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  2. IF ENGLAND WERE DEFEATED.

    The lower diagram shows how miserable is England's capacity for supplying her own needs as compared to that of other countries. The United Kingdom only produces seven million quarters of wheat all told: whereas the surpluses of wheat production in the chief grain-growing countries are as follow:—U.S.A. 10,000,000, Canada 14,500,000, South America 13,000,000, Russia 17,500,000, India ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,374 words
  3. HERE & THERE

    The London General Post-Ofiice, to cope with the pressure of Christmas work, secured at a cost of £100, the Kentish Town Swimming Baths, to be used during Christmas week as a ...

    Article : 43 words
  4. SMILE SEED

    Dewsnap: "I have been threatened with appendicitis." Prodger: "Who threatened you—the doctor?" Hewitt: "Do you think long hair makes a ...

    Article : 1,521 words
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    The picture which Mr. Cope Cornford draws of the state of affairs which would prevail if England were defeated in a war is appallingly gloomy. Englishmen are supposed to have the ...

    Article : 193 words
  6. RETRIBUTION.

    In future all official safes in California will be made in prison by burglars undergoing imprisonment for safebreaking. ...

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  7. INVITING!

    The following sign appeared recently on a moving picture screen in Chicago:—"To-morrow—The Road to Ruin, 3000ft; don't miss it." ...

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  8. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS' CABINET.

    A hornbeam cabinet, said to have belonged to Mary Queen of Scots, was sold for £44 at Sotheby's last month. The cabinet, it was said, was given by the Countess of Elgin in 1700 to a ...

    Article : 52 words
  9. A CHEAP BOOK.

    A five-pound note and ten penny stamps were found between the leaves of an old book purchased for twopence at a Farringdon-road, London, bookstall. ...

    Article : 31 words
  10. MARRIED 76 TIMES.

    A notable Cairo character has passed away by the death in his 108th year of a fish hawker, who had married 76 women. He carefully followed the Prophet's injunction not to have more ...

    Article : 68 words
  11. JUMPED FROM TWENTY-SIXTH STOREY.

    A bookkeeper named Johnston, who had been discharged from the employment of the County Lawyers' Association, New York, jumped out of a window on the top floor of the City ...

    Article : 62 words
  12. THE "MOTOR MIND" IN ART.

    Mr. David Murray, R.A., speaking at a dinner of old students of the Royal College of Arts, South Kensington, London, last month, said that of late years active interest in art had abated ...

    Article : 90 words
  13. WILL WAKE THE ADMIRALTY.

    "Batts," as Prince Louis of Battenberg is known in the Senior Service, is likely to make some of the old hands at Whitehall sit up, says a London correspondent. He is very active ...

    Article : 66 words
  14. KING EDWARD'S SUPERSTITION.

    A curious superstition of the late King Edward is related, namely, that the mattress on his bed should never be turned on a Friday. It is a remarkable coincidence that his Majesty ...

    Article : 62 words
  15. WINDFALL FOR HOUSEKEEPER.

    Mr. James Harry Roberts, of Bexhill-on-Sea, England, who left estate of the value of £17,035, bequeathed: "To his housekeeper, Mrs. Louisa Le Tall, who has been a most devoted friend, ...

    Article : 98 words
  16. EGYPTIANS LOVED FISH.

    In the intestines of mummies of 3000 to 4000 B.C., Prof. F. Netolitzky has found vegetable fibres, grain, bones and scales of fishes, and bones and teeth of rodents. Several Nile fishes ...

    Article : 67 words
  17. MR. "BONNER" LAW.

    The question of the pronunciation of the Christian name of the new Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons having been raised, a member of the Leeds and County ...

    Article : 102 words
  18. THE THIEF AND "THE PASTE."

    An encasing lady, who has achieved fame as an exponent of the light fantastic in Vienna, [?] with a rather curious adventure the other day. She was leaving the theatre in her motor ...

    Article : 141 words
  19. LORD CHARLES BERESFORD ON THE COMMAND OF THE SEA.

    Lord Charles Beresford, addressing his constituents at Portsmouth last month, said:— "Drop the bad policy of talking two keels to one. Lay down what we actually want, and ...

    Article : 237 words
  20. MORE TREES IN EUROPE THAN IN GREAT FOREST COUNTRIES.

    The idea of an extensive forest generally calls to mind the forests of South America, or the heart of Africa, but it is a surprising fact, according to a "British Medical Journal" ...

    Article : 135 words
  21. LONG PRACTICE.

    MANAGER: "Could you do the landlord in "The Lady of Lyons?" ACTOR: "Well, I should think so. I've done a good many." "Tattler." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  22. WIRELESS SEARCH FOR WAR VESSELS.

    When the United States Cabinet determined to dispatch a couple of warships to San Domingo recently there was no American war vessel within hundreds of miles of that place, but as ...

    Article : 154 words
  23. NELSON'S LOG-BOOK.

    The announcement was made last month that the log-book of Nelson's flagship the Victory was to be sold at Messrs. Sotheby's rooms. The chief interest of the book, says a contemporary, ...

    Article : 149 words
  24. AN IMPRESSIVE SPECTACLE.

    Three French military dirigibles manoeuvring over troops on parade. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  25. HUMORISTS' DEFINITIONS OF HUMOR.

    A writer in "La Revue," Paris, M. Maurice Dekobra, has been inviting representative humorists in various countries to define "humor," and publishes the results of his ...

    Article : 612 words
  26. PANTHER HUNT IN A FACTORY.

    There was an exciting panther hunt a few weeks ago in the Government Ammunition Factory at Kirkee, Poona, in which an officer was badly mauled. ...

    Article : 187 words
  27. ETIQUETTE FOR MURDERERS.

    The trials of self-confessed murderers who wish to be arrested are related in the Paris "Matin" by M. Clement Vautel. A man named Berges was stabbed to death in ...

    Article : 196 words
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