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  2. ROBBERS AT BAY.

    Robbery under arms was attempted in the most desperate manner at the shop of Messrs. Leuria's. Limited. Belfast, one day in June. While the lady assistant was ...

    Article : 305 words
  3. INDIA'S REPTILE PRESS'

    If the Government of India leave been slow to take effective measures to deal with incitements' in the press and with revolutionary conspiracies, they were swift ...

    Article : 1,400 words
  4. AUSTRALIA'S ARMS.

    At first blush it seems a little humiliating that we have to go to England for our Commonwealth flag, our Commonwealth arms, &c., or that, having selected ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 353 words
  5. KINGS AS AMBASSADORS.

    King Edward's visit to Russia has provoked a great deal of controversy. It is a pity that any action of His Majesty should be the subject of political disputes ...

    Article : 773 words
  6. CAMERA DETECTIVE.

    After a hearing extending over several Stays, a verdict of wilful murder has been retained, by the Coroner's jury against Albert Ernest Howroyd, who is accused of ...

    Article : 524 words
  7. WHITE AND BLACK.

    Sir Charles Dilke, whose opinions alway call for respect, has written a very able paper on the relations of the Powers. Thunder and lightning play around their ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 341 words
  8. ARE CLEVER PEOPLE MAD?

    There is a great deal to be said in support of the theory that genius is skin to madness. Men who have been adjudged hopelessly insane have over and over again ...

    Article : 557 words
  9. GIGANTIC DEAL IN GRAIN.

    One of the fiercest and most exciting duels ever fought between speculators has come to a crisis in the Chicago wheat pit (says The Weekly Dispatch). In a few ...

    Article : 557 words
  10. OVERWHELMED BY ICE.

    The terrible pronouncement) has just been made by no less an authority than Professor Garrett P. Serviss (says Science Siftings) that the tame is coming when ...

    Article : 1,286 words
  11. MELBA'S HOME.

    Melba always says that Australia is her home, but this means the home of her birth. Her "domicile" home is in London. near Hyde Park, and tally no one could ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 461 words
  12. HALLEY'S COMET.

    The 'Astronomer Royal of England, in his annual report on Greenwich Observatory, says (we quote The Times) that several plates were exposed last winter in ...

    Article : 423 words
  13. SOMETHING LIKE A FARM.

    The biggest farm—if “farm” it can be called—is that owned by Don Luis Terrazas, in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, which measures from north to south 15[?] ...

    Article : 506 words
  14. AN OYSTER BOOK.

    Fancy a book on the oyster! Professor Brooks, of New York, fancied it so much that he wrote it. Probably he knows more than any other man about the life of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 537 words
  15. NEW YORK SNOBS.

    Are the days of equestrian frequents, [?]key dinners and freak entertainments generally by American plutocrats numbered? of one may judge by a remarkable chorus ...

    Article : 594 words
  16. LOUIS BRENNAN'S GENIUS.

    Mr. Louis Brennan's offer of his single-rail railway to Australia, on terms in the fixing of Parliament, after results," has a good ring about it. Probably therefore, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 382 words
  17. ANCIENT GREAT GUNS.

    The idea that the great pun is absolutely modern is erroneous. They made great guns in ancient days, but there wasn't then any necessity for them, and so they were ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 313 words
  18. THE STRENUOUS LIFE.

    Mamma—“Good gracious. Georgie! What is the matter with Freddie Jones? Is the child having a fit?” Georgie—“No, mamma. You know. Freddie stutters. and we bet he couldn’t say ‘altitudinosity’ before Bobbie ran twice around the block.” ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 41 words
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