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  2. TRICKED BY A SWINDLER.

    A gentleman of great experience in the commercial world cashed a cheque at a London bank for eleven hundred pounds, taking the whole in one-hundred-pound ...

    Article : 220 words
  3. A BRIDGE ACROSS THE PACIFIC.

    While man is using his intelligence to cut waterways between continents, as in the case of the Panama and Suez Canals, geologists say that nature is slowly but ...

    Article : 337 words
  4. TRANSVAAL COMMISSION'S REPORT.

    A Blue-book containing the report of the Transvaal Concessions Commission was recently issued. The most important concession dealt with by the ...

    Article : 316 words
  5. FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY.

    Faith, Hope, and Charity. How blest Are those who practice each with zest No cloud or gloom will dim their way, Or mar the charms that round them lay. ...

    Article : 276 words
  6. A Goddess of Africa

    All this had in a measure been prepared for by the remarkable man who spent so many years among the Zambodi, an exile from his own race. Hence Rex was not greatly ...

    Article : 3,310 words
  7. ECCENTRIC RETURNS.

    A story is told of a gentleman whose return of his income to the English Tax Commissioners ran: 'For the last three years my income has been ...

    Article : 174 words
  8. THE SITE OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.

    Julian the Apostate, to disprove the prophecy of Christ, attempted to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem. In that work he summoned to his aid the dispersed ...

    Article : 206 words
  9. BORN TO THE PURPLE.

    Purple was the colour of royalty in ancient Rome. In the days when the City on the Seven Hills was the capital of the world the imperial robes were ...

    Article : 170 words
  10. CAUSES OF MADNESS.

    In his official report as to the probable causes of attack of lunacy of the patients in the Cumberland and Westmoreland Asylum, Dr. Farquharson, the medical ...

    Article : 161 words
  11. HE SAMPLED THE GAOLS.

    To hunger for prison life is to be possessed by a very queer desire, yet a certain wealthy Pole from the age of thirteen has been inside prisons all over ...

    Article : 148 words
  12. A TALE OF FALLING.

    A æronaut recently describing his fall from a burst ballon recounted his adventure in these terms: "When the balloon burst, its lower part dropped on ...

    Article : 186 words
  13. LUCKY ESCAPE.

    Singular was the escape of a young Shropshire lady from an ignominious death. Staying in Paris during the Reign of Terror, she was dragged with ...

    Article : 164 words
  14. DOORS SELDOM OPENED.

    In former days it was the custom in certain parts of England when a person died to make a hole in the wall of the house, through which the corpse was ...

    Article : 179 words
  15. GENERAL NEWS.

    Poor-boxes were fixed up all over the Paris Exhibition. When opened they were found to contain under £2 10s., the offerings of the many millions of visitors. ...

    Article : 427 words
  16. HE LIKED KIDNEYS.

    A London gentleman having taken a small farm in the country as being the 'correct thing to do, as well as to get a little fresh air, had invited some of his ...

    Article : 138 words
  17. NEW THOUGHTS.

    Mankind has been writing books so long that an author may be excused for offering no thoughts absolutely new; we must select and call that invention. ...

    Article : 126 words
  18. BARNUM OUTDONE.

    The shrewdest of men are sometimes taken in. Barnum wanting to be shaved, went into a barber's shop. The place was pretty full of customers, and anxious ...

    Article : 141 words
  19. HALL CAINE.

    Hall Caine began his life in paths very remote from literature. He was trained as an architect, and his first work found an uncongenial setting in the columns of ...

    Article : 163 words
  20. WISDOM.

    Wisdom is not the same with understanding; talents, capacity, ability, sagacity, sense, or prudence—not the same with any one of these; neither will ...

    Article : 130 words
  21. A SMART REPLY.

    One hears occasionally of brilliant answers in response to puzzling queries, and the following incident may be taken as a case in question. ...

    Article : 57 words
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