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  2. (COPYRIGHT.) The Wizard of White Cliffs.

    'It would, and the surveyors' are already at work on the great plains here. In a few years, the officials at Brisbane tell me, there will not be a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 3,641 words
  3. T'OTHER DEAR CHARMER.

    I COULDN'T cough you wouldn't have heard me." " You might ...

    Article : 1,973 words
  4. THE HAPPY MEDIUM.

    In the matter of domesticity, the thing for girls to do is to hit off the happy mean. On the one hand they should avoid becoming one of the extreme class of domestic girl, who. has not a ...

    Article : 451 words
  5. AN AWFUL MINUTE.

    Chamois-bunting among the precipices of the Alps is attended by no lack of excitement. The author of "Sport in the Alps," while out with a keeper named David, wounded a back, which ...

    Article : 332 words
  6. SOMNAMBULISTS' FREAKS.

    A well-known physician gives an account of an Irish gentleman who swam more than two miles down a river, got ashore, and was subsequently discovered sleeping by the roadside, ...

    Article : 182 words
  7. THE SPEED OF BIRDS.

    The speed of pigeons and of birds in general has been much discussed in recent times by different zoologists. Many authorities are inclined to give too high figures. Thus, ...

    Article : 266 words
  8. ENGRMOUS PRESSURE.

    A curious example of the enormous pressure of water is furnished by what was once a diving. bell, designed to be used in Lake Michigan, but now a shapeless mass of metal. It was a hollow ...

    Article : 227 words
  9. BOUND IN GOLD, SILVER AND DIAMONDS.

    The only gold-and-silver-bound, diamond incrusted book in the world was lately enshrined in the holy Mohammedan city of Isnan-Ruzs, Persia. The book is, of course, a copy of the ...

    Article : 150 words
  10. A CLEVER ROGUE.

    While a well-to-do Parisian was returning recently by train from Havre, during the first hour his only fellow-passenger in the compartment was a young man who made himself very ...

    Article : 380 words
  11. A "THIEF-CATCHER."

    In Abyssinia, they have, or had, a very picturesque fashion of identifying thieves. There is an official nominated for the purpose in each district. Upon receiving ...

    Article : 212 words
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