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  2. THE FRENCH ARISTOCRACY

    Following the example of so many representative men in the English aristocracy, a large number of French noblemen have gone into ...

    Article : 1,376 words
  3. WIT AND HUMOR.

    If you think nobody cares for you, just up at the theatre. It Is unfortunate that most cities are troubled with so mush illegal thirst. ...

    Article : 1,273 words
  4. "QUEEN OF SWINDLERS."

    One would hardly have guessed from Madame Humbert's appearance that she war the woman to engineer the greatest fraud of modern times. Nor was there anything lit her ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,253 words
  5. HORTICULTURAL.

    It is quite time that the summer prening of fruit trees should be commenced. This operation should be arrived out at intervals, as in this way the trees are ...

    Article : 347 words
  6. NAPOLEON'S IMPRISONMENT

    On the first day of the new year, 1818, particulars reached St. Helena of an extraordinary plot to rescue Napoleon, the details of which might have been culled ...

    Article : 1,346 words
  7. THE PILLAR-BOX PLOT:

    An extraordinary story was told conserning the criminal exploits of a smartly dressed American named Henry Conrad, alias Fisher, who was ...

    Article : 583 words
  8. A FESTIVE SHARK

    Henry de Vere Stackpoole writes amusingly in the "Daily Mail":—We were broken down off the island of Hero, steaming three knots an hour over ...

    Article : 1,259 words
  9. MANCHURIAN TRANSFORMATION

    The Pekin correspondent of the "Times" records his impressions of a recent journey (lasting two months) through Manchuria, undertaken with the permission ...

    Article : 519 words
  10. THE KITCHEN GARDEN.

    Where French beans have received liberal cultivation, they are beginning to bear freely. The bearing season is "considerably prolonged if the pods are kept ...

    Article : 347 words
  11. PREMPEH'S JOY DANCE

    Reuter's agent at Mahe, Seychelles, writes, under date 7th Octomber, that some time back the Ashantee chiefs there sent a letter to the Administrator on the ...

    Article : 478 words
  12. THE FLOWER GARDEN.

    Although many roses have passed the best, the plants should not be neglected. All those that are disposed to form new buds should receive extra attention. Be ...

    Article : 351 words
  13. INVISIBLE INK

    There was a remarkable demonstration in the New York Supreme Court recently, during' the hearing of a divorce suit brought by one Isaac Roth against his ...

    Article : 337 words
  14. THE CONSERVATORY AND POT PLANTS.

    Soft-wooded greenhouse plants will now be filling their pots with roots, and care must be taken to see that they do not suffer in this respect. If it is not ...

    Article : 356 words
  15. FALLEN OUT

    By the death of Lieutenant-General R. S. Baynes, at the age of seventy-six, the honorary colonelcy of the King's Liverpool Regiment becomes vacant. ...

    Article : 253 words
  16. M. PELLETAN IN DANGER

    It has leaked out that M. Pelletan, Minister of Marine, and a party of friends had a narrow escape from drowning last Sunday. They had gone on a ...

    Article : 127 words
  17. FRIENDS AND FOES

    Sir Horace Rumbold, G.C.B., late British Ambassador at Vienna, in an article in the November number of the "National Review," contrasts the attitude ...

    Article : 197 words
  18. EXTRAORDINARY RUMOR

    A strange rumor is circulated in the "Army and Navy Gazette," and it is made to appear the more serious by the ambiguous wording of the following ...

    Article : 150 words
  19. HIS REQUIREMENTS.

    "I can recommend him as a man who never took an unfair advantage of anybody." "I don't know as I can find employment for him," said Senator Sorghum. "You see, every ...

    Article : 70 words
  20. REGRETS.

    "Say, are you the man who sodded my from yard last year?" "Yes, sir." "What'll you take to haul the sod away?" ...

    Article : 44 words
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    The population of Kamtschataka, the peninsula on the extreme north-east corner of Asia, has been decimated by measles. The disease has fallen with ...

    Article : 82 words
  22. JOHNNY'S REASON.

    Johnny (impatiently) : I wish I was Tommy Jones. Mother : But Tommy hasn't any dear little brothers and sisters. ...

    Article : 40 words
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