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  2. HERE AND THERE.

    The Russian Government is arranging, for the purchase for £50,000 of Yasnaya Polyana, the estate of the late Count Tolstoi. ...

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  4. VISION OF EMPIRE.

    Mr. Balfour presided recently at a luncheon to the Prime Ministers of the Overseas Dominions at the Constitutional Club. Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir Joseph Ward sat on ...

    Article : 1,231 words
  5. CURRENT TOPICS.

    I have read with humiliation and disgust the account of the manner in which our cadets have been treated by the Federal Government. I venture to think that had ...

    Article : 182 words
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  7. GREEMWICH TIME FOR PORTUGAL.

    On and after January 1, 1912, Greenwich or Western European time will be officially adopted throughout Portugal. ...

    Article : 23 words
  8. RECORD FOR CRUELTY PROSECUTIONS.

    Police-Constable Beesley, of the London Metropolitan Police, who has appeared in over 1500 prosecutions for cruelty to horses, has been presented with the medal of Our Dumb Friends' ...

    Article : 40 words
  9. SHIP TO BE CUT IN TWO.

    Salvage operations were begun last month on the five masted sailing ship Preussen, which was wrecked near Dover. It is proposed to cut the huge ship in two by explosives, tow the two ...

    Article : 46 words
  10. BEQUEST OF 4000 BIRDSKINS.

    Comprising nearly 4000 birdskins, the collection of African birds formed by the late Mr. Boyd Alexander, and bequeathed by him to the Natural History department of the British ...

    Article : 47 words
  11. ACT OF CONSIDERATION.

    When a motorist named Alfred Ware, of Kensington (Eng.), was summoned at Kingston for motoring at 28 miles an hour, a constable said that when he stopped the defendant Ware said ...

    Article : 80 words
  12. SLOWLY DROWNED SY RISING TIDE.

    A young man named Thomas Jones leaped a stream from the Loughor River, near Swansea (Eng.),a month ago, and his legs stuck in the mud on the other side. ...

    Article : 58 words
  13. DECREASE OF CRIME IN SCOTLAND.

    The annual report of the Prison Commissioners for Scotland for 1910 states that the number of commitments during the year, including persons sentenced to terms of penal ...

    Article : 74 words
  14. THE PEOPLE'S PARTY.

    "A plague on both your Houses," said Mercutlo to the Montagues and Capulets. So says the Mercutlo of to-day—the people of this State. And he speaks wisely. The day of ...

    Article : 199 words
  15. SWISS COMPULSORY INSURANCE.

    After having been eleven years before the Swiss Parliament, the Bill for compulsory insurance against sickness and accident has just been passed by the Upper House, or Standerat ...

    Article : 110 words
  16. THE FLEETS OF THE GREAT POWERS.

    A White Paper issued recently shows the fleets of the great Powers on March 31 last, excluding battleships and armored cruisers over 20 years old. ...

    Article : 81 words
  17. THE KING'S AFRICAN "ZOO."

    A splendid collection of South African animals, the gift to the King of people in all the provinces of the Union and Rhodesia, recently arrived in London from Capetown in the liner ...

    Article : 123 words
  18. SEVERAL WORRIES BETTER THAN ONE.

    The Bishop of Manchester, speaking in London, said:— "My little experience of life is this—that the secret of happiness is to have a sufficient multitude of worries. The man who ...

    Article : 94 words
  19. A "WONDERFUL" DELUSION.

    Mr. King O'Malley claims that the official oc-cupation of the Federal Capital within six or seven years from now—for which the Government plans provide—will be "a wonderful ...

    Article : 269 words
  20. EDITORS DUEL.

    The perils of journalism, in France and Spain include the fighting of duels. In consequence of an article in the "Temps," on the subject of Morocco, the editor of the ...

    Article : 92 words
  21. TREASURES OF SOLOMON.

    The Sheikhs of the Mosque of Omar and other officials, including an Armenian, who are accused of aiding and abetting a party of explorers in the alleged removal of priceless ...

    Article : 176 words
  22. QUAINT SURNAMES.

    As a pendant to the quaint surnames un-earthed from the Sheffield poll-tax returns, there are the Christian names of a jury in Sussex in the seventeenth century. Among the ...

    Article : 76 words
  23. CANADIAN GIFT TO THE KING.

    A remarkable gift to the King from the Empire Club of Canada has just been brought over and placed in the library of the Royal Colonial Institute until the time comes for its ...

    Article : 208 words
  24. THE KING'S POST BAG.

    Some years ago King Edward, when a taking his usual Summer holiday at Marienbad, kept a record of the contents of his post bag. In 20 days he received nearly 200 letters, asking ...

    Article : 107 words
  25. UNIVERSITY CLUB TO THE RESCUE.

    Two or three years ago, in an article in the "North American Review," Gen. Carter, of the U.S. Army, expressed the opinion that had the Russian nobility gone to the front in the war ...

    Article : 297 words
  26. £25,000 CHAMBER ORGAN.

    A chamber organ, which has cost £25,000, is the latest acquisition of ex-Senator Clark of Montana (U.S.A.), the Copper King. The organ is not large, but its tone is perfect. The ...

    Article : 116 words
  27. REUNION AFTER 40 YEARS.

    A romantic story of the re-union of a man and his wife after a separation of 40 years comes from Pittsburg, Kansas. Peter Sharp and his wife, Ann Catherine, lost each other ...

    Article : 223 words
  28. THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

    When the United States interfered in Cuba, in 1957, while there were some material motives, the main impulse was humane, says "Colliers," Kew York. Somewhat more than a ...

    Article : 199 words
  29. MR. HOLMAN AND THE FARMERS.

    Counsel, when defending a client against whom there is an overwhelming case, some-times resort to the most extraordinary arguments. Mr. Holman did not address the ...

    Article : 546 words
  30. PRACTICAL IMPERIALISM.

    Most writers on Imperial matters, says Mr. F. E. Smith in "T.P.'s Magazine," dilate too much on the sentimental side of Imperialism That, of course, in its way is good; but ...

    Article : 216 words
  31. THE FARMER AND HIS GUN.

    It is all very well for the "Daily Telegraph" to term "foolish vaporings" the threat of a member of the Farmers and Settlers' Conference that if under the Industrial Act about to be ...

    Article : 215 words
  32. DEATH OF AN "SUNDAY TIMES" EDITOR.

    The Berth (W.A.) "Sunday Times" writes :— "The death took place in the Perth Public Hospital on July 8 of Mr. Herbert Ridsdale, well known in journalistic circles of this State ...

    Article : 154 words
  33. MINE SWEEPING BY FISHERMEN.

    The training of Grimsby fishermen for naval mine sweeping began recently, when H.M.S. Seaflower and Seanrew (trawlers purchased for the purpose) left port with the first batch of ...

    Article : 101 words
  34. MAN ADOPTS WOMAN OF 45.

    Judge Dike, of the County Court Brooklyn, granted the petition of George S. Rockwood, Manhattan for permission to adopt Maude L. Warner, 43 years old and married, of Lakeville, ...

    Article : 78 words
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