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  2. MAN SLEEPS WHILE HIS CHILDREN STARVE.

    "It is one of the worst eases I have ever had to try. For an able-bodied man to remain in bed whilst his wife and little ones are starving is monstrous. I shall wake ...

    Article : 306 words
  3. A PRISON TRAGEDY.

    The suicide in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, St. Petersburg, of a young woman named Dorofieff, who had been imprisoned there for nearly six months ...

    Article : 385 words
  4. CENTENARIAN LOVERS.

    A bachelor, who celebrated his 101st birthday in April, is to cross the ocean in June to claim an English lass of 99. They will return to America (says the New York ...

    Article : 283 words
  5. A TALE OF CANNIBALS.

    Cannibalism is pretty well exterminated now, since there are few parts of the earth where the white man has not fixed his abode and set up his laws and institutions; ...

    Article : 692 words
  6. STORIES OF HORROR.

    The Duma Commission's report, which was read on April 23 at St. Petersburg, and the truth of the major portion of which was admitted by the representative of the ...

    Article : 486 words
  7. AN EMPRESS'S PEARLS.

    Perhaps the most peculiar search for lost treasure ever conducted is that which has now been ordered for the purpose of re[?]ering the pearl necklace of the Empress ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  8. LIBEL BY A BARONET'S WIDOW.

    Some curious evidence was given in the course of a case heard in the Sheriffs' Court, London, on April 24. when Otway Cuffe, Duke of Pleneuf, of Alderney-street, S.W., ...

    Article : 950 words
  9. A SOLICITOR'S FALL.

    Thomas Montagu Richards, aged 49, exMayor of Lambeth, and a solicitor, of Clement's Inn, pleaded guilty at the London Central Criminal Court to extensive frauds, ...

    Article : 466 words
  10. A Complete Story. THE COWARD.

    "I can't many a coward," said Mona Dixon decisively. "I don't think you're quite fair to me," the young man replied, with a flush of an. ...

    Article : 3,830 words
  11. TWO DREAMS OF THE FUTURE.

    The above illustrations gives the impression of a well-known artist as to what may happen in the near future. One suggests how railway locomotion will be conducted, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 224 words
  12. SHAVING WITHOUT RAZORS.

    Scores of excited barbers forced their way into a room at the Cannon-street Hotel one afternoon to witness an exhibition of razorless shaving. They were stirred into ...

    Article : 575 words
  13. WAKENING THE DEAD.

    Many cases of suspended animation which heretofore have been considered hopeless may now, it is believed, be treated with perfect success. It is no exaggeration, in ...

    Article : 728 words
  14. FIRE WORSHIP.

    More than ordinary interest will be evoked by the news (says a London paper) that Mr. Laurence Gommc. the clerk of the London County Council, is devoting his ...

    Article : 653 words
  15. MAN VERSUS PANTHER.

    A plucky native who wrestled with a wounded panther and overcame the beast is the hero of a story that reaches us from India. It was in the Banda district that a ...

    Article : 178 words
  16. HIS GUILTY WIFE.

    Two years ago M. Michael Gonge, an engineer's assistant, was wedded, he knowing full well that his wife had had more than friendly relations with an attache at the ...

    Article : 183 words
  17. STARVATION AND DISEASE.

    At least 30 walled cities and market towns in Central China are filled with starving refugees, who are absolutely helpless in consequence of the prevailing famine. ...

    Article : 437 words
  18. CONSIDERATE.

    Cholly (enthusiastically)—"She is forever smiling upon me!" She—''Awfully polite girl! Everyone else laughs outright. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 14 words
  19. A REMARKABLE ROGUE.

    One of the strangest stories of a life of fraud heard for many a long day was told at the Clerkenwell Sessions, London, on April 24. It was told of Dr. George Covey, ...

    Article : 363 words
  20. DUEL WITH KNIVES.

    A case which cast a striking light on the barbaric notions which still prevail in a certain order of society came before the Police Court the other day (writes our ...

    Article : 288 words
  21. ALPINISTS' FATAL SLIDE.

    Ernest Kasser and Otto Hegerter, two engineers Employed by the Federal Railways, Switzerland, met a tragic death on April 21. ...

    Article : 137 words
  22. SUICIDE FALLS ON A TRAIN.

    An unknown man stood on the Fresnave railway-bridge, near Chartres, France, on April 22, with the evident intention of committing suicide. As the express from ...

    Article : 90 words
  23. CLAY AS ELIXIR OF LIFE.

    A ninety-two-year-old man of Claremont, Texas, named Bourne, claims to have discovered the elixir of life. It is merely clay dissolved in hot water, and by ...

    Article : 68 words
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