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  2. STRANGEST MUSEUM IN ENGLAND.

    One of the quaintest little museums in the United Kingdom is to be seen at Harlyn Bay, on the north coast of Cornwall. It is tilled with ...

    Article : 683 words
  3. HOW NATIONS GREET EACH OTHER.

    Greenlanders have no particular method of salutation, and laugh at the idea of one person being inferior to another. Islanders near the ...

    Article : 284 words
  4. SIGHTS OF LONDON NEWLY SEEN.

    The beefeaters of the Tower of London are a fine, picturesque, intelligent body. of men whose mission in life is to be at once imposing ...

    Article : 1,291 words
  5. "BROTHER SAVAGES."

    In a modest house in an unpretentious thoroughfare off the Strand, where linger still the tranquility and quietude of the eighteenth century, ...

    Article : 652 words
  6. HOW TO READ A BAROMETER.

    A rapid rise indicates unsettled weather; a gradual rise indicate settled weather. A rise with dry air and cold air increasing, in summer ...

    Article : 162 words
  7. WORLD'S MAMMOTH DEBT.

    Some wonderful facts from, as it were, a bird's-eye view of the social progress of the civilized world, are given in a statistical abstract just ...

    Article : 616 words
  8. TO MAKE JAPANESE WARE.

    Everyone admires the daintily decorated articles wet got from Japan and it is quite possible for you to learn the elegant and easy domestic ...

    Article : 193 words
  9. ON A DERELICT LIGHTSHIP.

    In December last the crew of the Nentucket Lightship, situated in the track of the Atlantic liners, and the first lightship to be sighted by ...

    Article : 552 words
  10. ELECTRICITY DIRECT FROM HEAT.

    The astounding news comes from Newark, New Jersey, that a practical apparatus has been devised which can convert coal into the electric fluid ...

    Article : 426 words
  11. THE BEE'S FAULT.

    A humble boy, with a shining pail, Went gladly' singing adown the dale, To where the cow with a brindle tall On clover her palate did regale. ...

    Article : 84 words
  12. EXOCISING AN EVIL SPIRIT.

    Twenty years ago, when Colonel Pilcher was shooting In Kashmir, a native came into his camp and complained that he was possessed of a ...

    Article : 142 words
  13. A HOMICIDAL LUNATIC.

    There were five of us hunting and fishing in the Queensland bush (says a traveller), when one rainy day a stranger appeared. lie said he was ...

    Article : 267 words
  14. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    One person in fifty has perfect eyes. Over 60,000 oil-wells have been sunk in the United States. Italy has 4,800,000 lemon trees, ...

    Article : 369 words
  15. CARE FOR YOUR DOG.

    To keep your dogs healthy give them plenty of exercise and do not overfeed them. Let them at all times have plenty of clean water, ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.

    'Seaman's return" tickets are is sued by most railways at seaport towns to sailors, at reduced rates; but when, the other day, a ...

    Article : 150 words
  17. IF YOU ENTERTAIN THE KING.

    Those who are ambitious of the honour of a Royal visit nowadays must be prepared for something like complete internal reconstruction of ...

    Article : 306 words
  18. ADOPTING THEIR ADVICE.

    "Be observant, my son," said Willie's father. "Cultivate the habit of seeing, and you will be a successful "Yes," added his uncle. "Don't ...

    Article : 121 words
  19. A BRITISH OFFICER IN THE SUDAN.

    Lord Charles Beresford describes an Instance of religious fanaticism which occurred when he was In the Sûdan. A grout sheikh was captured and ...

    Article : 216 words
  20. SOME OF LIFE'S FICURES.

    There are 3,064 languages in the world, and its inhabitants profess more than 1,000 religions. The number of men Is about equal to the ...

    Article : 191 words
  21. BEST KEEP QUIET.

    A certain militia officer is much disliked by his men. One evening, as he was returning home, he slipped into some deep water. ...

    Article : 157 words
  22. BEATEN.

    Atkinson; "I'll bet I can make you say fourteen against your will.' Brown : "You can't." A.: "How many are six and four? ...

    Article : 115 words
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