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  2. HOW RULERS ARE GUARDED

    "It is a strange condition of modern civilization that a twentieth-century King should live in greater personal danger than his predecessors of any age. The medieval ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,125 words
  3. MR. DOOLEY.

    It is not surprising that the inimitable Mr. Dooley (Mr. F. P. Dunne) should have something to say about the cruise of United States Battleship Fleet to the ...

    Article : 1,220 words
  4. SOME ROYAL KINSHIPS

    It used to be said that Queen Victoria was related to half the reigning houses Europe. Ii mere kinship counts she related to nearly all of them. Just what ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 424 words
  5. THE LATE KING CARLOS.

    The reign of the late King Carlos was largely one of political ups and downs. He succeeded King Luis on December 28, 1889, so he did not have a very long ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 705 words
  6. ESCAPE PROM SIBERIA

    An exciting and remarkable story of escape cape from Siberia is related by M. Manrice Gehri, a Swiss professor, who unexpectedly returned to the home of his pa ...

    Article : 609 words
  7. GERMANY IN THE PACIFIC.

    The mere suggestion of Germany assisting to people her Pacific possessions with offenders from her prisons is quite enough to alarm Australia. We have had the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 690 words
  8. TOLSTOY'S EVENING

    Count Leo Tolstoy is evidently nearing the end. Proof of this is given in the little illustration, as this is the way the G.O.M. of Russia has now to spend his ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 343 words
  9. WHEN BIRDS “REASON.”

    Instinct in the lower creation sonxtimes to the point of what, for want of a more suitable word, may be called reason. In the case of those species which ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 414 words
  10. A VALUABLE IDEA

    The London County Council teaches the art of swimming in some of its schools. The illustration shows one of the method but his only follows a land exercise, in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 336 words
  11. STOLEN VAN DYCK

    It was recently announced that the Van Dyck picture "The Elevation of the Cross was stolen from the Church of Our Lady at Courtrai, in Belgium, on December 6 ...

    Article : 518 words
  12. TEE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN

    We are familiar with it in the case o our own Empire, but there are others the same. Consider the little sketch in which each square stands for a unit of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 287 words
  13. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

    Florence Nightingale, England's "Grand Old Lady," lives in an unpretentious ho in a fashionable quarter of London. Her answer to my request for an interview with ...

    Article : 469 words
  14. AN EXTRAOFRDINARY DOORWAY.

    Lisbon is noted for its splendid avenue and for the excellence of some of its buildings. The Avenue of Victory is one of the finest boulevards in the world, and here, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 295 words
  15. CHARLES T. YERKES

    This chart with the late Charles T. Yerkes took pace in his London office. The time was near the close of the Russo-japance was Mr. Yerkes was then tunneling ...

    Article : 342 words
  16. CARNEGIE

    “If you could come back to earth in year 2900, what one change would you most like to see in human affaire?" At Andrew Carnegie's New York home ...

    Article : 258 words
  17. UNREHEARSED EFFECTS.

    In the dramatised version of "The Last Days of Pompeii," being performed at the Queen's Theatre, there was a banquet seene, for which a clever tight-rope dancer ...

    Article : 275 words
  18. THE NEW ARMY AIRSHIP.

    Much progress has been made with the building of the new army airship at the balloon factory at Aldershot. it is in an advanced stage of Construction, but is not ...

    Article : 208 words
  19. A STORY OF TREE.

    Shortly before "Neor” was produced, Mr. Tree was giving a special performance of “Hamlet.” Everything has gone quietly, and he was ...

    Article : 177 words
  20. A MAKER OF PUNS.

    Mr. Toole’s aptness of repartee, especially in the way of making puns, was not the least remarkable of his gifts. On one occasion when the King then ...

    Article : 126 words
  21. PLEASE REMEMBER

    An amusing story is told of sir Henry Irving when he was conducting a rehearsal of “Faust.” When he came to the Brocken scene he ...

    Article : 123 words
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