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  2. THE WORLD'S GREATEST MURDERER THE FLY.

    "Kill that fly!" Last week we published this declaration of war made by Islington (England) Council on the common house fly ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. HERE & THERE

    The University of Pennsylvania has issued an [?] forbidding students to play poker, under pain of expulsion. ...

    Article : 26 words
  4. SMILE SEED

    "It is the doctor, sir." "Impossible for me to see him. Tell him—I'm ill!" Maude: "How do you know that it is a ...

    Article : 1,541 words
  5. OLD WARSHIPS SOLD.

    Nineteen obsolete ships of the French Navy were sold recently to a Paris firm for £67,500. ...

    Article : 19 words
  6. HUSTLING

    The American Senators' rate of speaking in the Senate has increased during the last 25 years from 140 words to 175 words a minute (says the "Washington Post"). ...

    Article : 33 words
  7. KEY TO 1000 DOORS STOLEN.

    The master key which unlocks the 1000 doors of the member's rooms in the House of Representatives in Washington was stolen last month. ...

    Article : 33 words
  8. STOLE 3500 CHICKENS.

    Tony Ferror, of St. Mary's, Pennsylvania, is probably the champion chicken stealer of the world. He has been remanded again on the same charge after admitting the theft of 3500 ...

    Article : 38 words
  9. LIFE LOST FOR A CAT.

    A three-year-old boy named Walter Horner, of Harilepool (Eng.) was knocked down and [?] by a cart recently while crossing the [?] a cat. ...

    Article : 34 words
  10. MOSQUITOES STOP WORK.

    Work on the Kooteney Central Railway, Vancouver, British Columbia, was temporarily stopped last month on account of a plague of mosquitoes. All Government road work in that ...

    Article : 41 words
  11. CURED BY FRIGHT.

    Joseph Summers, of Harrisonburg, Virginia [?] a cripple from birth, was frightened [?] accidentally shooting a little girl. He [?] erutches on the ground and ran away. ...

    Article : 43 words
  12. HISTORIC CANNON-BALL.

    A cannon-ball Sin in diameter and weighing [?] which is believed to have been fired from [?] of Mons Meg in the reign of James [?] of Scotland four centuries ago, has been ...

    Article : 49 words
  13. WITNESSED 10,000 MARRIAGES.

    "Father Frouard," the oldest wineshop-keeper in the Seine district (France), who died recently, had a wine shop next the town hall at Gennevillers, a suburb of Paris, and had ...

    Article : 47 words
  14. LAST OF A FAMOUS LIGHTHOUSE.

    The world-famous St. Agnes Lighthouse, the oldest lighthouse in existence and the guardian of the Scillies, was closed ana the light extinguished last month, after continuous, service ...

    Article : 100 words
  15. KING'S MEDAL.

    In recognition of the manner in which they reduced the Underground Railway traffic during [?]oronation week Chief Traffic Inspector G. [?] Ravening of the Central London Railway, ...

    Article : 51 words
  16. LREADNOUGHTS FOR CHILI.

    The Chilian Government has accepted the passed of its Admiralty to construct a Dread[?] and has reserved the right to order another within six months. The acceptance of ...

    Article : 62 words
  17. HIGHER FRENCH BIRTH RATE.

    According to the "Journal Officiel," the population of France in 1910 was 39,252,245. There were 809,289 marriages, 13,049 divorces, 774,358. living children born, and a total of ...

    Article : 83 words
  18. A CHAMPAGNE WASH.

    The stories from Paris or people washing in [?] champagne, owing to a lack of water, are a trifle chestnutty (says a London exchange). [?] remembers lurid yarns of the sort from ...

    Article : 67 words
  19. POPULATION CONTRASTS.

    Belgium is the most densely populated Euro[?] country, with 642 people to the square a[?] England comes next with 557, and Holand with 451. Other figures are:—Germany, ...

    Article : 60 words
  20. INSANE WOMAN'S £1400.

    A relieving officer to the Faversham (Eng.) Guardians reported to the Board that a widow named Dossett, recently remanded to the county asylum from Faversham, where she had been ...

    Article : 149 words
  21. QUEER FACE FACTS.

    "Why do you photographers always photograph the left side of the face by preference?" "Because it's the best looking," was the prompt reply. "The left side of the face is ...

    Article : 124 words
  22. NEEDLEWORK.

    The Needle of Cleopatra, which is having a thorough cleansing, must sorely regret, if it possesses any feeling, being dragged from the dry comfort of the desert to the damp and fog ...

    Article : 179 words
  23. LATEST ITALIAN DREADNOUGHT.

    [?] second Dreadnought, the battleship Cost di Cavour, was launched at Spezia (Italy) last month. With her launch, the Triple A[?] have 16 Dreadonughts in the water to ...

    Article : 175 words
  24. THE APPRENTICESHIP QUESTION.

    The apprenticeship question is a most difficult problem (says a London trade paper), and one which seems almost impossible of solution. There can be no doubt whatever that while the ...

    Article : 247 words
  25. FREE PARDON FOR AN EARL.

    The minutes of the House of Lords, issued last month, contain the following:— "Earl Russell. The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House that the Clerk of the ...

    Article : 222 words
  26. CANDOR ABOUT FOOD AND WORK.

    It is not often that such refreshing candor is shown as is contained in the following paragraph from "American Medicine":— Diet in hot weather is a subject on which ...

    Article : 443 words
  27. A "DUFFER'S" ADVICE TO DUFFERS.

    "A duffer's advice to duffers" was the description Major Sir T. B. Robinson applied to his remarks to the successful students at the prize distribution of the Crystal Palace ...

    Article : 235 words
  28. THE LARGEST PASSENGER VESSEL.

    It has always been expected that the Aquitania, the new Cunarder, would represent a substantial advance. Therefore the news that she is to be, over 900ft in length, or some l0ft ...

    Article : 308 words
  29. YEOMANRY NURSES INSTRUCTED BY HUSSARS.

    Lieutenant L. A. M. Franklin (on left) and Sergeant-major G. A. Smith, of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (women), who, with their corps, are having a weekly drill and course of military in[?]ion from officers of the 7th Hussars. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 46 words
  30. IN POVERTY WITH £500.

    For 20 years an old woman named Ruth Evans has lived at Carrog, near Llangollen, in circumstances of great poverty. From the union funds she has had 5s a week, ...

    Article : 238 words
  31. NORTH SEA NAVAL BASE.

    Confirmation of the belief that the Admiralty works, at Rosyth (Ens.) are to be constructed on a more gigantic scale than was originally contemplated, was forthcoming recently when ...

    Article : 142 words
  32. TRAGIC COINCIDENCE.

    George Moorney, a deck hand, was stated at an English inquest to have been carried overboard from a trawler after becoming entangled in a net. Next day his body was brought up ...

    Article : 56 words
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