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  2. Raiment.

    Cream sergette makes charming frocks for children. It washed admirably. and costs but 3¾d. per yard. It is sold in almost every conceivable ...

    Article : 669 words
  3. Education In Morocco.

    A Moorish "college" is a simple affair —no seats, no desks, a few books. For beginners, boards about the size of foolscap, whitened on both ides with clay, ...

    Article : 357 words
  4. The Sketcher.

    The "real" cow which the Bowsers were to have with their summer farm tinally appeared one evening, in company with a tow-headed boy, and when ...

    Article : 1,429 words
  5. Spray. An Extraordinary Lighthouse.

    The most extraordinary of all lighthouses is to be found on [?] Rock. Stornoway Bay, in the Hebrkles, Scotland. The way in which the lighthouse ...

    Article : 105 words
  6. Short Story.

    It was late afternoon. out of the willows that 'bordered the serpentine river of Brendon, near the bridge, came floating the sound of a girl's voice ...

    Article : 1,745 words
  7. An Excellent Magnet.

    Every watchmaker knows that the human frame is an excellent. magnet. A man will carry a watch for years, and be proud of its accuracy then he will ...

    Article : 112 words
  8. A Minute Republic.

    Probadly a fair number of persons, even among school board teachers, would, if asked, be at a 1oss to name the smallest independent State in Europe, ...

    Article : 428 words
  9. The North Pole.

    The way explorers will prove that they have reached the North Pole is explained by one of them. "I will take a bullet and suspend it from a string. This ...

    Article : 135 words
  10. Expericnce of a Moderat, Drinker.

    The immediate effect of a moderate amount of alcohol is (says a writer in the "North American Review") a feeling of increased vigour. Ideas are ...

    Article : 302 words
  11. Average Heights.

    A careful inquiry into the average height of different nations has elicited the following facts:— The English professional classes, who head the list as ...

    Article : 108 words
  12. A Queer Story.

    A queer story is fold of an English naturalist, who died in 1860, and was burled at Blankney, in Lincolnshire. Among his pets was a large gray bat. ...

    Article : 121 words
  13. Bohemian Beliefs.

    In one district of Bohemia the girls go into a field of peas and make there a garland of five or seven kinds of flowers, all of different hues. The garland they ...

    Article : 152 words
  14. Peculiar Punctuation,

    The following specimens of peculiar punctuation are from the "Printers'.Register:—"A man who was suddenly taken sick ' hastened home while every means ...

    Article : 255 words
  15. Antipathies of the Cricket field.

    Many cricketers have curious antipathies. Some will not play on a wet wicket, some hate the sight of a dry one, and officers will not bat or bowl on ...

    Article : 596 words
  16. War Correspondent's Story.

    In reply to a question by a "Chums" correspondent as to when he first began to rink his life, Mr. W. Beatty-Kingston, a well-known war correspondent, ...

    Article : 528 words
  17. Poker and Fighting.

    A gentleman who served with the Confederate army during the American war tells how General Grant once interefed in a most un warranted and ...

    Article : 475 words
  18. Finger Nails.

    The shape and appearance of the finger nails form an important factor in the diagnosis of disease. Lour nails and short nails curved Dails and flat [?], ...

    Article : 102 words
  19. The Under Dog and His Sympathisers.

    I should greatly like It if some gentleman who knows would rise to explain the ethical basis of the universal sympathy in civilised life life for what is called ...

    Article : 238 words
  20. A Dangerous Trade.

    It is not so dangerous now as formerly to be a king. There have been eighteen assassinations of ruling monarchs or elected officials during the present ...

    Article : 117 words
  21. A Change.

    It was Judge Maule that made it a rule never to pass sentence when he felt strongly moved, lest his impulse or temper should lead him astray, He had on ...

    Article : 209 words
  22. Left-handed Animals.

    There seems to be evidence that some animals at least are left-handed. Parrots grasp and hold food with the left claw Livingstone stated that lions ...

    Article : 184 words
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