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  2. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    He was one of those men with a pleasetread-on-the-tail-of-my-coat expression, and as he plunged across Woodward Avenue, he would have been run over by an electric ...

    Article : 293 words
  3. AMONG THE AUSTRALIAN ALPS.

    The term Australian Alps is, no doubt, rather mystifying to many residents of Victoria. This range of mountains—a continuation, of course, of other ranges in the adjoining ...

    Article : 1,550 words
  4. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    An interesting table has been compiled by a writer in Cycling," showing the "world's records for a mile" by twenty-five methods of progression. The most remarkable figures, ...

    Article : 219 words
  5. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    A winsome child sits on a rug Of fur, all fluffy and white, And plays with a frolicksome kitten, Making a picture bright, ...

    Article : 305 words
  6. THE YOUNG FOLKS.

    China is a great commentary on the Bible. The natives dress much like the old patriarchs, and boar a strong resemblance to them, except the beardless faces. They ...

    Article : 158 words
  7. Carmen Sylva.

    "Carmen Sylva" is a rapid worker. Writing hastily, almost feverishly, with a reservoir pen, she tears off sheet after sheet from a block of paper with amazing rapidity. ...

    Article : 136 words
  8. Memoirs of a King.

    In the will of King Ludwig the First of Bavaria there is a clause, according to which the private papers of the King, which are kept in seven large coffers, are to remain ...

    Article : 126 words
  9. Madame de Lesseps.

    A representative of the "Figaro" had an interview with Mme. de Lesseps at the Chateau La Chesnaye after the first of Panama sentences had been passed, when ...

    Article : 245 words
  10. Red Hair and Iron.

    Science explains the phenomenon of red hair thus:—"It is caused by a super- abundance of iron in the blood. This it is that imparts the vigor, ...

    Article : 136 words
  11. Fragments.

    [?] so many lives. YOUNG Mr Gurley: "My foot's asleep." Gazzam: "Nonsense! Not while you are ...

    Article : 961 words
  12. Extraordinary Feats of Strength.

    Milo, the famous athelete of ancient Greece (born 520 B.C.) was victor at. both the Olympic and Pythian games for six times in succession. On one occasion he ran four miles with an ox on ...

    Article : 292 words
  13. A SPANISH HORROR.

    A sensational murder trial, which has excited attention all over Spain, was concluded lately at Valverde del Fresno (Caceres). A woman named Dona Pedra Lajas was ...

    Article : 552 words
  14. About Women Quacks.

    In my last I referred to the ridiculous aspect of this matter, but if I found a comic element by my enquiries the tragedy that so often hovers near comedy ...

    Article : 1,211 words
  15. Fashion of Languages.

    Professor Vambery has been lecturing on the "Fashion of Languages" before the Budapest English Club. English, he said may now be called the most fashionable ...

    Article : 220 words
  16. Measurements of a Swimming Girl.

    M. De Berselli is at work on a statue of "The Diving Girl," and as a model he has chosen Miss Clara Beckwith, the champion lady swimmer of the world. ...

    Article : 192 words
  17. Livingstone's Letters.

    A long and hither to unpublished letter of Dr. Livingstone, addressed to his old friend the late Rev. Dr. James Hamilton, will (Rays the "Daily News") appears in the ...

    Article : 486 words
  18. Electric Energy.

    The daily consumption of electrical energy on the City and South London Railway with eight trains in constant work is about 3700 units, produced by the conbustion of ...

    Article : 138 words
  19. Home and Fireside.

    GREEN GRAPE JELLY.—When just about ready to turn, stem, the grapes and let half a bushel heat slowly in a large preserving kettle: stir them once in a while to prevent their ...

    Article : 732 words
  20. Insect Population.

    Professor Riley, the American entomologist, gives account of the various estimates of the number of species of insects in the world. Linnæus knew nearly 3,000; in 1853 Dr Day ...

    Article : 117 words
  21. The Rapid Growth of Fungi.

    Fungi grow almost everywhere—in houses, on wood, in the closed cavities of roots, in animal tissues; in short in and upon everything, while their rapidity of growth is not less ...

    Article : 438 words
  22. FIRE AT A LUNATIC ASYLUM

    The subjoined details are published by the "Daily News" in reference to the fearful disaster recently at a Lunatic Asylum at Dover, New Hampshire, reported at the time ...

    Article : 471 words
  23. A PATHETIC STORY.

    Another touching fatality from the frost has occurred in Russia (reports an English paper). A peasant and his wife had gone to attend a wedding party at some ...

    Article : 259 words
  24. The Happiness in Hell.

    " The Happiness in Hell" ought, according to Professor St. George Mivart, to have been the title of his muchsquoted essay. The definite article was omitted, and so led some ...

    Article : 219 words
  25. A Little Bit of a Boy.

    There was never a smile in a weary while, And never a gleam of joy, Till the eyes of light made the whole world pright— ...

    Article : 167 words
  26. Twenty Things Worth Knowing.

    Keep the cover on the canister. Rub lamp chimneys with day salt. Throw chloride of lime in rat holes. Wash oilcloth with skimmed milk. ...

    Article : 153 words
  27. He Did Not Frophesy.

    Lately (says the Odessa correspondent of a London paper), a report was spread among the people that Father John of Cronstadt, who is highly esteemed by all ...

    Article : 164 words
  28. Suicide in America.

    According to some facts recently published in the quarterly bulletin of the American Statistical Association, it would seem that in the States the maximum tendency ...

    Article : 161 words
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