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  2. CANADA'S LANGUAGE PROBLEM.

    Two million of the 7,000,000 people in Canada speak only the French language. The 5,000,000 who speak English are in a preponderating majority ...

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  3. SNAKES IN POLLOKSHIELDS.

    It was Norrie who made the discovery, but the credit of seeing the amazing significance of it belonged to Buff, the bigger boy. By means of ...

    Article : 414 words
  4. "YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A FEW CHEMICALS!"

    "The human body" (says the Sketch") "contains no fewer than four substances which are so inflammable that, in a pure state, they will ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 201 words
  5. A BIG MEAL PREVENTS STOMACH ACIDITY.

    "Of course," as we are told, "the more copious the meal the less is the resulting inconvenience, because the excess of acid is neutralised by the ...

    Article : 186 words
  6. CONVERSATIONAL ERRORS.

    By conversational errors I do not mean so much grammatical mistakes as those little faults of speech which distinguish the ill-bred from the ...

    Article : 690 words
  7. TRAPPED!

    It was the middle of the night. All the house, all the world was hushed in sleep. Through the curtained windows of the workroom ...

    Article : 1,465 words
  8. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Colour perception is recommended By Dr. Warburg, of Cologne, as a reliable test of intelligence. In his experiments, coloured yarns pinned on ...

    Article : 444 words
  9. UNWRITTEN LAWS.

    There is a class of unwritten law which does not and cannot become written law (says the New-York "Case and Comment"). because it ...

    Article : 654 words
  10. WALKING-STICK WEAPONS.

    Those who look with contempt upon a cane as a useless ornament and a harmless weapon evolved from the old-time bludgeon, evidently do ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 295 words
  11. THE END OF THE CHAPERON.

    In that very amusing book of reminiscences, "Notes from the Life of an Ordinary Mortal," we learn, for the first time, the exact d'ate of the. ...

    Article : 329 words
  12. KING SOLOMON.

    Men who have a love of literature, and consider, that they have made the most extensive and useful explorations among it, are familiar ...

    Article : 474 words
  13. SAVED BY A SONG.

    The following thrilling story of Santley, the famous singer, whose life was on one occasion saved by a song, is worth telling. Mr. Santley, ...

    Article : 344 words
  14. ANOTHER AWFUL MYSTERY.

    The newsboy was running down the street at top speed, when he met the vicar of the parish. "Have you heard the news of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 60 words
  15. TRAVELLING IN INDIA.

    Everybody when on a journey in India carries his own bedding, and outside the large establishments of the Government officials everywhere ...

    Article : 413 words
  16. THE NEW JOURNALISM.

    That there is a new journalism, with principles and methods in harmony with new political and social conditions and new developments in ...

    Article : 202 words
  17. RECOGNISED.

    Counsel for the defence began to cross-examine a witness. "Your name, if I understand you correctly," he said, "is Ezra Egerton ...

    Article : 192 words
  18. A BARRACK-ROOM STORY.

    Some time ago a certain regiment had an officer with a craze for gymnastics, who taught his brother subalterns to walk round the ...

    Article : 206 words
  19. ANIMALS THAT CAN COUNT.

    In a discussion of the arithmetical knowledge of animals in "La Revue." the writer quotes some curious anecdotes, and among them the following ...

    Article : 209 words
  20. PERHAPS!

    Mrs. Finnakin: "Do you know anything, doctor that will put a little colour into my cheeks? Everybody says I'm so dreadfully pale." ...

    Article : 59 words
  21. NOVEL ANTI-DRINK REMEDY.

    Sir James Sawyer, the eminent physician, proposes a very simple preparation to allay the drink craving of dipsomaniacs. He says:-- ...

    Article : 135 words
  22. THE STRENUOUS LIFE.

    Monty : "'Awh, old man, how awh you? Seen Gawge lately? I heawh he has taken to the law and is in pwactice wiv his fawther." ...

    Article : 91 words
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