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  2. PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT.

    It pleased him to be known as Captain James Fawkes, but be said nothing about his regiment or the particular service to which he belonged, and he had an effectual way of checking ...

    Article : 1,534 words
  3. PEEPS BEHIND THE VEIL

    Forbidden knowledge, like forbid len fruit, has a sweet palatableness pecutiarly its own. It were bootless to inquire why this is so. So much might be said, and has been said, on both ...

    Article : 1,399 words
  4. A VERY QUEER JEWEL CASE.

    Two men sit in a top room, in a dirty-looking issue in a street to match, off the Strand. It was the private office of the proprietor of the After Dark Club, an institution ...

    Article : 2,084 words
  5. BREAKING THE BANK. MONTE CARLO.

    One evening, dining a late visit to Monte Carlo, I was watching the play at a roulettetable, where some ladies were staking in a rather rockless manner, when I heard the ...

    Article : 1,408 words
  6. KNIVES AND REVOLVERS AT CHURCH.

    A reli[?]ious war is in progress in Omsbegrowing out of Church troubles. A battle was fought the other morning in the church building and About the grounds wi[?]h revolvers, clubs, ...

    Article : 668 words
  7. CUT OFF THEIR WIVES.

    Some peculiar wills have been made by men who, so far as their wives were concerned, did not consider that they had been trested properly daring life. ...

    Article : 638 words
  8. POLITE TO THE LAST.

    Frenchmen of the old school did it times Iremendously polite things, such is breaking their necks to pick up a lady's fan, or setting fire to a house to dry her when caught in a shower of ...

    Article : 164 words
  9. THE SHANGANI PATROL.

    "They were men of men, and their fathers were men before them," were the words of old Umjan, the chief induna of the Imbezu Impi—Lobengula's Royal Regiment—as be described ...

    Article : 456 words
  10. HIS CANDID OPINION.

    A German sportsman said to a well-known Scottish Baronet the other day: "Talking about dogs with keen scent, I have one in Germany that will compare favourably ...

    Article : 400 words
  11. M. PICTET'S EXPERIMENTS.

    That digestion and food assimilation by the human body is really a species of comlu[?]tion, as, of course, nutty everyone knows, and that the human stomach may be likened to a ...

    Article : 273 words
  12. WEST VIRGINIAN CABINS.

    Few of the cabins of the mountaineers have windows, the door being the principal source of daylight. In some instances a few panes of glass are let into the wall. The rule is to reach ...

    Article : 181 words
  13. POISON IN THE "PRAM."

    Poisonous perambulators an probably one of the least suspected of dangers, yet nevertheless one which experience has shown to exist, and therefore one against which the parents of a ...

    Article : 114 words
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