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  2. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    Boiled cabbage is said to be a cure for drunkenness. Divers do not care to work at a greater depth of 100 ft. ...

    Article : 1,633 words
  3. IN FULL CRY.

    She looked quickly at him, speaking [?] if an impediment was in her throat. "They're not." "I fancy you'll find that they are." ...

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  4. "POISON BY POST:" TWO SNAKES SENT.

    Living poison by post is a novelty. The New York correspondent of the "Daily Mail," under date April 24, says that Miss May Cook, a cornet soloist and ballad ...

    Article : 205 words
  5. THE REVENGE OF A COUNTESS.

    The "Morning Leader" Vienna correspondent, under date April 23, relates a tragic story of feminine revenge. The Count and Countess Napodano livedha ...

    Article : 208 words
  6. EXTENSIVE NOTE FORGERIES.

    A colossal conspiracy for the forgery or American 100-dollar notes was reported from New York on April 24. All the persons concerned have been arrested. The ...

    Article : 187 words
  7. MINERS' SUPERSTITIONS.

    The following extracts are taken from an article by Mr. A. Bluett, in the latest issue of the "Cornish Magazine":—It is, no doubt, rather a long time since ...

    Article : 2,103 words
  8. A CORNISH LADY'S DREAM.

    The Rev. S. Barber contributes the following to the "Cornish Magazine" for April:— About 14 years ago the writer was ...

    Article : 783 words
  9. MURDERER'S AWFUL STORY.

    A man named Hiram Hall, the owner of considerable property at Chattanooga, Tennessee, was hanged on April 14 for the murder of his wife(reports a New York ...

    Article : 246 words
  10. A LOCAL SCIENTIST.

    Professor Tate, F.G.S., the Elder Professor of Natural Science at the University of Adelaide, is a member of the council of the School of Mines and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 293 words
  11. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

    The Superintendent of Public Buildings (Mr. Charles Edward Owen-Smyth) possesses a strong personality, and often risks the loss of personal popularity in his ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 319 words
  12. MUSICAL NOTES.

    The Rev. Alfred Wheeler, who has recently been appointed to the precentorship of the Melbourne Cathedral, has written an Australian patriotic song, entitled "The ...

    Article : 1,367 words
  13. A TERRIBLE CYCLONE.

    A destructive cyclone swept over Kirksville, Missouri, on April 24. The storm broke over Kirksville about half-past 6 in the evening, with tremendous fury, ...

    Article : 367 words
  14. CRUCIFIED WOMEN.

    The Elder Dempster liner Sobo, which arrived at Liverpool on April 25 from Opobo, brought full particulars of the expedition into the Quae country made by ...

    Article : 408 words
  15. THE RICHEST INFANT EVER BORN.

    Apart from his other distinctions, the infant son of Mr. Harry Payne Whitney, and Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, of New York, is remarkable as being the ...

    Article : 428 words
  16. A RUSSIAN DUEL.

    A military newspaper, "Rasvedtschik," appearing in St. Petersburg, gives an account of the manner in which duels are forced on Russian officers. Two ...

    Article : 286 words
  17. ACCUSED OF 16 MURDERS.

    A murder trial began at Breslau on April 27, which resembles rather the sensational developments of the worst kind of shilling shocker than a page from real life (wires ...

    Article : 619 words
  18. WHITE SAVAGES.

    The severest critics of the Americans are the Americans themselves. In their attacK upon the Government the Anti-Expansionists raise the taunt that the New ...

    Article : 678 words
  19. NOVEL ASTRONOMY.

    A theatre capable of seating 6,000 persons is now being constructed around the end of a giant telescope for the forthcoming Paris Exhibition (reports the ...

    Article : 608 words
  20. MATRIMONIAL CURIOS.

    Japan affords some matrimonial curios says a Yokohama dispatch of February 20). In one village there is a remarkable woman who has been legally married 29 ...

    Article : 166 words
  21. BENEATH THE ICE.

    An Odessa telegram, dated April 22, says:—A terrible and curious accident is reported from the village of Shamensk, in the government of Orel. A few days ago, ...

    Article : 108 words
  22. SERMONS BY THE BARREL.

    A New York telegram dated April 21 says:—A law having been recently enacted by the Georgia State Legislature abolishing chaplains in the prisons of the state, ...

    Article : 115 words
  23. A MILLION POUNDS LEFT TO A WORKING COUPLE.

    James Russel, a machinist, in humble circumstances, has fallen heir to five million dollars, left him by a bachelor cousin (says a Vancouver telegram dated April ...

    Article : 130 words
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  26. HUNGARIAN TOWN BURNT

    On April 26 the town of Gutta, which is the largest export market for fruit in Hungary, was destroyed by fire. A telegram of the same date says:—The town ...

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  28. THE CONVICTS' WEEKLY.

    A New York dispatch, dated April 21, says:—The convicts at Sing-Sing Prison, New York, who number 1,300, are about to publish a weekly newspaper, entitled the ...

    Article : 102 words
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