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  2. Personalities, BARON FAIRFAX.

    THE new Lord Fairfax, the twelfth of his line, is a clerk in a banking house in New York, and it is probable that, unlike his uncle and ...

    Article : 102 words
  3. SHORT STORY

    IT was too funny for anything, but we were married. It didn't concern the world in the least, but it was a matter of no small moment to Jack and myself, as ...

    Article : 2,898 words
  4. Science. DEAD OR ALIVE

    SOME doubt has arisen as to the efficiency of the work of the guillotine, and the question is asked, does the stroke of the guillotine ...

    Article : 468 words
  5. A LUXURIOUS WOMAN.

    The widow of Li Hung Chang has the credit of being not only the riobest lady in China, but also of being the most luxurious woman on earth. ...

    Article : 129 words
  6. A STRANGE COINCIDENCE.

    It is a curious fact that the Vice-regal residences in Calcutta is built very much on the plan of the ancestral home of the Curzons at Kedleston. When Lord— ...

    Article : 85 words
  7. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

    The great playwright and novelist, Dumas, once found a man fast asleep in the Theatre Francais during the performance of a play by his friend Soumet. ...

    Article : 103 words
  8. Varieties.

    PENS of hardened gutta-percha have been repeatedly tried, but have not met with success. As early as 1315, a book was ...

    Article : 813 words
  9. MR HAMO THORNYCROFT, R.A.

    Mr Thornyereft, the well-known sculptor, whose great statue of King Alfred was recently unveiled at Winchester, was born in London in 1850. ...

    Article : 105 words
  10. MANIPULATING A HAND CAMERA.

    Many amateur photographers owe a plentiful crop of failures to the ignoring of a few simple rules. The beginner should buy a light stand, fill his magazine ...

    Article : 359 words
  11. Humour.

    What is that which no one wishes to have and no one wishes to loose P—A. bald head. Why are coals in London like towns ...

    Article : 120 words
  12. THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT

    The officers of the Seventeenth Regiment of French Chasseurs have adopted a little girl as the 'mascot' of the regiment. It is unusual for French regiments ...

    Article : 188 words
  13. IN A NORTH COUNTRY VILLAGE.

    A stonemason was ordered to cut over the doorstone of a church the very appropriate words— My house shall be called the house of prayer.' He, ...

    Article : 64 words
  14. PRACTICAL JOKING.

    B.-P.'s confession as to stealing the railway bell when at Charterhouse puts one in mind of other bygone practical jokes, and I think one of the most ...

    Article : 290 words
  15. HAROUN-AL-RASCHID.

    A certain royal Prince was given to going about London incog. On one occasion he got into conversation with a cab-driver, and asked for his opinion as ...

    Article : 72 words
  16. EDWIN AND ANGELINA.

    'Angelina,' said the youth, hotly, as he entered the drawing room, it remains for you to say whether our mutual friendship shall continue or be ended here at once. ...

    Article : 95 words
  17. THE RIGHT SORT OF LUNCHEON

    Hard working men, especially in the learned professions, are often puzzled as to the right hours for their meals and the right diet to be taken at their meals. ...

    Article : 180 words
  18. A STORY FROM BERMUDA.

    Some years ago (says The Regiment) a battery of artillery was at big gun practice at Bermuda. One of the guns (a 38-ton) was found to have a serious ...

    Article : 97 words
  19. Sketcher.

    WE quite agree with Mr Ober that hitherto Josephine has been unfortunate in the sense that they are inclined to admit the ...

    Article : 1,366 words
  20. Naturalist.

    A CONTRIBUTOR hunting in the wild forests of New Guinea, where no white man had ever before been, has made a very ...

    Article : 495 words
  21. SHE WANTED TIME TO CONSIDER.

    They were next-door neighbours, both over eighty, and they had met as usual at the garden wall for a chat. As they were about to say ...

    Article : 100 words
  22. TELL EM APART.

    Willie's Mamma: I hear you have been fighting with one of those boys next door, and given him a black eye. Willie: 'Yes, mamma. You see, they's ...

    Article : 41 words
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