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  2. WHY MEN LEARN TO FLY.

    Men learn to fly nowadays for all sorts of extraordinary reasons, remarked a well-known aviation, instructor. For Instance, one of my pupils spent six ...

    Article : 722 words
  3. GEORGE SAND AND DE MUSSET.

    Mme. Lauth, the granddaughter of George Sand, has obtained £200 damages from a playwright on the ground that a play of his was an outrage on the memory of her ...

    Article : 539 words
  4. WITH THE NORTH-WEST POLICE.

    The authorities at Ottawa have received from Sergeant C. S. Harper an account of the Journey made by a police patrol sent out from Lake Saskatoon early in ...

    Article : 607 words
  5. RISKS OF FOOD.

    Alter being adjourned seven times the inquest concluded on the woman who was employed at Oddenino's restaurant, London, and who died on November 7. She was taken in, ...

    Article : 374 words
  6. SAVING THE EYES.

    That what the eye doesn't see will never hurt it sounds like common sense, but is really a common error. The invisible rays of the spectrum may cause serious injury, and ...

    Article : 540 words
  7. ANARCHIST EDITING.

    Do you find your Job monotonous? Do you sometimes years for a change in your daily round—a little excitement or upheaval? Then take over the editorship of an ...

    Article : 530 words
  8. TALK ABOUT THE BIBLE.

    Dr. Campbell Morgan, of Westminster Chapel, and Mr. William Bryan, the American Secretary of State, have been speaking together on the Bible at a great meeting in Washington. ...

    Article : 479 words
  9. THE STOLEN NECKLACE.

    We learn (says the "Times") that the large pearl, valued at about £11,000. missing from M. Mayor's necklace, which was stolen in trandt from Paris to London, has been recovered. The two drop pearls stolen at the ...

    Article : 229 words
  10. COLOSSAL ARMAMENTS.

    The keynote of P. A. Molteno's powerful article in the "Contemporary Review" on "Liberalism and Naval Expenditure" is that the Cabinet is on its trial, and to give way to ...

    Article : 499 words
  11. MOVING PICTURES QUITE OLD.

    Moving pictures are not quite such a new idea as most people think. In 1828 Sir John Herschel, the great inventor, asked Charles Babbage. an equally well-known man of that ...

    Article : 235 words
  12. CATTLE-MAIMING MYSTERY.

    There was a sensational sequel at the Welshpool (England) Police Court to a farmer's loss of ten cattle and the serious injury of an eleventh, Annis Evant, aged 15, a domestic servant, being charged with cattle ...

    Article : 173 words
  13. JOURNALISTS HONORED.

    By entertaining Mr. J. A. Spender and Sir P. Carruthers Gould, of the "Westminster Gazette," to dinner at the City Liberal Club a tribute was paid to Liberal Journalism. ...

    Article : 187 words
  14. MARRIAGE SHACKLES.

    One effect of the report of the Divorce Commission is that a few weeks hence an official will be appointed to each division of the British High Court—the King's Bench, ...

    Article : 116 words
  15. FRENCH CATHEDRALS.

    "The book of M. Rodin, the great sculptor. on the cathedrals of France will shortly appear, and the 'Temps' is already enabled to publish extracts from it." says the "Times" ...

    Article : 371 words
  16. ITALIAN PERIL TO GREECE.

    The galley wrecked on the coast of Campania first put it into the mind of Italy to dispute the Greek mastery of the Mediterranean. And now Greece is again talking ...

    Article : 682 words
  17. INCOME TAX SWINDLE.

    A civil servant occupying a nigh position at Somerset House, Alfred Graham Hodgson, 39, was ordered to twelve months' imprisonment for forging a request for repayment of ...

    Article : 253 words
  18. DEATH OF A PRINCESS.

    Princess William of Baden died last month In Berlin. She was born in October, 1841, and married in 1863 Prince William of Baden, who predeceased her. ...

    Article : 146 words
  19. NATIONAL SUPREMACY.

    The newest of the City companies—the City of London Solicitors' Company—held their annual banquet at the merchant Taylor Hall. E.C. During the speech a Lord Italdane said the British nation led the world, but they ...

    Article : 105 words
  20. FAMINE OR EMPIRE.

    This, according to Dr. Starr Jordan, in the "Review of Reviews," is the choice before Japan. He says:—"The idea of a Japanese Invasion of Australia is quite ...

    Article : 199 words
  21. NAVY FASHION SHOP.

    "When the museum of the United Service Institution comes, as it surely must, under control of the International Arbitration Association. we will set up a collection of ...

    Article : 87 words
  22. BOTHA AND RHODES.

    In a character sketch of General Botha, contributed to the "Review of Reviews." Alfred G. Gardiner says that the general was strongly against the war. but when it had ...

    Article : 272 words
  23. ON A BUSINESS FOOTING.

    Out in California the Rev. Dr. Aked, late or Liverpool, is in trouble over come of his too liberal opinions. Dr. Aked is always very outspoken, and not very long ago he ...

    Article : 153 words
  24. THE SEX CLEAVAGE.

    Rev. C. L. Marson, in his book, God's Co-operative Society," says:— "More alarming still is the sex cleavage. The wife has loom and her spinning wheel, her still ...

    Article : 212 words
  25. "WHO KNOWS?" SAYS THE ARCHBISHOP.

    The Archbishop of Brisbane, preaching in Westminster Abbey, said:— "The modern Labor movement, as I understand It, is due to the establishment of universal education, and ...

    Article : 257 words
  26. GRENFELL OF LABRADOR.

    A remarkable man in evening stepped on the platform to deliver a lecture at the Queen's Hall. London. He was "Grenfell of Labrador"—Dr. W. J. Grenfell, the London Hospital surgeon, who, putting side the prospect ...

    Article : 143 words
  27. HOME RULE.

    The "Review of Reviews" contains a very full summary of the provisions of the Home Rule Bill, a most useful thing just now. A perusal of this will show that Mr. Stead is ...

    Article : 176 words
  28. RICH BACHELOR'S HOUSE.

    An appeal against the Westminster Union's assessment of his house and stable at St. James's-square was made at the London Sessions by Mr. Gaspard Oliver Farrer. Counsel said that the house in question was a very ...

    Article : 178 words
  29. BURNS'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

    Mr. John Burnt, who has just been appointed President of the Board of Trade, speaking to tat Manchester Association of Engineers, said:— "He came to Manchester less as a Minister or a ...

    Article : 208 words
  30. SERVANTS OF THE KING.

    The Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury has dismissed the amendments to the proposals contained in the Whole Hour, dealing with the rubrics of the prayer Book. ...

    Article : 153 words
  31. ELECTRIC GLOVES FOR MOTORISTS.

    It would appear (says "Chamber's Journal") as if the motorist is to become the most pampered traveller on earth. The scuttle-dash protects his body and chest from the wind, the side door is a preventive against ...

    Article : 315 words
  32. LOST £10,000,000 ESTATE.

    To lose a fortune of nearly £11,00,000 owing to a revolution was the of Henry Lowndes Leopoidins, Court Leopoidins, whose creditors met at the London Bankruptcy Court. ...

    Article : 218 words
  33. THE TWO PINS CLUB.

    Sir Francis Burnard, once editor of "Punch," tells th "Telegraph" how the "Two Pins Club" was a member. "This riding club, the T.P.C., was a notion after ...

    Article : 199 words
  34. GRAFT INQUIRY.

    Mr. John Kennedy, the State Treasurer of New York, who was to have given evidence at the investigation into graft in the public services, committed suicide. ...

    Article : 162 words
  35. EMPTY CHURCHES IN BERLIN.

    "Some extraordinary figures to church attendance in Berlin are published in the "Vessische Zeltung," says the "Chronicles's" Berlin correspondent. "On February 22 the united committees of the ...

    Article : 216 words
  36. MAN IN THE TWO SUITS.

    "Gord morning, officer, have a cigar?" wan the salute accorded Sergeant Alexander Jamleson in the early morning while he was patrolling his brat in Camphill-avenue, Lang ...

    Article : 141 words
  37. A FAMOUS TURK.

    Sold Pasha, nine times Grand visitor, has died in Constantinople, "In personal appearance he was short, returned, bearded, a typical Turk of the old ...

    Article : 140 words
  38. NOT GUILTY.

    Mother, "Well, Bobble, I hope you were a good boy at Mrs. Bond's, and didn't ask for two pieces of pie." Babb[?]! "No, ma, I didn't ask for two pieces; I only asked if there wasn't gol[?] to be my." ...

    Article : 50 words
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