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  2. HERE & THERE

    [?]ding to a statement presented to the London County Council last month of the [?]-nine London mayors, four have salaries —namely, the Lord Mayors, £10,000 a year; the ...

    Article : 54 words
  3. HOW THE PANAMA CANAL WILL BE FORTIFIED.

    "When other nations cease to increase their armaments by great strides, not only in ships and guns but in men, in powder, and in aerial fleets, it will be ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,709 words
  4. SMILE SEED

    Waiter: "This is a bad half-sovereign, sir." Diner: "I know. It was a bad dinner." Mrs. Jones: "It's awful to have a jealous husband!" ...

    Article : 1,446 words
  5. GIFT OP A POUND OF COPPERS.

    Among the gifts received last month at Gorleston (Eng.) Cottage Hospital on "Pound" day was one pound of coppers, which was equal to four shillings and threepence. ...

    Article : 34 words
  6. 5002 WALTZ TURNS.

    A novel dancing contest which took place in Paris one evening last month has established a record for an hour's continuous waltzing, the winner having executed 5002 complete turns in ...

    Article : 38 words
  7. SMALLEST MODEL LOCOMOTIVE.

    The smallest working steam engine in the world was among the attractions of the "Model [?]eer" Exhibition in London recently. It was one of a group of tiny engines made by ...

    Article : 57 words
  8. SCHOOLCHILDREN'S STRIKE.

    A number of boys and girls in the Holme Valley (Eng.) last month went on strike against the new regulations of the West Riding County Council, under which half-time certificates have ...

    Article : 44 words
  9. PRINCE PRACHADI-POK.

    His Highness Prince Prachadi-pok, a son of [?] late King of Siam, was among the 130 junior [?] who joined the classes at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Eng.), on the ...

    Article : 61 words
  10. COW JUMPS INTO MOTOR CAR.

    Sir Wm. Austin, M.F.H., and a party, including ladies, had a norrow escape while motoring to Nenagh (Ireland) for the Hunt Ball. At a narrow stretch of road a cow suddenly jumped ...

    Article : 67 words
  11. ONE HUNDRED MILES ON TOP OF TRAIN.

    Alexander Wilson, a boilermaker, after travelling from Motherwell to Carlisle (Scot.), a distance of more than a hundred miles by night on the roof of a carriage of the Scotch express, ...

    Article : 66 words
  12. MOTHER SELLS HER CHILD.

    The Bench at Lewes (Eng.) Petty Sessions were astonished last month during the hearing of an application for the adjudication of the settlement of a pauper child made hy the clerk ...

    Article : 81 words
  13. THE GODS AND THE STEAM SHOVEL.

    Reality gives romance a hard knock in con[?]tion with the Sacred Lake of Chibchas. In the good old days the natives used to appease the local gods by throwing their jewels and ...

    Article : 76 words
  14. OLD LADY'S REMARKABLE RECORD.

    There passed away last month at Dysart (Eng.), a widow, named Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, in her ninety-second year. She was born and married in the house where she died, and, ...

    Article : 101 words
  15. NATIVE'S FACE CUT IN TWO.

    An extraordinary accident occurred last month [?] Gatooma. Cape Colony, in connection with [?]-boring operations for a new dipping-tank. A native was at the bottom of the shaft, ...

    Article : 67 words
  16. REMARKABLE RECOVERY OF BROOCH.

    A valuable gold brooch set with diamonds, [?] by a lady while visiting her son at Eton [?] (Eng.) in December, was last month [?] by a workman named Bennett in the ...

    Article : 82 words
  17. CORNERED.

    Mr. Carnegie, in bis evidence before the Steel Inquiry Commission, referred not infrequently to the world-wide movement for peace. He took in the entire audience with his arms as he ...

    Article : 100 words
  18. H.M.S. THUNDERER'S GUNS FITTED.

    The Thames battleship Thunderer last month completed her armament, all the fittings having [?] adjusted. She carries ten 13.5in. guns and [?]n lin guns. She left Dagenham Dock ...

    Article : 62 words
  19. QUEER INSURANCE.

    Mr. John Ashton, in his "History of Gambling in England," gives a curious instance of betting on lives:—"About 60 years ago there was an underwriter at Lloyd's named Thornton, who ...

    Article : 94 words
  20. WOMEN VICTIMS OF ALCOHOL.

    The Lord Mayor of London, in opening a new [?] at Highbury Fields last month for the [?] of receiving women and girls discharged [?] Holloway Prison, said that on the last ...

    Article : 87 words
  21. A WATCH INSIDE A PEARL.

    Pearls on watches are commonplace, but a watch inside a pearl is a novelty. One was recently made by a Paris watchmaker after [?]een months of work by his best mechanics. ...

    Article : 117 words
  22. FOOTBALL WITH GUN CARTRIDGE.

    An accident of an extraordinary kind befell John Wilson, a schoolboy, residing in Chapel-st, Dunfermline (Scot.). When proceeding to school the lad began kicking an object resembling a ...

    Article : 108 words
  23. THE OBJECTION.

    "Like most men I have my shortcomings, I suppose, but— "Oh, it isn't your short comings father objects to, it's your long stayings." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  24. BOX OF DYNAMITE IN CATCH OF FISH.

    [?] the fortunate circumstance that the deck was [?]hick with struggling fish saved the Grimsby [?] trawler Briton from disaster last month. [?] working the Leman shoal in the North ...

    Article : 110 words
  25. SOCIALISTS AND CARNEGIE STATUE.

    The Dunfermline (Scot.) Trades Council at a recent meeting decided not to give support to the proposal to erect a statue of Mr. Carnegie. Last month the members of the local branch ...

    Article : 107 words
  26. OLDSTREAM COLORS SOLD AT AUCTION.

    A King's color of the 1st Coldstream Guards [?] eighteen guineas at an auction last [?] The flag was a company flag, not the [?]al color. The latter cannot be cold, ...

    Article : 123 words
  27. BANQUET FOR ESCAPED MONKEYS.

    A remarkable escapade by a band of over 100 monkeys, ending with a banquet and ignoninious defeat at the hands of a storming party, was reported last month from Japan. Some time ...

    Article : 160 words
  28. TOBACCO IN IRELAND.

    Tobacco was first smoked regularly in the British Isles by Sir Walter Ralegh at Myrtle [?] Youghal, and it seems only right that [?]d should now give promise of being a ...

    Article : 171 words
  29. BUNYAN IN WESTMINSTER.

    The dedication of the Bunyan memorial window in Westminster Abbey on January 25, and the fine tribute paid to the genius of Bunyan by the Dean, testify to the essential unity that ...

    Article : 294 words
  30. ANNIVERSARY OF CHARLES I.'s DEATH.

    January 30 being the 263rd anniversary of the [?] of Charles I., the statue in Trafalgar-square was decorated with wreaths by the Legitimist League and other societies. ...

    Article : 204 words
  31. THE OLDEST FREEMASON.

    The death took place at Exeter (Eng.) last month of Dr. W. Dashwood Kingdon, at the age of 98. Dr. Kingdon had the distinction of being probably the oldest Freemason in the world. ...

    Article : 140 words
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