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  2. SNAKE CATCHING.

    Menagsries are always in need of snakes, and as India abounds in these reptiles, perhaps to a greater extent than any other country in the world, to India look the ...

    Article : 770 words
  3. HOUSEHOLD WORDS.

    Up in early morning light. Sweeping, dusting, "setting right," Oiling all the household springs, Sewing buttons, tying strings ...

    Article : 1,028 words
  4. "ONLY A BUT AN' A BEN."

    To Bay that the "auld clay biggin "in which Robert Burns was born is humble and homely, even for a peasant's thatched cottage, is to give an inadequate idea of the ...

    Article : 1,752 words
  5. SANTA CLAUS, LIMITED.

    The night wind played round the chimney stacks and the city lay silent, sleeping. On the soft, white floss of the snow cloud, sat Santa Claus, weary and despondent. The ...

    Article : 2,702 words
  6. ABOUT A GREAT CONDUCTOR

    Before Mr. Hans Richter, the illustrious conductor, came to Wagner as an expert musical coypyist, he had fulfilled, says the "Guide Musical," a long engagement as a ...

    Article : 418 words
  7. WONDERFUL IF TRUE.

    Here is a story which may or may not be true, of a vegetable wonder. A traveller was recently in Mexico ou a botanical expedition. One day he saw a dark object on one of the ...

    Article : 304 words
  8. PRISONERS' PETS.

    Pellisson Fontainer, the faithful friend of Fouquet, the celebrated Minister of Finance, was allowed no amusements at all while in prison, so he turned his attention to the ...

    Article : 527 words
  9. NOT TO BE CAUGHT.

    Mary, the Celtic maid, was intelligent, neat, and efficient, but too talkative. She talked during the day to any one she happened to meet about the house, and she talked ...

    Article : 310 words
  10. PERFUMES AS MICROBE DESTROYERS.

    Anything that will destroy the all-powerful and ubiquitous microbe should be gladly welcomed, and when the agent comes in the pleasant form of perfume it is ...

    Article : 202 words
  11. WANTED, A DESTINATION.

    A Georgia man who had made a flying machine offered a negro ten dollars to make a trial trip in it. and the machine were hoisted by block and ...

    Article : 123 words
  12. THE SORROW OF LOVING.

    "It iras to—day," slowly and sorrowfully murmured Reginald Rinaldo Riggs, " that I received a wedding invitation from the only fem x Bim L ullin j uuu LI uij juiuu. ...

    Article : 190 words
  13. THE COMPASS DOES NOT POINT NORTH.

    The constancy of the magnetic compass to the North Pole is one of those numerous beliefs which have not the least foundation in fact. At every different place on the globe it ...

    Article : 225 words
  14. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

    Every man thinks he is the best friend some other man ever had. No girl can sing with half the expression she uses to eat water melon. ...

    Article : 113 words
  15. A GLASS-EYED TICER.

    A tiger with a glass eye is at present in the menagerie at Stuttgart, and looks as fierce with his glass eye as with the real one. A serious affection of the muscles caused the ...

    Article : 221 words
  16. INTERESTING ANTIQUITIES.

    The Grapes Tavern is among the ruins of Jewin-Btrcet, but, modern as was the building, it contained a most remarkable collection of antiquities of the Court of ...

    Article : 164 words
  17. LIGHT FROM SUGAR.

    A scientist has discovered that light may be procured from sogar. He has succeeded in taking several photographs by the light supplied by sugar only. The sugar was first ...

    Article : 132 words
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