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  2. WHAT IS PLEASURE?

    Pleasure, evolutionists tell us, is Nature's indication that all is going well, pain is a warning signal. If this is universally true, an ...

    Article : 981 words
  3. A RAG OF A BROWN MUFF.

    A girl was gazing up at the Nelson monument. A glance showed that she was not looking at the wreaths of greenery and the magnificent decorations for ...

    Article : 2,431 words
  4. STRANGE STORIES,

    The "Tagblatt," of Meissen, Saxony, prints a curious story in which an old pair of trousers plays the leading part. A well-to-do farmer in the neighborhood ...

    Article : 265 words
  5. SEAMAN'S TREACHERY.

    As cabled on the 20th December, a court-martial assembled on H.M.S. Acheron, at Chatham, for the trial of Second Yeoman of Signals James ...

    Article : 380 words
  6. PERILS OF THE SEA.

    The arrival of the barque Eagle Craig, of Whitehaven, at Falmouth from Iquique, with a cargo of nitrate, was reported on the 14th ult, after having ...

    Article : 337 words
  7. HUGE DOCTOR'S PEE.

    M. Pesmazoglos, a well-known rich 'banker, of Athens, recently became seriously ill with what is known to the medical profession as leucocythemia, a ...

    Article : 212 words
  8. FIRE AT A UNIVERSITY.

    A serious fire broke out at daybreak on 7th December morning at Cornell University, Ithaca (U.S.A.), and three students were burned to death, while ...

    Article : 355 words
  9. MESSAGE FOR MANKIND.

    Can literature be taught? The question is dealt with suggestively by Mr T. W. Cowgill, of Reno, Nevada, in the "Nation" (New York). It seems clear ...

    Article : 369 words
  10. THE SEA SERPENT.

    December is not a month which the sea serpent usually selects to disport himself in view of incredulous humanity, but this time the interesting ...

    Article : 210 words
  11. THAMES FORT ROBBED.

    A gang of nine men were tried at Rochester Quarter sessions on 16th Dec. (says "Lloyd's Weekly") either as thieves ,or receivers of stolen property ...

    Article : 240 words
  12. LEARNING MONKEY TALK.

    Miss Ida Veronia Simonton is a young lady with a thirst for knowledge, and possessed of considerable pluck, for she has been spending her days since ...

    Article : 142 words
  13. BURGLARS IN A CONVENT.

    The one question agitating Belgium on Christmas Day was: What has become of the L80.000 in notes and securities, stolen from the Rupelmonde Convent, ...

    Article : 296 words
  14. MARRIED MAN'S COURTSHIP.

    A love tragedy which claimed two lives took place shortly before midnight on 21st December (says the London "Daily Mail") in a quiet road of villa residences ...

    Article : 418 words
  15. WOMAN BETRAYED.

    A sensational tragedy in Culpepper County, Virginia, on 16th December last, when two brothers shot a man who had betrayed their sister, formed the subject ...

    Article : 414 words
  16. LONDON DOCTOR SANDBAGGED.

    Recently, Dr. Albert Schaefer, of 80 Moray street, London, was crossing the Seine from the south side by one of the bridges near the Louvre. It was ...

    Article : 153 words
  17. CARE OF THE EYES.

    It has recently been demonstrated that English school board children snow errors of refraction in 12 per cent. The proportion is probably really greater. ...

    Article : 647 words
  18. RACE WAR IN AMERICA.

    Seventeen negroes were killed, near Memphis, Tennessee, late in December (reports the "Express"), in consequence of a renewal of the race was which ...

    Article : 164 words
  19. ABSENT-MINDED BRIDEGROOM.

    Nine o'clock on Christmas morning was the time fixed for the marriage of an employe of the Brentford District Council. The prospective bride arrived at ...

    Article : 261 words
  20. AN OLD PROPHECY.

    A London journal points out that Scotsmen have annexed not only the Sees of Canterbury and York but the Premiership, the Woolsack, the ...

    Article : 129 words
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