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  2. A CURIOUS WEDDING CUSTOM.

    A curious marriage custom prevails among the Lithuanians, whoso race once constituted one of the most powerful States in North-Eastern ...

    Article : 497 words
  3. PAINTING PICTURES UNDER OCEAN DEPTHS.

    Mr. Walter H. M. Pritchard a distinguished artist now operating in Pacific waters devotes his life to painting pictures under water. He ...

    Article : 435 words
  4. VOICES FROM THE PRISON.

    Kropotkin tells in his memoirs how during his two years imprisonment in the fortress of St Peter and St. Paul he wrote two large volumes ...

    Article : 496 words
  5. THE CARE OF THE TEETH.

    Carefully avoid all tooth powders containing gritty particles. The custom of bleaching the teeth cannot be too strongly condemned, for a few ...

    Article : 307 words
  6. THE SURVIVORS OF BALAGLAVA.

    There is a small group of old men in various parts of the world, none of thorn much less than 80 years, who are association with one of the ...

    Article : 805 words
  7. I BECOME AN INTRODUCER.

    There was no doubt about it. I was absolutely broke. I had been going the pace for some years, and now the reckoning had to be paid. ...

    Article : 1,395 words
  8. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

    The recent report that the "Rev." Mary Baker G. Eddy the Mother and leader of the extraordinary sect known as Christian Scientists, was ...

    Article : 746 words
  9. DEAD TO THE WORLD.

    Archduke Johann of Austria disappeared many years ago, after renouncing all the pomps and vanities of his station and going to sea as ...

    Article : 299 words
  10. WASPS AND THEIR STINGS.

    A writer in the "Scotsman," dealing with the stinging habits of the wasp refers to the investigations of George and Elizabeth Peckham, who ...

    Article : 489 words
  11. COST OF SPEED IN SEA CRAFT.

    Nothing so clearly establishes the cost of speed in sea craft as a comparison of the prices of torpedo-boat destroyers. The first of the light ...

    Article : 261 words
  12. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    The are is probably the only animal that displays anger by yawning. The dogfish as well as the shark, must turn on its back to seize its ...

    Article : 524 words
  13. ONE SORT OF CURE.

    A tourist arrived at a Highland village, and was surprised to learn that there was not a doctor within thirty miles. ...

    Article : 112 words
  14. A DRAWING-ROOM FOREST.

    If the following Instructions are followed, you can in a short time have a beautiful little oak tree growing in your drawing-room. The tree ...

    Article : 150 words
  15. HE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND.

    The scene is a third-class compartment, with its full complement of five on a side. The speaker, a man, is stout, florid ...

    Article : 149 words
  16. CHARACTER BETWEEN THEM.

    [?] give me my character?" Mistress : "Certainly, Jane : but what do you want it for ? You are ...

    Article : 256 words
  17. IN THE HOTEL COFFEE ROOM.

    "Good morning, Mr. Ryetop," greeted the waiter in the big city hotel. "I hope you enjoyed that old Scotch I left in your room while you ...

    Article : 122 words
  18. AN OUT-PATIENT.

    The last out-patient at the Eye Hospital the other morning was an Irishwoman. She had been treated for a dreadfully black eye, between ...

    Article : 164 words
  19. A RAT WHO STEALS EGGS.

    The following very interesting case of animal strategy is worth recording. A hen had laid her eggs near the road just outside one of our ...

    Article : 161 words
  20. THEN THE BOYS SMILED.

    The inspector appeared suddenly in the midst of the telegraph messengers and, alter sniffling the air, growled: "Who's been smoking ? Smoking, ...

    Article : 139 words
  21. HER TELEGRAM.

    "Can you meet me at five this afternoon ? Wire reply," telegraphed Mr. Turtledove to his recently- married wife. ...

    Article : 60 words
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