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  2. Desperate Man's Daring Escape.

    RECENT American papers contain an account of the escape from capture of Dick Thomson, otherwise known as the "Terror of the Arkansas ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 640 words
  3. A FILM THAT APPEALS.

    Mary Pickford has never appealed to me, With "Charlie" I'm bored to tears; But here is a film that I mean to see As soon as it ever appears! ...

    Article : 207 words
  4. FASCINATING ROGUE.

    A romance of the Strathmore family, the story of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's greatgreat-grandmother, is recalled by the sale at Sotheby's (London) recently of an ...

    Article : 246 words
  5. A WONDERFUL LAMP.

    A wonderful lamp has been made for the Ezyptian Government at the Smethwick (Eng.) works of Messrs Chance. A few weeks ago the light was working ...

    Article : 233 words
  6. PHOSPHORESCENT LAKE.

    Situated near Nassua, in the Bahamas, is a wonderful lake called the "Lake of Fire." It is an artificial stretch of water, and was constructed as a place for keeping turtles. ...

    Article : 105 words
  7. WRITTEN ON RICE.

    Single grains of rice are being used in India for the purpose of religious propaganda. Each grain contains a verse from the Koran—twenty-four words of eighty-two ...

    Article : 59 words
  8. LESS COAL WANTED.

    The Italian engineer, Tabanelli, has aroused great interest in Rome with his discovery of a method of running a locomotive with compressed air. Preliminary demonstrations ...

    Article : 93 words
  9. HUNTING OF METEORITES BY MAIL.

    This may seem a novel method of searching for rare meteoric finds, but it has proved to be efficacious. The Curator of Geology of the United States National Museum ...

    Article : 60 words
  10. NOT A GHOST STORY.

    Mysterious tappings in the vicinity of a footbridge at Cranleigh (Eng.) railway station aroused suspicion. Officials kept watch, and discovered the noise was caused by a ...

    Article : 42 words
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