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  2. THE INVENTOR'S COLUMN.

    The American Institute of Electrical Engineers is young body, but it is perhaps the wealthiest. the would." Bell, the telephone inventor, has made over £2,000,000 profit on ...

    Article : 1,170 words
  3. HOW TO AVERT LITIGATION.

    To relieve the courts from drudgery, without depriving the people of their rights, to obtain legal redress for legal wrongs, be they ever so insignificant, is the object of the court ...

    Article : 846 words
  4. HOW WE SAW THE HOLY COAT.

    Before 6 had struck, this quiet hamlet of Eidiger, on the banks of the Moselle, was answering the call to prayer, and making its way up the village street to the quaint little ...

    Article : 1,436 words
  5. HIS ANGEL.

    About half a mile beyond the outskirts of the ancient city of Newark, in the State of New Jersey, and a little more than fourteen miles from New York, on a gently sloping ...

    Article : 3,713 words
  6. COURAGE AND NERVE.

    The Scottish papers lately told a singular tale of nerve nod pluck is a little boy. He is the P son of a shepherd at [?]uckholm, near Galashiels, and he was unlucky enough to be bitten ...

    Article : 1,251 words
  7. A PICTURE OF FAMINE IN RUSSIA.

    Novels are sometimes better than newspapers for giving a picture at once faithful and vivid of contemporary things. It the last volume of the Pseudonym Library, "A Russian Priest," ...

    Article : 1,461 words
  8. MORTALITY AMONG PILGRIMS.

    The Times of India publishes a starting article on the mortality amongst Indian pilgrims going to Mecca, in the course of which it says that, of all the pilgrims leaving Bombay ...

    Article : 425 words
  9. A LOUISIANA LYNCHING-VICTIM FLAYED.

    The New Orleans Picayune reports an out- rage upon a school-teacher near Arcadia in this State. The school at which the young - lady taught is two miles from her home. A ...

    Article : 212 words
  10. A BALLOON COLLAPSE.

    A stirring incident took place not long ago in Cour[?]evoie, when Paul Leprince, the aeronaut, and one of his friends, made a balloon ascension. They had reached an elevation of 1,500ft., ...

    Article : 375 words
  11. A MONSTER CUNARDER.

    Sir John Burns and his co-directors of the Canard Company have made a contract with the Fairfield Company for a steamer which it is hoped will win back to their line the blue ...

    Article : 150 words
  12. AN UNPARALLELED FEAT.

    Mr. G. E. B. Timswell, a native of Bristol, England, a member of the crack Suburban Bicycle Club Sydney, (N.S.W.) whose long distance ride of [?] miles from that city to Rockhampton across ...

    Article : 227 words
  13. TO A REJECTED LOVER.

    Friend, why so gloomy? Why so glum? Why such a dull lack-Iustre eye? At festive meetings why so dumb? From dearest friends so apt to fly? ...

    Article : 457 words
  14. FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

    An ordinary Walker's whiskey bottle has been completely filled with Dr. Fletcher's Pills, securely corked with a cork one inch into the neck, and sealed and placed in the charge of ...

    Article : 323 words
  15. SELLING A GIRL BY AUCTION.

    A vivid picture of the old slavery atrocities in America is quoted in the is quoted in the Review of Reviews apropos of Lowell's Abolitionist days. It comes from a remarkable little book. Just ...

    Article : 467 words
  16. WHAT DOES!

    What becomes of the word after it is spoken? Also what becomes of the light when the candle is blown out! Both these queries were gravely propounded for discussion some years ago in the Debating Society ...

    Article : 351 words
  17. "I'M THE EMPEROR!"

    The New York Recorder tells an interesting story about Emperor William. An American girl pianist, who had never before played before royalty, obtained permission to display ...

    Article : 266 words
  18. [CERTIFICATE.]

    We have this day seen a Walker's whiskey bottle filled with Dr. Fletcher's Pills and securely corked and sealed. No one knows how many pills are in the bottle, which is now secure ...

    Article : 132 words
  19. AN APT QUOTATION.

    "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."—SHAKESPEARE. The word is " Wale bury," the action comprise[?] the insertion of the digits into that receptacle of your ...

    Article : 214 words
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    At a public sale in New York recently a lot of water meters, for which the city had paid 70dol. apiece, had to be withdrawn because they would not much over dol. each ...

    Article : 58 words
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