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  2. A VILLAINOUS CAREER

    A Constantinople telegram of a recent date says:—From time to time the name of the famous Kurdish chief, Ibrahim Pasha, appears in the papers, and it may ...

    Article : 1,033 words
  3. A GIRL'S ADVENTURES

    Before the London Sheriff's Court this week a remarkable story was unfolded. Mr. Harry King, an accountant, formerly of Peckham, sued for damages on behalf ...

    Article : 1,399 words
  4. SWINDLING THE BANKS

    A man giving the name of D. S. Win dell has succeeded in robbing the London and South-Western Bank of £2,320 by a method which has never before been ...

    Article : 830 words
  5. ACTRESS ATTACKS SOCIETY

    Mrs. John Jacob Astor, who has long been recognised as the leader of America's "upper ten," recently attacked what she called the freak element in society—that ...

    Article : 608 words
  6. MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

    Easter Island—it has half a dozen other titles—is one of the most isolated spots in the world of waters. Eastwards from it the nearest point of land is in South ...

    Article : 1,260 words
  7. A POLICEMAN'S LOVE AFFAIR

    Miss Minnie Burnett, daughter of a policeconstable, was last month in the London Sheriff's Court awarded £25 damages for breach of promise against Charles Rolls, ...

    Article : 686 words
  8. THE LIFE OF INVENTOR

    "In connection with my experiments with the developments of motorite, I have had several pretty close calls," said Mr. Maxim. ...

    Article : 981 words
  9. WINNING AND LOSING

    The Casino at Monte Carlo pays a profit of approximately a million a year, though when it was opened 50 years ago it was not a success. The originators started the ...

    Article : 788 words
  10. THE HANDWRITING OF THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD.

    The above (reduced facsimile) is an extract from the MS. of John D. Rockefeller. who is contributing to "The World's Work" a series of articles under the heading of "Some Random Reminiscences of Men and Events." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 46 words
  11. WOLFFE'S GREAT SWIM.

    After a swim of nearly 15 hours, in the last stages of which he was assisted by doses of oxygen, Jabez Wolffe on Saturday just failed in his attempt to cross the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 347 words
  12. THE CURE OF DISEASE.

    The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research is to have, within the course of a year, an addition made to it in the form of a hospital, which will be the scene of ...

    Article : 645 words
  13. A LAST REVEL.

    Whether twelve despairing artists who held a night's revel, which, it is alleged, they intended to be the last, really contemplated suicide will probably never be ...

    Article : 565 words
  14. MONSTERS OF THE SEA.

    On the return of the halibut steamer Celestial Empire to New Westminster, a seaport town of Victoria, British Columbia, after an exciting voyage of nine days, an ...

    Article : 405 words
  15. SEPARATING A BUILDING.

    An extraordinary feat of mechanical engineering has just been performed in an extraordinary way in Paris. It became necessary to isolate the electric plant in the Rue ...

    Article : 370 words
  16. ESCAPE OR DIE.

    News comes from Bordeaux of the extraordinary adventure of a thief, who had been arrested on a charge of having stolen a sum of £4,000 and who, handcuffed as ...

    Article : 298 words
  17. REMARKABLE OPERATION.

    American doctors are amazed by a case of blood transfusion, which is officially reported from the Presbyterian Hospital, New York. In competition with a score of ...

    Article : 237 words
  18. £1,500,000 FOR SCIENCE.

    The Berlin Academy of Sciences has received a legacy of 30 million marks (£1,500,000), being the entire fortune of a millionaire named Samson, who recently ...

    Article : 41 words
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