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  2. A CURIOUS IMPORT

    There arrived at Vancouver recently the preserved body of a strange creature which was billed on the manifest of the ship which brought it from Australia as a ...

    Article : 444 words
  3. THE OLDEST BAR.

    Photographs of the excavated Pompeii continue to be given out by the Italian authorities. One of the latest is of a drinking saloon—actually a bar. A mere ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 289 words
  4. 5,000-YEAR-OLD COURTSHIP.

    A courtship which, according to the principals, began 5,000 years ago on the banks of the Nile, culminated to-day in the St. Louis Divorce Court (writes a New York ...

    Article : 443 words
  5. BILL’S IDEES.

    Good night mister. How’ve you been thin’ yourself? The New Zealands, eh? No, I’ve never been to them South Sea Islands. Little old Sydney’s good enough ...

    Article : 3,110 words
  6. CASE FOR THE CENSOR.

    The Lord Chamberlain’s Department has not, as yet, taken o[?]cial notice of the musical comedetta, “Mile. Clue,” in which Mile. Gaby Deslys appears at the Palace ...

    Article : 492 words
  7. GERMAN GROWN PRINCE.

    Not a few Germans are pleased that the illness of the German Emperor has given the Crown Prince a more serious part to play than often falls to his lot (stated ...

    Article : 649 words
  8. A MARVELLOUS FEAT

    The sketch shows the human eye C— pupil, D—iris, E—layer of muscles and nerves, F—sclerotic coat enclosing back larger position o£ eyeball. According to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 495 words
  9. BOXERS’ FORTUNES.

    A statistician recently computed Mr. Rockefeller’s income by the week, day, hour, minute, and even to the amount that was added to the hoard every time the ...

    Article : 445 words
  10. IN THESE STRESSFUL DAYS.

    That the increasing complexities of modern civilization are steadily producing new types of disease and modifications of well-known diseases is a fact that has ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 417 words
  11. SWISS HOSPITAL INCIDENT.

    During an open-sis representation of “William Tell” at Interlaken a handsome amateur actor named Bauer, who was riding a spirited horse In one of the ...

    Article : 195 words
  12. STUDY YOUR FOOD.

    The Australian summer is severe; most severe where there is humidity. A question is what to eat by way of preference. The body is always making heat. It must ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 306 words
  13. UNPOPULARITY OF MARRIAGE.

    According to the official figures in the Registrar-General’s returns, marriage is rapidly becoming unpopular (states a London journal). During the first three ...

    Article : 348 words
  14. RECORD REIGNS.

    The late Emperor Mutsuhito of Japan was 60 years of acre at the time of his death, had bad ruled for 45 years. He was the 121st Emperor of the Imperial ...

    Article : 328 words
  15. ALMOST HUMAN.

    One of the most attractive exhibits at the Lepine show of toys and inventions which opened in Paris on August 28 is the “Dis-donc,” a speaking automaton. ...

    Article : 220 words
  16. ROMANCE OF AN EX- CONVICT.

    Mr. William Burke, the Philadelphia municipal Councillor who fled to New York after confessing that he had been a burglar and pickpocket, returned to his wife ...

    Article : 279 words
  17. CURING RINDLESS HAM.

    There is a handsome fortune awaiting the person who will invent a method of curing hams and bacon from which the skin has been removed. Mr. Albert Halstead, ...

    Article : 113 words
  18. THE SIXTH SENSE.

    Few people are aware that there is recognised now by all physiologists a well-defined sixth sense. It is known as the sense of equilibrium. Its seat is in the ...

    Article : 299 words
  19. TRACKED BY TORN BANKNOTE. .

    In May a Polish gentleman named Count Stanislas Grabowski was followed one night to his hotel in the Rue Pierre-Charron. Paris, by an individual who entered ...

    Article : 225 words
  20. SUSCEPTIBLE MOUNTAIN.

    The discovery that the Eiffel Tower in Paris varies in height according to the temperature of the air elicits a still more remarkable piece of information of the same ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. PRISON NOVELIST.

    Jean Galley known as the Baron de Graval and Vicomte de la Guersch, the ex-bank clerk who in 1906 was sentenced to seven years’ hard labour—afterwards commuted ...

    Article : 136 words
  22. NO FORESTS IN CHINA.

    In China there are no forests (says Science Sittings). The great plain never had forests, being entirely of delta formation, and the mountainous regions to the ...

    Article : 132 words
  23. AN ECONOMIC CONSIDERATION.

    Fair Visitor—“ I suppose you find constant inspiration in the flowers of the field, the sighting of the breezes, and the singing of the birds and for that reason prefer to live in the country?” Poet—“ Not at all madam. The real reason is that board is chenper out here ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 62 words
  24. NEATLY TURNED.

    “I should like to have your opinion of this picture.” “My dear fellow, it is worthless.” “I know, old chap, but I should like to have it all the same.” —Tatler. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 32 words
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