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  2. OUR SERIAL STORY

    Bilary Fleming a wealthy young Englishman, while big-game hunting in South America, caves the life of a Captain Brigge in Callao, who had been attacked by a band of mur[?]ious peruvians. Years afterwards they ...

    Article : 3,901 words
  3. PARS FROM ALL PARTS

    A new terror has been added to life in Paris. There have been created a set of officials known as "barkers." These gentlemen are not municipal showmen, but are dog diviners. If you wish ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 275 words
  4. TRAINING OTTERS.

    Chinese and Indian fishermen have an ingenious method of training the other. They catch the animal young and put a collar round its throat. The little creature, finding itself ...

    Article : 86 words
  5. NO COMPLIMENTS

    The United States War Department has adopted a new system of correspondence designed to save time and labor by the elimination of what were formed "superfluous phrases of a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 154 words
  6. LENDING UMBRELLAS.

    The Belgians have just founded a company whose originality will be hard to beat. This is the "Umbrella Lending Society." The company has a capital of a several million Crones, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 137 words
  7. STAGE MASCOTS.

    The belief in his lucky aura that recently led the London management of "The Glad Eye" to secure the services, as a mascot, of Mr. A. Molony in exchange for one cigar a night, which ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 235 words
  8. SILENT CHILDREN.

    The silence of the children of Paythorne, a farming village near Settle, Yorkshire, has astonished the Government school inspector. In a report to the school authorities the inspector ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 250 words
  9. WHEN YOU "SEE STARS."

    The man who when struck violently on the head, says he "saw stars," is not far from telling the literal truth. The fact is that there is a phosphorescent power in the eye which is not ...

    Article : 118 words
  10. MISSING FRIENDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 words
  11. A UNIQUE TREE.

    Dauphin Count, Pennsylvania contains the only tree of its kind in the United States, a specials of Greenland or, and although less than a foot high the circumference of the space ...

    Article : 134 words
  12. SUPERSTITIOUS ARABS.

    A very interesting custom has just been carried out by the Arab population of [?]poli. Several huge cranes for salvage work recently arrived there from Genoa, but before any of ...

    Article : 118 words
  13. A CURIOUS COMPETITION.

    In a thickly-populated district of Burnley (Eng.) the clanging of the anvil late at night caused the policeman on the beat to call at a blacksmith's shop. He found a competition in ...

    Article : 104 words
  14. "THE DEVIL AND DRESSES."

    The fashionable Normandy seaside resort of Granville was recently stirred by a discourses pronounced at the casino on the Intellectual [?]man[?]pation of woman by Father Faffre, the ...

    Article : 161 words
  15. GRAVESTONES OF GLASS.

    A company of glass-workers in England has discovered that ordinary plate-glass will make a more durable monument than the hardest marble or granite known to stonemasons. Glass ...

    Article : 113 words
  16. FLAGS OF TURKEY AND HER ENEMIES.

    BULGARIA. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 11 words
  17. FRUIT-GROWING ON THE ATLANTIC.

    So great is the demand for fresh French melons in New York that one of the leading hotels of that city—the Plaza—has made arrangements for growing the fruit while in ...

    Article : 97 words
  18. A HOP DOG.

    Very often in the hopfields of Kent (Eng.), the poles used for supporting the plants are very difficult to pull up when they are finished with, and so the instrument shown in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 104 words
  19. Advertising

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    Advertising : 235 words
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