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  2. A BRAVE DEED.

    Perhaps the bravest deed ever performed by a British soldier since the dark days of Delhi occurred (says the "Weekly Telegraph") in January, 1901, at Belfast, ...

    Article : 547 words
  3. BURGLAR WHO MADE £15,000 A YEAR.

    The most amazing cracksman in Europe, the exact prototype in real life of "Raffles," has been arrested at Munich after a series of burglaries probably unequalled in ...

    Article : 314 words
  4. HE WAS LED OUT AND SHOT.

    Deserter and incendiary, Iwamatsu Zenzo, aged 24, was shot on October 13 Last at Tokio, by order of court-martial. He died displaying all the traditional ...

    Article : 595 words
  5. A BRETON VILLAGE CRIME

    Seldom has a more awful crime been described in a French court of justice (says the London "Morning Leader") than that for -which Franklin Biollay and his wife ...

    Article : 743 words
  6. HIS LOVE WAS CHOKED.

    Commencing at Brighton in 1901, the love affairs of Edith Speechley, dressmaker, of Hurstway-street, Lancaster-road, North Kensington, and Robert Foster Vesty, a ...

    Article : 662 words
  7. A MURDERER'S CONSCIENCE.

    There are murderers who suffer more from a secret knowledge of their guilt than from their dread of the gallows (writes a London weekly). At a house in Richmond-street, ...

    Article : 1,789 words
  8. A FIGHT WITH A DEVILFISH.

    An adventure with a devil-fish is described in the "Strand Magazine" for November. The writer says:—The grounds where we went fishing were adjacent to ...

    Article : 1,495 words
  9. THE GHOST AT THE TYPEWRITER.

    An attorney in Havana vouches for the truth of the following story (says a Scottish paper):—On the morning of August 25, 1906, about 9 o'clock I was in my office, ...

    Article : 570 words
  10. SOUTHWARD HO!

    Jack Frost—"Well, I've beaten dogs, and ships, and balloons, and now they think they'll, master me with petrol! Humph! We shall see'" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 53 words
  11. DANGEROUS STUFF.

    The dangers attending the use of petrol for cleaning purposes were tragically illustrated at a Hackney, London, inquest recently on Gladys Muriel Dawney. ...

    Article : 574 words
  12. THE WAY THEY DO IT IN AMERICA.

    In the New York papers, says a London paper, three unique instances are given proving that American burglars are moving with the times. There is a case of ...

    Article : 436 words
  13. JESTSTHAT NEVER FADE.

    The perpetual youth of a funny story Of jest is easily accounted for, says Mr. Dana; in "Lippincott's Magazine." The foundations of fun are the same ...

    Article : 646 words
  14. AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR

    There was quite a sensation at the Ministry of Marine, Paris, the other day, when an officer of the rank of commander, who was believed to be dead, suddenly appeared ...

    Article : 469 words
  15. HOW IS IT DONE?

    An extraordinary spiritualistic medium has recently appeared in Italy in the person of Madame Eusapia Paladino — a woman who can neither read nor write. She ...

    Article : 427 words
  16. AN EXPENSIVE WIFE.

    "Incompatibility of humor" was the principal ground for divorce proceedings in a case which came up on October 29 last in a judge's private room at Paris. ...

    Article : 193 words
  17. TWO MEN AND TWO CATS.

    For brutal ill-treatmeut of a cat George Kennett, a groom, was sentenced at Scarborough (England) to one month's imprisonment. The animal belonged to a ...

    Article : 170 words
  18. CONVEYED.

    Keeper (trying to break gently the news of the death of a valuable animal)—"You know that there larfing hyeenar in cage 14, guv'nor?" Circus Proprietor—"Well?" Keeper—"Well, 'e—'e ain't got nothin' to larf at this morning." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 43 words
  19. MORE THAN A JOKE.

    Two young men, with very queer notions of humor, hoisted a fellow-worker high in the air from a crane. The latter, Matthew Fitzgerald, is a cripple for life as ...

    Article : 285 words
  20. A HORRIBLE PROSPECT.

    The Loafer—"I don't mind about the income tax—but work for all won't suit me. and wot's more it won't suit the baristocracy." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 28 words
  21. BOTH WERE SURPRISED.

    General Gauthier, who commands the Cavalry Brigade of the 20th Army Corps, was walking out of his house at Nancy, France, one morning, when a neatly-dressed ...

    Article : 116 words
  22. A YOUNG WOMAN KILLED.

    Once again is the autobus responsible for a very shocking accident, says a Paris correspondent. A young woman had just left the footpath and was about to cross the ...

    Article : 78 words
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