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The Cold Hand
[Jerome Cardan, the famous physician, tells the followi...

The Ghost That Got The Button
BY WILL ADAMS One autumn evening, when the days we...

How Siva Spoke
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The Dog O' Mause
Account of an apparition that appeared to William Souta...

The Cock Lane Ghost
The quaint old London church of St. Sepulchre's could...

The Maniac Or Fatal Effects Of Wanton Mischief
Some years ago, a very intelligent, handsome, and pro...

Lord Lyttelton's Ghost
"Sir," said Dr. Johnson, "it is the most extraordinary ...

The Deathbed Of Louis Xiv
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The Lady And The Ghost
BY ROSE CECIL O'NEILL It was some moments before t...

The Beresford Ghost
"There is at Curraghmore, the seat of Lord Waterford, i...

Elevation Cottage Design I

This cottage is 10 feet high, from the sill to the plates, and may be built of wood, with a slight frame composed of sills and plates only, and planked up and down (vertically) and battened; or grooved and tongued, and matched close together; or it may be framed throughout with posts and studs, and covered with rough boards, and over these clapboards, and lathed and plastered inside. The first mode would be the cheapest, although not so warm and durable as the other, yet quite comfortable when warmed by a stove. On the second plan of building, it will cost near or quite double the amount of the first, if neatly painted. A small brick chimney should rest upon the floor overhead, in the side of which, at least a foot above the chamber floor, should be inserted an earthen or iron thimble, to receive the stovepipe and guard against fire; unless a flat stone, 14 to 16 inches square, and 2 to 4 inches thick, with a pipe-hole—which is the better plan—should rest on the floor immediately over the pipe. This stone should be, also, the foundation of the chimney, which should pass immediately up through the ridge of the roof, and, for effect, in the center longitudinally, of the house. Such position 214 will not interfere with the location of the stove, which may be placed in any part of the room, the pipe reaching the chimney by one or more elbows.





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