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  2. WONDERFUL TRAINED FLEAS.

    The latest addition to the many attractions of Berlin is a flea circus, which by many is considered more wonderful than the "real large" ...

    Article : 340 words
  3. EXPERIMENTING WITH THE GUILLOTINE.

    Some years ago an inquisitive medical student while examining the guillotine in the "chamber of horrors "at Madame Tussaud's ...

    Article : 267 words
  4. ON DIAMONDS.

    Not long ago one of the most historic diamonds was in the law- courts—the blue Indian Tavernier, better known as the "Hope ...

    Article : 1,018 words
  5. SHARKS ARE ALL COWARDS.

    Although sharks are esteemed the greatest terrors of the ocean, they are in reality the greatest cowards of the finny tribe. The fiercest shark will ...

    Article : 133 words
  6. DIDN'T MIND WAITING.

    A criminal whose day of execution had arrived, was asked by his gaoler if he had any last favour to ask. "I have sir" said the condemned ...

    Article : 93 words
  7. THE ODD JOURNEY.

    An Oxford professor was giving his pupils a lecture on "Scotland and the Scots." "These hardy men," he said ...

    Article : 111 words
  8. THE WORLD'S GREATEST TEA PLANTATION.

    Although China is the biggest producer of tea in the world, that country does not contain the biggest tea plantation in the world. That is to ...

    Article : 462 words
  9. SIR EDWARD HUTTON, K.C.M.G.

    Sir Edward Hutton is now Commandant of the Military Forces of the Australian Commonwealth. No better man could have been chosen, ...

    Article : 306 words
  10. A MODERN DAIRY FARM.

    In this matter-of-fact age, when the light of science is apt to dispel all the romance and charm of our most cherished ideas, it is distinctly refreshing ...

    Article : 409 words
  11. FOOTBALL IN JAPAN.

    Amongst the many things that Japan borrowed from China was football said to have been introduced as early as the middle of the seventh ...

    Article : 119 words
  12. SMALLEST PAINTING IN THE WORLD.

    A Flemish is said to have produced the smallest painting in the world. It is the picture of a miller mounting the stairs of his mill, and carrying a ...

    Article : 127 words
  13. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    In order to have good home-made scones, tea-cakes etc., it is quite essential that the "home-baker" should have a knowledge of the ...

    Article : 721 words
  14. STRICTLY BUSINESS HERE.

    A man who had four marriageable daughters has posted the following rules in his parlour in big type so that they will to read: ...

    Article : 150 words
  15. THOUGHT HIS MASTER WAS GOING.

    A Scotch gentleman had an ancient valet named Gabriel, whose petulance and license of speech went so far as to be intolerable. During dinner ...

    Article : 83 words
  16. ALL HE COULD GET.

    A Darlington man went up into the hills for a day's rabbit-shooting, but failed to score a single hit. He had to dine with several friends ...

    Article : 167 words
  17. A MECHANICAL EXPERIMENT.

    If you want to drive a needle through a shilling, you can do it in this way; push a needle through a cork until the point just appears on ...

    Article : 86 words
  18. JIST ROW ON.

    A couple of tourists staying at Loch Ness had a fancy one fine Sunday to go for a row on the loch. They accordingly sallied forth in ...

    Article : 204 words
  19. DEAD AND ALIVE.

    Here is an episode of the biograph which Tivals the most pathetic and curious tales of fiction. Some biograph scenes made at the occupation ...

    Article : 183 words
  20. THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

    The Washington correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that before the Spanish-American war Britain avowed her purpose to use ...

    Article : 232 words
  21. THE RENOVATION OF OLD CLOTHES.

    The renovation of men's clothes is usually entrusted to a professional cleaner. As a matter of fact the work can be done quite as ...

    Article : 879 words
  22. WEIGHING A MICRCBE.

    The weight of a single bacterium has been calculated by The Nageli at one ten-thousand-millionth of a milligram. The length of a generation is ...

    Article : 94 words
  23. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Mince one and a half pounds of lean beefsteak and place it in a saucepan Just cover with water and simmer gently till tender While cooking, ...

    Article : 263 words
  24. RECITATION FOR A LITTLE GIRL.

    Two little kittens, One stormy night, Began to quarrel And then to light. One had a mouse, And the other had none, And that's the way the ...

    Article : 147 words
  25. A ROYAL GIFT.

    "Right away!" shouted the station master, just as a man rushed up to him from the ticket office. "Too late, sir! Stand back!" he ...

    Article : 280 words
  26. HIS PECULIARITY.

    "You must find that impediment in your speech rather inconvenient at times, Mr Barnes." "Oh every-body has his little ...

    Article : 170 words
  27. A MAN FROM CHICAGO.

    Englishman "You have some high buildings in Chicago, havn't you?" Chicagoer (in London) "I should say we have. Why the tops of them ...

    Article : 76 words
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