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  2. DEATH DEALER SENTENCED.

    Relief is expressed in some circles in New York now that the "Devil Lawyer" and "Leath Dealer' has been safely landed in Sing Sing Prison under a sentence of five ...

    Article : 393 words
  3. TOPICS FROM ALL QUARTERS

    The first submarine to carry a wireless telegraph installation has been launched at Messrs. Vickers' works at Barrow. It will also be equipped with a quick-firing gun ...

    Article : 103 words
  4. THE COST OF CAMPHOR.

    The camphor tree grows only in the most mountainous parts of Formosa, inhabited by head-hunting savages, whom none of the successive invaders of the island have been able ...

    Article : 244 words
  5. ANTS ON AIER.

    Every dweller in the tropics has learned, probably from bitter experience's, that when ants disappear, his possessions are liable to disappear. His only protection against the ...

    Article : 130 words
  6. WIFE SOLD FOR A PINT OF BEER.

    A woman giving evidence in the Bristol Police Court, England, said she had to keep her husband and five small children, for her husband did no work. "A week after our ...

    Article : 78 words
  7. PAPER BOTTLES.

    The United States Bureau of Health has just had submitted to them a paper milk-bottle, the cost of which is so small that the customer throws it away when empty, thus ...

    Article : 78 words
  8. BLIND CAN READ BY EAR.

    It is now possible for a blind man to read by the ear, owing to the improvements in an electrical instrument which was first shown by Fournier d'Albe at last year's British ...

    Article : 151 words
  9. THE POWER OF A THUNDERBOLT.

    During a thunderstorm at Klansthal, in Germany, a thunderbolt struck a wooden pillar and melted two nails instantly. From' the mass of nails and the heat required to ...

    Article : 86 words
  10. WOMEN'S CARELESSNESS.

    An hotel manager told a reporter of the New York "Times" that the crime duty of the hotel detective is, not to discover crime, but to do what he can to prevent the women ...

    Article : 460 words
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  12. TERRIBLE ENGINE OF WAR.

    A new and terrible engine of war, a torpedo in which the principle of wireless telegraphy is employed, is now engaging the attention of the Admiralty. Remarkable powers ...

    Article : 132 words
  13. RECORD AUCTION.

    "Just over £100,000 was realised in a picture sale at Christie's, London. The record at these auction-rooms was achieved last year with £110,000. The pictures sold at ...

    Article : 176 words
  14. ARTIFICIAL EBONY.

    Oak wood is now being converted to artificial ebony. The blocks are immersed for 48 hours in a warm saturated solution of alum and sprinkled several times with a ...

    Article : 149 words
  15. REMARKABLE CURE AT ST. WINEFRIDE'S WELL.

    The Feast of SS. Peter and Paul, which was specially observed at St. Winefride's, Holy well, England, was also signalised at the well by two remarkable cures. A little girl ...

    Article : 247 words
  16. GOLD BOOM SUBSIDING.

    The Arkansas gold boom is fast subsiding. Prospecting was most active in the district south of Bluffton and Gravelly, two small towns on Fourche River. Several hundred ...

    Article : 145 words
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