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  2. TITLED ACTRESSES:

    A good deal of stuff is being written about the Countess Russell's accession to the ranks of the stage, just as there was when Lord Rosslyn adopted the sock and ...

    Article : 312 words
  3. CHLOROFORMED BY BURGLARS.

    An extraordinary burglary was perpetrated, in London on March 19. The preraises broken, into are occupied by Dr. Meadows, his wife, and young child, and a ...

    Article : 605 words
  4. THE MURDER IN WHITFIELD-STREET

    Truth is, we know, stranger than ordiCary fiction, but that it should be able at times to give points to even the grim murder. mysteries ...

    Article : 1,196 words
  5. AUSTRIAN SWINDLER'S CAREER.

    Rudolph Cavedoni, a very ingenious swindler, was tried at the Vienna Criminal. Court on March 17 for extensive frauds. His astonishing' skill in extracting money ...

    Article : 428 words
  6. ITEMS OF INTEREST

    The Czar is to have a new Imperial opera-house in St. Petersburg, which will cost £800,000. Berlin has female commercial travellers ...

    Article : 1,647 words
  7. ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN

    Mr. Harry Blinman, so well known and liked in cricketing and other circles, has been a member of the Civil Service since February 25, 1878, and has spent the last ...

    Article : 1,457 words
  8. A MURDER MYSTElW

    It sometimes happens that when one is travelling on circuit one hears stories of tragic mystery which in their full detail do not penetrate to the outer world (wntes ...

    Article : 1,117 words
  9. ELOPEMENT FROM A HAREM.

    The Weiner Tagblatt states that a daring young Englishman of good family (name not given) has succeeded in abducting and doping with one of the ladies ...

    Article : 164 words
  10. BEER EOR THE WAISTGOAT POCKET.

    There is nothing very surprising about the statement that in a short time beer will be on sale in the form of tabloids. In Germany the beverage has been reduced ...

    Article : 168 words
  11. THE RAILWAYS OOMMISSIORER.

    Mr. A. G. Pendleton holds a position of great, importance in the Civil Service, for the many hundreds, of miles of railway entail such responsibility, and demand ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 247 words
  12. DEATH-BED JOKES.

    The sense of humor, must, be strong in the man who perpetrates jokes on has death-bed but such has been done on more than, one occasion (remarks a writer in the ...

    Article : 883 words
  13. A VETERAN CRICKETER.

    By the death of Mr. E. J. Gregory, which took place in Sydney a, week ago, a prominent figure in cricket circles was removed. Mr. Gregory was born on May ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 94 words
  14. WHAT NEWSPAPER SEN[?]ATIONS COST..

    Immense sums of money are often paid for sensational pieces of information which no other paper has got. The editor, of the Pall Mall gazette paid £500 for the news ...

    Article : 722 words
  15. A TERRIBLE MOMENT.

    A terrible experience befell a platelayer on the Great Western railway near Birmingham on March 22. His foot became entangled in the points, and while he was ...

    Article : 88 words
  16. AFTER THIRTY YEARS.

    A Rome telegram, dated March 18, says: —In 1869 a young man named Michele. Rigosa, living in Rome with his parents, fell hopelessly in love with a married lady ...

    Article : 258 words
  17. DEATH-STRUGGLE WITH VIPERS.

    Daiziel's Paris correspondent, under date March 23, telegraphs:— woodcutter was found dead in the forest near Routhenes, in Savoie, with two dead vipers on one ...

    Article : 68 words
  18. COUNTESS AND FOOTMAN.

    Russian society, is shocked. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Morning Leader," under date March 22, explains why. It seems that the Countess ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. STORY OF A CORK [?]

    A stow at once recalling the famous song about the steam arm and a ghastly tale by Edgar Allan Poe is told of John -Stanton, who recently' died in New York ...

    Article : 138 words
  20. TRIUMPHANT ACQUITTAL.

    At Marlow Petty Sessions, on March 20, reports the "Westminster Gazette"), an authoritative test for sobriety was described A defendant was, charged with being ...

    Article : 134 words
  21. THE PHONOGRAPH IN THE PULPIT.

    The unconventional themes. selected for pulpit orations, and so prominently advertised speak the disposition of many earnest ministers of religion to attract the masses. ...

    Article : 124 words
  22. THE NUTRITIVE POWER OF AN EGG

    The supply of entertaining and stimulating scientific stories from America is well maintained, A London Daily Mail message recites details of an ...

    Article : 208 words
  23. THE UNGODLY HAT IN NEW YORE

    A serious squabble has occurred among the Methodist community in New York, reports the London Morning Leader, owing to a decree by Pastor Odell and, the ...

    Article : 141 words
  24. SATURN'S NEW SATELLITE

    Professor W. H. Pickering, of Mr. Percival Lowell's private observatory at Flagstaff Arizona, U.S. has discovered a new satellite—the ninth—of Saturn. Its ...

    Article : 391 words
  25. DANCING OUT OF A CON VICTION.

    A novelty in legal procedure even for hrance where they do things of that sort different from us, finds record in the. London Daily-Telegraph of March 22. It ...

    Article : 197 words
  26. A NEW CRIME.

    For the future Arkansas will be a State avoided by the cigarette-smoker, for one reads in the "Daily Chronicle," under date March 21, that the Legislature of that ...

    Article : 90 words
  27. CLAIMS FOR HEAD MONEY.

    The officers of Dewey's fleet have preferred a claim for double the amount of head Money which it was at first believed they were entitled to receive as the ...

    Article : 254 words
  28. THE NATIVE COMPOSITOR.

    No one who has been brought into contact with the native compositor can fail to admire the way in which he masters the intricacies of type setting. But ...

    Article : 168 words
  29. MORE KIPLING YERSES.

    Several years ago, says the New York Journal Fred D. Underwood, now general manager of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-, way, named two stations in the upper ...

    Article : 200 words
  30. A TRIFLE LIGHT AS AIR.

    Queen Marghnrita of Italy is not only the owner of the finest pearls in the world, but she also numbers among her possessions the most costly lace, handkerchief ...

    Article : 240 words
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