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  2. LIFE ABROAD. NOTES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    The motor-car is not to be the final means of locomotion so far as men and women are concerned, predicts the "Builders' Journal." The motor-car will be superseded in a large ...

    Article : 140 words
  3. WOMAN'S REALM.

    We have come to the end, or nearly the end, of the festivities. Each day during the past week has held so much concentrated pleasure that next week will feel flat indeed ...

    Article : 1,803 words
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    Advertising : 319 words
  5. EMPEROR'S ELECTRIC ARM.

    The secret has just leaked out from court circles that the Kaiser has been fitted with a wonderful new electro-mechanical left arm, in place or his withered one (writes the ...

    Article : 270 words
  6. TWINS PROVIDE A PUZZLE.

    The arrival of twins, a boy and a girl, in the village of Wiggetthal, Argovie, is causing the municipal council the greatest embarrassment. The father died shortly ...

    Article : 116 words
  7. MYSTERIES OF THE KITCHEN.

    The art of "food-faking" in cheap restaurants is described by a writer in "Household Words." Neck of mutton in many of these ...

    Article : 131 words
  8. PRIZE BABIES.

    At a London baby show, Sydney Richards. the twelve-months-old son of a Woolwich dustman, came first. He weighed 331b. 5oz. ...

    Article : 40 words
  9. SAM LEWIS'S FORTUNE.

    "Sam" Lewis. the great London moneylender, left £2,572,658. When his wife dies the bulk of the estate goes to charity. The largest of the bequests is of £400,000 for ...

    Article : 161 words
  10. "ALLITERATION'S ARTFUL AID."

    A verse from one of Rudyard Kipling's new poems, "The Sea and the Hills":— "Who hath desired the Sea?—the immense and contemptuous surges? ...

    Article : 63 words
  11. MUCH RROTECTED.

    Miss Dorothy Scott, a San Francisco beiress, has joined a touring theatrical company. Her parents insisted that she took with her an English chaperon, a French ...

    Article : 34 words
  12. A COLOSSAL CITY FRAUD.

    A long acquaintance with city life has convinced me that one of the most colossal concerted frauds in a city of frauds is the fraud of the city men, who go home of an ...

    Article : 94 words
  13. FIVE MEALS FOR BRITISH TARS.

    A new dietary scheme came into operation in the British Navy tins week. The bluejackets and marines will for the first time be provided with jam and milk, and ...

    Article : 100 words
  14. A FASCINATING QUEEN.

    This is President Loubet's unofficial impression of Queen Alexandra (says "M.A.P."):—"I had heard that she possessed considerable personal gifts, and was a ...

    Article : 225 words
  15. RACE RUN THREE TIMES.

    At Newmarket on September 29, for the last race of the day the horses broke through the tapes of the starting-machine and ran the race through, for, although the starter ...

    Article : 129 words
  16. CIRCULATING THE BIBLE.

    Apropos of its approaching centenary the British and Foreign Bible Society sends us a few notes on the work it carries on, and the difficulties and risks which its ...

    Article : 721 words
  17. IODINE AS A FACE-WASH.

    Mme. Passier has adopted a strange stratagem to prevent her husband from attending a marriage at which she was unable to be present owing to an error on the part of ...

    Article : 100 words
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    Advertising : 6,393 words
  19. WOMEN'S "MORAL ROCKS."

    There is no disguising the fact, says the "Lady's Pictorial," that bridge and liqueurdrinking are moral rocks on which many women in the two great classes of society ...

    Article : 118 words
  20. "STAGING" A PANIC.

    Mr. Joseph Leiter, who engineered the great but unsuccessful wheat corner in Chicago in 1893. and was the largest individual holder of wheat in the history of ...

    Article : 87 words
  21. NEW LEADING LADY.

    With the production of Mr. J. M. Barrie's comedy, "Little Mary," at Wyndham's Theatre, Miss Nina Boucicault has been added to the select list of London's leading ...

    Article : 293 words
  22. POEMS BY RUDYARD KIPLING.

    A new collection of verses by Rudyard Kipling is published by Methuen, under the title of "The Five Nations." Many of the principal pieces—such as "The Lady of the ...

    Article : 292 words
  23. ARE THEY WORTH IT?

    The "Scientific American" laments the devastation of foresta caused by the increasing novel-plague. Four thousand pitch pines and fir trees ...

    Article : 44 words
  24. "RUN" BY ROBBERS.

    The systematic robbery which flourishes on Russian railways is illustrated by the following statements contained in a semiofficial report from Saratoff:— ...

    Article : 99 words
  25. LATEST IN DIVORCE.

    An extraordinary divorce action has been heard in Paris. The husband allowed the decree to be granted against him on the strength of ...

    Article : 119 words
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