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  2. FACE TO FACE WITH DEATH.

    Nearly every living being looks forward with terror to the moment of dying;, vaguely he imagines it to be a moment of great agony. ...

    Article : 2,787 words
  3. THE HUMAN BAROMETER.

    This remarkable Swedish girl, Miss Marie Valentin, of Leksand, is the possessor of beautiful auburn hair which turns black at the approach of bad weather. When the weather becomes fine again her hair returns to its normal color. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  4. TSARICIDES.

    The greatest event that occurred in Russia during the year 1007 was the discovery of what the St. Petersburg. correspondent of a London paper, called "the most ...

    Article : 999 words
  5. A LONG RIDE.

    A magnificent achievement, a ride of over 8,000 miles, from Mexico to the Argentine Republic, accomplished on one horse, for the greater part through unexplored ...

    Article : 1,059 words
  6. MYSTERIES OF CRIME.

    "The Mirfield mystery was, I consider, perhaps the most remarkable case I was ever employed in," declared Sergeant Wilkins. It was a May day when the terrible event ...

    Article : 2,113 words
  7. SCIENCE AND BURGLARY.

    The confidence of German manufacturer of safes in the resistance of their wares against ordinary safe-blowing operations, has been rudely shaken (says the. American ...

    Article : 562 words
  8. GIRL OF THE PERIOD.

    Are women losing their femininity and becoming more like men? Lady Violet Greville, writing in the London "Graphic," makes this alarming suggest on, and we ...

    Article : 421 words
  9. KILLED BY A LION.

    Mrs. Anna Hucke was attacked at Pittsburg, U.S.A., by a large ' Numidian lion from a travelling menagerie and died next day. The lady's lung was penetrated by the ...

    Article : 373 words
  10. MOVING A THEATRE.

    In America the business of house-moving literally house-moving—not merely furniture. but furniture plus brick walls, roofs, everything, in fact, except foundation and ...

    Article : 307 words
  11. THE SULTAN OF MOROCCO.

    "The Saltan of Morocco" says an Englishman who has spent 20 years in Tangier, "is one of the most remarkable bundles of contradictions in the world. Learned as a ...

    Article : 715 words
  12. TRAIN STOPPED BY BALLOON.

    Probably the first occasion on record that a railwya train has been stopped by a balloon occurred at Eutin, Germany. During the popular rejoicings in that town a ...

    Article : 169 words
  13. A WHALE STORY.

    The trawler Salvia reached Grimsby yesterday, when Mr. Rowson, her skipper, reported having picked up the crew of the Norwegian steam trawler Diamon, which ...

    Article : 103 words
  14. LEAP FROM AN EXPRESS.

    A determined and successful escape was made half an hour after midnight-from the East Coast express by a military deserter while the train was passing along the ...

    Article : 221 words
  15. A LEOPARD CARRIES OFF TWO CHILDREN.

    Two police officers, stationed at Dumka, India, have had an exciting experience with a couple of leopards. News was received at the headquarters of the Dumka police that ...

    Article : 276 words
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    Shopman (to undecided customer come to purchase a doe-trough)—"Would you like one with dog painted on it, madam?" Customer—"N-no You see the dong can't reas, and my husband doesn't drink water." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 34 words
  17. BOY KILLS HIS FATHER.

    A terrible case of parricide is reported from Holloliaza, Hungary. A boy. aged eleven killed his father, Stephen Kertesz, a farmer, 'with a hatchet. Kertesz had ...

    Article : 100 words
  18. NEGRO HUNT IN GEORGIA.

    Telegrams from Thomasville, Georgia, U.S.A., state that an outlawed negro is at present defying capture in the swamps adjacent to the town, although a sheriff's ...

    Article : 84 words
  19. THE POLITE SHOPMAN

    The Commercial Court in Berlin has awarded damages to a shopman who brought, action against his employer for wrongful dismissal, It appear that the ...

    Article : 167 words
  20. ELEPHANTS AS FIREMEN.

    A telegram from Wheeling, West Virginia (U.S.A.), states that a special train conveying a travelling menagerie was wrecked at a spot near where the railway ...

    Article : 135 words
  21. HE SHOT HIS OFFICER.

    Information' received from Afghanistan shows that in June. last, a captain in the Mohdi regiment, stationed,at Dara isur, was shot dead by a sepoy of his own ...

    Article : 173 words
  22. MANOR HALL BURNT DOWN.

    Ebnor Hall, a fine old manor hall, the property of the Hon. R. C. Trollope, and the residence of Mr. William Mottram, a well-known Shropshire agriculturist, u ...

    Article : 119 words
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