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  2. A REMARKABLE DEFENCE.

    A man was once tried in Illinois for horse-stealing, upon evidence sufficiently conclusive to satisfy even his own counsel that conviction was ...

    Article : 373 words
  3. BIRDS WITH TEETH.

    Men of science tell us that birds are simply reptiles which have shed their scales and teeth, grown wings and feathers, and invaded the domain of air ...

    Article : 299 words
  4. ROUGH WEATHER BY NIGHT.

    Fierce how is the wind! O'er the ea, which is surging, Comes s a wild steed as swift squall, emerging ...

    Article : 190 words
  5. SEAL AND WALRUS HUNTING.

    It will easily be understood that from his constrained position in the kaiak, which does not permit of much turning, the Eskimo hunter cannot throw ...

    Article : 442 words
  6. A Goddess of Africa

    Here the dawn of another day found them, surrounded by as wild a country as South Africa knew. The hours dragged along. ...

    Article : 3,043 words
  7. KRAKATOA.

    It is about eighteen years since the most stupendous and appalling of all the convulsions of nature which have occurred either in ancient or modern ...

    Article : 316 words
  8. PRESS CENSORSHIP UNDER THE STUARTS.

    A Royalist literary adverturer, Sir Roger L'Estrange—pamphleteer, playwright, poet, journalist, and censor of the Press—succeeded to the censorship ...

    Article : 342 words
  9. THE MOST CURIOUS CAFE IN THE WORLD.

    In the Boulevard Montmartre, Paris, there is situated what is probably the most ghastly cafe in the globe. It is called the "Cabaret de ...

    Article : 283 words
  10. METHODS OF MODERN CRITICISM.

    The daily tasks of the critics are efficiently performed by the young men who are not 'smart' enough to be 'picturesque reporters,' and for the most ...

    Article : 240 words
  11. WALKING IN CIRCLES.

    The question is often asked, Why is it that a person who is lost, whether it be in a dense wood or on a prairie, invariably moves in a circle, and always ...

    Article : 393 words
  12. COUGH DROPS AND POETRY.

    William Henry Manders, described as a poet, was charged, at Bow-street police court, with begging in the Strand. Mr. Marsham (the magistrate) said, 'I see ...

    Article : 384 words
  13. ORANGE PESTS.

    The Chinese, in the matter of orange-culture, employ a certain species of ants as insecticides. In many parts of the province of Canton, ...

    Article : 219 words
  14. A MARSHAL OF FRANCE.

    The Duke of Grammont was the most adroit and witty courtier of his day. He entered one day the closet of the Cardinal Mazarin without being announced. His ...

    Article : 115 words
  15. Employer

    Employer—I have noticed, Mr. Johnson, that you, of all the clerks, seem to put your whole life and soul into your work; that no detail is too small to ...

    Article : 82 words
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