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  2. OVERDOING IT.

    The arrival is announced at Turin of the Vicomte and Vicomtesse Raoul de Gruard, of Paris, who bet £6000 that they would spend their honeymoon by making a tour of the world ...

    Article : 131 words
  3. THE WOMAN DETECTIVE IN NEW YORK.

    From the stage to the active detective force of a big city like New York is a long step, yet it has been taken by Mrs. Gertrude Mansfield, of the vaudeville stage of that ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 822 words
  4. A GHOST FACTORY.

    A remarkable case, in which a haunted house played a prominent part, has just been heard at Munich. A family named Wolf hired a farmhouse from ...

    Article : 253 words
  5. EXPRESS TRAIN'S ESCAPE.

    A serious accident occurred the other day to a London and North-Western Railway boat express from Fleetwood to London. When the train was travelling at nearly 60 ...

    Article : 97 words
  6. REMARKABLE FARM FEAT.

    A remarkable demonstration of motor harvesting, which has been given in Lincolnshire, showed that in up-to-date farm work England is well ahead of most other countries. The ...

    Article : 223 words
  7. ANKLES INSURED FOR £30,000.

    By insuring each ankle and foot for £15,000, La Belle Otero is merely following the example of other famous artists and musicians, who find it necessary to make provision for the loss ...

    Article : 132 words
  8. ANOTHER DREADNOUGHT.

    The constructive department at Portsmouth [?]ockyard has received from the Admiralty plans for a new battleship of the Dreadnought class, and work will be proceeded with at once. The ...

    Article : 83 words
  9. ENGLISH COAL SHIPMENTS.

    Three thousand four hundred and ninety-two vessels found employment in conveying 5,446,679 tons of coal from the coal-shipping ports of the United Kingdom during August, and of these ...

    Article : 69 words
  10. Thirty-three Years' Solitary Confinement.

    The Society for the Promotion of Criminal Anthropology has presented Governor Guild, of Boston, Massachusetts, with a protest against keeping in further solitary confinement Jesse ...

    Article : 41 words
  11. Moving Platforms for Paris.

    A special commission of the Paris Municipal Council is considering plans for a new form of locomotion—a series of moving platforms which are to form a clrele in the centre of Paris ...

    Article : 56 words
  12. DIDN'T ANSWER.

    Arthur: "Well, and how did yon sleep last night? Did you follow my advice and begin cou[?]ting?" Will: "Yes; I counted up to 18,000." ...

    Article : 39 words
  13. NO!

    Algernon: "Have you any idea, darling, what your father would say if I asked him for your hand?" Arabella: "No, I haven't. He never u[?]es that ...

    Article : 37 words
  14. OF COURSE.

    Ziggsby: "There goes the fellow who whistles at danger." Perksby: "Ah, he must be a very brave fellow. Who is he?" ...

    Article : 32 words
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