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  2. MORE BALKAN TROUBLES.

    The end of one war may contain the seeds of more quarrels, and as Turkey sees the dawn of peace the "Ikdam" (Constantinople) wonders what conflicts the new day ...

    Article : 680 words
  3. CONFOUNDING CRITICS.

    For their attitude towards modern art and their repeated assertions of its decadence the professional art critics are severely taken to task by Mr. A. S. Cope, R.A. "In spite of ...

    Article : 443 words
  4. CLAIMED RIGHT TO DIE.

    The right to put an end to her own life when suffering from an incurable disease was claimed by Susan Olga Jacoby, aged thirty-eight, the wife of a lace ...

    Article : 339 words
  5. SCHOONER'S CREW OF WOMEN

    W. S. Gilbert, in his "Bab Ballads," treated the idea of a ship being manned by women from a humorous standpoint; Clark Russell, in one of his sea stories, also utilised the ...

    Article : 278 words
  6. KING AMONG SOLDIERS.

    The King, accompanied by the Queen, Princess Mary, and Princess Victoria, spent Whitsun among his soldiers at Aldershot, watching the smart work of the Regulars for ...

    Article : 1,311 words
  7. LUNEVILLE AND NANCY.

    The squabble over the German Zeppelin's Invasion of France has started some lively writing in the French and German newspapers. It is only fair to say that the Paris ...

    Article : 1,528 words
  8. "CURES," FOREIGN AND NATIVE.

    When you are cured in English you are well; when you are cured in German or Italian, you may still be ill; you may even die. An Italian physician, we are told in ...

    Article : 255 words
  9. LONDON NIGHT CLUBS.

    London, like all other capitals, has always had its Bohemian clubs for supper and dancing, writes a West End man, in the "Mail," but there probably never was a ...

    Article : 604 words
  10. JOURNALISTIC CATACOMB.

    "I have spent two days in the vast building allotted to provincial papers by the British Museum in Hendon," writes Sir W. R. Nicoll in the "British Weekly." "There are ...

    Article : 486 words
  11. LOST LABEL ROMANCE.

    Many strange problems frequently confront the Immigration Commissioner of the Canadian Government. Wives in search of missing husbands and boys of tender years ...

    Article : 168 words
  12. NEW STYLE OF WEDDING.

    Miss Delia F. Dana, a grand-daughter of Longfellow, is to be married shortly to Mr. Robert Hutchinson, a Harvard student. But there will be no "love, honor, and obey" ...

    Article : 197 words
  13. BARON GOES MAD.

    Nearly a year ago Baron Paterno was sentenced to penal servitude for life for the murder of Countess Trigona, once the favorite lady-in-waiting of the Queen of Italy. He ...

    Article : 137 words
  14. OPENING BLIND ALLEYS.

    "Everyone has known for a long time that the unemployed boy is the father of the unemployable man. Yet because it is so fatally easy, as well as so cheap, to take boys of ...

    Article : 598 words
  15. CACTUS TELEPHONE POLES.

    In some parts of the South-West slant cacti, are being used with success as telephone poles. This is the case in Arizona, where, we are told by the "Popular ...

    Article : 258 words
  16. MRS. THAW IN LONDON.

    Mrs. Harry Thaw, better known as Evelyn Thaw, has been engaged to appear in the "Hullo, Ragtime" revue at the London Hippodrome, in spite of the protests made in the ...

    Article : 183 words
  17. SOAP AS A "VISITING CARD."

    The "World" prints an amusing story of an arrest in the City which was the subject of smoke-room gossip in the House of Commons some little time ago. ...

    Article : 171 words
  18. "HYPNOTISED" BY HUSBAND.

    To the many curious reasons for desiring a divorce adduced by American men and women must now be added that of Mrs. Walter Brookings, wife of the famous young ...

    Article : 193 words
  19. MOB HUNTS NEGRO.

    A negro who kicked a white woman was chased through Hull streets by a mob numbering about 500, and narrowly escaped with his life. The crowd pursued the negro with sticks and stones, ...

    Article : 239 words
  20. SERPENTINE SWIMMER OF 86.

    One of the competitors in a race in the Serpentine, Hyde Park (Lon.), was John Classy, 88 years of age, who was bathed in the Serpentine for 60 years. Another ...

    Article : 88 words
  21. VACANCY FOR ALE-TASTER.

    There is a vacancy in Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester, for an ale-taster. The appointment is held under the Court Leet of Ashton, and is one of great antiquity. It was certainly held before the Norman ...

    Article : 94 words
  22. HUGE WHISKY COMBINE.

    A prominent Paris financier, supported by London interests, is said to be endeavoring to effect a combination of the Highland malt whisky distilling industry. According to reports circulating in usually well-informed ...

    Article : 95 words
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