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  2. THERMOMETER-MAKING.

    The making of a thermometer may be cither a delicate scientific operation or one of the simplest tasks of the skilled mechanic, according to the sort of thermometer made ...

    Article : 664 words
  3. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    One-third of the land surface of the earth is covered with forests. It is estimated that there are over 150,000 unemployed in Austria at present. ...

    Article : 1,667 words
  4. THE END OF A GAMING HELL.

    On Friday, October 10, the Belgian law which renders public gaining tables illegal came into operation at Ostend, and to-day, so far as Europe is concerned, Monte Carlo ...

    Article : 912 words
  5. THE PRODUCER OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

    SOUTH AUSTRALIA FEEDS HIS BROTHERS. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. PALMER, THE POISONER.

    Among all the allusions to the anniversary of the mysterious death of Lord George Bentinck in 1884, I have observed no attempt (writes a correspondent of the ...

    Article : 289 words
  7. MURDERS BY MADMEN.

    A Pittsburg dispatch, dated October 10, says:—A tenable tragedy was enacted here to day. A young man, named Charles Lawley, suddenly went insane this morning, ...

    Article : 184 words
  8. FEMALE BUTCHERS.

    For a most strange reason all of the Butchers of Paraguay arc women, and there many occupations invariably assumed elsewhere by the sterner sex fall to the lot of ...

    Article : 367 words
  9. MR. DOOLEY ON THE FROZEN NORTH.

    In the New York "Journal" Mr. Dooley thus discourses on the perils of the frozen north:—"Accordin" to what I hear, th' North ...

    Article : 1,122 words
  10. TRAFFIC SUPERINTENDENT.

    Mr. J. B. McNeil ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  11. A VETERAN CLERGYMAN.

    The Rev. F. W. Cox. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 8 words
  12. THE FATE OF ICARUS.

    The latest Icarus is Baron von Bradsky, a Hungarian aeronaut, of 36, who, with his companion, M. Morin, a French electrical engineer, attempted a flight with his airship ...

    Article : 862 words
  13. A FAMILY WITH IDEAS OF ITS OWN.

    A singular fact in the history of a pronunent Philadelphia family is little known to the public. For three generations no boy belonging to the X's has gone to school or ...

    Article : 460 words
  14. THE MILLIONAIRE'S BURDEN.

    About ten years ago Rockefeller's income was given as thirty million dollars by an excellent authority. He had reached the limit of profitabe reinvestment of ...

    Article : 438 words
  15. CONCERNING WORDS.

    The writer of a chatty article in a London weekly on the origin of names says:—Seven old women were the first stationers. Hundreds of years ago they stood, or were ...

    Article : 666 words
  16. A FAMOUS FRENCH PRISON.

    Paris is losing a familiar and gloomy landmark (writes the correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph"). This is the St. Lazare prison, in the Rue du Faubourg ...

    Article : 408 words
  17. WITTY REPARTEES.

    When Cicero was told that a certain lady had said that she was but thirty years old, though she was unquestionably far older, he replied, "I must believe her, for I have ...

    Article : 431 words
  18. STRANGE MURDER CASE.

    A telegram, dated Trieste, October 13, says:—Four years ago a naturalised British subject, named Mangaki, who for 10 years belonged to a Manchester Volunteer ...

    Article : 249 words
  19. SOME CHRISTENING ODDITIES.

    A curious circumstance (says "Golden Penny") was mentioned in connection with a christening some time ago, when it was pointed out that a certain lady had stood ...

    Article : 420 words
  20. WHAT IS A COLD?

    Professor Lohnberg publishes in the Vienna "Clinical Review" as essay on cold in the head. He states the "ordinary cold is no individual complaint, but only a ...

    Article : 299 words
  21. SOME WEALTHY POLICEMEN

    A policeman's lot in Yew York is not altogether an unhappy one, if we may judge by a trial which took place a short time ago in that city. It is notorious that New ...

    Article : 274 words
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