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  2. HOW TO MANAGE A WIFE

    King Chulalongkorn of Siam, who has just died, was probably the most married man in the world. He had fully 600 wives and at least as many children. He was ...

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  3. SOME GOOD ELECTION STORIES

    At a meeting in Liverpool during the last general election a candidate was eloquently appealing for the support of his audience. Suddenly a raucous voice bellowed forth, ...

    Article : 836 words
  4. STRANGE APPETITE

    Extraordinary eccentricities of diet were recorded by Mr. W. Soltan Fenwick, M.D., in an address delivered at the Glasgow Institute of Hygiene to a select audience of ...

    Article : 592 words
  5. MONEY IN SONG WRITING

    Talk about literature and the law and all the other professions, said a London music publisher to the writer, they are simply "not in it" compared with the ...

    Article : 1,090 words
  6. A SAD STORY

    Two pathetic letters were read in the London Divorce Court recently when Mr. Edward Young was granted a divorce. Mr. and Mrs. Young, who lived at ...

    Article : 604 words
  7. SHOPLIFTING BY AID OF A WIG

    Blanche Legalley was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Paris, and her two sons, Almyre and Alfonse, were sentenced to four months and two months ...

    Article : 230 words
  8. "PURPOSE" OF NATURE

    How did life on this globe originate? "The answer," said Professor Alfred Russel Wallace to an interviewer recently, "is the ...

    Article : 1,433 words
  9. FASHIONABLE FROM HEAD TO HEELS.

    The Departing Burglar (who has tied up and "bonneted" the caretaker)—"Well, any'ow, if yer ain't comfortable, yer're in the werry eight of fashion." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 31 words
  10. SMART STAGE SAYINGS

    At the Birmingham Hippodrome (Damerell and Rudland):—Damerell—"Money has wings, but house rents make it fly." ...

    Article : 510 words
  11. PECULIAR NAMES.

    Scattered throughout England are some curious inn names, but Germany probably keeps the record for out of the way signs and fantastic names. The most absurd ...

    Article : 152 words
  12. TREATMENT OF CANCER.

    At a meeting of the Medical Society, Copenhagen. Professor Thorkild Rovsing claimed that he had obtained important results by treating cancer with a vaccine ...

    Article : 57 words
  13. GLAD HE WAS TORTURED.

    Mr. A. Henry Savage Landor, the explorer, lectured last month to the French Geographical Society in Paris on the tortures he suffered in Tibet. He said he ...

    Article : 54 words
  14. STRANGE HIDING PLACES.

    Five years ago, when the Chinese men of war were about to go into action at the battle of Yalu, some of the European officers found that the native sailors had been ...

    Article : 201 words
  15. FARMYARD FASHIONS.

    A woman created a sensation in the streets of Bochult, Germany, by wearing a hat which was the exact copy of a bird's nest with a large hen in it. ...

    Article : 32 words
  16. MATRIMONIAL DUEL.

    The tribunal at Berne, after a very short trial, has found that Mme. Remonda was "justified" in shooting her divorced husband, Gregorio Remonda, aged 41, last ...

    Article : 141 words
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    Candidate—"May I hope. Mrs. Saunders, that your husband will support me —" Mrs. Saunder—"Support you! W'y, 'e ain't supported me the last six months!" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  18. SMUGGLERS IN BEEHIVE HATS.

    Two young smartly-dressed Parisian ladies, wearing large beehive hats, arrived at Bellegarde, in the Geneva-Paris express. They declared nothing and ostentatiously ...

    Article : 127 words
  19. REMARKABLE PORTRAIT.

    The Rev. E. Lipkin, of Oudtshoorn, Cape Colony, his completed and presented to the King a remarkable portrait in words of King Edward. The lines ...

    Article : 47 words
  20. A BIG FAMILY.

    In the district of Kroonstad, in the Transvaal, lives the Widow van Wyk, whose history, matrimonially and otherwise, is—not to put too fine a point upon ...

    Article : 292 words
  21. AN OLD CUSTOM.

    Recently worshippers in a London, Synagogue had a novel experience. As a Jewish bridegroom was being called to the reading of the law a shower of ...

    Article : 70 words
  22. PRAYER BEFORE BOXING.

    The opening of a prize-fight with prayer and the singing of hymns was the curious spectacle offered one night last month at Akron, Ohio, where the prizefighter ...

    Article : 213 words
  23. A TRAGIC DRINK.

    Prince Wladimir Teropakoff, a penniless nobleman, sacrificed his life at Moscow last month in an attempt to win a strange wager. ...

    Article : 142 words
  24. HIS LAST WISH.

    A man named Doilin, who was guillotined for murder at Le Mans, France, smoked a pipe before his execution and asked leave to have it buried with him. ...

    Article : 148 words
  25. HE OBJECTED.

    A novel slander charge is being investigated at Neoga, Illinois. The pastor in a prayer during a recent service mentioned the name of one of his parishioners, ...

    Article : 68 words
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