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  2. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    Elongated ear-lobes ate considered a mark of beauty in Borneo. Out of forty thousand vessels entering Chinese ports every year twenty thousand ...

    Article : 1,682 words
  3. A TERRIBLE DEATH.

    Mrs. Carrie Cabus, the wife of a retired carriage manufacturer, living on the second floor of a flathouse, in New York (says an American paper), wen't into the kitchen ...

    Article : 336 words
  4. DUEL IN PARIS.

    The Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" on March 17, wrote as follows:- At the Pare des Princes yesterday ...

    Article : 759 words
  5. THE EXECUTION OF BENNETT.

    Last month, in Norwich prison, Herbert John Bennett suffered the extreme penalty of the law for the murder of his wife on Yarmouth beach. Since Bennett had beeu ...

    Article : 458 words
  6. ABUSE OF AUTHORITY.

    A Berlin telegram, dated March 14, says: —A terrible story of the misuse of authority has just been divulged at the Military Court for the Dresden Division. A ...

    Article : 247 words
  7. A KALEIDOSCOPIC GHOST.

    A London "Daily Mail" correspondent who has been investigating the story of the Wellington ghost, writes:- Wathington, a dear little town clinging to ...

    Article : 483 words
  8. THE FEDERAL ARMY.

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 8 words
  9. THE SUPREME COURT.

    Mr. Justice Bundey, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 6 words
  10. FIRE INSURANCE.

    Colonel Freeman. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 4 words
  11. THE LARGEST BELLS IN ENGLAND.

    The Rev. J. M. Bacon, F.R.A.S., in "By Land and Sky," tells a number of sound experiments that he made not only up aloft but in church towers and elsewhere. He ...

    Article : 313 words
  12. WHO SPOKE?

    The Vienna correspondent of the London "Daily News" telegraphed as follows on March 16 last:—The sensational arrest took place here yesterday of Herr Vogl, the ...

    Article : 310 words
  13. THE FORBIDDEN CITY

    The following is an extract from a letter Written by the Rev. J. Storehouse and describing a visit to the Imperial Purple Forbidden City, Pekin, under date of January ...

    Article : 1,044 words
  14. NOAH'S ARK NOT THE FIRST SHIP.

    Noah's Ark is generally supposed to he the earliest ship of which we have record, but (says "Engineering") there exist paintings of Egyptian vessels immensely older ...

    Article : 222 words
  15. A MURDER'S LETTERS.

    Last month at Wandsworth Gaol George Parker, 23 years of age, was executed for the murder of Mr. William Pearson, gentleman farmer, of Winchester, last ...

    Article : 504 words
  16. GOLDEN STATISTICS.

    Some interesting statistics concerning the world's gold supply are given in the March number of "Chambers's Journal." It seems that for the thirty years ending in 1890, ...

    Article : 241 words
  17. THE CZAR'S DAILY LIFE.

    The St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Kolnische Volkzeitung" has been given by an aide-de-camp of the Czar the following interesting particulars of his Majesty's ...

    Article : 398 words
  18. A COMMONWEALTH INVITATION CARD.

    Three invitation cards to the various functions at the opening of the Commonwealth Parliament in Melbourne have been designed in accordance with the wishes of the Federal Premier, by Messrs. J. Longstaft, Julian, and Howard Ashton, and J. Carrington. We reproduce the Sydney artists' drawing, which promises when completed to be extremely rich, both in color and form. The ceremony for which this invitation is issued being of a social character, the artists have availed ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 160 words
  19. THE LATE CORPORAL CURRIE.

    The late Corporal W. J. Currie, of the South Australian Bushmen's Corps, who was killed at Nitralskop on February 3, was the third son of Mr. James Currie, of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 423 words
  20. THE Y.M.C.A. SECRETARY.

    Mr. H. A. Wheeler. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 7 words
  21. EXTRAORDINARY PETITIONS TO A SOVEREIGN.

    If King Edward VII. is a careful student of history he will doubtless feel grateful (remarks the "Newcastle Chronicle") that he has not to face similar trials to those ...

    Article : 269 words
  22. BIRDS AND BREAKFAST.

    "Nice plump birds, ain't they, sir?" It was in Leadenhall Market, London, and the speaker was a nondescript person, with a suggestion of feathers and the loose ...

    Article : 544 words
  23. OUR SUBMARINE NAVY.

    For a long time past a great number of people have been agitating for Britain to have a fleet of submarine boats, and at last it seems as though their wish has in some ...

    Article : 751 words
  24. SOMETHING NEW.

    An automatic parcels weighing-machine is the latest novelty at the Paris General Post-Office. It is on its trial, and if it is found to perform what is expected of ...

    Article : 197 words
  25. TROUBLESOME COLONISTS.

    The Toronto correspondent of the London "Daily Express" telegraphed thus on Sunday, March 17:- The Doukhobors, who came from Russia ...

    Article : 134 words
  26. A WOMAN AND A PIN.

    Georgiana Thompson, a pretty hionde, writes a correspondent from Denver. U.S.A., to a New York paper, sat on a burglar for half an hour shrieking when he ...

    Article : 136 words
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