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  2. KILLED BY THE EXPRESS.

    Seldom did a coroner's jury listen to a more, pathetic story, than that unfolded at an inquest at Betchworth, England, on a little girl named Hilda Hewett. She was ...

    Article : 561 words
  3. GIRLS AND THEIR CORSETS.

    Every mother desires her daughter to grow up straight, shapely, and graceful, and does the best in her power to bring about the fulfilment of her wishes, but parents ...

    Article : 860 words
  4. THE ARTIST'S MODEL.

    Adventures? Well, I guess they really are adventures. They were adventures at the beginning, all right—before I got used to it. ...

    Article : 1,108 words
  5. "THE CRIMSON CIRCLE."

    The mystic sign of the crimson circle, appended to three letters containing dread warnings! of a vengeance that would be swift and sure, produced in Lambeth ...

    Article : 727 words
  6. FATAL PATRIOTISM.

    An advance return which I secured, writes the New York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, shows that only 164 people were killed and 4,219 injured -as ...

    Article : 344 words
  7. "DURING PLEASURE."

    Broadmoor is the asylum for criminal lunatics, and Mr. G. R. Sims, who has more than once visited the institution as a journalist, writes in "Lloyds Weekly" as ...

    Article : 1,706 words
  8. A HERO INDEED.

    The rescue by John Pearson, a humble bridge-tender of the Union Pacific "Overland Limited," with its 500 passengers, from the destruction that menaced it in ...

    Article : 1,226 words
  9. SHE WROTE TO THEIR SWEETHEARTS.

    "I am a professional love letter-writer," was the remarkable statement made lately by a lady when asked to state her occupation. "Do you find it remunerative?" I ...

    Article : 575 words
  10. FOR SPYING AFLOAT.

    Various armies are now experimenting with different types of floating dress for use in rivers, lakes, &c., by scouts in war time. Here is illustrated the principle of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 262 words
  11. MOTOR ROLLER SKATES.

    This, illustration shows a novel application of the. motor to roller skates, the invention of M. Constantini, of Paris. Each skate contains a gasoline motor, carburetter, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 151 words
  12. MARVELS OF SURGERY.

    By a marvellous piece of surgery Miss Dot Stephens, the well-known music-hall artiste, will be. able to appear on the stage again, in spite of the fact that in October ...

    Article : 508 words
  13. A TERROR TO CRIMINALS.

    It was in 1881 that Thomas Gregory—s. famous "Bow-street Runner" joined the London Metropolitan Force. In his time' Gregory arrested many notorious criminals. ...

    Article : 431 words
  14. UP IN THE SKY.

    One of those queer fishes, with huge jaws and a neat little row of phosphorescent lamps along its sides, which the Prince of Monaco dredges up from depths of. three ...

    Article : 726 words
  15. PECULIAR WHIMS OF PECULIAR PEOPLE.

    The eccentric whims of some people are not easily accounted for. For over 20 years (says a Glasgow, paper) a Dumfriesshire shepherd has gathered in and laid ...

    Article : 681 words
  16. A CHEAP-JACK'S CAREER.

    Pleasure fairs, so far as Greater London is concerned, will, if, the Conservators of Mitcham Common are successful in their action against the showmen, be numbered ...

    Article : 665 words
  17. A BOAT TRAGEDY.

    Considerable commotion was caused on the Ostend packet Leopold II. by an incident which took place during the crossing to Dover one midnight recently. When the ...

    Article : 120 words
  18. INAUDIBLY INTRODUCED.

    "Lord George has made a very unfortunate know who it is? "Yes, he married me." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 24 words
  19. BAKED TO DEATH

    To be literally baked to death was the fate of a smith named Menzel whilst executing repairs in a baker's oven on' the Konigdam, Berlin. He and a boy assistant named ...

    Article : 143 words
  20. WOMEN WHO SELL THEIR HAIR.

    Supplying the market for human hair is a really great business, and one naturally asks, "Where does all this hair come from?" If a woman wishes to dispose of ...

    Article : 199 words
  21. FLOOD SWEEPS AWAY HOTEL.

    Torrential rain for the last four consecutive days, has produced (says a Tokio telegram dated August 26) appalling disaster, Rivers' have been swollen to an ...

    Article : 195 words
  22. KISSING AND DISEASE.

    The medical- officer of.health for thePlympton districtof Devon has had to deal with an outbreak of diphtheria in the parish, and in reporting to the Count ...

    Article : 187 words
  23. PRISONER'S LONG FAST.

    For a whole week a man named Blecha, who is under arrest and charged with murder and robbery, has refused all nourishment and drunk no water. The strangest ...

    Article : 98 words
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