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  2. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Queen's Crown weighs forty ounces. Denmark allows every subject, male or female, who is sixty years of age, a small ...

    Article : 838 words
  3. FIGHTING THE MATABELE.

    The last heroic stand of Major Wilson and his band when surrounded and overpowered by the Matabele Warriors is graphically described by Mr. R. E. Knight ...

    Article : 664 words
  4. THE COCOANUT PALM.

    Few of the multitudinous useful products of plant life excite as much wonder or appeal more to the economics of the life of man than that of the tropic plants ...

    Article : 1,403 words
  5. A GREAT WRONG: OR, THE MYSTERY OF BLACK [?]OLLOW GRANGE.

    Toward noon of that miserable day which saw Isabel lying unconscious in the little cell at Moreton House, Arthur Marlowe awoke from his dream of death— ...

    Article : 3,372 words
  6. A Jockey's Love for His Horse

    Archer, the celebrated jockey, was riding in a steeplechase, his mount being a horse called Fatigue. The man was fond of the horse, who returned his affection ...

    Article : 399 words
  7. The Sneeze-Wood Tree.

    This remarkable tree is a native of Natal and other parts of South Africa. Its funny name was given to it because one cannot see it without sneezing ...

    Article : 140 words
  8. How Spiders Go Ballooning.

    I had climbed up the side of a canon in the Sierra Nevada, and sat looking up the green river that wound its way into the range, when my eye caught what appeared ...

    Article : 556 words
  9. A Funny Thing About Snakes

    A little book by "Sundowner," gives some curious facts about Australian snakes The blacks never use a shake for food which they have not killed themselves, because ...

    Article : 221 words
  10. Funniosities.

    "Can't speak Engleesh," exclaimed a foreigner in one of the city courts. The Judge: "Interpreted cases will be taken at the end of the day." ...

    Article : 301 words
  11. Agriculture and Music.

    At the time that musical pitch-forks were first introduced into Scotland, a precentor at a village church, thinking he would like to possess one, ordered an ...

    Article : 153 words
  12. Sound Judgment.

    A noted circuit preacher in New Hampshire once gave most unexpected testimony to his keenness as a critic in horseflesh. It was a still Sunday in ...

    Article : 168 words
  13. A Bag For Hops

    Make an ordinary flannel bag, and fill with dried hops which may be bought of any storekeeper, and over it slip a pale yellow silk case, on whioh you have ...

    Article : 97 words
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