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  2. Romance of London Water

    It is just three centuries ago that the water of tile New River was turned into tile company's reservoir at Clerkenwell. The four years' ...

    Article : 152 words
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    Advertising : 72 words
  4. Blood Will Tell.

    A discovery concerning the characteristics of blood which has teen made by Dr. E. T. Reichert, promises to revolutionise many ...

    Article : 937 words
  5. Faithful Schoolmistress.

    A recent book, entitled "Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West," gives a pathetic story of a little schoolmistress who was ...

    Article : 210 words
  6. Another War Terror.

    Signor Ulivi, an Italian, professes to have invented a machine which, if his claim can be substantiated, will add another horror to war far ...

    Article : 203 words
  7. PEN PICTURES OF THE PAST.

    On October 13 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte (yesterday arbiter of Europe, now a captive "general," condemned to lifelong exile) arrived ...

    Article : 459 words
  8. COURAGEOUS TELEGRAPH GIRL.

    Mademoiselle Juliette Dodu, a girl of twenty, was in 1870 employed as telegraph clerk at Pithiviers, France, when, on September ...

    Article : 225 words
  9. What Binks Learned.

    Young Cicero Binks was an erudite youth, and a regular demon for knowledge forsooth. At his studies he "swotted" to tell you the truth, ...

    Article : 216 words
  10. The Earth's Heart-throbs.

    This earth of ours is by no means solid or firm. The solid part on which we walk and build and in which we burrow is only a shell ...

    Article : 262 words
  11. A Four-mile Tunnel.

    The Mont d'Or tunnel between France and Switzerland, on, which boring operations began nearly three years ago, was pierced a few ...

    Article : 164 words
  12. SOME TRIED RECIPES.

    1 lb flour, ½ lb currants, ¼ lb brown or moist sugar, ¼ lb butter, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls treacle, [?] teaspoonful bi-carbonate of soda, ½ pint ...

    Article : 79 words
  13. A Wonderful Insect.

    There exists in the tropical countries of America and in the West Indies a curious species of insect which the natives call "Cocuyos," ...

    Article : 367 words
  14. BROWN BREAD PUDDING.

    ½ lb stale brown bread, 4 ozs. flour, 4 ozs. moist sugar, ½ lb currants, 4 ozs. chopped beef, suet, ½ teaspoonful ground ginger, 1 oz. ...

    Article : 123 words
  15. "Nothing Venture, Nothing Have."

    This is a favourite motto of the M.P. for Battersea, and he has half a hundred stories to quote in its favour. Once upon a time. he ...

    Article : 167 words
  16. His Grace Ungracious.

    "Not without difficulty, the young Duke of Knightsbridge—familiarly known as the "Night-bird"—had been persuaded to accept ...

    Article : 159 words
  17. A VALUABLE FIND.

    A tower of gold was discovered by some workmen on October 19, 1794, in the midst of a thick copse in the neighbourhood of a small ...

    Article : 161 words
  18. Disappearance of Diesel.

    Dr. Diesel, the inventor of the oil-engine bearing his name, is likely to remain an unfathomable mystery. The doctor was on his way ...

    Article : 462 words
  19. CURRANT MARMALADE PUDDING

    4 ozs. bread crumbs, 4 ozs. suet, 2 ozs. sugar, 4 ozs. marmalade, 4 ozs. currants, 2 ozs. flour, 2 eggs, ½ teacupful milk. ...

    Article : 54 words
  20. APPLE AND SAGO PUDDING.

    ¼lb. fine sago, ¼lb. currants, 6 cooking apples, 1 oz. butter, 2 ozs castor sugar, half a lemon. Method.—Put the sago into a ...

    Article : 105 words
  21. Picking Pockets.

    The Bishop of Worcester told a capital story the other day in connection with the efforts of the Church in that part of the country ...

    Article : 150 words
  22. Biblical Town Located.

    Professor Sellin, the excavator of Jericho, has achieved a new triumph by the location of the Israelitish city of Shechem, which is ...

    Article : 172 words
  23. THE WIPING OUT OF A CLAN.

    The feud which had long raged between the famous Scottish clans Macdonald and Macleod—the ostensible cause of which was an insult ...

    Article : 352 words
  24. CURRANT TEA CAKES.

    ¾lb. flour, ¼ oz. German yeast, 1 teaspoonful castor sugar, 1 oz. butter, 1½ gills milk, 1 egg, 4 ozs. currants. ...

    Article : 130 words
  25. Strange Sign of Gratitude

    "When I was starting in business," says Sir Thomas Lipton, "I was very poor, and needed every penny I could earn to enlarge my little ...

    Article : 309 words
  26. Church Sold for 16s.

    Anybody who has the occasion or leisure to travel in the French provinces, and the curiosity to inquire, must often be astonished at ...

    Article : 239 words
  27. A FORTUNE IN A COIN.

    Somewhere in the world there is a fortune in a coin. Among the coins Napoleon had minted were some millions of five-franc pieces, ...

    Article : 190 words
  28. CURRANT MARMALADE PUDDING

    4 ozs. bread crumbs, 4 ozs. suet, 4 ozs. sugar, 4 ozs. marmalade, 4 ozs. currants, 2 ozs. flour, 2 eggs, ½ teacupful milk. ...

    Article : 140 words
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