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  2. A NOVEL METHOD OF FISHING.

    The last time we left Hongkong for Saigon (says a writer in a home journal), the Bubonic plague was prevalent in the former place. We had, in ...

    Article : 425 words
  3. SINGULAR INFATUATION.

    Mademoiselle Chauvin, the lady lawyer who passed a brilliant examination for the degree of "Doctor en Droit," at the Sor[?]onne, has (says the Paris correspondent ...

    Article : 312 words
  4. VALUE OF THE PHILIPPINES TO AMERICA.

    The possible presence of a further Great Power in the Far East renders of interest a statement of the extent of the trade relations of America with that part of the ...

    Article : 214 words
  5. ABOUT MAD ARTISTS.

    "I have often wondered that no magazine has collected together a number of paintings and drawings achieved by artists who were undoubtedly mad, for the field is really a ...

    Article : 186 words
  6. A STRANGE STORY.

    A curious incident, of the Rip Van Winkle character, has come to light from Mount Lofty, in the hills a few miles from Adelaide. During the services of the Bible Christian ...

    Article : 204 words
  7. PARSON'S WIVES WITH SWOLLEN HEADS.

    Parsons' wives, like other wives, are (says a writer in the "Church Gazette") good, bad, and indifferent. Not a few suffer from what ...

    Article : 342 words
  8. NEW FIRE EXTINGUISHER.

    Mr. T. A. Ready, of New York, has patented a device which he calls a "fire battery," and its object is to join together and discharge the water from several fire ...

    Article : 162 words
  9. A QUADRUPLE BIRTH.

    A quadruple birth was recently reported from Cork, but all four of the infants have since died. Such births, writes the "Daily News," are usually premature, and the ...

    Article : 230 words
  10. ROMANCE OF A SIXPENNY TELEGRAM.

    Under this title there is a fully illustrated interview with Mr. W. H. Preece, in "The Temple Magazine" for July, from which we learn that ...

    Article : 468 words
  11. THE LONGEST DAY.

    It is quite important, when speaking of the longest day of the year, to say what part of the world we are talking about, as will be seen by the following list, which tells the ...

    Article : 159 words
  12. THE BREEDING OF BACTERIA.

    Dr. Klein, the world-renowned bacteriologist, last month delivered a lecture at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on "Modern Methods and their Achievements in ...

    Article : 321 words
  13. WOMEN'S ECCENTRICITIES.

    The story is told of a lady of respectable position who ordered her apparel in such a way that it never could be said of her that she wore a ...

    Article : 360 words
  14. THE DEPTH OF THE OCEAN.

    The depth of the ocean can hardly be conceived by the number of feet. We have all walked a mile, and water a mile deep seems almost incredible, ...

    Article : 143 words
  15. "ROCK OF AGES."

    Sir W. H. Wills in a letter quoted by Dean Lefroy in the London "Times," offers some interesting information about Toplady's hymn, ...

    Article : 122 words
  16. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    For some time past Signor Marconi has been hard at work experimenting at Bournemouth with wireless telegraphy. Two stations have been fitted up for this ...

    Article : 203 words
  17. AN EXTRAORDINARY WOOING.

    Many a heart has been won through the agency of well-written letters. One morning a fashionably-dressed man rushed into a matrimonial office ...

    Article : 198 words
  18. BETTING AND THE WAR.

    One of the most startling results that have as yet been attendant on the outbreak of hostilities is in the difference it has made to bookmakers. ...

    Article : 380 words
  19. THE CAUSES OF MADNESS.

    In a published table showing the causes which sent 16,208 people to lunatic asylums during six years we find some curious statements. Thus. ...

    Article : 366 words
  20. ROYALTIES WHO COLLECT MONSTROSITIES.

    The Prince of Baroda (Hindostan) a few months ago astonished the British residents by paying a barrel of rupees for a twelve-fingered man; but up to the middle of the ...

    Article : 128 words
  21. A QUEER METHOD OF DIVORCE.

    When a Burmese husband and wife decide to separate the woman goes out and buys two little candles of equal length, which are made specially for ...

    Article : 270 words
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