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  2. ELYSIUM GOLD MINES (LIMITED).

    Will Guthrie sat at his breakfast table in his dingy lodgings gazing thoughtfully at a letter which the postman had just delivered. A somewhat bitter smile ...

    Article : 3,377 words
  3. GHOST OF ABERTRIDWR.

    The mysterious knockings which so unnerved the South Wales collier, James Craze, and drove him, full of fear, from his cottage under the ...

    Article : 1,237 words
  4. LAUGHTER MAKERS.

    According to Mr Jerome K. Jerome, as reported in, a vivacious American paper recently, science has discovered that there have been only thirteen original ...

    Article : 163 words
  5. FROM THE FOREIGN PRESS.

    The "Elbinger Zeitung" announces the death of Herr Hans Fro[?], hotel proprietor of Willenberg, East Prussia, who, since the death of ...

    Article : 1,044 words
  6. LITTLE TRAGEDIES.

    An old man lay a-dying. And he called his sons and daughters together—of whom there were a great number, for he was very poor—and addressed them ...

    Article : 75 words
  7. A REGRETTABLE MISUNDERSTANDING.

    The white man approached the Red- skin Chief. "Why not bury the hatchet?" asked the white man, holding out his hand. ...

    Article : 53 words
  8. FRENCH MINER'S RIOT.

    On 18th April the correspondent of the "Express" wrote from Paris:— The entire mining district of the North of France has risen in revolt. Fierce ...

    Article : 425 words
  9. A FATAL PRESENTIMENT.

    A woman who had quarrelled with her husband and left him, dreamt one night that he was dead. The next night she had a similar ...

    Article : 87 words
  10. AN ACCIDENT.

    It was at a crowded At Home. A lady wished to pass in front of him, so the young man backed. In so doing, his heels stepped on someone's toes. ...

    Article : 72 words
  11. MODERN NURSE MAIDS.

    "Instantane" writes in the "Westminster Gazette":— Two nursemaids walked side by side in Kensington Gardens. Each maid was ...

    Article : 209 words
  12. THE FORTUNE-HUNTER'S DILEMMA.

    "Well?" said the handsome Fortune- hunter to the rich man's plain daughter. "Well. my sweet?" "It is no good," she sobbed, no good. ...

    Article : 97 words
  13. THE DANDY AND THE BULL.

    There are more senses than one in which fine feathers do not make fine birds, but it does not follow that being well dressed unfits one for active service. ...

    Article : 491 words
  14. THE WIFE OF A POET.

    The wife of a Poet, biographies show it, has happiness rich and rare; In rapturous revel he deigns to dishevel her carefully done back-hair; ...

    Article : 385 words
  15. RETURNED TO THE WORLD.

    Jabez Balfour was released from Parkhurst prison on Easter Saturday. His relatives, writes "Lloyd's Weekly". on 22nd April, arrived at Newport late on ...

    Article : 413 words
  16. REVIVALIST IN A TRANCE.

    Although the wave of religious enthusiasm created by the revival movement in Wales has notably decreased, Cross-hands and Carmel are exceptions to the ...

    Article : 335 words
  17. A SURPRISE ATTACK.

    "Wanted to see your maid. ma'am," he said, raising his silk hat. "If it's not troubling you too much." "I am her!" ...

    Article : 565 words
  18. HALF RIGHT.

    Among stories told by a writer in "Scribner's" of the late Abraham Lincoln, one is to the effect that a boy, who lived to become a well-known writer, ...

    Article : 189 words
  19. SHAKESPEARE CLIFF MYSTERY

    Considerable mystery is still associated with the death of Madeline Wells, the Beckenham barmaid, whose body was found in the sea off Shakespeare ...

    Article : 621 words
  20. AN ENORMOUS ELEPHANT.

    At a recent scientific meeting of the London Zoological Society the secretary exhibited a paper cutting to show the size of a print made in the soil by the ...

    Article : 155 words
  21. THE LATE PROFESSOR WELDON.

    Professor Weldon, whose premature death has been announced, was one of several scientists supplied to the Oxford professoriate by Cambridge. which has ...

    Article : 123 words
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