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  2. STORM IN CENTRAL AFRICA.

    Sir Harry H. Johnston, late special commissioner and commander-in-chief for Uganda. describes in "Cassell's" for January a storm on the shores of Lake ...

    Article : 594 words
  3. ROYALTY'S DOCTORS.

    Unquestionably at the head of the King's medical advisers, says "M.A.P.," stands the venerable and distinguished figure of Lord Lister, the founder of ...

    Article : 827 words
  4. AROUND THE WORLD

    Miss Marie Studholme says—"One must have one of two things for the stage—beauty or personal charm." but, of course, if one is able to act a little as ...

    Article : 41 words
  5. TYPEWRITTEN LOVE LETTERS.

    Women typists formed the theme of an amusing address delivered on March is at Queen's Hall by Sir Richard Henn Collins, the Master of the Rolls. The ...

    Article : 323 words
  6. 15,000 POSTMEN SHIRK WORK.

    "Passive resistance" was the order issued to the Post Office employees all over Austria. The command was placarded on the walls of the post offices by ...

    Article : 298 words
  7. A MILLIONAIRE'S CALLERS.

    There is an unpleasant "unearned increment" connected with pollanthropy on the scale Mr. Carnegie practises it When one learn of some of the returns of ...

    Article : 555 words
  8. BRITISH THOROUGHNESS.

    England alone has gone in for the tur[?]imes whole-souled. In this her procedure has been characteristic of the spirit of the Admiralty for some decades. Once ...

    Article : 48 words
  9. THE GOLDEN BREW.

    Mr. Shlbata, the brewer, has ordered a solid gold pan, which will be used for tempering sake. The capacity of the pan is such as to hold about 100 gallons. ...

    Article : 61 words
  10. CLERKS AS NAVVIES.

    The experiences of seven white men who have just returned to New York after two months' forced labour on a railway, technically known as "peonage," ...

    Article : 374 words
  11. WIVES IN DEMAND.

    Mr. Ball, the Canadian Government Agent in Birmingham, has had any number of letters asking him to find wives for lonely men in Canada. At first Mr. ...

    Article : 73 words
  12. THE WRONG MEDICINE.

    Mme. Hargault, a lady of sixty years of age, residing with her son, a lace manufacturer, at 32 Boulevard Sebastopol, having slight heart trouble, called ...

    Article : 120 words
  13. THE UNWRITTEN LAW.

    The doctrine of the Unwritten Law, which in America was first applied in Kentucky, and subsequently spread to Virginia and the district of Columbia, is ...

    Article : 309 words
  14. WELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON.

    The King (says "M.A.P.") has all the voluminous despatches of the great Duke of Wellington, whom he well remembers in the flesh, and thereby hangs a tale ...

    Article : 395 words
  15. A DEMOCRATIC KING.

    The King and Queen of Portugal went to meet the Queen's mother, the Comtesse de Paris, at the station of Elvas. where their arrival in a motor car ...

    Article : 152 words
  16. EDISON'S CIGARS.

    Edison is an inveterate smoker, and is rarely seen without a cigar between his lips. But his taste in tobacco is (says P.T.O.) not that of a connoisseur. He ...

    Article : 241 words
  17. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    The value of sunlight in the treatment of certain disease' cannot be overestimated. It is a well-known fact that sunlight destroys many of the microbes ...

    Article : 314 words
  18. HOW A POISONER WAS DRIVEN TO CONFESS.

    Apathetic Christmas drama was enneted at the Berlin police 'headquarters on December 25. when the dejected and half-frozen figure of a man wandered in ...

    Article : 238 words
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    A well-known traveller and writer says, in one of his books, that the best remedy for sea-sickness is the application to the head of a wet compress, as hot as ...

    Article : 204 words
  20. THE TRAIN TELEPHONE.

    An invention perfected by Dr. Alva Jones, of Louisville, as solved the problem of maintaining telephonic communication with running trains. Messages ...

    Article : 292 words
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    Advertising : 948 words
  22. DEVIL'S PICTURE BOOKS.

    The following story is told in the December number of "Pearson's Magazine" by Rudolph de Cordova:— "While cards have been called 'the ...

    Article : 547 words
  23. "MUSIC HATH CHARMS."

    During convalescence from illness the patient is often in a despondent frame of mind, and this is more especially the case, perhaps, after influenza than almost ...

    Article : 400 words
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