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  2. A TRIBUTE TO ENGLAND'S "DIGNITY."

    M. Andreas de Kozma, a writer held in high esteem in Hungary, pays a tribute to the bearing of the English nation tinder reverses in ...

    Article : 277 words
  3. "DYNAMITE DICK."

    Under these seductive titles the New York "World " has been recounting the experiences of a young Irish-American, who is now lying a ...

    Article : 474 words
  4. CURIOUS FANCIES ABOUT LIGHTNING.

    Various methods were employed in old times to ward off danger from the lightning flash, which was supposed, however, to have no power to ...

    Article : 323 words
  5. ADVENTURE OF A CAB-DRIVER.

    If one speaks of the "haunted" cabs one is likely to be greeted with a cynical smile. Nevertheless in a certain mews in London there is a ...

    Article : 905 words
  6. GREECE'S FORTUNATE ISLE.

    One of the Isles of Greece (Cephalonia ) of which. the poet Byron sang is to be thrice blessed, for by the will of Panagi Vaglioni, who ...

    Article : 535 words
  7. FLEET-FOOTED DOGS.

    Comparatively few people realize of what surprising speed dogs are capable. Some remarkable statistics in ...

    Article : 241 words
  8. FOREIGN NEWS AND NOTES.

    In 1858 there were about 3.850 engineers in the British navy. There .are now 22,500. Of the postcards" sold in Germany ...

    Article : 848 words
  9. JABEZ BALFOUR IN PARKHURST PRISON.

    Jabez Balfour, the notorious Liberator chief, brought back. from Argentina more than seven years ago, is now a broken down old man; ...

    Article : 384 words
  10. SUNSHINE COLOURS.

    Many people if they were asked to state the colour of the sun would say that it was orange and they would confidently assert that the ...

    Article : 411 words
  11. HOW STEAM IS MADE.

    When water is heated the animosity of the water particles to each other increases, and the more that heat is applied the more repellant to ...

    Article : 289 words
  12. A STIRRING TAOL.

    A fellow confined in the gaol Once turned exceedingly paol. "What is it ?" they cried. And the fellow replied : ...

    Article : 445 words
  13. AN ANECDOTE OF PARNELL.

    Mr. Henniker Heaton, in the "Leisure Hour." tells the following characteristic story of Parnell, showing the latter's power of detachment:— ...

    Article : 428 words
  14. THE AMAZONIAN INDIANS.

    All the inhabitants of the valley of the Amazon River belong to one nationality, the Indian race. But nearly every South .American ...

    Article : 334 words
  15. OZONISING DRINKING WATER.

    Moscow is successfully working a new method for purifying the city's water. The plan is to sterilise the water. by the introduction of ...

    Article : 116 words
  16. STORY OF TWO BURGLARS.

    It was one o'clock in the morning. In the deepest shadow of the piazza of the little suburban villa in which our story opens, sat two ...

    Article : 219 words
  17. A CYCLIST WITH ONE LEG.

    I was much surprised the other day, when taking, a country, walk in the neighbourhood of Bristol, by the following vision :— A bicycle came ...

    Article : 175 words
  18. PROPOSING A TOAST.

    When would-be orators make. their trial flights they are apt to become a little confused at times. A guest rose to his feet at a breaking-up ...

    Article : 52 words
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