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  2. Advertising

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  3. NATURALIST. DOGS AS POLICE ASSISTANTS.

    The dog policeman has now joined the Parisian police force, and when the Exhibition opened he was an important attache of each station house. Favourable ...

    Article : 244 words
  4. PERSONALITIES. DID HE HATE WOMEN?

    The women-haters are rejoicing over a new English edition of Juvenal, because it supplies the sixth and most epigrammatic satire, and contains the following ...

    Article : 84 words
  5. SERENE TRAVELLING Iff SIBERIA.

    Siberia, the alleged land of horrors, is well up-to-date in the matter of railway travelling. The special trains on the Siberian railroad possess everything for ...

    Article : 104 words
  6. CREDITED TO KRUGER,

    It is not a little amusing to find that with the simple alteration of names stories are now being told in connection with President Kruger that have long ...

    Article : 195 words
  7. SKETOHER GUNS OF THE 19TH CENTURY.

    Of all the changes made by the progress of the present century, that of weapons of warfare stands out most prominently, particularly in the case of the firearm of ...

    Article : 344 words
  8. RUSSIAN BRUTES.

    We hear much of the brutal way in which the Russian troops are treating the Chinese. Is it to be wondered at? The illiteracy of Russia exceeds that of any ...

    Article : 109 words
  9. TEACHING THE BIRDS.

    Miss O'May, Craighton Villa; West Bay, has this winter amused and interested her neighbours by the successful tutelage of her little feathered friends. ...

    Article : 120 words
  10. POETRY. RESOLVE.

    He kiesed my hand, the hand that holds the pen; Bathed it in love, from finger-tips to wrist. ...

    Article : 73 words
  11. SOLDIERS ON STILTS.

    Improbable as it may seem, the French Army has lately been making experimcuts with the view of testing the value of stilt-walking. The result appears to be ...

    Article : 146 words
  12. AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY.

    The disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst, a kinsman of Lord Bathurst, has never been explained. Bathurst was sent on a secret mission to Vienna, at the time ...

    Article : 215 words
  13. FEATHERED VENTRILOQUISTS.

    Many birds form their sounds without opening their bills. The pigeon is a wellknown instance of this. Its cooing can be distincely heard although it does not ...

    Article : 125 words
  14. THE DAILY CROSS.

    Take up thy cross, He sail: Who lets it lie Shall not escape his heavy doom thereby; ...

    Article : 202 words
  15. THE TENEMENTS OF NEW YORK.

    There is no doubt that slumming iB disagreeable work, but there is no other way if one would obtain a clear sight into the manner in which the poor live. ...

    Article : 371 words
  16. CRADLES.

    Early in the history of the human race mothers must have disco vered the desiraability of making a cosy rest-place for a baby, in which it could sleep safely out ...

    Article : 489 words
  17. A CAT THAT SLEEPS BETWEEN FOWLS.

    Mr. Harrison Weir, whose book on cats all cat-lovers ought to read, contributes to his study of cats the following episode:— ...

    Article : 431 words
  18. 'NOT SO BAD.'

    'The Scotch get credit for canniness and caution, not only in conduct but in speech.' says Mr. David Macrae. 'If with the glass falling, and a wet-looking ...

    Article : 144 words
  19. CHAPTER XIII.

    Confined to her bed and room as was Madam Walton, and only vaguely alive to what might be going on in the househeld —for there were days when she lay dull ...

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  20. PAID IT HIMSELF.

    The late Alexandre Dumas was one of the most generous of men. There is a story told concerning a voluminous MS. which his publishers received from him ...

    Article : 149 words
  21. NOVEL. CAPTAIN CLOSE.

    For hours she had been listening for the tap upon ker window that should tell her Walton had not been spirited away to a place of safety ...

    Article : 742 words
  22. VARIETIES.

    Amongst the English nobility nineteen per cent, are childless. Strange to say the peach was originally a very poisonous fruit, but by cultivation ...

    Article : 411 words
  23. AN EYE TO THE SCRIPTURE WARNING.

    It is told of Dean Ramsay and a Highland minister with whom he was having a long day's walk amongst the glens, that they stopped at a little inn, where they ...

    Article : 173 words
  24. COWS, OR STEAM ENGINES?

    At the beginning of this century the continent of North America was one vast and teeming game range. Not only were the buffalo in millions across the ...

    Article : 499 words
  25. TRAVELLER. GIVING THE LIE IN PERSIA.

    The giving of the lie is no insult in Persia; among the natives a common expression is,' You are lying,' says Doctor Wills in 'The Land of the Lion and Sun.' ...

    Article : 294 words
  26. THE WEALTH OF ROYAL FAMILIES.

    The Hapshurgs, the Royal House of Austria, are very little, if any, poorer than the Romanofffs. They own immense landed estates, and have also inherited ...

    Article : 217 words
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