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  3. TOPICS FROM ALL QUARTERS

    "I leave all to my wife"' constitutes a will in Virginia, U.S.A. After a two days' hearing of the contest over the estate of E. M. Pilcher, who died about two years ago ...

    Article : 98 words
  4. SPELLING AND SOUND.

    Spelling and sound in English clash most in proper names, both personal and geographic. Prof. Ernest Weekley has written a book on "The Romance of Names," in ...

    Article : 109 words
  5. A FREAK PALACE.

    Fancy a palace built of stone, 300 feet long, containing 200 rooms, and actually built on a level step, so to speak, of a cliff 1000 feet high. Yet this is not a freak of ...

    Article : 183 words
  6. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S DUTIES.

    The Lord Chamberlain of England has supervision of the Royal Household above stairs. He has the control of the establishment attached to the chapels royal, of ...

    Article : 136 words
  7. A MIXED STAFF.

    The Wairoa (N.Z.) "Guardian" was brought out by a queer staff the other day. The regular men had departed suddenly to do some fighting in foreign lands, and the ...

    Article : 179 words
  8. ENERGY AND POWER.

    The energy, or power, of a moving object is proportional to its weight and its velocity. A motor cycle running at 80 miles an hour will strike as hard a blow as a two-ton ...

    Article : 207 words
  9. 'WINE-TEMPERATE" FRANCE.

    Tuberculosis has little more than doubled in France since 1877, according to figures supplied to are "Temps" by Henri Schmidt, deputy, who is one of the leading figures in ...

    Article : 120 words
  10. WARSHIP MODELS.

    By the British Admiralty's orders perfect models are made in paraffin wax of every new battleship before it is laid down, and these models are tested in a tank specially ...

    Article : 353 words
  11. A HEROIC FEAT.

    During the Civil War in America, when General Grant invested Vicksburg in May, 1863, one of the most terrible stages in history began. The assault which took place ...

    Article : 263 words
  12. BANK NOTE SAVED A SLAVE.

    A Bank of England note once freed an English slave. The note came into the hands of a Liverpool merchant, his cashier examined it, noticed some red marks on the ...

    Article : 167 words
  13. GUARD DUTY.

    Guard-duty plays a large and important part in the work of the British soldier. At every garrison throughout the world (writes Mr. Horace Wyndham in "The London ...

    Article : 172 words
  14. A SENTINEL'S SWCON.

    "A Belgian sentinel in Northern Brabant was guarding a bridge when he suddenly perceived less than a hundred yards away two mounted [?]hlans," says the Press ...

    Article : 135 words
  15. ALPINE CLIMBING.

    Alpine climbing is quite a modern sport. The glaciers of the Alps began to attract the attention of scientific men towards the end of the seventeenth century; but travel ...

    Article : 256 words
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