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  2. "UNCLE SAM'S" POST OFFICE

    Mr Frank G. Carpenter, in an official letter to the Pittsburg "Weekly Despatch," writes:— I have just had a long talk with a ...

    Article : 1,775 words
  3. CARE OF THE HANDS.

    "Hands," remarked a young girl once," are such, queer things, rather ugly in themselves, too, but, of course, we couldn't get along ...

    Article : 1,072 words
  4. BALLOON RACING.

    Unless all signs fail the automobile race, although only a few years old, has had its day. The balloon race, the derby in the ...

    Article : 1,179 words
  5. STRANGE STORIES.

    A member of [?] editorial staff of "L'Intransige[?] M. Henri Rochefort's noted organ, has played a neat trick on the French War Office. ...

    Article : 182 words
  6. THE HUMORIST.

    Maud: Jack Johnston kissed me in the dark last night." Molly: In the dark? Ah, that explains it. "Your son is studying art, I believe. Has he ...

    Article : 623 words
  7. MADAME CALVE.

    Recently a cable message stated that Madame Calve, the celebrated French prim a donna, had been ordered to pay damages to an impressario who had lost ...

    Article : 522 words
  8. WHO LAUGHS LAST.

    The Zurich district court was the scene of an amusing incident recently. The case Was the outcome of a quarrel between a German resident ...

    Article : 222 words
  9. CHINESE IN LIVERPOOL.

    The thirty-two Chinese whose detention by the Immigration Board in London has drawn public attention to the amount of yellow labor in England, were ...

    Article : 295 words
  10. A SWINDLER FOILED.

    The Government of the tiny Republic of San Marino, it is reported from Rome, has nearly fallen a victim to the wiles of an international ...

    Article : 167 words
  11. SUBSTITUTES FOR COPPER.

    A tantalizing possibility is discussed by "The Electrical World "The high price of copper has for years inspired a search for something which would serve ...

    Article : 442 words
  12. CHESTNUTS.

    "I was going through a prison long ago," said Jack Hazzard, the raconteur, "and told a few stories to amuse the fellows there. When I had finished one of them came up to ...

    Article : 88 words
  13. MURDER GOES FREE.

    Public opinion in Italy is sharply divided on the question of a verdict of not guilty pronounced on Alberto Olive, a man of intelligence and good ...

    Article : 239 words
  14. A BEER PROBLEM.

    Amongst specimens of schoolroom humor Dr Macnamara quotes the following letter in the Christmas Supplement of the "Schoolmaster": Sir, will you please for the future give my ...

    Article : 203 words
  15. ARCTIC NOMADS.

    A new race of people has been discovered on Prince Albert Land, in the Arctic, who had never previously seen white men, who lived under most ...

    Article : 283 words
  16. IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS THAT WAY.

    "Twenty years ago," said the passenger with the red necktie, "I knew that man whom you saw get out at the last station. He was a young man of rare promise—a college ...

    Article : 171 words
  17. WELL RECOMMENDED.

    The buxom maid had been hinting that she did not think much of working out, and this, in conjunction with the nightly appearance of a rather sheepish young man, caused her ...

    Article : 131 words
  18. A MOTHER'S DEVOTION.

    From Seville comes a remarkable story which revives public interest in a dramatic love affair of 30 years ago. Miguel Lugar, a citizen of that ...

    Article : 249 words
  19. RE-ENACTED A CRIME.

    The Austrian woman Francisca Klein, who was sentenced to penal servitude for life last April for the murder of Johann Sokora, a wealthy ...

    Article : 151 words
  20. WHY HE WAS NOT AFRAID.

    "This must stop right here!" said John Grout as he put one foot out of bed ana began reaching around in the dark for his trousers. ...

    Article : 238 words
  21. SAVED BY THRIFT.

    The remarkable extent to which the! organisation of thrift has grown in Great Britain is shown in the annual report of the Chief Registrar of ...

    Article : 112 words
  22. BALLOONS FOR RAILWAYS.

    It is proposed by a German engineer to use balloons for railway purposes. A stationary balloon is fixed to a slide running along a single steel rail. This ...

    Article : 104 words
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