yearly. Many, as may be imagined, are ridiculous /in. the extreme, ...

    Article : 145 words
  20. SKETCHER.

    What town in the United Kingdom can boast of having turned out most man of note? There is a general impression, even in the city of Mammon it self, that as ...

    Article : 832 words
  21. A ‘STICKIT MINISTER’

    By one familiar with the Scottish tongue, the phrase a ‘stickit stibbler’ could never be confounded with that of sticking or stabbing. A ‘stibbler’ was a harvester ...

    Article : 98 words
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