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  2. BESIDE THE GALLOWS.

    Superintendent Minty, who has just retired from Edinburgh police force, had a most gruesome experience in his official connection with the last public execution ...

    Article : 699 words
  3. HIDDEN CRIME.

    "Murder will out" is the comforting assurance of the ancient poets often quoted, but in modern experience too often belied. The Merstham tunnel mystery, although at, ...

    Article : 1,035 words
  4. DETECTION BY EAR PRINT.

    The friends of Mr. Wills, the Englishman who has just escaped from the custody of Macedonian brigands, were naturally perturbed when the news came to hand ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 670 words
  5. BIGAMY AND BLACKMAIL.

    The tribulations which have recently befallen various married persons and exmarried persons in New York suggest that divorce has become a more hazardous ...

    Article : 1,135 words
  6. LIVINGSTON'S BOY.

    Among the visitors at the opening of the chrysanthemum show at the Crystal Palace recently was Mr. Wato, a negro, who is famous, as having been not only, one of ...

    Article : 1,132 words
  7. IN THE DEATH CHAMBER.

    Mr. Patrick McGuire, keeper of the Brooklyn Morgue, New York, has been telling an interviewer some terrible stories relating to what may well be termed the ...

    Article : 918 words
  8. BLUNDERS THAT LEAD TO BLOODSHED.

    His bringing up may have been of the best and his manners far nearer perfection than is common in this country, yet the Englishman who goes abroad may find ...

    Article : 878 words
  9. HOW PEOPLE GET LOST.

    Of the various parts of the human system, the brain and its complicated functions are least understood (writes Dr. Joseph Cater, in a London weekly). The effects of some ...

    Article : 884 words
  10. THE INSANE AND THEIR HANDWRITING.

    The extreme care with which insane writers make their preparations for their work, and the attention which they give to the technicalities connected with it might ...

    Article : 333 words
  11. SCHOOL IS ABOUT TO OPEN IN THE FAR EAST.

    Japan as the new teacher of modern military methods. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 21 words
  12. DISTANCE LENDS ENCHANTMENT TO THE NEWS.

    Japan—"The Russians must be brut es." U.S.A.—"Those Japs are just savages, after all." Russia—"Those Americans are horribly cruel." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 26 words
  13. SUICIDE AND SEX.

    Professor W. B. Bailey, of Yale, appears to have been investigating the question of suicide and sex. Dealing with the 29,344 cases of suicide officially recorded between ...

    Article : 363 words
  14. STRANGE LOTTERY PROBLEM

    Lottery numbers are always drawn from, the wheel of fortune by charity school children of tender years, and presumed, therefore, to be free from guile. But the city ...

    Article : 503 words
  15. BACK FROM THE DEAD.

    Italian papers relate the romantic life story of Enrico Bandini, who, after being believed dead for 30 years, has now returned to his family at San Casciano, near ...

    Article : 354 words
  16. A PROBLEM IN PEARLS.

    Whether pearls live and die is, figuratively expressed, of course, a problem which may be solved a few centuries hence, thanks to the Louvre and to M. Thiers (writes the ...

    Article : 463 words
  17. LISTENING TO A MURDER.

    A New York telegram, dated October 12, says:—Early this morning George Lanole, a circus performer, living in a cheap lodging-house at 149, Third-avenue, rushed into ...

    Article : 310 words
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    'Any—"Hi, there! You there! Hi! Come off the grass, can't you? Don't you see the notice? It's the likes of you trespassin' chaps as makes 'em shut their parks." Noble Owner—"Oh, I beg pardon. I forgot the notice. I'll come off at ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 47 words
  19. EMPRESS'S SEWING MACHINE.

    The story of how it came about that President Roosevelt decided to make a present of a sewing machine to the Empress of Japan is of much interest. The ...

    Article : 231 words
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