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  2. GIRL'S SCHOOL ROMANCE.

    "If for no other reason than for its big imaginative idea, it is well to be thankful for Mr. Herrick's latest novel, Clark's Field. But," says Hildegarde Hawthorne in the New ...

    Article : 1,036 words
  3. DIFFICULT CASE.

    A doctor who was spending a rare and somewhat dull night at his own fireside received the following message from three fellow-practitioners:— ...

    Article : 69 words
  4. MODERN THOUGHT.

    Dr. Alfred E. Garvie, principal of New College, has written a small but powerful book on The Missionary Obligation: in the Light of the Changes in Modern ...

    Article : 1,189 words
  5. DEAD AIRMAN'S ROMANCE.

    A poignant love story was related in one of the English Chancery Courts, before Mr. Justice Warrington. The plaintiff, Miss Derryle Elizabeth Law, ...

    Article : 541 words
  6. HUSBAND'S SLEEP RUSE.

    A husband's ruse to entrap his wife was mentioned during the hearing of a case in the Divorce Court, London, in which two farmers figured. The petitioner was Mr. ...

    Article : 766 words
  7. ESCAPES FROM LIFE.

    Two notable papers won the Westminster Gazette's divided prize for essays on "The Tendency of Modern English Fiction." The first writer, "Rhodocleia," says that:— ...

    Article : 1,336 words
  8. FROM "PEACH" TO "MISS."

    Such terms of endearment as "peach" and "duckie" were suddenly discarded by a young gardener, who, after monopolising a girl's affections for three of the best years ...

    Article : 718 words
  9. MODEST.

    Many a youth is taken with the desire to write. Often he does not know exactly what he wishes to compose, but the itch for the pen is strong. The "Bellman" ...

    Article : 122 words
  10. THRIFT.

    "Hey, mon!"' exclaimed the braw, honnie North-country man. "thrift is a wunnerful thing!" "Yes," replied, his English travelling ...

    Article : 115 words
  11. HANDS OR FEET?

    American (to driver of Morris's team of horses at Highland Society Show)—"Do you call these great horses in this country? In America we use horses ...

    Article : 58 words
  12. UNDECEIVED.

    The proprietor of a Buffalo newspaper, while travelling on the E[?]ie Railway, landed a passe to the ticket collector. The official did not like the look of the ...

    Article : 77 words
  13. THE BLOOD OF A BABOON.

    A Boer farmer in the Transvaal having to send a "bloodsmear" of a dead ox, prepared a second with his own blood, and told his neighbours that he was ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. PARLIAMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER.

    Sir Benjamin Stone, Conservative member of Parliament for East Birmingham from 1895 to 1910, is dead. "His devotion to the camera was at the ...

    Article : 318 words
  15. THE MEN FROM BELOW.

    Although the burglars who raided the premises of Mr. James Smith, jeweller, 99 Hope-street, Glasgow, were confronted by many obstacles, they were well rewarded for ...

    Article : 349 words
  16. AMUSING INCIDENT IN A THREATE.

    The following is a true story told to me by a friend who has a cousin in one of our colonies. This man being on one of his rare visits to the nearest town, after ...

    Article : 268 words
  17. TO "OWN DEAR LOVE."

    A young woman's intrigue with her sister's husband, to whom she wrote passionate love-letters in a secret code, was revealed in the London Divorce Court when the ...

    Article : 423 words
  18. MRS. CHAMBERLAIN.

    Many kindly thoughts turned to Mrs. Chamberlain on the occasion of the death of her husband. "Probably no intimate friend of the great ...

    Article : 269 words
  19. G.O.M. AND CHAMBERLAIN.

    Mr. O'Connor, in his vivid character-sketch in the Daily Telegraph, dwells upon the extraordinary personal antagonism between Gladstone and Chamberlain. He says that ...

    Article : 258 words
  20. MAN WITH THREE WIVES.

    The strange narrative of a man who marrried three women was read at Bow-street, London. The man, Frederick Heppell, 49, a newsagent, of Albert-road, Devonport, was ...

    Article : 343 words
  21. [?] WAS DISMISSED.

    Annie was the waitress at the place where the members of the artist colony got most of their meals—all of them except when they were fortunate enough to ...

    Article : 337 words
  22. ROOSEVELT'S RESIGNATION.

    Mr. Roosevelt has resigned his associate-editorship of the Outlook in order to have more time for his political work. According to the Times correspondent, Mr. ...

    Article : 185 words
  23. SUICIDE OF A DOG.

    What was apparently a determined attempt at suicide by an Airedale terrier was witnessed by a large number of visitors at Bray, County Dublin. ...

    Article : 163 words
  24. "TUPPENCE" IN LONDON.

    "It's a pig, Bill," said a taxi cab driver in Bond-street, London, last month. Not only was the taxi cab driver surprised when he saw it, but also the morning ...

    Article : 169 words
  25. ZOO SNAKE BITE.

    A rattlesnake's bite has been successfully dealt with at the Middlesex Hospital. An under-keeper at the Zoological Gardens in transferring a newly arrived rattlesnake ...

    Article : 147 words
  26. CABMAN AS LOST HEIR TO £20,000.

    A real-life romance lies behind the following paragraph, published in the Daily Mail:—"Mr. William Rouse Whittingham, of Guestling Hill, near Hastings, left nearly ...

    Article : 92 words
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