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  2. TRAPS AND PITFALLS

    The ways of the American citizen are passing strange. The world wonders why the Yankee does not suppress the grafters who bang on to his municipal and public ...

    Article : 1,703 words
  3. GAMBLING IN MILLIONS

    Remarkable gambling in stocks has taken place recently in New York and Chicago (says The London Dispatch). As a result of one deal Mr. Pierpont Morgan has mad ...

    Article : 743 words
  4. SIR GEORGE LEWIS.

    With the new year Sir George Lewis, the greatest of living English solicitors, retired from the profession which he was practised for 54 years. Though in ...

    Article : 274 words
  5. PARTS AND THE SEINE

    It is said that Parisians are agitating for the straightening of the Seine. A dance at the accompanying little map will show the reasonableness of such a movement. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 332 words
  6. THE GENERAL’S STORY

    We had eaten little flesh and drunk the sourest wine at the buffet of Travnik; nevertheless, my friend the general, entirely ignorant, as he must have been, of ...

    Article : 2,688 words
  7. FAITHLESS CHEF.

    After giving up her employment to get' married Miss Doris Cooper had the mortification of being jilted by her fiance; but in the London Sheriff’s Court on January 5 ...

    Article : 663 words
  8. GIRL FROZEN TO DEATH

    Miss Kate Eastman, of Cambridge square, London, W., has lost her life on the Alps, being frozen to death within a comparatively short distance of shelter. Miss ...

    Article : 296 words
  9. SOME BARRIER MATTERS.

    Broken Hill has had its ups and downs like other places, and latterly, unfortunately, it has been chiefly “downs.” Everything that reflects on the prosperity or adversity ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 554 words
  10. ECCENTRIC WILL.

    Few more curious conditions have ever been attached to wills than that of Aid. Benjamin Minnos Woollan, of Sherwood Park, Tunbridge Wells, and formerly of ...

    Article : 345 words
  11. INDIAN IDOLS.

    When a light-hearted subaltern brought home from India, 60 years ago, some looted green and yellow idols he little imagined that in January, 1910, his children and ...

    Article : 712 words
  12. POST-MORTEM FRAUD.

    The New York police have arrested a man named Charles Adams on a charge of fleecing various English people out of £50,000 daring the past five years by ...

    Article : 207 words
  13. ESCAPE IN FETTERS.

    One of the most extraordinary flights from justice ever recorded has just been recalled, says a London paper, by the death of Joseph Creswick in a South African gaol. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 901 words
  14. THE MONSOON.

    We repeatedly read the word “monsoon” as relating to the weather. What is a monsoon? Originally it denoted a periodical wind in the Indian Ocean, which blows ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 243 words
  15. IN THE GOOD TIME COMING.

    The present chief of the Pasteur Institute says that the days of housekeeping, as we know them, are numbered. He declares that much of the in health of a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 306 words
  16. NOTED CENTENARIAN.

    Grantham includes among its inhabitants a noted acrobat, Henry Johnson, who was born at Norwich on Christmas Day, 1806, and celebrated his .103rd birthday in ...

    Article : 273 words
  17. TRAFFIC IN CHILDREN.

    The Italian Government is enforcing stringent measures for the suppression of the traffic in children under age by the glass working industry in France. The ...

    Article : 167 words
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