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  2. A TRAGEDY.

    Londoners were rot then used to living in the atmosphere of Hades and the deepening gloom in the very height of the day seemed strange, almost startling, to Esther. When she turned ...

    Article : 2,129 words
  3. JIMMY'S VACATION.

    It was a very hot day. The pavements fairly smoked, and the air seemed almost as if it came from a furnace. Up in Central Park the people sat out under the trees, panting even ...

    Article : 1,646 words
  4. THE PHANTOM TRAIN.

    Mountain engineers are perhaps the most fearless class of men in the world. Journeys of so perilous a nature that the blood of an ordinary man would curdle at the bare thought of ...

    Article : 2,141 words
  5. AN ADVENTURE IN FIJI.

    Some fifteen years ago (writes an old salt) I was harpooner on board a whaling ship. We were out for a four years' voyage, and had been fairly successful up to the time my ...

    Article : 1,149 words
  6. A STRANGE BATTLE.

    A terrific encounter between a savage bulldog and a valuable horse took place recently near Bernal Heights, ending in the death of the horse after a battle of 15 minutes. ...

    Article : 426 words
  7. MR. AND MRS. BOWSER.

    "Mrs. Bowser," solemnly began Mr. Bowser as he came home to dinner the other evening. " what did I say to you when I left the house this morning ?" ...

    Article : 1,117 words
  8. PERILS FROM WILD BEES.

    A few months after his return to Bombay with his bride, in 1847, Dr. Wilson was out with his colleague, Mr. Henderson, and a few friends and pupils, making some ...

    Article : 460 words
  9. LONDON'S DAILY MILK.

    Thirty thousand pounds a day is the estimated cost of the milk consumed by Londoners. During what is known as the "season," who fashionable folk are in town, more than £2,000 ...

    Article : 191 words
  10. WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE HAS FAILED TRY THIS.

    Rev. Henry S. Smith, of Fenny, Stratford, writes:—"Having proved the great value of St. Jacobs oil to conquer pain, not only on myself, but having seen its effects also upon those to whom I have given and ...

    Article : 169 words
  11. A NEW SLAUGHTER MACHINE.

    Quite a pleasant gentleman is Mr. Maxim, whose name is identified with one of the most formidable weapons of modern times in the shape of a gun and is bracketed in the records of fame with Messes. ...

    Article : 332 words
  12. A CUSTOM OF OUR GRAND-FATHERS.

    Steam and the progress of the arts have done much for us; but it is clear that they have not tended to shorten the hours of labour. Mr. John Rae, in the Contemporary ...

    Article : 231 words
  13. AN INVALUABLE POSSESSION.

    A man, or even a piece of machinery that does its work right every time, is very correctly judged "valuable." Upon this basis there are no watches more valuable than the Waterbury, and few that can ...

    Article : 192 words
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