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  2. WORK FOR ALL.

    Mr. W. F. Schey, Chief Labor Commissioner, in his monthly report for December, issued yesterday—and supplimentary to what has previously appeared inN ...

    Article : 1,369 words
  3. HERE AND THERE.

    While the average man is satisfied with a maximum of 32 teeth, a Turk near Balburt, in Asia Minor, boasts of 45, all perfect. He belongs to a well-toothed family ...

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    The Costliest Woman in the World—Miss Morosini in ordinary walking costume, as sketched for an American paper. —For letterpress see this paper. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 25 words
  5. CURRENT TOPICS.

    I would suggest to the Director of Agriculture in regard to the Fruit Pests Bill which he has been so anxious to inflict on people (who have trouble enough already) ...

    Article : 124 words
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  7. LABOR LEADER FAILS FOR £200,000.

    Mr. Tatham, the Labor leader at Pietermar[?]zburg, has resigned his seat in Parliament owing to insolvency. His liabilities are stated to be over £200,000. He ...

    Article : 39 words
  8. WHALES IN NETS.

    A London journal recently published an account of whale-fishing with nets at Wangamuma Bay, New Zealand. The "Sunday Times" recorded this unique ...

    Article : 29 words
  9. BRITISH RADICALS AND THE COLONIES.

    The "Daily News" is afraid that Lord Elgin has annoyed the colonies by his "absurd restrictions" on the number of Premiers attending the Colonial Conference ...

    Article : 164 words
  10. SHE WAS PREPARED.

    Two days after news of the Ferriera raid reached this country, says a London paper, a nervous old Highland lady road in her paper, "The South Africans have arrived ...

    Article : 49 words
  11. FRISCO.

    Some people who have given thought to the subject say that 'Frisco will never be wholly re-built. Reasons given are that no one will finance a general scheme ...

    Article : 66 words
  12. EXPLOSIVE FOR AIRSHIPS.

    General Crozier, of the Ordnance Department, Washington, has admitted that Government experts have invented the most powerful explosive known, and that it has ...

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  13. NATION'S NEED OF HORSES.

    Regarding the article in the "Sunday Times" in which the desirability of a State horse farm was pointed out, it is interesting to note that, speaking at York ...

    Article : 141 words
  14. DOWIE A RAVING MANIAC.

    Prophet Dowie has become a raving maniac. He sometimes imagines himself to be an Emperor, but more frequently a great and victorious soldier. On Sunday ...

    Article : 68 words
  15. £30,000,000 GIFT.

    Mr. James J. Hill announced, says the "New York Herald," that shortly the stockholders of the Great Northern Railroad would receive a free distribution ...

    Article : 74 words
  16. BLACK AND BROWN SOLDIERS.

    The United States Government is going to send all its colored troops to garrison the Philippine Islands. This may be simply because "it is their turn," because the ...

    Article : 174 words
  17. MAN SEWN UP IN A SACK.

    Mystery surrounds a crime brought to light near Nachod, in Bohemia. A peasant, found in a field a sack tightly sewn up, and on opening it discovered ...

    Article : 90 words
  18. A FALSE ALARM!

    Mr. Carruthers said at Blayney that he was now able to borrow from New South Welshmen every penny he wanted, and so keep the interest to pay to our own ...

    Article : 376 words
  19. PRISON LABOR AND UNEMPLOYEDNESS.

    For some years Australian States have been congratulating themselves on the decrease of their gaol population, as if it were an encouraging sign. But upon this ...

    Article : 439 words
  20. SUIT FOR SEASICKNESS.

    Mrs. Riwyka Schlen, a German subject, has entered suit in New York against the North German Li[?] Steamship Company for £394 da[?]or seasickness. ...

    Article : 86 words
  21. CARPENTERS AND EMPLOYMENT.

    In the report of the Labor Commissioner, Mr. Schey, on the state of the labor market, he says that during the middle of last December the Imperial ...

    Article : 211 words
  22. THE CEMENT AGE.

    The New York Press says that cement is the coming building material. Railroads are renewing their steel, iron, and stone piers, abutments, culverts, &c., with it, and ...

    Article : 122 words
  23. A COSTLY WOMAN.

    Miss Giulia P. Morosini is the daughter of a well-known New York banker, and in her desire to be the best dressed is society, and particularly at the famous ...

    Article : 367 words
  24. OLD-AGE PENSIONS IN ENGLAND.

    The Liberal Government of Britain intends to go one better than the most advanced of its colonies, as under the old age pension system which it is going to ...

    Article : 363 words
  25. DEATH FOR BETRAYAL.

    An "Apache" named Koenig was sentenced to death in Paris for killing a girl named Sara Baromaer. Baromaer had betrayed to the police ...

    Article : 94 words
  26. FALL OF A WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY TOWER.

    At the height of a terrific gale the wireless telegraphy tower at Machrihanish, Argyilshire, 450ft high, and weighing almost 2000 tons, completely collapsed. The ...

    Article : 119 words
  27. "GOOD-BYE, SWEETHEART, GOOD-BYE."

    "New South Wales, the Mother State of Australia, is about to shake hands with the English money-lender, and say 'good-bye! Thank you for what you have done ...

    Article : 520 words
  28. LAW OVER HALF A FARTHING.

    Two inventors named Mach and Lagodzic, of Vienna, have brought an action for £580, which they allege they have lost by the non-payment of half a farthing. ...

    Article : 136 words
  29. ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY AND PLANT LIFE.

    Professor Lesmstrom has found that plants soon die under a wire cage, which excludes atmospheric electricity, while freely admitting air, heat and light. In ...

    Article : 113 words
  30. THERE IS NO NATURAL DEATH.

    The idea that there is no natural death is fascinating learned biologists. In the lowest organisms, those of a single cell, the individual is reproduced by splitting ...

    Article : 203 words
  31. REDUCED TRAM FARES AND THE TICKET SYSTEM.

    Now that the Railway Commissioners have recognised the wisdom of reducing the railway rates, it is only to be expected that the enormous numbers of the ...

    Article : 364 words
  32. CARNEGIE AND SCOTLAND.

    In the course of a speech in New York in praise of Scotland, Mr. Carnegle said that never in her history had Scotland occupied so proud and happy a position as ...

    Article : 152 words
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