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  2. EDISON'S STORY OF THE PHONOGRAPH.

    Ray Standard Baker tells for the first time the true story of Thomas A. Edison and the invention of the phonograph. Mr. Baker visited Menlo Park recently to secure ...

    Article : 449 words
  3. BURIED BANK NOTES.

    Years ago, in the days of the thirty-shilling notes, a certain Irishman saved up the sum of £87 10s. in Dotes of the Bank of Ireland. As a sure means of securing this ...

    Article : 1,377 words
  4. OLD-WORLD FUNERALS,

    One of the least visited, yet certainly one of the most remarkable, rooms in the Gizen Museum at Cairo is the Salle de Botanique. The table-cases in the centre of the room ...

    Article : 2,205 words
  5. PRAYING BY PROXY.

    "The Chinese beat us in labour saving devices," said a traveller recently. "I became pretty well acquainted with an old laundryman and frequently went into his ...

    Article : 169 words
  6. INVENTIONS WANTED.

    In spile of the vast sums which have been already drawn from the world's exchequer by the patentees of improvements, there are still fortunes awaiting inventors. The man ...

    Article : 616 words
  7. A EXPERIMENT IN LOVE.

    Tremoirs lifted his chin from his chest and his eyes from the toe of his shoe and sighed dolefully. says a writer in "Puck." "I don't believe shall have me," he said ...

    Article : 227 words
  8. THE POWER OF THE PRIEST.

    Among the many factors at work in Ireland there is one the extent of whose influence is supposed, both by friends and foes, to be almost unlimited. I ...

    Article : 491 words
  9. AS ORDERED.

    A good story is told of the second Duke of Wellington, who though for from being stingy was in many odd ways economical. He discovered one day some champagne ...

    Article : 215 words
  10. The Maiden's Quest.

    Oft have I looked to see him, With wildly peering eyes, And at the slightest noise a flush Would to my cheeks arises ...

    Article : 53 words
  11. A Funny Mistake.

    Husband: "Where is the screwdriver, my dear? Wife: "Screw-driver? Don't you mean cork-crew ...

    Article : 51 words
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