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  2. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

    On April 12 there were in New York State four men who had been legally adjudged unworthy to exist longer on a planet where many pretty imperfect people are somehow ...

    Article : 1,161 words
  3. UNNAMED HERO.

    Details have been received in Great Britain by mail from India of the fatal shooting at Tank Tahsil, on the North-west Frontier, of Major G. Dodd, Captain G. B. Brown, ...

    Article : 446 words
  4. LATE S. R. CROCKETT.

    A very fine appreciation of the work and genius of the novelist Samuel Rutherford Crockett is given by Sir Robertson Nicoll in the "British Weekly." It was the editor of ...

    Article : 1,228 words
  5. SUN AS SURGEON.

    The healing virtues of sunlight. In a general sense, have been recognised from the dawn of human history, and are embodied in a thousand myths of the sun-god. But ...

    Article : 1,266 words
  6. THAT TIRED FEELING.

    When the wide prevalence of hookworm in America was first announced, a number of years ago, the humorists of the daily press heralded what they termed the discovery of "the microbe of ...

    Article : 479 words
  7. TAXING WEALTH.

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer, explaining the British Budget, made some very striking statements. "One and fourpence in the pound—it is an ...

    Article : 1,192 words
  8. FIRE FROM HEAVEN.

    The possibility that a discharge of lightning may start a fire is recognised in every insurance policy, yet we were scarcely prepared to hear from forest authorities that more than half the forest fires are ...

    Article : 569 words
  9. ROOSEVELT, EXPLORER.

    "Mr. Roosevelt, who has now returned to civilisation at Para, has had adventures enough to [?]atisty the most ardent and enterprising of travelers "Mr. Roosevelt has been making his pa[?] through ...

    Article : 751 words
  10. HILAIRE BELLOC ON SHAKESPEARE.

    From the June issue of the "Pall Mall Magazine": There is many a sincere and just admirer of Shakespeare who has never seen him ...

    Article : 177 words
  11. WORKHOUSE GAMBLING.

    Severe disciplinary measures have been taken by the master of the Birmingham Workhouse to stop betting among the inmates. Several of them have been placed on bread and water diet. ...

    Article : 225 words
  12. TRUCK SYSTEM YET ALIVE.

    Mrs. H. J. Tennant, at the Women's Liberal Conference in London, cited cases to prove that the obnoxious truck system is still in various forms at work. ...

    Article : 211 words
  13. MERCURY-VAPOR ENGINES.

    The successful operation of engines in which the vapor of mercury taken the place of steam is announced in "Power," where we read:—"Mercury vapor as a source of power is a reality. ...

    Article : 328 words
  14. ROMANCE IN A CLOD.

    Professor W. B. Bottomley delivered in the lecture-room of the Royal Botanic Gardens the first of a series of lectures on "The Bacterial Flora of the Soil in its Relation to Plant Nutrition." A ...

    Article : 226 words
  15. PRACTICAL DAYLIGHT-SAVING.

    "The members of the municipal staff employed at Wood Green Town Hall have taken a practical step towards daylight-saving which leaves the theorists miles behind," says the Daily Graphic. ...

    Article : 185 words
  16. FORTY COUNTY THRONES.

    "How many are there who, being offered the choice of becoming chairman of a county council or an utterly insignificant member of Parliament, would not choose the latter?" asks the Nation. ...

    Article : 184 words
  17. TRAGEDY ON RACECOURSE.

    A sensational incident occurred within the Coatbridge Dog Racing Ground. It seems that John M'Clone, 32, Molsile-street, Coatbridge, who was the official starter, was about to start one of the ...

    Article : 144 words
  18. CONSTABLE AND SQUIRREL.

    "English regard for animals was shown in a charming episode that has just occurred at Hampstead," sayd the Mail. "A motorist was abounded to see the traffic, ...

    Article : 141 words
  19. WIDENING FLEET-STREET.

    The widening of Fleet-street, which has been in progress many years, is all but completed. "This, unfortunately, refers only to the structural and physical situation. It has no Intellectual ...

    Article : 37 words
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