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  2. JOYOUS MOURNING.

    Even the note of the memorial service held in the Albert Hall, in London, by the Salvation Army for the dead of the Empress of Ireland was one of joy instead of sadness. ...

    Article : 1,075 words
  3. TOO YOUNG TO MARRY.

    That he had been deceived by his sweetheart about her age was one of the pleas put forward by Robert Daniel Owen, a Bangor plasterer, when he was sued for ...

    Article : 903 words
  4. BIG GOLD HOARDS.

    The world's best-known war chest is that which Germany has maintained in the Julius Tower at Spandau for over forty years. Although officially dubbed a "Kriegschatz" ...

    Article : 439 words
  5. OF SEVEN ONE ESCAPED.

    "They are all drowned!" Dripping wet from his immersion in the sea, Stanley Woods ran along the shore at Somerleyton towards the Duke's Head Hotel, where in sobbing tones ...

    Article : 823 words
  6. CIGARETTE FIGURES.

    The "hopeless handicap" which cigarette-smoking puts on youth impels Mr. C. W. Baines to ask in the Philadelphia Sunday-school Times whether it is not "about time ...

    Article : 619 words
  7. HOW SOME BOOKS ARE WRITTEN.

    A writer in "Chambers's Journal" lets us into some of the secrets of authorship. He says he knows of weighty volumes of legal reminiscence, of books of travel, and ...

    Article : 239 words
  8. "WHISTLE FOR GUV'NOR."

    It came as a surprise to Lawrence Peel Massy, an official in the British mercantile marine, when, on returning from a voyage, he found his wife had disappeared. ...

    Article : 629 words
  9. COMPARISON OF THE SEXES.

    Tests have been made at Columbia University to determine the comparative mental ability of men and women students. The investigations, which have ...

    Article : 199 words
  10. COMMENTS OF AMERICAN WOMEN.

    There are thousands of restless, unhappy pleasure-seekers in the world, who do not know why they are restless, why they are dissatisfied with what the days ...

    Article : 497 words
  11. WHEAT IN ARID LANDS.

    A new method of raising wheat in arid countries has recently been made public by two Italian agriculturists, Messrs. C. and P. [?] Marca. The essential feature of the ...

    Article : 439 words
  12. DRYING UP NIAGARA.

    "The industrial development of Niagara has so steadily increased that at the end of the year 1913 nearly half a million electric horse-power was developed and sold by ...

    Article : 471 words
  13. MOONLIGHT AND TREE-GROWTH

    In a recent article in Steam-Machinery, by Dr. Leonard Keene Hirschberg, of Johns Hopkins University, on Mahogany Forests, the writer says:—"The felling of the tree is ...

    Article : 317 words
  14. ROUSED FROM SLEEP.

    Visitors to Girvan (Scotland), as well as the natives, shared in the sensation which was caused by the sudden ringing of the town bell. This is ...

    Article : 388 words
  15. WHO RANG FIRE BELL?

    Who rang the fire bell? The answer to this question is being sought by the police of Strabane, a town in Ulster, where at midnight recently an extraordinary panic ...

    Article : 518 words
  16. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

    Nearly all the members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra are foreigners. Dr. Muck, the conductor of the famous instrumental combination, and about two-thirds of ...

    Article : 538 words
  17. ARTIFICIAL NIAGARA.

    Engineers have spoiled many waterfalls, but those who have built the Panama Canal have endowed the world with a new one, discharging a greater volume of water than passes over Niagara, and ...

    Article : 583 words
  18. REMEMBERED HIS LESSON.

    Little Robert has always been taught to speak up, and he is beginning to do so to embarrassing distinctness. Last week be accompanied his mother to the ...

    Article : 67 words
  19. HERODOTUS.

    Herodotus was a man of high ability and much learning; he had travelled in pursuit of knowledge more widely than any of[?] his contemporaries; he knew ...

    Article : 353 words
  20. PLIGHT OF GIRL BRIDE.

    Broken in health and penniless, Mrs. Elizabeth Bernard, the beautiful girl-wife of Joseph Bernard, who disappeared during the third week of their honeymoon, arrived at ...

    Article : 352 words
  21. DISTURBING THE BALL.

    William Davidson, a dark-skinned young wharf laborer, of muscular appearance, ran amok on Wednesday night, and as a consequence he had to explain matters to Mr. ...

    Article : 315 words
  22. PARROT'S KISS IN COURT:

    A parrot's kiss decided its rightful ownership in Tottenham Police Court recently, when an Edmonton bird fancier named Bitton was summoned by Mrs. Alice Evans for ...

    Article : 199 words
  23. KILLING TIME.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 words
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