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    'When I looked round,' continued Captain McKain, 'I saw I was in a cavern—or cave, as you like—which opened out into the crater. The ...

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  3. ONLY A TRAMP.

    'Only a tramp," so they say, "nothing more," Lying there dead where the surf beats the shore, ...

    Article : 260 words
  4. GENERAL NEWS.

    On an average a cow yields 350 gallons of milk a year. The pearl oyster begins to produce pearls when it is six or seven years old. ...

    Article : 978 words
  5. THE QUEEN OF SWAZILAND.

    Nabo 'Tsebeni, Queen of Swaziland, with all her faults, is by no means the ignoramus she is sometimes represented to be On the contrary, she is very ...

    Article : 272 words
  6. MAID OF KENT EXECUTED.

    Elizabeth Barton, commonly called the "Non," or "Maid of Kent," was born in 1500. About the year 1525, when a domestic servant at Aldington, ...

    Article : 422 words
  7. Last Battle of the Peninsular War.

    On Easter Sunday, April 10th, 1814, was fought the last battle of the Peninsular War. After his defeats at Nieville, Nive, and other places, Marshal Soult ...

    Article : 204 words
  8. STORY OF SIR CHARLES WARREN.

    Sir Charles Warren is exceedingly fond of his morning tub. Here is a little story, which I am assured is absolutely authentic, which shows that when ...

    Article : 214 words
  9. THE CRIME OF POVERTY.

    The Paris papers have been recently filled with the strange story of a couple of poor out-of-works. The woman was brought before the police-court on the ...

    Article : 208 words
  10. Sir Robert Ball and the Secretary.

    Sir Robert Ball, the famous astronomer and science lecturer, tells a good story of an incident, that occurred when he was giving a popular science lecture in a ...

    Article : 196 words
  11. CHAPTER VIII.

    'I knew in a moment that the suspicions of the crafty old man were aroused, and I racked my brain for an excuse which I could not find. The ...

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  12. LORD ROSEBERY'S GOOD NATURE.

    Used as they are to Lord Rosebery's unconventional ways, even the inhabitants of Epsom were a trifle surprised when, one afternoon in the early part ...

    Article : 125 words
  13. A DISHONEST SERVANT.

    If the story be true, there is a detective in London who ought to rise to eminence in his profession. It seems that the members, of a West-end club ...

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  14. Forbidden Words.

    In certain parts of Cynwall the fisherman have a strange to the rabbit. The mere mention of its name creates in them an unreasoning ...

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  15. PINEAPPLE POISON.

    The juice of the green and growing pineapple is accredited in Java, the Philippines, and throughout the far East generally-with being a blood poison ...

    Article : 111 words
  16. ROYAL FATALITIES.

    Probably? the most ill-fated Royal House of Europe is that of Austria. The last blow to the Hapsburgs was the murder of the Empress Elizabeth, whose ...

    Article : 127 words
  17. Substitute for Coal.

    Petroleum residue is now used as fuel for the locomotives on thirteen per cent of the Russian railroads. It is required that the oil be of a greenish colour, ...

    Article : 101 words
  18. COFFEE INTOXICATION.

    Miss Ward writes from Brazil that the whole country is perpetually in a state of semi-intoxication on coffee—men, women and children alike, and to babies ...

    Article : 92 words
  19. MURDERER'S DELICACY.

    In 1648, Henry, Duke of Guise, wished to get rid of an enemy named Annese. He offered a soldier a rich reward if he would lie in wait and stab Annese in ...

    Article : 112 words
  20. Highway Robbery.

    "G-g-g-give me your m-m-m-money, or 'll sh-sh-shoot!" stuttered the highway man, pointing a revolver at the head of his luckless victim before him. ...

    Article : 90 words
  21. O'GRADY'S METHOD.

    Doctor (after examining patient): "Just one question, O'Grady. Do you regulate your grog ?" O'Grady: "Is it regulate me grog? ...

    Article : 70 words
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