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  2. THE STORY OF A MAN'S RISE

    Nearly fifty years ago there stood behind the counter of a little grocery shop it Colne, in Lancashire, a lad of thirteen, decked in a white apron, ready to attend to customers ...

    Article : 1,703 words
  3. A MODERN JEAN VALJEAN

    A great sensation was caused by the arrest of Charles W. Anderson, a prominent business man in Kansas City, on a charge of having, many years before, broken out of ...

    Article : 1,849 words
  4. SON BLACKMAILS HIS MOTHER

    New York was provided, says a London paper, with another sensation by the arrest of Mr. John Alexander von Rensselaer, son of Mrs. von Rensselaer, a member of one ...

    Article : 564 words
  5. THE BUTLER'S CRIME

    The shocking murder in Paris of M. Remy, the wealthy stockbroker, is still the talk of France. His butler, Renard, is in custody on suspicion, which the confession ...

    Article : 1,519 words
  6. THE REJECTED LEGACY

    In the little library of the Rev. Llewellyn Davis, Primitive Methodist minister in Cardiff, was a large Bible. It stood, says a writer in "Tit-Bits," on one of the higher ...

    Article : 1,977 words
  7. THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT

    In an article contributed to the "Westminster Gazette" Mile. Yvette Guilbert, the French actress writes:—In reading the English papers I note with ...

    Article : 773 words
  8. MAROONED.

    A Seattle telegram, dated July 4, says:—Four men marooned for the past year on Chirikof Island, a rocky mountain top jutting out of the sea to the south and east ...

    Article : 601 words
  9. "LET ME REST IN PEACE."

    Pathetic in the extreme was the farewell letter to her mother,left by a Poplar (Jamdon) girl named Harriet Roberts before taking spirits of salts at their home in ...

    Article : 200 words
  10. A MEAN ROBBER.

    Curious is the story of a dozen Mussulman emigrants, who are being sheltered in workhouse fashion at the public asylum of Nanterre, and a pair of swindlers, their ...

    Article : 501 words
  11. THREE BROTHERS DROWNED

    It is not Robert Cumming's fault that be has been bereft of three brothers. With a little luck he would, at any rate, have saved two. ...

    Article : 219 words
  12. SWALLOWED A RAZOR.

    A surgeon of Besancon has extracted a razor from the stomach of a defunct watchmaker. Among the inmates of the almshouse of St. Jean, in that town, was an ...

    Article : 224 words
  13. MONEY FOR DRESS.

    Two judges, Mr. Justice Channell and Mr. Justice Sutton, sat in judgment in the King's Bench, London, on a remarkable dressmaker's bill. An appeal was before ...

    Article : 455 words
  14. ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

    Wealthy London people living at Blackheath have adopted (says a London paper a bright little orphan girl of Hull in circumstances that read more like an ...

    Article : 399 words
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    "Thirty bob too much fer the little dawg, lady? "Wy! look at the owner's valuation!" "Why don't you take it back to him then?" "Wy, becos I took it back to 'im lawst Toosday, an' it wouldn't be in accordance ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 58 words
  16. UNABLE TO BE SAVED.

    Gloom has been cast over Treport, France, by a sad accident which occurred in the presence of a great number of dismayed onlookers. Several thousands of ...

    Article : 349 words
  17. SEEING THE TROOPS.

    A detachment of troops (says a Paris correspondent of a London paper) was returning to its barracks, with band playing and colors flying, when, in the presence of ...

    Article : 322 words
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