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  2. QUEST FOR THIRD WIFE.

    Although he is 85 years of age and has been married twice, Mr. Aaron Rodgers, a Matlock (Scotland) octogenarian, has once more been on the look-out for a wife. With ...

    Article : 965 words
  3. A FOOTBALL "BOWL."

    Some interesting features of engineering and construction are exemplified in the new stadium now going up on the Yale athletic field in New Haven. It is not a stadium, ...

    Article : 835 words
  4. WHO OWNS ASIA MINOR?

    The Immense resources of Asia Minor and its position as a bridge between Europe and the Far East have attracted the eager attention of the European Powers, which seem to expect that this ...

    Article : 661 words
  5. RATIONALISM.

    "Nearly 300 guests were present recently at the annual dinner or the Rationalist Press Association, held at the Connaught Rooms, under the presidency of Professor Gilbert ...

    Article : 557 words
  6. "NEW" JERUSALEM.

    Demolition again threatens the historic walls of Jerusalem, press reports state, although the assault this time is not to be made by a hostile army, but by ...

    Article : 1,012 words
  7. WHAT IS GRAVITY?

    That doubt still shrouds the most common and universal fact of the material world—the attraction of matter by matter—is doubtless to be reckoned the chief reproach of science. ...

    Article : 1,481 words
  8. VEGETABLE SOAP.

    In Western Kansas, according to a recent press bulletin of the United States Forest Service, settlers are cutting and marketing soapweed, or Spanish bayonet, to supply the ...

    Article : 423 words
  9. RELIC OF ROMANCE.

    A picturesque episode is related by the London "Daily Telegraph" correspondent at Constantinople. "Last Monday, whilh happened to be the anniversary of the Sultan's accession, a museum of old ...

    Article : 705 words
  10. PROPOSED FROM TREE-TOP.

    Usually when the conversational effort attending a courtship starts to lag—that is, when the young lover is making the third round of his repertoire of antique jokes and ...

    Article : 574 words
  11. EXPRESS IN PERIL.

    How a Leeds to London express escaped being wrecked, with probable heavy loss of life, was related before the West Riding magistrate, who ordered Charles Griffiths, a ...

    Article : 250 words
  12. JAPAN'S DEAD EMPRESS.

    "Once again the stimulating contrast of the very new with the very old which the Far East presents it thrust forcibly upon our minds. On Thursday the Dowager Empress of Japan died in the Numadzu Palace," writes ...

    Article : 374 words
  13. WOMEN IN THE SYNAGOGUE.

    "The solitary feature which attracts attention in the synagogue election," says the "Jewlsh Chronicle," Is the renewed attempt to enfranchise the lady seatholders, ...

    Article : 144 words
  14. IBSEN'S WIDOW.

    "Mme. Susanna Ibsen, widow of Henrik Ibsen, has died at Christiania, at the age of 77," says the "Times." "Susanna Thoresen (as she was born) came ...

    Article : 302 words
  15. FRENCH WOMEN AND VOTE.

    "The ballot organised by 'Le Journal' in order to ascertain how many women in France desire to vote closed on Sunday. In all 407,194 voting papers have been received ...

    Article : 227 words
  16. THE UNIVERSAL GRIN.

    "We shall all feel gayer for the news that there are to be escalators at the Oxford Circus Tube station," says the"Pall Mall." "The 'moving stairway' is the most ...

    Article : 183 words
  17. SCIENCE DISPLACES SIN.

    "If anyone is in doubt about the moral progress of the world, at least during the last few hundred years, he could do nothing better than read the first half of this book," ...

    Article : 209 words
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