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  2. THE STORYTELLER

    "You're just like sisters, you two girls," Has always said to Geraldine Maraden and Dolly Karr. And they were not relations at all, and as dissimilar as it was possible for two girls to ...

    Article : 1,496 words
  3. OUR SERIAL TALE.

    Explanations were in order and soon the stalwart Irishman, with a heart as big as a mountain, more or less, according to the size of the mountain, put his arm about the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 3,563 words
  4. FIGHTING THE SEA

    The greatest battle of man against nature ever recorded in the history of human endeavour is about to be begun from headquarters in the quaint old Dutch city of ...

    Article : 1,041 words
  5. SHERIDAN'S WIT.

    Sheridan enjoyed a distinguished reputation for colloquial wit. From among the best of the occasional dicta, &c, attributed to him, the following are selected:— ...

    Article : 518 words
  6. A BURIED CITY.

    A buried city has just been discovered in Guatemala upon the estate of Don Manuel J. Alvarado, at the foot of Vulcan de Ague. On several occasions the proprietor had ...

    Article : 325 words
  7. A CURIOUS WEDDING.

    The following narrative, related by an old gentleman, then about 70 years of age, as having occurred in his youth, is given in "Notes and Queries" (1852):— ...

    Article : 428 words
  8. PECULIARITIES OF ESKIMO LIFE.

    One feature of the Greenlander's daily life which to us seems strange enough (says Dr. Nansen), is that they have no fixed meal-times; they simply eat when they are hungry, it there ...

    Article : 682 words
  9. NECKLACE OF HUMAN EYES.

    A marvellous, if somewhat gruesome, personal ornament is now owned by a Chicago merchant and was by him exhibited at the great Exposition. It is a necklace composed of three rows ...

    Article : 219 words
  10. CLERGYMEN ARTISANS.

    There has just died at Corley, near coventry, in his 80th year, the Rev. R. Potter, who was for the past nineteen years the rector of that place. He made a hobby of wood carving, and ...

    Article : 252 words
  11. He Manufactured Skates.

    Philanthropist—So you say you've been well off once. Well, Well, this is a world of changes; indeed it is a cold world. ...

    Article : 70 words
  12. SURVIVING AN EXECUTION.

    A man who has attended his own execution and still arrives to relate the details is surely worthy of a short paragraph. The man in question, though at present serving in the ...

    Article : 203 words
  13. TOMMY'S MISTAKE.

    "I say, Mr. Skiward," remarked the sweetest of the Malaprops," can a church whistle?" "Of course not, my child," the visiting cleric, smilingly responded. "Whatever put ...

    Article : 136 words
  14. A CORDIAL GRIP.

    STORES: "The president of your company seems to take quite an interest in you now." Clarkly: "What makes you think so?" ...

    Article : 65 words
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