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  2. WASHED OVERBOARD.

    Mr. H. F. Liljeblad, chief officer of the North Coast S.N. Co.'s steamer Rosedale, writes:—In your issue of February 9 you mention a case in which four seamen were washed over ...

    Article : 193 words
  3. SAVED BY A HAYSTACK.

    In some parts of Italy, where the people live off the beaten track of commerce and the thunder of railway trains does not awaken them from their old-time slumbers. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 417 words
  4. A LADY SWIMMER.

    Miss Annette Kellerman, the well-known Australian swimmer, has written a letter home from New York, in which she says: "I have started my fifth week at the Fifth-avenue ...

    Article : 206 words
  5. FOUR AT A BIRTH.

    Mrs. Blackston, wife of Mr. W. T. Blackston, a gardener and florist, of Goldsboroughroad, Springfield Estate, Wandsworth, London, gave birth recently to four children. The first ...

    Article : 136 words
  6. TRAVELS OF TWO BABIES.

    Alphonse Lagneaux and his wife, a young Belgian couple, who have undertaken to push their two babies, aged eighteen and four months, in a perambulator round the world, have arrived ...

    Article : 127 words
  7. CROWN PRINCE'S SCRAPBOOK.

    Among the German Crown Prince's most treasured possessions is a scrapbook containing over 1000 pages of adverse newspaper criticism. The first 500 pages are inscribed with a gold ...

    Article : 147 words
  8. WATERPROOF MATCHES.

    Perhaps some of your readers would be interested to know that I hare found a simple, inexpensive way to waterproof matches, writes James Bailey in an English contemporary. Into ...

    Article : 161 words
  9. GAS TO THWART SAFE BLOWERS.

    A chemical company has devised a grenade or glass receptacle, filled with a chemical compound, as a means or making it impossible for safe blowers to rob a safe after breaking it ...

    Article : 177 words
  10. SULPHUR AND FRECKLES.

    About nine out of every ten of the women Who attended a recent matinee performance at Hammerstein's Philadelphia Opera House went home angry and worried because of peculiar ...

    Article : 125 words
  11. FATHER JOHN'S MARRIAGE.

    It is told of the late Father John of Cronstadt that while still a student at the Theological Academy he visited his predecessor at Cronstadt. The latter was so struck by his ...

    Article : 112 words
  12. NOT JEALOUS.

    "Bridget," said Mrs. Hiram Offer, sternly, "on my way home just now I saw the policeman who was in the kitchen with you so long last evening, and I took occasion to speak to ...

    Article : 47 words
  13. HE CERTAINLY WOULD.

    "But suppose," one of the spectators said, "the parachute should fail to open after you have detached it from the balloon—what then?" "That wouldn't stop me!" answered the ...

    Article : 39 words
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