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  2. TWO OF BADEN-POWELL'S ADVENTURES.

    Some nine or ten years ago, when Baden-Powell was stationed in Simla, an Italian Count, who was understood to be a diplomatic ...

    Article : 505 words
  3. A DICKENS MEMORY.

    This is part of a dialogue, which appears in the concent "Cornhill," between Frith, the artist and his son. ...

    Article : 456 words
  4. "HOTCH-POTCH."

    O lesze me on the canny Scotch. Wha first contrived, without a botch, To mak the gusty, good "Hotch Potch." ...

    Article : 393 words
  5. INDIA-RUBBER.

    India-rubber, or Caoutchouc is obtained as an exudation chiefly from the Para India-rubber tree which grows freely in tropical climates. The ...

    Article : 278 words
  6. A THOUSAND MILES WITH A WHEELBARROW.

    On November 29, 1886, James Gordon arrived in London from Dundee, a distance of 307 miles, passing through Stirling. Edinburgh, ...

    Article : 389 words
  7. SNUBBING A MAIL.

    Now. Clara, listen carefully to what I say. " "Yes, auntie. "You are nineteen years old." ...

    Article : 1,475 words
  8. NEW BOOK EPIGRAMS.

    People are horribly vulgar when one sees them in their natural state. A committee meeting is a very natural state—it is raw human nature ...

    Article : 783 words
  9. AT FIRST COST.

    Prices which run to five figures are frequently given for paintings by what are called "the old masters." But what of the original cost? A ...

    Article : 391 words
  10. A POLITICIAN'S REMINISCENCES.

    "Fourteen years in Parliament" is the title of an interesting volume just issued by Mr. Murray, and the work of that well-known politician, ...

    Article : 306 words
  11. WIRE-ROPE TRAMWAYS.

    Most visitors to Norway will have had their attention called to the wires running down the hillsides by means of which bundles of hay, etc. ...

    Article : 590 words
  12. TRANSPLANTING TOBACCO PLANTS.

    Malay tobacco-growers are not aware of the fact that efficient machinery can be obtained for the purpose of transplanting' the young ...

    Article : 654 words
  13. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    A needle machine turns out 1,500,000 needles a week. Germany's list of newspapers is the largest in Europe. ...

    Article : 424 words
  14. PENNILESS MUSICIAN.

    While I was at the Academy of Music I had composed "The Raven," and at the time I was on tour I was busy orchestrating it. ...

    Article : 343 words
  15. MUZZLES FOR LADIES.

    We are hearing a great deal nowadays about the emancipation of women and the equality of the sexes, but we have travelled a long way ...

    Article : 317 words
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