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  3. TO CORRESPONDENTS.

    Questions and brief discussion are invited. No charge is made for replies. It is hoped that readers who possess Information asked for by ...

    Article : 87 words
  4. NOTES&QUERIES

    M.L.C.W. (Geelong, V.).—Ada Cambridge, novelist, who died at Elsternwick. V.) on July 19, 1920, was born at Norfolk. (England) in 1844. With her husband, the ...

    Article : 997 words
  5. WRECK OF CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE.

    What a hectic time Cleopatra's Needle was having just SO years ago—east adrift and lost., derelict,-buffeted day and night by the gales that raced across the heaving ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,225 words
  6. CARDINAL WOLSEY'S BONES.

    Leicester Abbey,.where.Cardinal Wofsey told the abbot he had "come to lay his bones" when be bade farewell to all his greatness, is about to undergo ...

    Article : 242 words
  7. THE MURDERER'S HEAD.

    In November 1867 Thomas John Griffin, assistant gold commissioner at Clermont (Q.) murdered the members of a gold escort and stole £8,150, chiefly in bank notes. ...

    Article : 516 words
  8. ACTORS' SALARIES IN 1828.

    The "Sunday Times," London, reprints the following from its issue of January 6, 1828:—The two metropolitan theatres never can ...

    Article : 158 words
  9. CHURCH IN THE SEA.

    The old parish church at Walton-onNaze (Essex), which, with most of the village, was engulfed by the encroaching sea in 1798, suddenly emerged from ...

    Article : 82 words
  10. STILL MAKING WOAD.

    According to the British Rural Industries Bureau woad is still used in England. Two thousand years and more ago the ancient Briton dyed himself blue with woad. ...

    Article : 175 words
  11. THE MOSAIC MARCH.

    "The good soldier must have pride. You cannot make soldiers out of slaves," said Major-General Harry A. Smith in a recent address to the University of ...

    Article : 94 words
  12. ALMACKS IN 1819.

    Mr. A. Whiteworth writes to the "Sunday Times," London:—The following incident that took place in old AI mack's in 1819 is worth repeating. ...

    Article : 169 words
  13. PHONOGRAPH IN 1877.

    Mr. Thomas A. Edison has been greatly amused, as well as interested, by a clipping from a Canadian newspaper's "Looking Backward" column, which, under the ...

    Article : 111 words
  14. DERIVATION OF "BATMAN."

    A correspondent signing himself Madrassi" writes to the "Sunday Times," London:- In the early days of the old Coast Army ...

    Article : 111 words
  15. THE FIRST GOLOSHES.

    Mrs. Olivia Davies, who celebrated her hundredth birthday on Boxing Day, claims to have in her possession the first pair of rubber goloshes ever made in England. ...

    Article : 97 words
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