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  2. PROFESSOR MARDAME CURIE

    Had Madame Curie chosen Wednesday for her inaugural lecture the date would have coincided with the day two years ago when her husband delivered his ...

    Article : 1,185 words
  3. THE WIDE WORLD.

    From Munich, on 30th October, the "Express" correspondent wrote:— Count Ernest Reventlow's new book entitled "The German Emperor, and ...

    Article : 574 words
  4. AUTUMN IN ENGLAND.

    The anomalous weather we have experienced here lately makes specially interesting some remarks on an unusual season in the old country. A writer in ...

    Article : 414 words
  5. ENGLISH HONESTY.

    In the town of Villisca, Iowa (U.S.A.), lives an American, girl whoso high opinion of the honesty of Londoners nothing will ever shake. ...

    Article : 264 words
  6. THE SORBONNE.

    The Sorbonne, to which the French Government has just appointed the first lady professor in the person of Madame Curie, owes its origin to a poor priest of ...

    Article : 139 words
  7. KILLED BY SLEUTH HOUNDS.

    A sad occurrence look place recently, according to a Tilsit newspaper, near Kamptpawilken, a lone village on the Russian border. In the dead of night ...

    Article : 270 words
  8. "MORAL REFORM."

    In Pennsylvania women " whitecaps," as they are called in America, or, in other words, women who themselves undertake the regulation and ...

    Article : 322 words
  9. THE ARCTIC REGIONS.

    The story of Arctic exploration is one that stirs the imagination. The fierce search for Nature's secrets in the great silences of those eternal snows arouses ...

    Article : 90 words
  10. OFFICES IN THE RANKS.

    An extraordinary story was told to the commanding officer of the Royal Irish Regiment at Clonmel on Saturday, 27th October, by a recently joined recruit ...

    Article : 172 words
  11. BLIND MILITARY LEADERS.

    In our military, and, to a somewhat less exent, in our naval measures, the blind lead the blind, and their doings are criticised by still other ...

    Article : 79 words
  12. A MYTHICAL FORTUNE.

    Half the people of Montreal are laughing at the other half who have been cleverly victimised by a bogus lieu[?]enant in the German army named Karl ...

    Article : 224 words
  13. UNDERGROUND DUEL.

    From New York, on 31st October, the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote:— Under the strangest circumstances of ...

    Article : 438 words
  14. INELIGIBLE ATHLETES.

    The athlete is less susceptible than the "soft" members of his sex; and, even when he is caught, it is sadly disillusioning to discover that he ...

    Article : 69 words
  15. CHARIVARI.

    The War Office lias just placed an order for 40,000 chairs. It has realised, we suppose, that our army, in view of its reduced numbers, must take all ...

    Article : 211 words
  16. GLOUCESTER GAOL-BREAKER'S RECAPTURED.

    A Gloucester correspondent telegraphed to the "Dublin Warder" on 2nd November:—The four convicts who escaped from Gloucester on Thursday ...

    Article : 746 words
  17. MURDER TEMPTATIONS.

    Murders of children for the sake of the ornaments with which fond but foolish parents deck them is a crime so common in India that it passes almost ...

    Article : 81 words
  18. THE SIMPLE LIFE.

    The real simple life has been put in practice by two Germans—Professor Englehardt and Bethmann—who are living in Kabakon, a small island in the ...

    Article : 120 words
  19. HONEY.

    "Honey, one of the most nutritious and delicate of foods, should be eaten more than it is," writes a cooking expert. "Bought in the comb, it is bound ...

    Article : 88 words
  20. THE KAISER'S CORN.

    I hear from Berlin that the Kaiser's irritability is on the increase. At heart he is really one of the kindliest of men, but he has moods of irritability, and, in ...

    Article : 175 words
  21. NURSES MAY NOT DANCE.

    Amid hearty laughter in Parliament, Mr Haldane confessed that the experience of the matrons and other ladies had prevailed over his natural instinct in the ...

    Article : 184 words
  22. REMARKABLE HAIR FROM PLANTS.

    One of the most interesting, though perhaps least known industries of Algeria is (according to "Popular Science. Sittings") the production of vegetable ...

    Article : 106 words
  23. MODERNISING CHINA.

    The tea and silk trades of China are in a very bad way, according to a report of the Foreign Office issued recently. In 1864 tea and silk represented 82 per ...

    Article : 216 words
  24. PARIS DIVORCE SUIT.

    " Lloyd's Weekly" reports that in the First Chamber of the Civil Tribunal in Paris on Wednesday, 30th October, the hearing was begun of ...

    Article : 518 words
  25. "JOHN BULL GOUTY."

    The England we knew, loved, and admired was the England of fifty years ago, when every Englishman thought that he was as good as any ...

    Article : 88 words
  26. A GALLANT RESCUER.

    Wonderful pluck and presence of mind were displayed at Bishop's road station, on the Underground railway, on 1st Oc­tober by Mr Harold Simpson, a wealthy ...

    Article : 388 words
  27. MAN AND WOMAN OF FUTURE.

    In thousands and thousands of years, perhaps at the cost of infinite toil and suffering, conditions are to be better and the human type improved and developed. ...

    Article : 134 words
  28. MR. HALDANE'S INDEBTEDNESS

    Mr Haldane reaps where others have sowed. His Special Army Order, giving effect to what may be esteemed as the principal recommendation of the Esher ...

    Article : 88 words
  29. MAN GIVES AWAY MONEY.

    Mr William Yates, director of Yates and Thom, engineers, of Blackburn, and fairy godfather, to the Covent Garden district, continued ...

    Article : 371 words
  30. CROSSED THE BAR.

    The death is announced at Boston, Dines, says the "Daily Express," of Captain Rehobeth Robinson, one of the last survivors of the Franklin Relief ...

    Article : 77 words
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