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  2. TRAGIC RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    Level crossings on railways are responsible for some very serious accidents, more especially where the railway line is not Straight on either side. In those cases a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 406 words
  3. SLEEPING SICKNESS.

    Reuter's Agency learns that a fresh commission is being organised to proceed to East Africa to study sleeping sickness, its object being to continue the work carried on from 1902 until ...

    Article : 222 words
  4. NOTABLE CENTENARIAN.

    On July 1 Sir Henry Alfred Pitman, for over 30 years registrar of the Royal College of Physicians, attained his 100th birthday. To mark the interesting event, some of his old ...

    Article : 244 words
  5. BULL CHARGES AN ENGINE.

    A bellicose bull played havoc in the streets of Dublin the other day. The animal escaped from the Quay, where it was to be shipped for England, and dashed down ...

    Article : 205 words
  6. 12 HOURS' SWIM FOR LIFE.

    A Government tug arrived at Suez recently from the Ras Gharib lighthouse, with the survivors of the tug Belmore, which foundered at sea. The survivors are Second-officer ...

    Article : 124 words
  7. CONVICT MARRIED IN HANDCUFFS.

    The extraordinary scene of a wedding where the bridegroom was married in handcuffs, was witnessed at St. Martin, Ile de Re (France). Theophile Fray, aged 34, had recently been ...

    Article : 138 words
  8. A MAN LIKE A LION.

    Dr. Grosz has just shown at a meeting of the Vienna Medical Society a man who possesses a peculiar leonine appearance. He is a young Russian, said to he 17 years old, covered over ...

    Article : 123 words
  9. TWO DIAMOND WEDDINGS.

    Two diamond weddings have just been celebrated in Dorset, and the aged couples have been made the recipients of many congratulations and presents. Indeed, at Chettle, where ...

    Article : 161 words
  10. PARISH OF NINE PEOPLE.

    A request from Laindon Parish for a separate rural district councillor was read at a meeting of the Essex Local Government Committee. At present Laindon is united for ...

    Article : 95 words
  11. NOTE THIS.

    The following is a copy of a bill posted on the wall of a country village:—"A lecture on total abstinence will be delivered in the open air, and a collection will ...

    Article : 43 words
  12. PHONETIC.

    Scene: A Draper's Shop. Old Woman (looking at a piece of cloth) to the shopman: "Aw oo?" Shopman: "Oo i, aw oo." ...

    Article : 34 words
  13. KNOCKED OUT.

    "Shall we marry, darling, or shall we knot?" was the short and witty line an ardent lover despatched to the idol of his heart. But, where the strangeness of the matter ...

    Article : 51 words
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