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  2. World's Biggest Land Deal.

    The stupendous land sale about which everyone is talking, and which has resulted in the transference of nineteen of London's richest areas ...

    Article : 598 words
  3. Bible Facts Varified.

    Everybody has heard of the Californian big trees. Their testimony is now being adduced to verify the stories of the long, long ago, as ...

    Article : 626 words
  4. AUSTRALIA'S RECORD SCIENCE CONGRESS.

    In a few months' time a record gathering of scientists will be held in Australia. The British Association for the Advancement of Science, ...

    Article : 514 words
  5. Quaint Picture Postcards.

    There is no doubt that for the decline in popularity of the picture postcard the eccentric and often vulgar card is responsible to a very ...

    Article : 944 words
  6. BUS PASSENGER LASSOE[?]

    In September last, an ironmoulder named James Lees, of Canning Town was a passenger on a motor-bus that was proceeding along the East India ...

    Article : 211 words
  7. AUSTRALIAN EXPLORER.

    To the popular imagination Papua has for long enough stood for mystery combined with fertility, and in spite of the various exploration ...

    Article : 533 words
  8. WORLD-WIDE NOTES. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

    Among the most useful of recent inventions, perhaps, is a paper wardrobe consisting of an airtight bag made of paper, in which wearing ...

    Article : 275 words
  9. TUBERCULOUS MILK.

    The dangers of an impure milk supply are brought out in an important article on "The Infection of Children with the Bovine Tubercle ...

    Article : 178 words
  10. "BOBS" NEARLY LOST THE TRAIN.

    Mr. George Sandy, who for forty-one years has been chief ticket examiner at the Windsor platforms of Waterloo station, has just retired. ...

    Article : 243 words
  11. FIRST WOMAN CHLOROFORMED.

    The death of Mrs. Agnes Thomson, the first woman to inhale chloroform occurred recently at Streatham, at the age of eighty-three. ...

    Article : 135 words
  12. TERRITORIAL TROUBLES.

    Affairs in the Northern Territory appear to be in a chaotic and unsatisfactory condition generally. After a period spent in ...

    Article : 458 words
  13. AUSTRALIAN AND CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.

    With characteristic enterprise and initiative, Mr. Chick, the representative of a large firm of fruit packers in British Columbin, has put his ...

    Article : 419 words
  14. POCKET CHEQUE-BOOKS.

    Pocket cheque-books are now being issued by certain banks. The newcomer is a dainty little affair, hardly seven inches long and two and a half ...

    Article : 110 words
  15. INSURANCE AGAINST MUMPS.

    The underwriters at Lloyd's display [?] keen sporting instinct and considerable courage in the risks which they undertake. They are quite ...

    Article : 116 words
  16. Well Served.

    A rather amusing incident occur red during the erection of a factory in Lancashire. A new hand, an Irishman, had been ...

    Article : 370 words
  17. Revolt of Prisoners.

    The revolt of convicts at the State Penetentiary at Macalister, U.S.A., was a somewhat small affair compared with the recent uprising of ...

    Article : 354 words
  18. AEROPLANE THAT WILL NOT CAPSIZE.

    An aeroplane which, it is claimed, cannot capsize has been constructed by Mr. Charles Horace Watkins, of Cardiff, a friend of Mr. B. C. Hucks, ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. WELL-DRESSED THIEVES.

    A short time ago a ball was given at the Albert Hall, London, in aid of a charity, and opera-glasses were placed on hire for the use of those ...

    Article : 223 words
  20. ANYONE FOUND A LOCOMOTIVE?

    How does one lose a lifeboat, or a motor-car, or, in a paralyzing moment of abstraction, a locomotive? Two locomotives have just been ...

    Article : 161 words
  21. TELLER TRICKED.

    By a cute dodge two men defrauded a Glasgow bank of £7, and then made good their escape. They went into the bank, and, laying down, 120 ...

    Article : 96 words
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