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  2. BURGLARS AND THEIR WAYS.

    Through the writings of the late Josiah Flynt and others who in recent years have become tramps in order to learn the ways of the hobo tribe, it has developed that ...

    Article : 1,017 words
  3. THE SULTAN OF TURKEY.

    'Abdul Hamid II is the most unapproachable monarch in the world. Walled in as he is by the concentrated superstitions of a most superstitious and antiquated court, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,686 words
  4. WOMEN BULL-FIGHTERS.

    Women appear to have invaded (says a writer in an English paper) every known calling of man from steeplejack to deep sea diver, yet it will be news to most to ...

    Article : 956 words
  5. GARMENTS THAT KILL.

    There are no statistics of the number of deaths which were directly due to that now happily defunct horror, the crinoline. But there are cases enough on record to show ...

    Article : 783 words
  6. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    Japan mates annually150,000,000 gallons of saki, or rice beer. The Greenland, whale sometimes attains the age of 400 years. ...

    Article : 1,465 words
  7. MOTOR HEARSES.

    The Berlin police have inspected and approved the first electric automobile hearse ever perfected, and it Trill shortly be put into regular service by a local ...

    Article : 72 words
  8. A COSTLY HOUSE.

    Mr. George J. Gould has decided to pull down his house at the corner of Fifthavenue, and build another, which will cost him £2,000,000. The new house, which ...

    Article : 44 words
  9. SOME WONDERFUL CURES

    Superstition is by no means dead even in ultra-civilised England. One Sunday, a few months ago, says a writer in "Answers," an interesting proof of this fact ...

    Article : 757 words
  10. DID NOT KNOW HER HUSBAND.

    The peril to which the English girl who marries a foreigner exposes herself is illustrated (says the Brussels correspondent of the London. "Daily Mail") by the pathetic ...

    Article : 337 words
  11. A MODERN ROMEO.

    A young man, in Paris, desperately in love with the chambermaid, finding all the customary approaches barred, took the risk, one night of climbing to his sweetheart's ...

    Article : 61 words
  12. A LIVING TYPHOID GERM.

    Buxom and, to all appearances, healthy, Mary Ilverson is under the detention of the Health Department of New York on suspicion of infecting during the last six ...

    Article : 80 words
  13. AN ELECTRIFIED HOUSE.

    At Brigue, Switzerland, several families occupying a large house were awakened in the night by the rocking of the building. Thinking an earthquake was taking place ...

    Article : 95 words
  14. A TERRIBLE MOTOR SMASH

    Four motorists were tilled instantly at Miramar, near Marseilles, on April 1, when their car was run down and smashed by an express train at a level crossing. ...

    Article : 127 words
  15. A SAD STORY.

    Edwin Moore, aged 33, an ex-private of the Royal Warwickshire regiment, was executed at Warwick gaol on Tuesday, April 2, for the murder of his mother at ...

    Article : 194 words
  16. A MOTHER'S DREAM.

    The Tower-bridge Police Court (London) magistrate recently committed Isabella Hart, 35, the wife of a laborer, of Guinness Buildings, Bennondsey, for trial on the ...

    Article : 199 words
  17. A TERRIBLE TART.

    Arsenic is a bad substitute for powdered sugar (says a correspondent of a London paper). Nine persons, the guests of lady in a small town near Laudun, France, ...

    Article : 156 words
  18. "DOWN WITH THE DUST!"

    On one occasion Dean Sivilt delivered a charity sermon, eloquent and impressive, but so long that it tired many of his hearers and so hurt the contribution. As ...

    Article : 164 words
  19. A RIVER TRAGEDY.

    Three boys, aged respectively eight, eleven, and seventeen, who had got into a boat with a workman, were drowned in the Seine. The workman, it appears, did not ...

    Article : 96 words
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    The Alligator (to our wandering dentist on the Nile)—"Oh, please, don't go. I've a hollow tooth, and I want you to fill it." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 27 words
  21. LOVERS A NUISANCE.

    The use of the church door as a lovers' meeting-place, common in most small towns, has become so marked at Cuckfield (England) parish church that Mr.Lewin, ...

    Article : 130 words
  22. AN UNREHEARSED DRAMA.

    Saint-Denis Municipal Theatre tried to play the "Tour du Monde d'un Gamin de Paris" recently to a crowded-house, but never got beyond the first act (writes the ...

    Article : 292 words
  23. RICH ON £30 A YEAR.

    A man he was to all the country dear. And passing rich on forty pounds a year. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his ...

    Article : 267 words
  24. NOT AT ANY PRICE.

    Contrary to the usual order of things, the only poetry written in the love episode of Bridget McCarney and John Beattie (both of Enniskillen) was by the lady. But ...

    Article : 192 words
  25. THE VALUE OF A CURATE.

    "I do not know what the special attraction of a curate is, but perhaps the question of matrimony enters into it," said the Rev. C. A. Kent, vicar of. St. Michael's, ...

    Article : 137 words
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