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  2. WIVES WITH SECRET FORTUNES.

    A farmer named Reeves. was some time ago engaged in cutting a ditch or gutter along one of his cow sheds when he turned up an iron-bound ...

    Article : 1,184 words
  3. DISCOVERY FROM PREDICTION.

    It was in the year 184, that two distinguished men—Professor Adams in Cambridge, and M Leverrier in Paris—independently of each other ...

    Article : 317 words
  4. LORD KITCHINER.

    Born at Ballylongford, County Kerry," in 1850, the son of a soldier, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum is a perfect type of the army martinet. ...

    Article : 969 words
  5. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Canadians eat three times as much fish as English people. The fumes of a brimstone match will remove berry. stains from the ...

    Article : 593 words
  6. A TALE OF U. S. NAVY.

    President Roosevelt had a fondness for a good-natured joke. A Washington correspondent recalls this amusing incident of the time ...

    Article : 295 words
  7. DIAMOND SMUGGLING IN AMERICA.

    An American Custom-house officer relates how the smuggling of a large quantity of diamonds was accomplished on one occasion. ...

    Article : 387 words
  8. FASTER THAN THE FASTEST TRAIN.

    Heroes of many startling feats of speed on their wheels the well known American cyclists, the Murphy brothers, are now in training ...

    Article : 540 words
  9. IN THE EMPIRE OF THE CZAR.

    In the course of some entertaining reminiscences of Lord Tennyson in the "Century Magazine Captain Gordon McCabe repeats the ...

    Article : 399 words
  10. AN ARTIST IN DISGUISE.

    A certain artist who for years had not been able to fulfil half his commissions, lately became possessed of the idea that his success was due ...

    Article : 264 words
  11. AN HISTORICAL BUILDING.

    Near Sans Souci, the favourite residence of Frederick the Great there was a mill which much interfered with the view from the palace. One ...

    Article : 324 words
  12. WAS LI HUNG CHANG A BIGAMIST ?

    The one romantic complication in the life of the late Machiavelli of China Li flung, Chang. is amusing or tragic according as one may ...

    Article : 261 words
  13. PIGEON POST-OFFICES.

    German military authorities inspired by the, excellent results obtained by the French during the siege or Paris, have long devoted ...

    Article : 274 words
  14. WOULD HAVE BEEN USEFUL.

    A certain gentleman who served with the imperial Yeomanry in South Africa is rather fond of drawing the longbow in referring to his ...

    Article : 185 words
  15. FROM THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND.

    A certain Scottish minister in a remote part of the Highlands was recently in an address to his congation reading at length of the ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. MANLY PROPORTIONS.

    In the man of average statue the height of the body is 10 times the length of the face; the face from the chin to the hair is as long as the ...

    Article : 65 words
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