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  2. WHERE FORCE RULES.

    All the beasts of the field are warlike, and so, too, are the birds of the air. Pish, again, are very warlike. Strangely enough the most warlike beasts are ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 482 words
  3. WORLD’S PAPER CON- SUMPTION.

    The great German, demist, Liebig, once said that the degree of a nation’s civilization might be gauged by the amount of soap which that nation consumed. A ...

    Article : 643 words
  4. “AS WISE AS A SERPENT.”

    “What do you know about snakes?” the manager of the New York Zoo was asked the other day. “That they are smart, enough,” was the reply, “calmly to accept ...

    Article : 458 words
  5. TRANSPLANTING ANIMALS’ HEADS.

    Dr. Adolf Posner, of Berlin University, has startled the scientific world by stating that surgery has advanced to a point which makes it possible to transfer the ...

    Article : 810 words
  6. TRAIN ON FIRE IN A TUNNEL.

    The Pouche tunnel, on the railway line between Brive and Limoges, was the scene of a disaster of almost unexampled horror in this country. According to the latest ...

    Article : 622 words
  7. ANOTHER DASH FOR THE POLE.

    Motor cars, aeroplanes, and dirigible balloons hare been advocated from time to time by enthusiasts as means of reaching the north pole. Even so eminent a ...

    Article : 913 words
  8. A QUESTION OF SPEED.

    Fining motorists for exceeding the time limit is becoming an everyday occurrence. reading the evidence generally given it impossible not to be struck by its ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 603 words
  9. HALF AN HOUR IN A BLAZING FURNACE.

    One of the most remarkable and appalling experiences possible to -perceive recently befell a young man named Robert Perrv at Apedale, in Staffordshire,. ...

    Article : 1,755 words
  10. PEER DIES IN OBSCURITY.

    The sudden death of lord Petre, head of one of the oldest Roman Catholic families in England, who ended his days in modest apartments in an obscure street in ...

    Article : 681 words
  11. THE GREATEST COMIC SINGER.

    A man who can earn £180 an hour as a singer must have something in him. When it is as a comic singer, then he must have very much. Harry Lauder is getting ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 304 words
  12. NEW LEGS FOR OLD.

    The solid practical value of the new plastic surgery experiments is shown in the almost incredible transplantation of a knee joint from an amputated leg to a ...

    Article : 777 words
  13. SHOULD ACTRESSES MARRY?

    The Paris correspondent of The Daily Telegraph writes:— Should actresses marry? asks “Comoedia.” “Why not?” would be the average Englishmen’s ...

    Article : 314 words
  14. A SWINDLE.

    An amusing case, which, in the revelation of its details, is likely to prove embarrassing to several well-known citizens of Buda-Perth, will (says a Central News ...

    Article : 473 words
  15. LORD GRANARD’S MARRIAGE.

    A telegram published in The Evening Journal earlier in the week stated that the wedding -between the Earl of Granard, the Minister assisting the British ...

    Article : 444 words
  16. WHY DO WOMEN HAVE RED NOSES?

    Judging fro mthe experience of physicians one would say that half womankind was suffering from a nose of vivid hue. There are so many possible causes for a red nose ...

    Article : 352 words
  17. KAISER’S PALACES.

    The Kaiser (says the Berlin correspondent of The Daily Express) has decided to five of his castles. His Majesty intenda. to retrench his expenses, which have been ...

    Article : 333 words
  18. A PRINCE MONK

    A correspondent writes to The London Daily Telegraph as follows:-A little over a year ago Prince Lowenstein Wertheim Rochefort, a great German noble, who ...

    Article : 283 words
  19. THE ENGLISH UN- EMPLOYED.

    Mr. F. W. Jowett, M.P., is writing a remarkable series of papers on the above question, only be calls it “The problem of the unemployed.” The articles giving the ...

    Article : 1,036 words
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