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  2. MOTHER OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

    Perhaps the first person to believe in the genius of Robert Louis Stevenson was his mother. She was devotedly attached to him throughout his life, and ...

    Article : 347 words
  3. SONG OF DE WET.

    You are not quite one of our set, De Wet; A fact that we almost regret, De Wet; ...

    Article : 250 words
  4. FROM LONDON TO EDINBURG IN TWO HOURS.

    Edison's sanguine prediction of ten years ago that this generation will be able to 'travel on aerial railways at incredible speeds' appears likely to be ...

    Article : 229 words
  5. A Goddess of Africa

    Hastings' intentions were all right, but he did not have occasion to use his firearm. The girl suddenly turned and ...

    Article : 3,222 words
  6. MARY STUART'S GHOST AT HOLYROOD.

    The frequent mention of the recent restorations in Holyrood does not seem to have reminded anybody of the last apparition of Mary Stuart within the ...

    Article : 269 words
  7. AFTERNOON TEA IN VENICE.

    'I will make you some tea—real English tea—said the Mayoress of Venice to me one day. 'My married daughter is here to-day, and she, too, ...

    Article : 238 words
  8. MEN ARE UNTRUSTWORTHY.

    'Yes, it was a lovely bunch of violets, sighed the girl who received them; but I wish they had never come to me. You see, it was this way. The man who sent ...

    Article : 303 words
  9. THE DANGER OF BLING BURIED ALIVE.

    Few people probably are aware of the extent to which this danger is a very real one. Colonel E. P. Vollum and Mr. Tebb have written a book on ...

    Article : 280 words
  10. MOTHER OF PEARL.

    The mother-of-pearl fisheries of the Red Sea extend the whole length of that water. About three hundred boats are engaged in the work—open, un decked ...

    Article : 294 words
  11. PARTS OF THE GLOBE UNEXPLORED.

    Leaving out of account the very imperfectly-known regions of Central Asia and the interior of the northern parts of both North and South America, ...

    Article : 91 words
  12. HOW HE FOUND HIM.

    The following story is told concerning two sailors who happened to be ashore. One of these decided that after visiting his own friends he would spend a few ...

    Article : 147 words
  13. THE GERMAN EMPEROR.

    Certainly no living Sovereign has been given more nicknames than the still comparatively youthful Kaiser. He had not been a year on the throne before he was ...

    Article : 145 words
  14. GENERAL NEWS.

    Persia has not a single railway. The British Navy has now 486 ships, France 429, Russia 300. Over 20,000,000 passengers are ...

    Article : 314 words
  15. WELL INVESTED.

    Some years ago a missionary on an island whose principal product is the clam, while working in his shirtsleeves on a new church was hailed ...

    Article : 98 words
  16. THE RIGHT LETTER.

    A bashful man courted a girl for three years without daring to propose. Finally, while he was visiting the country he decided to propose by, letter. He sent ...

    Article : 165 words
  17. THE VELOCITY OF A CRICKET BALL.

    A cricket ball delivered by a fast bowler often attains a speed of a mile a minute. When C. T. B, Turner, the Australian ...

    Article : 116 words
  18. ERUPTIONS OF MOUNT HECLA.

    On the 30th May, 1784, began in Iceland one of the most tremendous volcanic eruptions on record. Mount Hecla, which for some time had been ...

    Article : 134 words
  19. THE IMPORTANCE OF GOD.

    There is scarcely a fish that is more useful to man than the cod. As an article of diet—whether fresh or salted and dried—it is a most important ...

    Article : 159 words
  20. AN EXTRA DOSE.

    Flaherty was very ill, and when the doctor came he ordered some medicine also a powder, of which he was to take as much as would fit on a six pence before ...

    Article : 108 words
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