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  2. ENGLAND IN ROME

    An interesting account of an English lady of noble birth who married an Italian Duke, and fulfilled to the letter the old maxim of “Noblesse oblige,” is given in ...

    Article : 646 words
  3. LOOK-OUT MAN FOR MOTORS

    Owners of motor cars in England are experiencing trouble owing to the many sharp turns in country roads, which are concealed by tall hedges. The effort to have the hedges cut down has raised a storm o f protest. The editor of The Motor facetiously suggests a look-out man oil the car. preferably an old sailor, and pictures him ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 98 words
  4. A JAPANESE EPISODE

    On a certain summer morning of 1902, the year of the King’s coronation, a smart steam pinnace was hissing her rapid way through the crowded waters of Portsmouth ...

    Article : 2,440 words
  5. QUEER DIVORCE CASES

    According to the United States Census Bureau a million divorces were granted in that country between 1887 and 1907. For the preceding twenty-year period there ...

    Article : 2,424 words
  6. AN INTERESTING TREE

    Every no[?] and again the State, local or Federal, creates ,a new position and appoints some to fill it. At such times the citizen just allows his mind to sketch in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 665 words
  7. THE HORSE TRADE WITH INDIA

    A statement has been made that India has divided Australia into sections for the purpose of remounts. Be this as it may, there ought to be no danger of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 263 words
  8. THE CLOUD IS EUROPE

    Austria and Hungary (or, jointly. Austro-Hungary) hang out of the reach of the dogs of war by a very slender thread. That is, the case is as stated if recent reports ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 392 words
  9. GIGANTIC MOTOR RACE

    The rules of the great motor drive from New York to Paris across the North American continent, northern Asia, and Europe, which was organized by The ...

    Article : 439 words
  10. THE HEART AND ARROW

    It has been reported that a band of young roughs in Melbourne have joined hands and tattooed arms for the purpose of perpetuating a criminal brotherhood. It ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 283 words
  11. LOVE AND LEAP YEAR

    There used to be two quadrennial events to which men looked forward with illconcealed interest (says a writer in The New York Herald). One was the ...

    Article : 1,950 words
  12. FATAL THIRTEEN

    A large number of writers have joined in a recent controversy in New York over the ancient superstition that the number 13 is unlucky, and some now declare that ...

    Article : 227 words
  13. FUTURE OCEAN GREYHOUNDS

    A few extracts taken at random from the information card of the new octuple screw steamship .Dementia:— “The chief of police and the ...

    Article : 369 words
  14. A “GOLDFISH BALL”

    The “Butterfly Ball” at Philadelphia, when “all the Drexels were present,” has been eclipsed already (says the New York correspondent of The Daily Telegraph). ...

    Article : 219 words
  15. PEOPLE DON'T WALK ENOUGH.

    There are not many people nowadays who can walk any distance at all without feeling used up. Walking is becoming less necessary each year, for public vehicles are ...

    Article : 196 words
  16. HORSES EATEN IN GERMANY.

    With American beef, pork, and mutton barred from her markets, Germany is becoming a rival of France in the consumption of horseflesh as food. Host German ...

    Article : 130 words
  17. IN THE INFANT CLASS.

    The new pupil teacher had arrived at the school, and the children were doing their best to form an accurate estimate of her abilities, temper, and general ...

    Article : 96 words
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