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  2. JOKELETS.

    Ex-Editor: "What made the publisher get cold feet?" Ex-Business Manager: "Poor circulation." First Tramp: "Y[?], Bill, I'as the ...

    Article : 737 words
  3. IN THE ARMCHAIR.

    Madame Loubet, like Queen Alexandra, takes a great interest in hospitals, and in the winter time she may often be seen, wlth one of the ladies of the household ...

    Article : 872 words
  4. SPRAY.

    He was [?]ad in the garb of a British workman; [?]t even beneath a fustian cap may throb an aching tooth, and so he stood holding his jaw in one hand and the [?]urgery ...

    Article : 1,312 words
  5. FACTS & FANCIES. ANCIENT LITERARY TREASURES.

    The treasures of au[?]ent times are constantly being unearthed by the pick of the archacologist. Following the discovery of the Laws of Hammu[?] have come other ...

    Article : 328 words
  6. PUBLISHED BY SPECIA[?] A[?]RANGEMENT. The JOSS: A REVERSION. The Strange Fortune of Pollie Btyth.

    It was dark, which fact lent an additional charm to the situation. On one side were the backs of what seemed like mews; all they presented to us was a high dead wall. ...

    Article : 831 words
  7. RADIUM.

    Lord Kelvin has been approached to see whether he is prepared to admit that radium, as a widely-diffused element of the earth's composition, could [?]ffice to ...

    Article : 168 words
  8. 200,000 LEECHES.

    "A poor Fre[?]man arrived at the Golden Cross, Charing Cross, on 10th June, with two immense jars containing 200,000 l[?]eches, with which he had landed the day ...

    Article : 192 words
  9. A NATURAL ILLUMINANT.

    Secretary Langley, of the Smithsonian Institution, has been experimenting for some time past with fireflies from Cuba. He says that the light they give is the ...

    Article : 274 words
  10. WHO WON THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO?

    It was not the P[?]sians who won the battle of Waterloo, but the British Army, after all—and this is on the authority of the Duke of Wellington himself. A letter ...

    Article : 238 words
  11. FOREIGN DIETS.

    As example of endurance, together with strength, we have (says "Ca[?]'s Physical Educator") the weight-carriers of constantinople, Japan, the Andes, and other ...

    Article : 358 words
  12. CHAPTER XL

    HEARD her fumbling with her pocket. I can't find the thing; I had it ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,877 words
  13. 1,000,000 PEN-STROKES A MONTH.

    There were fulfilled in London fortyeight years ago the conditions of a remarkable wager, by which the taker had to make in one month of twenty-eight days ...

    Article : 171 words
  14. HOW SUGAR MELTS.

    If we drop a Jump of sugar into a cup of tea we find it takes a considerable time to melt if allowed to remain at the bottom of the ve[?]el, but if we hold it up in the ...

    Article : 225 words
  15. Farm Labourers in England.

    Referring to the condition of farm [?]bourers in England, the Agricultural Gazette says: "They stand out alone as the one agricultural class better off at the ...

    Article : 144 words
  16. KING DOUBTFUL OF HIS THRONE.

    It is curious to read in the "Times" sixty-eight years ago these somewhat gloomy reflection on the future of the Constitution: ...

    Article : 116 words
  17. BRITISH NAVY AS A REPUBLIC.

    A century and seven yeare have clapped since the coll&poe of ono of the most extnu ordinary movements in the history of the Irish navy. Following upon the mutiny ...

    Article : 175 words
  18. ANTICIPATED THEM.

    At a certain town in Ireland a temperano[?] society in the habit of giving free lectures, but many "roughs" used to come in and shout remarks at the lecturer. Thi[?], ...

    Article : 135 words
  19. Anticipated.

    He was a Scotch minister in a small country parish, and he was sometimes put to it for fresh pasture wherewith to feed his flock. One day, however, he bethought ...

    Article : 204 words
  20. IT RAINED CATS AND DOGS.

    "This well-known figurative shower—raining cats and dogs—half turned into a reality. The Belge—a Br[?]ls pap[?]—tells us some dogs fell from the sky in the ...

    Article : 81 words
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