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  2. OLD AGE

    That "a man is as old as his arteries" is the theory which has for years been maintained by medical men. In other words, though a man escape all of the ...

    Article : 2,135 words
  3. BANDIT'S THREAT

    The St. Petersburg "Russkoe Slovo" of October 14 gives remarkable details of the exploits of the Caucasus bandit Selim Khan, who for nearly a decade has lorded ...

    Article : 1,397 words
  4. IN LOVE WITH A DANCER

    An amusing and very human explanation is forthcoming of the mysterious journey which the deposed Shah of Persia, Ahmed, has been undertaking through Europe ...

    Article : 305 words
  5. NELSON'S "VICTORY"

    The Victory was 40 years old when she carried Nelson to the battle of Trafalgar. According to the present reckoning of a battleship's life (says a London paper), she ...

    Article : 911 words
  6. MYSTERY OF A TRUNK

    American detectives are confronted by a strange murder mystery through the discovery of a human body in a trunk which more than seven years ago was ...

    Article : 344 words
  7. TWO OPERATIONS

    The wonderful progress made in surgical science is well illustrated by the accounts of two operations which reached the London "Daily Mail" one from the London ...

    Article : 559 words
  8. CRIPPEN'S LAST WORDS

    Miss Ethel Le Neve furnishes to "Lloyd's Weekly" of December 4 the following extracts from Dr. Crippen's last letter, written on the afternoon before his death ...

    Article : 1,316 words
  9. ALL IN THE TREATMENT.

    Aunty—"Come, take your powder like a man. You never hear me complaining about a thing like that." Tommy—"Nor would I if I could da ub it over my face like you—it's the swallowing I object to." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 48 words
  10. SOME CURIOUS WATCHES.

    With all our modern improvements we rarely hear nowadays of watches so fancifully complex as used to be made for great folks in the times when fall watches were ...

    Article : 289 words
  11. NOTABLE HANGMEN

    In spite of his gruesome calling, John Ellis, the man who hanged Crippen, has earned the esteem of a very wide circle of acquaintances in Rochdale, where he ...

    Article : 671 words
  12. THE REV. R. J. CAMPBELL AND TELEPATHY.

    "Telepathy and mental healing are classed to-day among the delusions of the neurotic," said the Rev. R. J. Campbell at the City Temple. London, recently. " ...

    Article : 50 words
  13. MEN WHO NEVER MARRIED

    Among authors we have Pope, Gold-smith, Lamb, and Macaulay. The feeble health of "the wasp of Twickenham" stood, no doubt, in the way of his ...

    Article : 202 words
  14. A VALUABLE FIND.

    An old Valazquez picture has been discovered in a lumber-room on the estate of the Prince of Parma, at Schwarzau, near Vienna. It is supposed to be the ...

    Article : 59 words
  15. A NOVEL APPEAL.

    All sorts of expedients continue to be suggested with a view to checking the depopulation of France, which is now causing considerable anxiety, and, pending their ...

    Article : 258 words
  16. BAD SPELLING.

    To spell badly is no longer considered particularly illiterate—that is to say, it does not betoken a want of education. An eminent English lawyer, who is considered ...

    Article : 186 words
  17. NEW FORM OF DOOR.

    One of the oldest of human inventions is the door swinging on hinges at one side. Some wearing insects, such as trapdoor spiders, employ a similar device; but ...

    Article : 126 words
  18. OPENED BY PHONOGRAPH.

    A Wesleyan bazaar at Croydon' (London) was recently opened by "absent friends." Their speeches were delivered by phonograph. ...

    Article : 21 words
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    The Parson—"And so, Donald, it's been touch and go with you this time. Ten storeys is a long way to fall. I suppose thoughts of your past life passed hurriedly through your mind?" I minded that I'd left my pipe on the window-sill. It was a weight off my mind, sir." Donald (the local window-cleaner)—"Well, sir, I was a bit worried till I got the length o' the fifth storey, and then ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 73 words
  20. "JOYS OF HEAVEN."

    The Rev. Dr. Charles Aked, the English clergyman, who has now for some years been pastor of Fifth-avenue Baptist Church. New York, popularly known as ...

    Article : 245 words
  21. MAKING HIS LIGHT.

    At Coseley parish chutch, Staffordshire, which has just been reopened, the vicar, the Rev. W. Spencer, has erected a wind turbine, 18 ft. in diameter, in a ...

    Article : 72 words
  22. CANNOT HUSTLE.

    Because they cannot hustle in a hobble, business men of Atlantic City, New Jersey, have issued an ultimatum to their women employes that hereafter they must ...

    Article : 38 words
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