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  2. A SNAKE STORY FROM SOUTH AMERICA.

    A particularly thrilling adventure of a snake collector in Northern Brazil is narrated in a contemporary. The traveller was engaged in making ...

    Article : 345 words
  3. WHEN STANLEY QUAILED.

    "Before I met Hendry M. Stanley," says William Rideing, in "M'Clure's I had talked with men who had been under him in his African expeditions, ...

    Article : 484 words
  4. COPYRIGHT. THE GAME OF LIFE; OR THE MASTER OF MILLWOOD HALL.

    Handsome Jack Cathcart, son of the late Rupert Cathcart, master of Millwood Hall, and of the Lady Annette, an earl's daughter, his reputed ...

    Article : 5,009 words
  5. HOW RUBBER IS GROWN.

    In Brazil the trees are tapped during the dry season, which varies in different' districts. The rubber collectors, or " seringuleros,"' search the ...

    Article : 292 words
  6. A TALE OF THE MERCHANT NAVY.

    In 1794 the Betsey of London on her return from Jamaica, parted from her convoy the Gulf of Florida and was captured off the Lizard ...

    Article : 281 words
  7. SEASICKNESS IN CAPTIVE BALLOON.

    Stranded high in the air in a captive balloon during a wind storm, five foreigners, two of them were women, experienced two hours of seasickness ...

    Article : 166 words
  8. SHIP WITH PERFORATED SAILS.

    Some years ago the idea was advanced if a number of small holes were made in a ship's square-sails, allowing the wind to rush through, ...

    Article : 121 words
  9. THE SIZE OF BATTLESHIPS.

    There are many reasons why the limit has been reached in the building of large battleships. Among them are for important ones. It ...

    Article : 232 words
  10. THE FATHER OF CINEMATOGRAPHY.

    In an interesting article on cinematography, a writer in " Chambers Journal " tells how tile inventor, Mr. W. Friense-Greene, first ...

    Article : 187 words
  11. A HAUGHTY LITTLE PRINCESS.

    The Czar of Russia's little daughters are warm-hearted, lovable children ; but they have an enormous opinion of their exalted rank. The ...

    Article : 188 words
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