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  2. DARING TURNS OF ACROBATS.

    Looping the loop and its progeny are the most effective devices yet invented for producing apparent as well as real danger. In looping the loop, first performed by James ...

    Article : 1,642 words
  3. "HOW I BECAME THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD."

    The "Daily Mail" has made a decided hit in securing from Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the notorious multi-millionaire, an explanation of the methods by which he ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,072 words
  4. SOME STUPENDOUS TASKS.

    The minimum pressure of a pianist's finger necessary to sound a note pianissimo is equal to a quarter of a pound. As a German scientist puts it, it requires more force ...

    Article : 946 words
  5. THE NEW KING AND QUEEN.

    A new European kingdom is not forcibly carved out every day, but if ambitious princes can no longer hope to repartition Europe by the might of their adventurous ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,183 words
  6. THE MARTYRDOM OF ELIZA FENNING.

    A writer in the Edinburgh Scotsmen resuscitates the old story of the martrydom of Eliza Fenning. The time was 1815, the year of Waterloo, and the scene of the ...

    Article : 1,934 words
  7. PLAYING THE PIANO FOR THIRTY HOURS.

    Henry Berg (the iron pianist) thus writes to a London paper:—Well, you know it was not for the first time, so I was not particularly nervous ...

    Article : 807 words
  8. LIP IMPRINTS AS SOUVENIRS.

    A clever young Kensington lady, a Miss Evans, has devised a new kind of autograph album chat is likely to be popular. it is so contrived as to enable a young ...

    Article : 483 words
  9. SMALLEST MAN IN THE WORLD.

    The smallest man in the world is Smaun Sing Hpoo, a native of Burmah, who is touring the world just now exhibiting himself. We may see him in Edinburgh some of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 547 words
  10. RADIO-ACTIVITY IN LIFE.

    Readers who may have perused Mr. Burke's lecture in London the other day, or have been interested in his researches upon the connection between radio-activity ...

    Article : 156 words
  11. THINGS WHICH ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM.

    They look exactly like the ordinary foura penny, white clay, cutty pipes, but if you load one with tobacco you find, to your disgust, that no amount of pulling will make ...

    Article : 753 words
  12. UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.

    Autlior of "Esperanto" is a Russian Jew practising in Warsaw as a medical oculist. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 19 words
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    Cossacks charging a mob in a Russian street. These wild soldiers of the Czar are absolutely merciless in these charges, cutting down men, women, and children alike. They carry swords, loaded whips, heavy revolvers, and rifles. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 36 words
  14. IS IT A LEGAL MARRIAGE?

    A Paris telegram, dated November 6, says: —In France marriage is a civil institution, and no marriage is valid whatever the religious ceremony until the couple have ...

    Article : 272 words
  15. THE SUN SHRINKING.

    Sir Oliver Lodge, lecturing recently to Birmingham working men on the recent solar eclipse, said his own observations were made from the deck of a P. & O. steamer ...

    Article : 268 words
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