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  2. CUBED BY FRIGHT.

    An extraordinary instance of "cure by shock" has occurred in Kentish Town (London). A woman, who had been completely paralysed for nine years, has been ...

    Article : 515 words
  3. TWO PICTURES.

    The British naval estimates exceed £40,000,000—vide cable. Add £27,000,000 army and the interest on the national debt. which is a defend charge pure and simple. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 477 words
  4. A MOVING PICTURE STORY.

    Whether rapidly increasing paternal responsibilities, or a severe fit of absentmindedness were the cause, certain it is that Mrs. Sarah Ann Smith had not gazde ...

    Article : 1,269 words
  5. AWAKENED CHINA.

    A leading New York financier makes two assertions in one—that Great Britain, Russia. and Japan are conspiring to keep China down, and that the United States is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 836 words
  6. DEATH IN ANGRY SEA

    The San Francisco Weekly Chronicle of January 19. contained a graphic account of how six men tried to reach shore from a wreck, but lost their lives. The Marshfield ...

    Article : 900 words
  7. TALES FROM TUSSAUD’S.

    Human fiends are to be seen in the Chamber of Horrors at Mme. Tussaud’s. Marat, the incarnate devil of the French Revolution, is there, and, as we look at ...

    Article : 1,739 words
  8. PORT SUNLIGHT.

    On the left bank of the River Mersey, not many miles from its mouth, where but “yesterday” was a stretch of obscure farmland, unheralded and unsung, now stands ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 432 words
  9. WONDERFUL RESCUE.

    Six colliers, who had been entombed in a mine near Bochum, in West Germany, for four days, were eventually brought to the surface. All six were alive, and ...

    Article : 695 words
  10. "TOLSTOI'S TWILIGHT”

    An interesting article in The World's Work gives the impressions of Mr. Henry George, junior, of a pilgrimage recently made to Count Tolstoi, in his Russian ...

    Article : 437 words
  11. DEALING WITH THE BLACK HAND.

    In Toledo on January 29 heavy penalties were imposed by Judge E. W. Tayler, in the Federal Court, on the prominent members of the Ohio band of Black Handers ...

    Article : 377 words
  12. SMOKER'S JUDGMENT.

    The smokers three rival loves—the pips, the cigar, and the cigarette—have been on trial in the pages of The Lancet, and the verdict is that they are all partially guilty ...

    Article : 489 words
  13. MURDEROUS MILLINERY.

    I want the ladies to give me their ears for a few minutes; also I call upon all who read this urgent plea for our native birds, show or read it to their mothers, sisters, ...

    Article : 969 words
  14. FIANCEE'S RIGHTS.

    The Law Courts of Gottingen (Germany) have just delivered a weighty decision, affecting the rights and liberties of fiancees. Some weeks ago a young Berlin architect ...

    Article : 333 words
  15. WRECKED OFF ICELAND.

    A thrilling story of some Hull fishermen's adventure on the coast of Iceland was told last week by the crew of the wrecked trawler Thomas Handing, who ...

    Article : 386 words
  16. GRUESOME REVEL.

    Superstition was flouted and invited to do its worst by all manner of taunts levelled against the fearsome number 13 at a banquet given in New York on January ...

    Article : 243 words
  17. TIMEPIECES TO SUIT.

    A good deal of attention is given by clock and watch makers to designs to suit. There are carriage clocks and motor clocks and watches, cyclists' watches, aerial watches, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 308 words
  18. AN INTERESTING BADGE.

    The illustration has nothing very artistic about it : but it makes up in interest for what it lacks in that way. It is a facsimile of the earliest badge known used ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 209 words
  19. OTHELLO REVERSED.

    An amusing performance of "Othello" in Port au Prince, Hayti, is reported by a correspondent of The Hamburger Nachrichten. Berlin. With the exception of ...

    Article : 188 words
  20. THE VEILED THIEF.

    A mysterious lady thief, who has chosen the fashionable hotels of New York as the field of her operations. is causing intense chagrin to the police by the ingenuity with ...

    Article : 182 words
  21. A WAITER'S TIPS.

    That her husband, who is a waiter at the Waldorf-Astoria, makes £20 a week [?] tips at that fashionable and expensive [?]otel was asserted by Mrs. Julia Wendling ...

    Article : 192 words
  22. MARRIAGE AND THE MONTHS.

    Some rhymes purporting to give the marriage portents of the various months of the year should have interest to prospective brides. Here they are:— ...

    Article : 177 words
  23. BOY SCOUT'S HEROISM.

    A boy scout. attracted by some smoke while on his way to fire drill at Tunbridge Wells (England), found that some buildings in a nursery were on fire. At. ...

    Article : 86 words
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