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  2. WALL-STREET'S QUEEN.

    The career of Mrs. Ella Rawls Reader, the beautiful young American financier and diplomatist, says the London "Daily Express," is one of the most fascinating ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,018 words
  3. SOME TRUE GHOST STORIES.

    The "Glasgow Daily Mail" publishes a collection of true ghost stories received from correspondents. A young lady writes:— ...

    Article : 1,343 words
  4. DIAMONDS FROM SUGAR.

    A scientist in Ashford, Middlesex, makes the startling statement that he has discovered Nature's own process of making, large diamonds. He says he has produced ...

    Article : 602 words
  5. MARRIED WOMAN'S SENSATIONAL STORY.

    An astounding story was told at Llandaff, near Cardiff, on August 27, when a young laborer, named James Mapstone, of Morganstown, Radyr, stood in the dock charged ...

    Article : 1,300 words
  6. A FAMILY OF SUICIDES.

    A recent inquest on an old man named George Spricknell, at Bethnal Green, London, revealed a morbid tendency towards suicide which had run through his family ...

    Article : 499 words
  7. HUNTING A LOVER.

    How Mrs. Annie Andrews, a widow, pursued John William Rigden, from South Africa to England and, according to his story, wrung a promise of marriage out of ...

    Article : 776 words
  8. DESERT EXPLORATION.

    The story of the excellent work done by the survey parties attached to the Seistan Boundary Commission will probably never be told except in official reports; but the ...

    Article : 1,038 words
  9. HILL CLIMBING IN THE HIGHLANDS.

    Voice from Above—"Hey, Mac, walk warily, mon! Dinna forget ye hae th' whuskey." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 20 words
  10. THE ALLEGED CHLOROFORM PLOT.

    It is still to be seen, (writes our London correspondent under date September 1) what the result will he of the charge against Mr. Hugh Watt, ex-M.P. for ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 222 words
  11. THE AGAPEMONE.

    The Rev. Smyth Pigott, head of that remarkable home for hysterical women and male fanatics, the Agapemone, at Spaxton, down in Somersetshire, is still under the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 682 words
  12. FAMOUS GOURMANDS AND EPICURES.

    That most interesting writer on natural history. Mr. F. G. Aflalo, discusses the question, "Is any animal greedier than man?" in the September "Pall Mall ...

    Article : 464 words
  13. WHAT LAW TERMS MEAN.

    When first an advocate defended a prisoner by his eloquence he did so for love as the friend of the accused. He faced the court as a "friend," but that did not ...

    Article : 855 words
  14. LOVER'S PRESENTS SOLD TO BENEFIT ANOTHER.

    A romantic story comes from New York of how a young woman accepted presents from one lover, sold them, and used the money to help another in obtaining a legal ...

    Article : 372 words
  15. CONSUMPTION CURE.

    The American papers are giving Sully as ranch space to the discovery of an alleged cure for consumption, as to the Peace Conference at Portsmouth. It is announced, ...

    Article : 524 words
  16. PLOTS AGAINST THE CZAR.

    The first year we were in the Crimea, says the writers of "Six Years at the Russian Court," in the "Leisure Hour," a diabolical plot, against the imperial family was ...

    Article : 465 words
  17. THE JOYS OF PENAL SERVITUDE.

    Two years' hard labor is described by Mr. W. B. Robertson in an illustrated article in the September number of "Cassell's Magazine," in the course of which he describes ...

    Article : 461 words
  18. MURDERERS' TALISMAN.

    A New York telegram, dated August 21, says:—An extraordinary action was entered to-day by a caterer to New York Prison, with the object of recovering a certain ...

    Article : 198 words
  19. A BOY'S VENDETTA

    After a search of nine years Antonio Carraciola, an Italian engineer, has run down the murderer of his father (says a New York dispatch, dated August 17). In ...

    Article : 258 words
  20. RESOURCE.

    Many so-called "workshop dodges" are interesting and ingenious. Here is one. Supposing X to be a part of a machine which it is necessary shall be kept oiled, but which ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 91 words
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  22. THE SUCKING FISH.

    Sucking fishes have the unenviable reputation of going through life as hangerson to fishes of larger growth, notably sharks. sword-fishes, and bull-fishes. Like ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 179 words
  23. THOUGHT PHOTOGRAPHY.

    An unexplored field of research has, according to "Annales des Sciences Phychiaues" for July, been opened out by the announcement, made by Commandants ...

    Article : 197 words
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