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  2. PROPOSALS BY PEERS AND HAIRDRESSERS.

    [The popular actress. Miss Edna May, has become engaged to Mr.Oscar Lewisohn. son of the well-known copper king of America. Mr. Lewisohn is declared to be a ...

    Article : 1,046 words
  3. SATURNALIA OF EXTRAVAGANCE.

    When President Roosevelt and Secretary Shaw warned their country of the dangers which follow a period of amazing prosperity nobody of any consequence in New York ...

    Article : 1,052 words
  4. THE MUCH DEBATED TELEPHONE.

    The telephone, the telephone exchange, and the telephone girl are much in evidence. Some places report against one, some against another, but wherever one ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,005 words
  5. HONEYMOON IN PIGMY LAND.

    Mjr. Powell-Cotton, who has spent his honeymoon among the pigmies of the [?] Forest, and has been exploring in Africa for 27 months, has arrived in Rome on his ...

    Article : 950 words
  6. HAMPTON COURT GHOSTS.

    The ghosts who are said to haunt Hampton Court Palace and its precincts have received a notable addition—either 9 or 11 in number. These recruits to the spectral ...

    Article : 838 words
  7. THE WALL STREET BOOM—AND PANIC.

    Wall street is noted for its booms, and as there can be no boom without a collapse, more or less severe, so is it noted for its panics. There are two kinds of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,087 words
  8. DREADFUL SHIPWRECK EXPERIENCE.

    The wreck of th steamer Larchmont, running between Providence and New York, on February 11 was reported by cable. The steamer ran info a schooner, ...

    Article : 704 words
  9. THE ALLEGED FOR TUNE READER.

    Every now and again the police drop on the fortune tellers, and the net comes in like the fisherman's—sometimes there are many fish sometimes few, sometimes big ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 473 words
  10. THE GREATEST BOOM OF HISTORY.

    We are told that the recent boom in Wall street was the biggest in history. In volume of money it might have been; but, it we compare conditions, we have yet to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 583 words
  11. SPIRITUAL PROBLEMS.

    Every week the Bishop of London received letters from members of his diocese—many from plain working men and women—who ask for his help in solving the ...

    Article : 669 words
  12. A BLOODLESS DUEL.

    Two doughty foes—M. Thomeguex, a yell-known swordsman, still a very fine blade at 60, and Signer Can[?]ni, a Milanese gentleman—who had fallen out over a ...

    Article : 526 words
  13. SELECTING A NEW YORK JURY.

    Dignity and solemnity, which are the most awe-inspiring attributes of justice in this country, are characteristics little known in the Law Courts of America. ...

    Article : 378 words
  14. WASP WAISTS DOOMED

    The medical men of the country who have viewed with disfavour the passing of the “'straight-fronted” figure, and the growing popularity of the “wasp waist,” ...

    Article : 323 words
  15. THE MURRAY.

    See where, the Murray’s glorious waters flow, From Kosciusco’s through vale and plain; Swift-gliding from their ice-bound [?] of show To strife and freedom in the joyous main. ...

    Article : 302 words
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