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  2. BITS OF LIFE SCHOOL ON NED KELLY'S GRAVE.

    THE gloomy walls of the old Melbourne gaol, 20,000 tons of bluestone, are thundering down about the graves of Ned Kelly, Albert William Deeming ...

    Article : 340 words
  3. THEY SAW THE PANTO.

    For the wife and little daughter of a poor Lyndon road-sweeper a fairy tale came true recently. Outside the Lyceum Theatre, in the ...

    Article : 268 words
  4. AMERICAN GETS THERE.

    AN amusing incident occurred at a recent meeting at the Hotel George V., Paris, of the 14 Separations experts. Pledging themselves to secrecy, the ...

    Article : 191 words
  5. BAD BEEF.

    MATILDA (Tilly) Devine kept Mr. McMahon, S.M., busy a few weeks ago at the Sydney Central Court, because she had taken a violent dislike to some ...

    Article : 187 words
  6. GRAVE TOO SMALL.

    WHEN a Bradford (Eng.) funeral party arrived at the burial ground at the United Methodist Chapel, Ambler Thorn, recently, it was found that the grave was ...

    Article : 97 words
  7. "GUILTY" BY 'PHONE.

    "IS it a new practice to plead guilty by telephone?" This question was asked by Mr. Campion, the magistrate at Marylebone ...

    Article : 96 words
  8. The Easter Egg.

    PREMIER COLLIER (on the egg): I'm sure this is a very good Easter egg. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 18 words
  9. OLD MAN'S PLIGHT.

    THE terrible plight of Paul Lamont, a Belgian, aged 78, stated to have been a master of languages in London University many years ago, and now on Devil's ...

    Article : 245 words
  10. BOYS DUAL PERSONALITY.

    A Plea of "dual personality" was put forward at Oxford Police Court, England, recently, when Bryan Stanley Moseley, aged 17, an undergraduate, the son ...

    Article : 233 words
  11. LAW BARS CHARITY.

    THE best made wills "aft gang agley," as is shown by the case decided in the Court of Appeal in London recently, in which it was held that a trust in a ...

    Article : 201 words
  12. ALL GENTLEMEN NOW.

    AN amusing passage between Mr. Justice Horridge and a witness occurred in the London Courts recently. The witness, giving evidence regarding ...

    Article : 136 words
  13. CHANNEL ISLAND FOR SALE.

    AN opportunity to rival the romantic isolation of Mr. Compton MacKenzie, the, novelist, has just arisen. The island of Brechou, which lies a ...

    Article : 146 words
  14. TINY ISLAND SOLD.

    THE little English Channel island of Brechou, which was recently offered for sale, has been purchased by Mr. Angela Clarke, a Staines hotel proprietor, ...

    Article : 159 words
  15. POSTMAN SAVES TIME.

    WHEN William George Watson, an auxiliary postman, of Burnley-road, Dollis Hill, London, was remanded at Hendon recently on a summons charging ...

    Article : 97 words
  16. DRWERLESS TRAIN.

    A Driverless train, which had been felt temporarily unattended) dashed through the station of Houdain, in the Arras district, France, recently, at a speed of 45 ...

    Article : 151 words
  17. "MADMAN" EARNS A FORTUNE.

    JAMES Posey, known as "the mad oiler of the steamer Alloway," who refused to leave his disabled ship when the line with which she was being towed by the ...

    Article : 108 words
  18. LOVE-SICK ASS DIES.

    THE death of two donkeys, one apparently of a broken heart, was referred to recently in the business of the Lambeth Guardians, London. ...

    Article : 120 words
  19. ACTOR'S REAL LIFE TRAGEDY.

    PLAYING in Ibsen's "Ghosts" in New A York recently, Alexander Moissi, the European actor, was faced with tragedy in real life. ...

    Article : 115 words
  20. WORKING AT 91.

    MISS Elizabeth Gadsby, known as "Polly" to the other workers in the factory, probably holds the record in England for length of service in one ...

    Article : 119 words
  21. STARVING WITH £1,100.

    IT was stated at a Birmingham (Eng.) inquest recently on George Foster, aged 75, a retired clerk lodging at Sparkhill, that he had appeared to be on the verge ...

    Article : 63 words
  22. FATAL SUPERSTITION,

    IT was stated at a Leicester (England) inquest on a woman named Young, that she was taken ill one Friday, but she was so superstitions that she would not ...

    Article : 55 words
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