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  2. AROUND THE WORLD.

    During a debate at the Yarmouth Town Council an alderman, who was arguing that the refuse destructor was not effective, said that a tradesman's ...

    Article : 55 words
  3. THE TRIUMPH OF THE SUBMARINE,

    On July 13, 1812, in the course of our war with the United States, over the rights of neutrals, H.M.S. Ramillies was lying at anchor off New London, ...

    Article : 1,530 words
  4. NOTES AND HINTS.

    In the accompanying sketch is illustrated a mechanical toy which draws reproduction on any other machine, or even on the some machine should the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 156 words
  5. KATE VAUGHAN'S GRAVE.

    "The picture of loneliness and desolation" is the description given by a Johannesburg correspondent of the condition of grave of Kate Vaughan. It is ...

    Article : 95 words
  6. MARK TWAIN AT THE ABBEY.

    Mark Twain relates that his first visit to Westminster Abbey was made at midnight in the company of Dean Stanley. A kitten followed them in from the street, ...

    Article : 70 words
  7. NO MORE UNTIDY SHOELACES.

    There is no excuse for the untidy girl nowadays. There are all sorts of little contrivances constantly being invented to keep her looking trim and well put together. One of the newest devices is to prevent her shoelaces from untying. The clasps fasten over the knot of the bow, and are so ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 66 words
  8. BLIND MAN'S PARTNER.

    A curious profit-sharing system was disclosed at Bristol Police Court last month, when Frederick Grainger, a blind man, with a boy, was sent to prison for ...

    Article : 117 words
  9. GLOW WORMS AS BICYCLE LIGHT.

    A boy named William Goodwin, who tried to make two glowworms do duty for a cycle light, has been lined 2s 6d at the Tunbridge Wells Police Court. A ...

    Article : 72 words
  10. SOLAR MARVELS.

    What is a sun-spot?. No satisfactory; explanation can be given (writes Mr. Waldemar Kaempffert, in the "Pall Mall Magazine" for September). We have ...

    Article : 486 words
  11. FORTUNE FOR EX-CONVICT.

    Signora Guiseppina Pontiggia, wife of the famous Italian artist Bernacchi, has died intestate at Milan, leaving g fortune of about £40,000. The sole heir ...

    Article : 67 words
  12. "MR. SPEAKER."

    "Hats off, strangers, Mr. Speaker!" Thus every afternoon just before Big Ben strikes a quarter to 3, every day on which during session the Mother of ...

    Article : 1,452 words
  13. MARS THE TANTALISER.

    "We are all getting rather sick of Mars," is a statement attributed to Professor Pickering, Harvard's leading astronomer. " Mars teases me. It ...

    Article : 118 words
  14. OBITUARY NOTICE THAT WAS FATAL.

    On recovering from a severe illness Mr. Garland Bates, who has been town crier of Macon, Missouri, for the last quarter of a century, was handed a ...

    Article : 80 words
  15. CENTENARIAN'S STRANGE END.

    The celebration of the one hundred and fifth birthday of Mrs. Cox, of Gloucester-place, near Forest Hill, London, had a tragic close. While she was entering ...

    Article : 80 words
  16. CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE BULGER.

    "The Golfers' Handbook and Yearbook" records some extraordinary feats of golf. In 1835 an Edinburgh golfer, for a wager, sent a number of balls from the ...

    Article : 122 words
  17. EQUAL TO THE MEN.

    A number of Danish young women employed as telegraphists recently struck work, demanding higher salaries and treatment equal to the men. Both these ...

    Article : 79 words
  18. PHRASES AND LANGUAGE OF THE GOLFER.

    Mr. and Mrs. Kendal recently took tea with the members of the Filey Golf Club, and in the course of a humorous speech Mr. Kendal said (according to the ...

    Article : 130 words
  19. INQUISITIVE NORWEGIANS.

    I have," a writer in the "Bystander" says, "seen English eminents, who have passed most of their lives addressing crowds, wince, chafe, and finally rage ...

    Article : 78 words
  20. NEW TERROR FOR AMERICANS.

    Married Americans are in fear lest the advice of Miss Clarke (chairman of the Civil Service Commission of the National Federation of Women's Clubs) should be ...

    Article : 86 words
  21. LEAP FROM A CHURCH TOWER.

    A young domestic servant named Minnie Hunt, aged 21, of Saggart, near Dublin, lately became strange in her manner, and on August 18 it was thought ...

    Article : 366 words
  22. WHEN JOACHIM FELT SMALL.

    After a concert at Manchester at which there had been enthusiasm rarely surpassed even in Joachim's career, the musician was walking up and down the ...

    Article : 92 words
  23. DOMESTICS FOR THE CAPE,

    A batch of 50 domestic servants from England for service in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony recently arrived in Cape Town, most of them ...

    Article : 103 words
  24. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    "People who write with pale ink are," says an English post office official, "the horror of every post office employee who ,handles letters, but when ...

    Article : 177 words
  25. THE OPIUM CRUSADE.

    Striking evidence is to be found in the native press that China's attitude towards the opium question in her own domains at the present juncture is by ...

    Article : 112 words
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  27. NERVES THAT TIRE EASTLY.

    The most easily tired nerves in the body are stated to be the nerves of smell. They can detect the faintest whiff of perfume. As you pass a rose ...

    Article : 151 words
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