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  2. PERSONALITIES.

    During one of Sir Henry Irving’s American tours a poor artist called several times to see him. Each time he brought a picture which he ...

    Article : 102 words
  3. POETRY.

    Sister measured my grin one day; Took the ruler and me, Counted the inches all the way— One and two and three. ...

    Article : 74 words
  4. ELECTRICITY CORKS CHAMPAGNE.

    It has long been one of the chief worries of Winemakers that, in the bottling of champagne, it was most difficult to seal the bottles tightly enough to the prevent the escape of ...

    Article : 145 words
  5. THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE.

    Oh, for some deep, secluded dell, Where brick-and-mortar’s line may cases, To sit down in a pot of grease— No, no—I mean a grot of peace! ...

    Article : 326 words
  6. RECEIVING ROYALTY IN A PRISON VAN.

    An amusing story is told of the worthy mayor of a German town, Herr Jaegar. It was his duty one day to receive Prince Leopold officially on his arrival in the town, ...

    Article : 133 words
  7. BIG GAME.

    It was the glorious ‘First,’ and I was out shooting with dear old Sir Everard. Ever since I was a Junior school boy at Clifton I have spent a few days each year at ...

    Article : 416 words
  8. A FATAL FASCINATION TO WORKMEN.

    To those whose daily avocations entail the constant handling of dangerous drugs there seems to come an irresistible impulse, sooner or later, to taste them, in spite of the fact ...

    Article : 180 words
  9. RUSSIA’S FUTURE EMPEROR— PERHAPS.

    The Grand Duke Michael, the Tsar’s brother, passed another birthday ,on October 13th. He is really the heir apparent to the throne, for though his elder brother, the ...

    Article : 169 words
  10. WOOD BLOCKS.

    A policeman stationed in one of the busiest parts of London draws attention to the peculiar effect the wooden pavement has upon pedestrians. ...

    Article : 210 words
  11. INTERESTING TO MR CHAMBER LAIN.

    Uncle Paul Kruger, whose doings have occupied a large [?] of the world a attention during the last year or so, completed his seventy-second year on October 10th, and if ...

    Article : 217 words
  12. LADIES’ COLUMN.

    It can now be said of the real at [?] was once written by a [?] French author apropos of his [?] ‘Elle a la grace des[?]ongueurs.’ In [?] ...

    Article : 749 words
  13. NOVEL.

    I stayed with him a week, and he parted from me as if I had been his son. He persuaded me to go home direct to my own people and I went. In spite of all, I had ...

    Article : 3,484 words
  14. CANARIES.

    [?] Ianciers have been much exercised of recent years over the question of colon feeding their favourites. By some authorities the use of cayenne for heightening the ...

    Article : 632 words
  15. A MACHINE FOR KEEPING DOGS QUIET.

    In the third edition of Dr. Gordon Stables’ well-known book ‘Our Friend the D[?] published in 1884, the author makes sarcas[?] mention of a certain ‘cursing machine’ ...

    Article : 225 words
  16. THE TALLEST MEN IN THE ARMY.

    Captain Ditton, one of the officers serving in the present Soudan expedition, is 6ft. 7in; but one inch shorter than the tallest man in the British Army. The latter unique ...

    Article : 193 words
  17. THE SITUATION SAVED.

    The famous Polish-horn actress Madame Helena Modjeska, or, as she should be called, Counters Chlapowski, celebrated her birthday on October 12th. She is a great lover ...

    Article : 217 words
  18. VARIETIES.

    In the United Kingdom 687,000 persons are engaged in coal minin[?], and 16,000 in iron mining. If we moved one legs proportionately as ...

    Article : 793 words
  19. NATURALIST.

    That’s a very knowing hanimal of yours’ said a cockney gentleman to the keeper of an elephant. ‘Very,’ was the cool rejoinder, ...

    Article : 102 words
  20. INVENTION TO PREVENT SINKING. VESSELS

    A new invention for preventing vessels from linking, after being damaged by collision has recently been exhibited in London before a number of shipping experts. An ...

    Article : 98 words
  21. A COW WHICH CAUGHT A CROCODILE.

    The cow belonged to Sir Samuel Baker, and had been left by him, along with two others, in charge of a chief of the Bari tribe on the Nile. On his return he found that ...

    Article : 191 words
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  23. BONES IN YOUR PHOTO

    Yon did not know your ordinary photograph contained anything but a picture o your external appearance ; but Dr. Glering a German scientist, has accidentally ...

    Article : 116 words
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