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  2. WORKMEN’S COTTAGES.

    A big question in Sydney and Melbourne that of the better housing of those whose incomes are small. It is also a big question London, and in other big British centres. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 565 words
  3. ODD TALES OF UN- LUCKY SHIPS.

    “Well,” said the old skipper, “Five noticed that luck, good or bad, generally follows the name of a vessel. There was the barque City of Bangor, that was lost with, ...

    Article : 1,293 words
  4. WIDOWER’S WOOING.

    Amusing statements were made in a breach of promise action heard last month at Newtown Butler (County Fermanagh) Quarter Sessions. The plaintiff was ...

    Article : 327 words
  5. THE INCREASE OF LUXURY.

    In a small and exclusive club in London frequented by diplomatists, both English and foreign, a member of the British Diplomatic Service, who has an intimate ...

    Article : 959 words
  6. PROVERB TESTING IN THE ZOO.

    “Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast’ The truth or otherwise of Corngreve’s familiar line and the influence of music oil ...

    Article : 1,300 words
  7. A TRAGICAL TOLL.

    The ghastliness of a battle appeals to when we get the death list. And yet numbers killed in battle are far short the numbers killed by accident—in train ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 741 words
  8. ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKEN.

    Occasionally the publicity given in a or a County Court case in England one into this knowledge that there are many quiet thoruglifares in the ...

    Article : 1,002 words
  9. A PRESIDENT’S SALARY

    The United States House of Representatives has thrown out the vote of the Congress to substantially increase the salary of President. It has often been urged as ah ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 570 words
  10. RELIC FROM ALASKA.

    A legend handed down in Alasan history form a period far beyond the knowledge of people of our time is that of the totem pole. To men of the East a totem pole ...

    Article : 508 words
  11. THE CHINESE.

    The man who first persuaded the humble and lethargic oyster to work for him achieved a victory over the animal creation as worthy of our laurels— at least at ...

    Article : 973 words
  12. A TEN-FOOT PYTHON.

    Miss Myrtle Lambert, of Strong, of Maline, U S. has a strange pet in a 10. ft. pythom, brought from Asia and presented Miss Lambert has developed ...

    Article : 487 words
  13. THE SUCCESSFUL FACE

    After reading the letter in The London Daily Mail from the man with the “unsuccessful face” (says a correspondent in journal) “I walked through the city ...

    Article : 745 words
  14. CAPE—TO—CAIRO GIRL.

    Miss Charlotte Mansfield, novelist and poetess, left Waterloo Station, London, last month on a 16.000-mile circular tour via Capetown and Cairo. “I call it a walking ...

    Article : 382 words
  15. TELEPHONE GIRLS LIKE “PHONISTE.”

    “Phonist,” or “phoniste,” as a designation for a telephone operator, is coming and it is being approved by all who lift the polished cams (says a ...

    Article : 328 words
  16. FINDING A MEMORY BY HYPNOTISM.

    A series of remarkable hypnotic experiments are being made at the Grace Hospital New Haven, Connesticut, the subject a man who has lost his memory ...

    Article : 276 words
  17. GIBBON’S DECLINE AND FALL.

    “The monkey that tried to be a man” might have been the title of Professor Arthur Keith’s lecture last month, if it had delivered before so august a body ...

    Article : 273 words
  18. STRANGE MANIA OF MAN—HATER.

    Miss Harriet Evans, an elderly spinster, n whom an inquest was held at Hackney. England, was said to have been s confirmed an-hater. "She was so much against men ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. PIG BLOOD FOR TUBER CULOSIS.

    Pig’s blood, medically prepared, is of the highest value in the cure of incipient tuberculosis. according to an announcement Daniel F. Ricardo, ...

    Article : 150 words
  20. CONTRACTS BY TELE- PHONE.

    Judge Rentoul held at the City of London Court last month that a contract made telephone should be confirmed in writing if it was to be upheld in a Court of ...

    Article : 109 words
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