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  2. "I'M SHOCKED."

    The redoubtable Fritjof Hansen, who passed, the cold of 160 deg. 175 min., is fleeing from the fiery breezes of London society's petticoats,'and has expressed in no ...

    Article : 1,507 words
  3. DID NOT WANT GUIANA.

    A dramatic incident is stated to have taken place in the presence of an examining magistrate in a southern town in France. A prisoner had just been arrested ...

    Article : 255 words
  4. A MURDEROUS LOTHARIO.

    About half-past 8 on the evening of Sun-! day. June 21, 1894, Florence Dennis, a goodlooking girl of four-and-twenty, stood gossipping with a Mrs. Eggers near her home ...

    Article : 2,021 words
  5. MR. DOOLEY ON THE TURF.

    "Have ye iver been to a horse race. Mr. Hennessy asked. "Wanst," said Mr. Dooley, "an' wanst only. It's a grand spoort, an' whin Hogan ...

    Article : 1,299 words
  6. CRIME IN NEW YORK.

    The self-confessed impotence of the police to suppress the terrible epidemic of crimes against little children has at last resulted in the appearance of Judge ...

    Article : 682 words
  7. THE LUCK OF MINERS.

    The recent sensational discovery of a rich goldfield through the accident of digging a grave in an old cemetery near Ballarat adds another chapter to the romance of mining ...

    Article : 1,141 words
  8. KILLED BY HER CORSETS.

    A mill operative met with a violent death in singular circumstances at Darwen, Ergland, recently. Deceased, a fifteen-yearold girl, named Bailey, was in the act of ...

    Article : 203 words
  9. HAVE YOU A DOUBLE?

    Generally a person who has a double is informed of the circumstance by his friends.' A young man (says a writer in "Cassell's Saturday Journal") became very unhappy ...

    Article : 933 words
  10. SOLES A YARD THICK.

    Anton Hanslian, who was in London last month, has walked 30,000 miles in seven years,.and has worn put 100 pairs of boots in the process. He started from ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 318 words
  11. EGG WITH A CHICKEN'S HEAD.

    As if delicately fashioned by fairy hands, the head of a Tree chicken appears on the end of the egg here illustrated. The head is perfect in every detail, and appears as ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 130 words
  12. A REMARKABLE STORY.

    The remarkable story of the alleged numerous wives of a London man named James Mitchell was told at Westminster Police Court recently. ...

    Article : 389 words
  13. POSING FOR THE CINEMATOGRAPH.

    Many who have watched the living pictures of a cinematograph probably have had their curiosity excited as to how these pictures are produced. An interview which ...

    Article : 660 words
  14. WEDDING TRAGEDY.

    A marriage at Pimlico on a recent Sunday was followed within a very few hours by the death of the bride, under terribly sad circumstances. While cooking the ...

    Article : 415 words
  15. A TRAIN OUTRAGE.

    Another train outrage is reported from India, this time from the North-West Provinces. The No. 1 up-mail leaves Rawalpindi at a quarter to 8 in the morning, and ...

    Article : 408 words
  16. AMERICAN GRACE DARLING.

    One of the best known personages in Viewport, America's fashionable seaside summer resort, is the woman lighthouse-keeper, Miss Ida Lewis, who has for 28 ...

    Article : 308 words
  17. A SAD CASE.

    Circumstances of the saddest character attended the death of a 13-year-old schoolgirl, named Edith Campbell, of Chilton, Durham, England, who was found drowned ...

    Article : 213 words
  18. AN INGENIOUS CRIMINAL.

    A novel defence was put forward by a certain gentleman who was charged at the Greenwich Police Court with st[?]aing copper. He explained that he had no ...

    Article : 104 words
  19. ON THE INTER-ATMOSPHERE RAPID TRANSIT.

    Irate Citizen (to citizen equality irate)—"Say, I used to think tie car-ahead nuisance was bad, but this changing airshins is a million times worsen ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 32 words
  20. TOURISTS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

    Fifty-two German and Swiss students, who were spending their holidays at the College des Salesians, at Intra, on Lake Maggiore, were struck down by lightning ...

    Article : 173 words
  21. IN A PYTHON'S TOILS.

    Mr. Cocklin, walking in thick grass near the Marico River, Becbuanaland, was thrown to the ground by a fourteen-foot python, which coiled round his legs (says ...

    Article : 93 words
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