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  2. THE CASE OF LOIS ANN.

    "Come right in this way," I heard a Aunt Sally calling, as I stepped upon the verandah. I found her baking pies and ginger creams in her workshop, as ...

    Article : 2,481 words
  3. NATURE NOTES.

    There is no other bird which runs quite the same risk and evades them in the same way as the pigeon. Given a fair start and no surprise there is no ...

    Article : 171 words
  4. MONTE CARLO

    I paid a flying visit to the Riviera two or three weeks ago. It was some twenty-five years since I had been there, and about twice that period ...

    Article : 1,720 words
  5. LINER ON A REEF.

    It is feared that ninety lives have been lost through the wreck of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Lima on the coast of Chili. The ...

    Article : 863 words
  6. THE MALLEE HEN.

    A mallee hen has recently been added to the London Zoological Society's collection, but one is not likely (says a writer in the "'Westminster Gazette") ...

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  7. ELECTRIC-LIGHT FISH.

    One of the most remarkable of the creatures which live in the ocean depths is known as the electric fish, from the fact that it carries ...

    Article : 79 words
  8. THE LARGE-EARED DOG.

    A very interesting addition has just been made to the animals in the Zoological Gardens in the form of a specimen of the large-eared dog (Octocyo[?] ...

    Article : 176 words
  9. CHILD'S OVERALL.

    1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary are considered as wishing to CONTINUE their subscription. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 41 words
  10. A POWERFUL FISH.

    The power of the sword fish has always been admitted, and instances have not been altogether uncommon of his attacking vessels and burying his ...

    Article : 213 words
  11. CONFESSION MANIA.

    It is a Curious characteristic of Daniel White that he delights in representing himself to be a deserter from the Army, when, as a matter of fact, ...

    Article : 398 words
  12. WIRELESS SECRETS.

    The young draughtsman from Portsmouth Richard Sidney Knowlden, improperly found in possession of wireless telegraphy apparatus, drawings, and ...

    Article : 470 words
  13. HOW CAMELS ARE TRAINED.

    The first thing an Arab does when training a camel is to teach him to kneel down at the word of command. He seizes him by the throat with his left ...

    Article : 222 words
  14. MINE EXPLOSION

    One hundred and fifty men lost their lives owing to an explosion on Monday (said "Lloyd's Weekly News" on February 6) in the main tunnel of a ...

    Article : 410 words
  15. GAINT TOMATOES.

    It has lately been demonstrated that tomatoes can be grown to an enormous sphere by much the same process that evolved the American Beauty ...

    Article : 52 words
  16. UNIFORM FRIGHTENED HIM.

    It was a bad record that was cited at Kingston yesterday (says "Lloyd's News" of February 20) against James George Day, a homeless butcher, who ...

    Article : 395 words
  17. MILITARY PRIG REBUFFED.

    There was a violent incident in the Chamber of Deputies this morning (wired the Paris correspondent of the "Express" on February 7) between ...

    Article : 357 words
  18. MASTER OF CEREMONIES.

    Mr Walsh, who is the eldest son of Lord Ormathwaite, entered the Royal Household as an equerry to the Duke of Clarence, and afterwards acted as ...

    Article : 838 words
  19. RATS AS SENTINELS.

    Two ingenious burglars in an American gaol recently found their cells infested with rats. They did not object to this, for they devised a means by ...

    Article : 113 words
  20. SOME PUBLISHERS' BLUNDERS.

    Publishers, like other people, sometimes make mistakes. Mr R. Coohrane, in the "Book Monthly," recalls some famous examples, George Meredith, as ...

    Article : 229 words
  21. SUNDAY TELEPHONE POST.

    Mr Frederic Peake, secretary of the Lord's Day Observance Society, has (says the "Express") written to the Postmaster-General regarding the new ...

    Article : 134 words
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