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  2. WEDDING WORRIES

    American clergymen halve their own trials in the line of marriages. Not long ago a young couple went to the residence of a prominent minister and were ...

    Article : 1,082 words
  3. THE MAN WITH NO CONSCIENCE.

    "You say he removed your conscience," I cried in amazement, eyeing the cadaverous-looking individual who occupied my arm-chair. ...

    Article : 1,294 words
  4. MORE ANECDOTES OF BADENPOWELL.

    "I hope they will give me a warm corner," is what the hero of Mafeking, Colonel Baden-Powell, before leaving for South Africa, remarked to his old ...

    Article : 303 words
  5. A SUSPENSION RAILWAY.

    One of the most novel railroads ever planned is at present being constructed between Barmen and Elberfeld, in Germany. It is what is known as a ...

    Article : 290 words
  6. THEY GOT THE SODA.

    The development of the Missouri (U.S.A.) "zinc fields" brought out almost as many curious and amusing incidents as follow the discovery of a new ...

    Article : 297 words
  7. DINING OUT WITH THE CELESTIALS.

    The Chinese, says a writer in the "Forum," are both a social and sensuous people. The pleasures of the table form a principal item in the list of their enjoyments; but the ...

    Article : 939 words
  8. ASSORTED COUPLES.

    Two lovers eat by a moss-grown spring: They leaned soft cheeks together there, Mingled the dark and sunny hair, And heard the wooing thrushes sing. ...

    Article : 739 words
  9. HER SECRET.

    A newly-married couple were honey-mooning in the country when the first batch of letters from home arrived, and the husband teasingly proposed to open ...

    Article : 299 words
  10. A WEDDING BY "WIRE."

    A long distance marriage by telegraph took place the other day, the contracting parties being Miss Lizzie Hummons, of Winchester, Ky., and "Sam" Wheeler, ...

    Article : 240 words
  11. PREPARING HIM.

    Her little brother was entertaining in the front room the young man who had just called. "Look here," he said suddenly, "are ...

    Article : 151 words
  12. NOT MUCH LIKE THE QUEENS FACE.

    An Army chaplain tells a story of how the captain in a regiment in Natal, when paying his company the other week, chanced to give a man a Transvaal ...

    Article : 150 words
  13. HOW TO PRESERVE PIANOS.

    It is a popular notion that pianos ought to be kept very dry. Nothing could be more fallacious. Pianos are not affected nearly so much by heat or cold as they ...

    Article : 239 words
  14. OVERRULED.

    A certain young member of the diplomatic service has qualities of his own to account for his success as well as being the son of a famous father. ...

    Article : 143 words
  15. JERUSALEM AT NIGHT.

    The night in Jerusalem is not blessed by the balm of silence, as the thousands of ownerless dogs, both in the city and outside its walls, carry on a howling ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. THE STONEMASONS OF BETHLEHEM.

    The people of Bethlehem (says a writer in the "Architectural Review") are strong and handsome. They are largely employed in the building trade as ...

    Article : 224 words
  17. FOR THE FIRST TIME.

    A story is being told of how the captain of a regiment in Natal, when paying his company the other week, chanced to give a man a Transvaal hall-crown, which, as ...

    Article : 154 words
  18. PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY.

    Competitors of Marconi have appeared whose names are Tobias Ur and Srabadi Ur, who have patented a new wireless telegraphy process. Instead of the coherer, for which ...

    Article : 440 words
  19. THE HUNTING SAVAGE.

    Under the title "The Evolution of Simple Societies," Professor Alfred C. Haddon, F.R.S., begins a series of articles in the February issue of" Knowledge." The writer ...

    Article : 483 words
  20. NOT THAT!

    This was actually heard in the cracker district of Tennessee:—The mother shouted from the door of the cabin behind the trees: ...

    Article : 106 words
  21. IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

    The 20th century, which will begin on Tuesday, January 1, 1901, will have 24 leap years, the greatest number possible. February will have five Sundays three ...

    Article : 140 words
  22. A LIGHT COMEDIAN.

    Mrs. Moriarty: What is your son doin' now, Mrs. O'Rafferty? Mrs. O'Rafferty: Shure he's adopted the stage as a profession, Mrs. ...

    Article : 92 words
  23. NOVEL MARRIAGE AT SEA.

    A marriage of an American missionary "under the Union Jack " has just been celebrated on board an English mall steamer off Batanga, West Africa. ...

    Article : 129 words
  24. READY FOR THE QUARREL.

    In Lanarkshire there lived a laird who was noted for his eccentricity. On one occasion a friend waited oh him and requested his name as an accommodation ...

    Article : 158 words
  25. GLADSTONE AND HIS VISITOR.

    Julian Ralph tells a good story of Homer Davenport, a cartoonist from America, who went to Hawarden, uninvited, to see the aged statesman in order ...

    Article : 125 words
  26. DANGEROUS.

    During practice with the electric search-light at a north-country town the illuminating rays frequently fell on the shop-window of a butcher. ...

    Article : 101 words
  27. AMUSING MOODY ANECDOTE.

    One day, in Boston Tabernacle, an usher informed the evangelist that there was a man without who wished speech with him. Mr. bloody said he had no ...

    Article : 84 words
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