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    THE “TEAK” ELEPHANT. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. MISER’S £23,000 HOARD

    An extraordinary story of squalor and riches runs behind the tragedy of an old Tottenham miser, who has just died, killed by the miserable conditions in which he ...

    Article : 303 words
  4. FINANCE OF THE DRAMA.

    The extraordinary record of 13,000 performances has just been achieved by the exceedingly funny farcical comedy, “The Private Secretary,” which was being played ...

    Article : 805 words
  5. LADIES PLAY LEAP-FROG.

    Father Vaughan’s strictures of the smart set in England provoked many indignant denials, but the celebrated preacher sticks to his guns, and shows no signs of either ...

    Article : 1,261 words
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    THE DEVOTEES OF INDIA. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. TRYING A “WITCH.”

    “This,” gasped Mr. Chester Jones, the Clerkenwell Sessions Judge, between [?]s of laughter, “is the funniest case I have ever had before me.” The Court was ...

    Article : 1,012 words
  8. FAMOUS BELLS.

    This famous bell’s canonical name is “St. Stephen;” but a random nickname given it in The Times—suggested by the name of the Chief Commissioner of Works at the ...

    Article : 1,440 words
  9. THE WIRELESS MESSAGE.

    “Wireless telegraphy” is in the air everywhere, and has now become a question of international concern. The development of the system amply bears out what Mr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. EXCITING BEAR HUNT IN LONDON.

    Flower gardens were clawed up fences were knocked down, a boy had his leg bitten, a man’s hand was lacerated, women and children were put to flight, and a ...

    Article : 497 words
  11. FIRE PANIC.

    An alarming fire, accompanied by many exciting scenes, broke out on the banks of the Regent’s Canal at Victoria Park recently. The premises involved were used as a ...

    Article : 479 words
  12. WHAT ADVERTISING DOES FOR PROGRESS.

    Advertising is as old as the press itself, and, like the press, it has grown both in volume and method. The part played by advertising in a nation’s business is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 381 words
  13. MECHANISM VERSUS MAN.

    The London Evening Standard writes:— “The accident at Grantham Station is a tragical reminder of the increasing importance and superfluity of the average man. ...

    Article : 448 words
  14. THE WRONG BOY.

    The amazing story of a Maidstone painter having mistaken a little London wai[?] for his own son, who was supposed to have been lost, has had a remarkable sequel. ...

    Article : 337 words
  15. A WONDERFUL VINE.

    An unpretentious-looking greenhouse at the back of a row of private houses in Nightingale road, Wood Green, contains what is probably unique in the history of ...

    Article : 287 words
  16. 3,000,000 DEATHS FROM PLAGUE.

    From the beginning of the outbreak in the autumn of 1896 to the aid of 1904 the number of deaths recorded as due to plague in India reached the enormous total of ...

    Article : 587 words
  17. GREAT MEN’S DRINKS.

    The entertaining author of “Collections and Recollections” has been writing on the favourite beverages of great men. Thackeray’s choice was claret. He said that “our ...

    Article : 492 words
  18. MADE YOUNG BY X RAYS.

    Professor M. A. Imbert, of Montpellier, whose work since 1896 has necessitated his constant exposure to the action of the X rays, relates his personal experience of the ...

    Article : 189 words
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