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  2. AT MARKET VALUE.

    At Genoa, as luck would have it, Arnold Willoughby found a place on a homeward bound brigantine direct for London. That was all he wanted. He craved for action. He was ...

    Article : 2,946 words
  3. THE EASTERN WAR.

    There is no doubt that the experience of the Chinese in their present struggle with Japan will be a bitter one, and one in which they will lose. The only excuse for their ...

    Article : 733 words
  4. A VICTORIAN FLYING MACHINE.

    Hearing that Mr W. T. Carter, ex- M.L.A. for Williamstown, was engaged in making a series of experiments with a now invention that he has developed since the election ...

    Article : 707 words
  5. ABOUT BEING HANGED.

    Some years ago a Frenchman wrote a learned work to prove that death by hanging is the most pleasant and desirable of all modes of quitting the world; that it is not ...

    Article : 896 words
  6. GENERAL BRIEFS.

    In Japan you buy a dress by the weight. Blonde hair is the finest and red the coarsest. ...

    Article : 572 words
  7. HERE AND THERE.

    I got a letter yesterday from an acquaintance of mine who is now resting in South Australia at the end of a life spent in almost every quarter of the globe. It ...

    Article : 1,445 words
  8. PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

    One of the most interesting items of the atrical news to hand by this week's English mail is tile production at Bristol by Mr Henry Irving of Dr Conan Doyle's new play, ...

    Article : 1,107 words
  9. The Trooper's Old Horse.

    "I send a cheque," so the letter ran, From a trooper to his trusty friend, "Buy Badger in for me , old man, And then let a bullet be his end. ...

    Article : 250 words
  10. A Desperate Duel.

    "I was once the master of ceremonies at the most sensational duel ever fought," said L. R. Frenison. "In fact, had I not been present I could not have believed that it could ...

    Article : 377 words
  11. TheN ew Chum.

    I'll give you now a little song, which, you must understand, Is of a fine young gentleman, who left his native land. ...

    Article : 424 words
  12. The New Woman.

    " The ' New Woman,' " Writes a correspondent of the "British Weekly," " was unpleasantly en evidence at Ballater station the other day. A large crowd was awaiting the ...

    Article : 443 words
  13. Remedies for Insomnia.

    Cores for sleeplessness are always of wide interest. We noticed recently that Lord Rosebery succeeds in wooing Nature's sweet restorer by a draught of hot water before ...

    Article : 361 words
  14. The Breath of the Furze.

    The breath of the furze came over the hill On a moonlit night when the wind was still. From the tall, keen spires of the golden town That spring has built on the seaward down— ...

    Article : 324 words
  15. Millionaire Methods.

    A good many particulars about the Pullmann Car Company's methods were published in this country at the time of the late strikee Here is an item furnished by the "Chicago ...

    Article : 323 words
  16. A Matter of Conscience.

    It is the general custom of turf gentlemen to settle their accounts every Monday at Tattersall's. I was on one of these occasions that a ...

    Article : 118 words
  17. Flashes of Thought.

    The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehcod and disguise are miseries and misery. makers.—Coleridge. It is more from carelessness about the truth ...

    Article : 227 words
  18. A Brave Little Brother.

    A Frankfort newspaper relates that a boy and girl were Playing together in the town of Weiser, in Germany. The girl was only four years of age, and her brother a few years older. ...

    Article : 216 words
  19. Weighing and Guessing Dead Weight.

    Many farmers, and not a few butchers, rather pride themselves on their ability to guess the weight of a bullock; but judging by a competition that took place recently at Casterton, ...

    Article : 224 words
  20. A Snake Story.

    "Oh," exclaimed the miraculous woman, " I wouldn't go to Florida again for anything." "And why not ?" inquired her caller. "Oh, it's just horrid down there. Why, our ...

    Article : 143 words
  21. A Faithful Friend Honored.

    The funeral of a dog as a general thing makes no sensation, but according to the "Press," Joseph Seldon, of Moodus, Conn., buried his dog in a coffin, and many of the residents ...

    Article : 182 words
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