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  2. GEORGE SAND AND DE MUSSET.

    Mme. Lauth, the granddaughter of George Sand, has obtained £200 damages from a playwright on the ground that a play of his was an outrage on the memory of her ...

    Article : 554 words
  3. RISKS OF FOOD.

    Alter being adjourned seven times the inquest concluded on the woman who was employed at Oddenino's restaurant, London, and who died on November 7. She was taken ill, ...

    Article : 395 words
  4. TALK ABOUT THE BIBLE.

    Dr. Campbell Morgan, of Westminster Chapel, and Mr. William Bryan, the American Secretary of State, have been speaking together on the Bible at a great meeting in Washington. ...

    Article : 660 words
  5. WITH THE NORTH-WEST POLICE.

    The authorities at Ottawa have received from Sergeant C. S. Harper an account of the journey made by a police patrol sent out from Lake Saskatoon early in ...

    Article : 669 words
  6. SAVING THE EYES.

    That what the eye doesn't see will never hurt it sounds like common sense, but is really a common error. The invisible rays of the spectrum may cause serious injury, and ...

    Article : 622 words
  7. ANARCHIST EDITING.

    Do you find your job monotonous? Do you sometimes yearn for a change in your dally round—a little excitement or upheaval? Then take over the editorship of an ...

    Article : 685 words
  8. THE STOLEN NECKLACE.

    We learn (says the "Times") that the large pearl, valued at about £11,000, missing from M. Mayer's necklace, which was stolen in transit fr[?] Paris to London, has been recovered. The two drop pearls stolen at the ...

    Article : 288 words
  9. BOTHA AND RHODES.

    In a character sketch of General Botha, contributed to the "Review of Reviews," Alfred G. Gardiner says that the general was strongly against the war, but when it had ...

    Article : 287 words
  10. MOVING PICTURES QUITE OLD.

    Moving pictures are not quite such a now idea as most people think. In 1826 Sir John Herschel, the great inventor, asked Charles Babbage, an equally well-known mail of that ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. CATTLE-MAIMING MYSTERY.

    There was a sensational sequel at the Welshpool (England) Police Court to a local farmer's loss of ten cattle and the serious injury of an eleventh, Annie Evans, aged 15, a domestic servant, being charged with cattle ...

    Article : 230 words
  12. JOURNALISTS HONORED.

    By entertaining Mr. J. A. Spender and Sir P. Carruthers Gould, of the "Westminster Gazette," to dinner at the City Liberal Club a tribute was paid to Liberal journalism. ...

    Article : 214 words
  13. MARRIAGE SHACKLES.

    One effect of the report of the Divorce Commission is that a few weeks hence an official will be appointed to each division of the British High Court—the King's Bench, ...

    Article : 136 words
  14. FRENCH CATHEDRALS.

    "The book of M. Rodin, the great sculptor, on the cathedrals of France will shortly appear, and the 'Temps' is already enabled to publish extracts from it." says the "Times" ...

    Article : 395 words
  15. INCOME TAX SWINDLE.

    A civil servant occupying a high position at Somerset House, Alfred Graham Hodgson, 39, was ordered to twelve months' Imprisonment for [?]rging a request for repayment of ...

    Article : 269 words
  16. ELECTRIC GLOVES FOR MOTORISTS.

    It would appear (says "Chambers's Journal") as if the motorist is to become the most pampered traveller on earth. The scuttle-dash protects his body and chest from the wind, the side door is a preventive against ...

    Article : 397 words
  17. DEATH OF A PRINCESS.

    Princess William of Baden died last month in Berlin. She was born in October, 1841, and married in 1863 Prince William of Baden, who predeceased her. ...

    Article : 160 words
  18. NATIONAL SUPREMACY.

    The newest of the City companies—the City of London Solicitors' Company—held their annual banquet at the Merchant Taylors Hall, E.C. During the speechs Lord Haldane said the British nation led the world, but they ...

    Article : 166 words
  19. HOME RULE.

    The "Review of Reviews" contains a very full summary of the provisions of the Home Rule Bill, a most useful thing just now. A perusal of this will show that Mr. Stead is ...

    Article : 174 words
  20. NAVY FASHION SHOP.

    "When the museum of the United Service Institution comes, as it surely must, under control of the International Arbitration Association, we will set up a collection of ...

    Article : 94 words
  21. FAMINE OR EMPIRE.

    This, according to Dr. Starr Jordan, in the "Review of Reviews," is the choice before Japan. He says:—"The Idea of a Japanese Invasion of Australia is quite ...

    Article : 239 words
  22. ON A BUSINESS FOOTING.

    Out in California the Hev. Dr. Aked, late of Liverpool, is in trouble over some of his too liberal opinions. Dr. Aked la always very outspoken, and not very long ago he ...

    Article : 159 words
  23. THE SEX CLEAVAGE.

    Rev. C. L. Marson, in his new book, "God's Co-operative Society," says:— "More alarming still is the sex cleavage. The wife has lost her loom and her spinning wheel, [?] still ...

    Article : 227 words
  24. "WHO KNOWS?" SAYS THE ARCHBISHOP.

    The Archbishop of Brisbane, preaching in Westminster Abbey, said:— "The modern Labor movement, as I understand it, is due to the establishment of universal education, and ...

    Article : 348 words
  25. GRAFT INQUIRY.

    Mr. John Kennedy, the State Treasurer of New York, who was to have given evidence at the investigation into graft in the public services, committed suicide. ...

    Article : 163 words
  26. GRENFELL OF LABRADOR.

    A remarkable man in evening drees' stepped on the platform to deliver a lecture at the Queens Hall. London, He was "Grenfell of Labrador"—Dr. W. J. Grenfell, the London Hospital surgeon, who, putting aside the prospect ...

    Article : 140 words
  27. RICH BACHELOR'S HOUSE.

    An appeal against the Westminster Union's assessment of his house and stable at St. James[?]quare was made at the London Sessions by Mr. Gaspard Oliver Farrer. Counsel said that the house in question was a very ...

    Article : 210 words
  28. BURNS'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

    Mr. John Burns, who has just been appointed president of the Board of Trade, speaking to the Manchester Association of Engineers, said:— "He came to Manchester less as a Minister or a ...

    Article : 231 words
  29. EMPTY CHURCHES IN BERLIN.

    "Some extraordinary figures relating to church attendance in Berlin are published in the "Vossische Zeitung," says the "Chronicles'[?]" Berlin correspondent. "On February 22 the united committees of the ...

    Article : 142 words
  30. A BED-BOOK OF HAPPINESS.

    Mr. Harold Bobbie has just published "The Bed-Book of Happiness," being a colligation or assemblage of cheerful writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and ...

    Article : 151 words
  31. NOT GUILTY.

    Mother: "Well, Bobbie, I hope you were a good boy at Mrs. Bond's, and didn't ask for two pieces of pic." Bobbie: "No, ma, I didn't ask for two pi[?]; I only asked if there wasn't [?] to be any." ...

    Article : 42 words
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