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  2. LIFE-AND-DEATH RIDE ON THE SANDS.

    A terrible race for life against the tide took place one Sunday night last month, on the treacherous sands of Dundrum Bay, with an ending as tragic as that in Kingsley's famous ...

    Article : 182 words
  3. HEROIC RESCUES AT A FIRE.

    The bravery and daring of policemen and firemen are proverbial, In big cities such as London and New York, this is especially the case, and men freely risk their lives to save others. In some cases It is no always wise to await the arrival of the brigade, and the policeman who discovers the out [?] must [?] and on [?] [?]tiative. It was in this way that an officer of police in New York succeeded in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 599 words
  4. A SILENT MAXIM.

    A remarkable apparatus has been invented by an Indian official, which seems likely to revolutionise machine-gun fire. The object of the invention is to silence the tell-tale noise ...

    Article : 242 words
  5. STRANGE WEDDING SERIES.

    The funeral took place at Merstham, Surrey, last month, of Mrs. Mary Ann Maynard, who reached the age of 100 on February 18, 1907, on which date she was the recipient of an ...

    Article : 170 words
  6. RESTORING THE DEAD.

    The current number of the "Electrical Magazine" publishes an illustrated account of the work of French scientists in the use of the electric current as an anaesthetic. ...

    Article : 124 words
  7. MR. HALL CAINE.

    Mr. Hall Caine has left London for Egypt. The principal object of bis visit is to gather further material for a new novel and a new play. "To help me to write a novel and a play ...

    Article : 136 words
  8. BRIDE AS CONSCRIPT.

    Mile. Leys, a handsome young brunette of Dunkirk (France), recently became engaged, but when her parents applied to the registrar of births for the necessary copy of their ...

    Article : 160 words
  9. PRESENT OF A FOREST.

    The United States have accepted as a national monument the gift by Mr. Edward Kent, of Chicago, of 300 acres of primeval redwood forest six miles from San Francisco, with giant trees ...

    Article : 72 words
  10. INTERESTING FIND IN A HELD.

    A beautiful brass of the Emperor Hadrian, who died A.D. 138, has been found in a field the farm of Mr. Karnes, at Mew Barn, near Winchester. It is in fine preservation. The ...

    Article : 65 words
  11. THERE ARE OTHERS, TOO.

    "Don't yon sometimes long for your childhood's happy days?" said the sentimental person. "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne, "there are ...

    Article : 58 words
  12. IMPARTIAL.

    "Mr. Scatterton prides himself on being strictly impartial." "Yes," answered the unamiable man, "I once went shooting with him. He didn't seem ...

    Article : 37 words
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