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  2. Varieties. AN IRISHMAN'S SUGGESTION.

    AN Irishman recently applied at a London post office to know the cost of sending a telegram to his mother, who resided in a remote ...

    Article : 124 words
  3. Sketcher. A CROCODILE'S GRANDFATHER.

    SCIENTISTS have now found another missing link in the animal kingdom. It is the limno[?]r, a creature ...

    Article : 220 words
  4. Personalities. MEDAL TO A BRAVE QUEEN.

    EMPEROR William never loses an opportunity. When the Queen of Portugal gallantly rescued a sailor from a watery grave at ...

    Article : 63 words
  5. POETRY. BOOK AT THE TOP.

    Never you mind the crowd, lad, [?]r[?]fancy your life won't tell; The work is the work for a that, To him that doeth it well. ...

    Article : 57 words
  6. Traveller. RELIGIOUS MANSLAUGHTER.

    MANY strange sects have been given birth in the United States and they have endowed themselves with wonderful and ...

    Article : 470 words
  7. FONTANA.

    The springs of Fontana well high on the mountain, Out of the rock of the granite they pour, Twenty or more; ...

    Article : 194 words
  8. THE BOYHOOD OF SIR HENRY HAVELOCK.

    ' How came you with that black eye?' asked young Havelock's schoolmaster. 'It came there,' was the answer. 'But how?' was the persistent question. ...

    Article : 134 words
  9. IN THE INFANTS' CLASS.

    The blunders of children in their Scripture lessons are often latent with humour, as the following show: 'Why was Jerusalem surrounded with walls [?]' ...

    Article : 92 words
  10. NOVEL NOW FIRST PUBLISHED.

    'I've not landed there before,' said the captain. ' But it's a good place for water, I've been told; and the natives are friendly. There's always a risk, however. ...

    Article : 2,009 words
  11. CHAPTER II.

    'It is the last place in which I should have expected to meet you,' he said that evening, as he sat in Mrs. Ferrier's thatched verandah, and looked out on a ...

    Article : 969 words
  12. QUILT FOR, 'BOBS.'

    A venerable Hollander dame, aged seventy-nine years, wishing to show her appreciation of the benefits to be derived by living under the protection of her ...

    Article : 118 words
  13. AN EGG-DETECTIVE.

    A Manchester man has invented a machine, which is being experimented with in London, for the purpose of testing eggs before the[?] are placed on the ...

    Article : 77 words
  14. THE HISTORY OF A LEAD PENCIL.

    The countless embarrassments that would arise from a sudden vanishing of the l[?]ad-pencil are quite beyond conception—how could one be without it? ...

    Article : 910 words
  15. IF YOU WOULD BE POPULAR.

    Contribute of your best to the pleasure of others. Study the character of each, and sympathise with all in troubles or in joys, however small. ...

    Article : 190 words
  16. A TEMPERANCE ANECDOTE.

    Dean Pigou, when young, was a student of natural history, and he gave 'cottage lectures,' using his microscope for the purpose of illustration. ' My first attempt ...

    Article : 205 words
  17. A MISSING WILL.

    A good deal of excitement has been occasioned in Fife concerning the estate of the late Mr. George Johnston of Lathrisk, who died on the 29th ult. It ...

    Article : 668 words
  18. A BRUTAL CUSTOM.

    The Kiow, Commanche and Apache Indian, while living under the management of an Indian agent, are comparatively civilised, and do not go on the ...

    Article : 199 words
  19. HIDDEN GOLD.

    Gold for various reasans disappears rapidly in all countries, but nowhere else does it pass out of sight so rapidly as in India and China. So rapidly does the ...

    Article : 220 words
  20. JACK SHEPPARD'S HOUSE.

    The Strand improvement prompted by the London County Council plays havoc with one region, sacred for at least two hundred years to crime and the kind of ...

    Article : 203 words
  21. A SUNKEN TREASURE SHIP.

    The days of treasure-hunting are not yet over. On October 7th, 1799, H.M.S. Lutine, thirty-two guns, went down off the Dutch coast with all hands but two, ...

    Article : 243 words
  22. SCHOOL FOR MISTRESSES.

    A novel experiment in domestic economy is about to be attempted in Brighton. Much has been done in the way of training servants; and one of the ...

    Article : 212 words
  23. THE GREATEST YACHT BUILDERS.

    The shipbuilding firm of Herreshoff, who built all the 'America' Cup defenders, is a truly extraordinary one. No yacht in America is considered a crack beat ...

    Article : 248 words
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