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  2. "WE'VE HAD ENOUGH!"

    The special correspondent at Amsterdam of the "Petit Parisian," telegraphing recently, states that he has just met a great Frankfurt banker, whose name is very well ...

    Article : 286 words
  3. GERMANY'S VOICE FOR WAR.

    The cry of Krupps and the other great Iron Masters and Armament Contractors to Germany has been making itself heard since the rest of the country of Blood and Iron began to think ...

    Article : 750 words
  4. HUMOR PARS.

    "I sea that a scientist has discovered the remains of a woman who lived 125,000 years ago. "That's nothing. To-day I located a woman ...

    Article : 1,046 words
  5. WORLD'S FASTEST DRESSER.

    Quick dressing is apparently the latest indoor war-time sport for up-to-date women who wish to economise time, and Mrs. Elcanor M'Adoo, wife of the Secretary of the ...

    Article : 139 words
  6. CHANGES WE SHALL OWE TO THE WAR.

    When peace returns—but I am not expecting her to arrive under German escort—she will not bring back to us the old world that we lived in before the war. ...

    Article : 762 words
  7. BREVITIES.

    A Tilbury dock laborer who was charged with stealing leather with which to mend his boots was stated to have earned £50 in six weeks. ...

    Article : 1,625 words
  8. POINTED IMPRESSIONS.

    Mr. Leopold Zimmermann, head of the Zimmermann Forshay banking house of New York, and a personal representative in America of German governmental financial ...

    Article : 131 words
  9. HE'S STILL WAITING[?]

    Ever since ten o'clock the motorist had stood by his car, which was drawn up near the pavement. It was now two o'clock, and the ...

    Article : 141 words
  10. ELECTRIC RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT IN GERMANY.

    This is the subject of an interesting article by Lord Monkswell, which recently appeared in the "Railway News." Discussing the prospects of increased electrification, the author ...

    Article : 142 words
  11. FIRST CONGRESSWOMAN.

    In the recent American election, the State of Montana returned to Congress the first woman to sit in that assembly. Miss Jeannette Rankin, who is the newly-elected "Lady ...

    Article : 259 words
  12. RACE WITH DEATH.

    The police motor-car of West New York was pressed into service a few months ago by Mr. John J. Schneider, a wealthy local realty agent, for a race with death. ...

    Article : 123 words
  13. THE MELTING-POT.

    A NEW YORK magistrate sentenced two brothers who had been brought before him for fighting, to shake hands and buy their mother a birthday present, which they did. ...

    Article : 190 words
  14. CLOTHES.

    Clothes are (or is) the foliage of the human race, the only difference between human foliage and nature's foliage being that nature takes off its foliage in the winter, while ...

    Article : 409 words
  15. GUARDING THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

    The Bank of England is quite the best-guarded institution in the world. No burglar or bank-thief has ever succeeded in making it part with a penny. The great outer ...

    Article : 148 words
  16. GERMANY'S REPENTANCE.

    Germany has long since repented of her eccentric idea of bestriding the narrow world like a Colossus, as Herr Wilhelm Shakespeare says. And, after all it is the height of ...

    Article : 277 words
  17. LUMINOUS COLLARS.

    The luminous collar is the latest device to lessen the dangers of the darkened London streets. Unfortunately the scope of this invention ...

    Article : 260 words
  18. THE NOTION COUNTER.

    Many a man who thinks he is a wit is only a clown ; and many a man who thinks he is a clown is only a fool. So many of us mean well. All the porter does with tho dust is to keep ...

    Article : 238 words
  19. HOW THE EX-CZAR OF RUSSIA IS GUARDED.

    Penetrating to-day into and under the vast prison palace of Nicholas Romanoff, the deposed Emperor, a correspondent obtained from the gaoler a statement of the former Emperor's ...

    Article : 242 words
  20. At the Front.

    Orderly: Company A is complaining about the beans. Officer: What's the matter with the beans? Orderly: Too old, sir. Company claims they're ...

    Article : 57 words
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