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  2. LOVERS AT LAW.

    The prosaie termination of a very romantic and ardent courtship was told recently m Westminster (London) County Court, when the Registrar heard a claim by ...

    Article : 806 words
  3. OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS.

    It has always been, one of the greatest questions in astronomy (writes Professor Garrett P. Serviss, in the "New York American") whether our universe is the only ...

    Article : 902 words
  4. ACTRESSES WHO HAVE MARRIED PRINCES.

    Never has the Shakespearean dictum that "One man in his time plays many parts" been more thoroughly realised than in the case of the wenen who—having, by ...

    Article : 1,019 words
  5. THE LAST PUBLIC EXECUTION.

    In 1867, when Feninism was rife m Ireland, some conspirators evolved a scheme to capture Chester Castle, seize its arms, and convey them to the troubled Emerald ...

    Article : 1,885 words
  6. HE MET ANOTHER LADY.

    At the Yorkshire Under-Sheriff's Court at Leeds the course of a thirteen years' courtship was described in a breach of promise case. It resulted in a verdict for £30 ...

    Article : 464 words
  7. WHEN WE SPEAK TO MARS.

    Mr. Nikola Tesla, the American inventor, is about to attempt (says the London "Expres" New York correspondent) a feat which Sir Hiram Maxim has declared will ...

    Article : 472 words
  8. FORGOT HIS BRIDE.

    An extraordinary sequel to a Christmas Eve marriage came to light at Bristol, says "Lloyds' News." About 10 o'clock in the morning a gentleman went into a Bristol ...

    Article : 275 words
  9. A REMARKABLE SNAIL.

    The story of this wonderful snail will be long remembered. In March, 1846, a number of shells were presented to the British Museum by Mr. Charles Lamb, who ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 192 words
  10. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WEDDING PARTY.

    From Haute Savoie, France, comes a marvellous story of a bride's adventure, for the exact veracity of which it is obviously impossible to vouch at this distance (says a ...

    Article : 477 words
  11. ARISTOCRATS' NIGHT ESCAPADE.

    Almost as amusing, and quite as sensational, as the famous Koepenick captain's escapade, is an alleged raid by motor-car burglars on Cholmondeley Castle, and the ...

    Article : 562 words
  12. FOR NEXT CENTURY.

    Twenty-four gramophone records by famous living musical artists were solemnly entombed in the crypt of the Paris Opera House on December 24 last. ...

    Article : 277 words
  13. A PRISONER AND HIS FORTUNE.

    After spending half his life in prison or under police supervision. the convict Gerolamo Pasouale, at the age of fortynine, now finds himself through the death ...

    Article : 316 words
  14. A NEW VIOLINIST.

    A new violinist, Miss Kathleen Parlow, a Canadian girl, only 17 years old, who is said to be even more brilliant than Kubelik or Miss Marie Hall, will probably astonish ...

    Article : 232 words
  15. THE RED MOTOR.

    After a month's hot chase and much detective work of the Sherlock Holmes type it is believed (says the correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph") ...

    Article : 274 words
  16. NOT WHAT HE SEEMED.

    When shoemaker Voigt, as captain of Koepenik, perpetrated his grotesque trick, Austrians said such a hoax could not possibly be perpetrated in this country (says ...

    Article : 359 words
  17. A STRANGE CHOICE.

    Gendarmes discovered four tramps drinking champagne over a great bonfire near a hut in the forest of St. Germain. Prance The police were about to arrest the men ...

    Article : 125 words
  18. SOCIETY'S FAVORITE.

    Mr. Hiram—"I've read in the papers time an' agin thet all ministers condemn it, but I never knowed before bow real dangerous a game it wuz." Mrs. Hiram—"What? What's a dangerous game?" Mr. Hiram—"Playin' bridge, uv course!" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  19. A MAN'S INHUMANITY.

    A shameful case of cruelty to a child on the part of some unknown person has just occurred in a poor quarter of Rome, near the Palatine-bridge. Some children were ...

    Article : 196 words
  20. SCALDED TO DEATH.

    At the Cyfarthfa Steelworks. Merthyr, Wales, a laborer named Thomas Jenkins, of Perally, Pembrokeshire, met with a terrible death. He had apparently found a ...

    Article : 51 words
  21. FATAL BANK-NOTE JOKE.

    A workman while drinking in a public" houst at Stuttgart, Germany, waved an imitation £50-note in front of his companions, and declared that he had inherited it from ...

    Article : 106 words
  22. A WONDERFUL OPERATION.

    "Turn-me-loose" Johnson, a well-known negro gambler, who was stabbed in the heart during a fight on Friday, December 13, has had, says the London "Express," ...

    Article : 165 words
  23. HER SON'S GRAVE.

    Mme. Lucienne Brule has been summoned before the Court of Arpajon, Paris, for illegal disinterment of her son's remains. The son had been buried in the cemetery ...

    Article : 153 words
  24. FELL FROM THE SKY.

    An immense meteor fell at Bellefontaine, America, on the night of December 13, demolishing a house and causing the death of Mr. C. E. Beckett, who belonged to ...

    Article : 152 words
  25. NOT GOOD FOR THE GEESE.

    Ace Goodhill, of Millsboro, Delaware. baying wonderful success shooting wild geese on the Indian River with the aid of a modern phonograph. His method is to ...

    Article : 82 words
  26. THEY MADE A MISTAKE.

    Two young thieves, who had robbed a shop front in Brussels, were so hardpressed in the chase by the police and the shopkeeper that they lost their heads and ...

    Article : 45 words
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