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  2. HOW KING KILLERS ARE PUNISHED.

    Not always has the punishment of the regicide been simple banging or imprisonment for life. Balthazar Gerard, the murderer of ...

    Article : 440 words
  3. "CRUEL HEROD" IS THEIR GAME.

    "I can always count on a rest during the holidays," said Herman B. Reed, who manages several coal mines near Wilkesbarre. Pa., America. ...

    Article : 306 words
  4. THE DECLINE OF INTELLECT.

    The human intellect, like "the Service," has long been "going to the dogs." Old-fashioned people tell us that "nobody reads anything but ...

    Article : 711 words
  5. TWO MEN AND A WOMAN.

    The schooner yacht Aurora was slipping briskly through the blue and sparkling waters of the English Channel, bound for the port of St. Peter in the Island of ...

    Article : 1,769 words
  6. Poultry and Garden.

    Caponising.—Many persons imagine a capon belongs to a distinct class of bowls, as Leghoras, Minorcas, &C., and to dispel that idea it may be as well to state that ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 773 words
  7. MAKEUP OF THE ORGANISATION.

    "Next to him in importance are two agile young men wearing yellow gowns, who are called 'the devils,' two 'cruel generals' in black, bearing wooden ...

    Article : 342 words
  8. THE "CURSE" OF THE ARMY.

    The military expert of the "Westminster Gazette," in an article on the South African situation, had the following remarks con "social influence" ...

    Article : 382 words
  9. NEW TELEPHONIC INVENTION.

    A Reuter's telegram from Now York states that the "Electrical Review" announces that the American Telephone and Telegraph Company has purchased patents ...

    Article : 99 words
  10. THIS CHANGES THE ASPECT.

    "That changes the aspect of the whole affair, and with a ringing Now Year's song the 'Cruel Herods' enter. "Inside there is refreshment, cakes and ...

    Article : 194 words
  11. THE DARK SPACES IN NEBULAE.

    Dr. Isaac Roberts says (in "Knowledge") with reference to dark spaces which appear in some of his photographs of nebulous star clusters:—"Many ...

    Article : 177 words
  12. AN ENTERPRISING PROPRIETOR.

    The proprietor of a West Victorian paper has hit upon a novel method of retaining his subscribers. When an angry subscriber writes withdrawing his ...

    Article : 92 words
  13. THE SPEED OF TRAINS.

    The railways of the world are 450,000 miles in length, and in their construction no less a sum than £7,000,000,000 has been expended The rate of speed seldom ...

    Article : 82 words
  14. TERRORISING DOCTORS.

    Microbes have been comparatively overlooked as projectiles, debt-collecting agencies, and weapons of offence generally. The doctors at Cracow, ...

    Article : 192 words
  15. THE GARDEN.

    The gardener will be able to do more this month than was done in February. Providing the usual seasonable rains have fallen any plants of the cabbage tribe ...

    Article : 416 words
  16. THE WONDERS OF PEAT.

    Herr Zschorner, of Vienna, has been experimenting with pent for 12 years past, and, according to a writer in the Leisure Hour," has shown very conclusively that ...

    Article : 200 words
  17. HOW MONEY IS MADE.

    Your tin mine pays a dividend out of the pyrites it sells to the arsenic merchants; your egg farmer deals wholesale in ice cream in order that he may find ...

    Article : 116 words
  18. NEW SIGNALLING DISCOVERY.

    Rumours are about (says the "English Mechanic") that Professor Elisha Gray. of Boston, Mass., has scored the first important scientific discovery of the ...

    Article : 125 words
  19. A NEW COMPASS.

    It is stated that the Navy Department at Washington is considering the adoption of a new compass. A compass-card, which is under consideration, has been designed by ...

    Article : 153 words
  20. THE DECAY OF THE LOCOMOTIVE.

    In "Blackwood's Magazine" for January there is an interesting passage on the coming decay of the loco[?] It is observed that in the United Kingdom ...

    Article : 284 words
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  22. THE SUPPOSED MESSAGES FROM MARS.

    In speaking on "An Evening with the stars," in Glasgow recently, Sir Robert Ball referred to the recent supposed demonstrations of the inhabitants of Mars to ...

    Article : 299 words
  23. THE BIGGEST SALARY PAID.

    Mr. Clinton Dawkins, the chairman of Mr. Brodrick's new War Office Committee, is said to be in receipt of the largest salary over paid to an employee of a ...

    Article : 150 words
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