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  2. FACTS ABOUT PIANOS.

    Have you ever thought, when playing some melodious sonata upon your piano, that the instrument, as it is to-day, is the perfection of centuries of invention? ...

    Article : 284 words
  3. QUEER REQUESTS.

    On Box Hill, in Surrey, England, may be seen the tomb of a man who was, by his own special request, buried upside down in a coffin placed in ...

    Article : 320 words
  4. WHAT JEALOUS ACTORS HAVE DONE.

    There are sometimes even more poignant tragedies enacted on the stage than those invented by the dramatist for the public—real tragedies ...

    Article : 427 words
  5. GERMANY'[?] TOWER OF COLD.

    Even the modern burglar with his oxy-acetylene gas would find some difculty in getting at the Franco-German war indemnity stored up in the Julius ...

    Article : 325 words
  6. A RAINLESS REGION.

    There are few districts in the world that are positively rainless, but the whole coast of Peru is one of them. It is mostly a barren sandy desert over ...

    Article : 250 words
  7. A REGION OF MYSTERY.

    Mariners say that in the midst of the Atlantic, about where the twentyfifth meridian west from Greenwich crosses the equator, there lies a region ...

    Article : 274 words
  8. A BEAUTY FARM IN RUSSIA.

    A wealthy retired distiller, named Reshetnikoff, who resides near Perm, in North-east Russia, employs as workers on his estate only the ...

    Article : 166 words
  9. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

    A French medical weekly records a way of discouraging over-enterprising tradesmen. One of these sent a Strasbourg doctor a box of cigars, ...

    Article : 202 words
  10. SHEER FORCE OF HABIT.

    Teased into it, Boole had accompanied his wife on an excursion to the realm of bargains, and in the enormous building, with its many ...

    Article : 137 words
  11. THE TURKISH COFFEE SHOPS.

    Anyone who sits down in a coffee shop in Bagdad is first given a cup of Turkish coffee and then a narghile, a sort of native pipe in which Shirza ...

    Article : 127 words
  12. THE JOCKEY'S WIT.

    A witty jockey who had ruined himself through drink was trudging the road one day, and coming to a small country town where he wras well known ...

    Article : 74 words
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