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  2. COMPOSITORS' HUMOR.

    Compositors are humorists of the first wafer—unconscious humorists. Without effort, without turning a hair, they provide humanity with more amusement than could ...

    Article : 562 words
  3. AUSTRIAN MURDERER'S CYNICISM.

    Johann Postas, a murderer, who was hanged on March 30 at Steinamanger, died with extraordinary indifference and cynicism (reports the Vienna ...

    Article : 224 words
  4. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    The 450 London schools accommodate 550,000 childern. For over 1.200 miles the Nile docs not receive a single tributary stream. ...

    Article : 1,718 words
  5. A CLEAN PAGE.

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    Article : 8 words
  6. ALI BABA UP TO DATE.

    The Paris police have just discovered a new Ali Baba (writes the correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" under dale April 3). One of them alighted upon the ...

    Article : 599 words
  7. KILLED BY HER SONS.

    The body of a woman, apparently belonging to the aristocracy, was recently discovered in the River Prush (says a Bucharest telegram, dated March 31). The ...

    Article : 192 words
  8. CONSULTATION BY WIRE.

    Consultation and diagnosis by telephone are, evidently among the first novelties which the twentieth century offers us. At least, such is the moral of a delightful story ...

    Article : 189 words
  9. CONGO CANNIBALS.

    The Bishop of Oubaughi (Upper French Congo) contributes to the April number of "Crampton's Magazine" an extremely picturesque account of the missionaries' ...

    Article : 499 words
  10. A JAPANESE ROMANCE.

    Miss Kotora Kimura, a little Japanese acrobatic maiden, who ban helped to entertain thousands in two hemispheres, and tours the world as one of the "Three ...

    Article : 190 words
  11. POLYGAMY AT SALT LAKE.

    Salt Lake messages, dated April 3. say that the Utah Legislature has practically passed a law permitting polygamy. The Senate passed the measure, and the Mouse ...

    Article : 252 words
  12. GEORGE WASHINGTON ON LOVE.

    In a letter of George Washington's just discovered and published that truthful man deals with love and marriage. The letter was written to his step-son's daughter, ...

    Article : 252 words
  13. IN THE HAREM.

    At last the camera has reached the harem. The women have taken to the new pastime with enthusiasm, and arc photographing everything in sight (says the correspondent ...

    Article : 100 words
  14. A WELL-KNOWN CITIZEN.

    Mr. H. Rymill. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 6 words
  15. A POPULAR COMMANDER.

    Major-General Downes. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 5 words
  16. APOLLO IN BREECHES.

    The college at Ada, Ohio, has a statue of Apollo Belvedere in red velvet knee breeches (writes the London "Morning Leader"). It is a new attraction of the in ...

    Article : 165 words
  17. "TAKE A MILLION!"

    Mr. Andrew Camegic, the Scoton-American millionaire philanthropist, whose magnificent gifts to educational institutions have aroused world-wide ...

    Article : 264 words
  18. THE MARSHAL'S BATON.

    The fact that there is but one general in the British army—Hector Macdonald—who has risen from the ranks is fairly conclusive evidence of the ruling sentiments of our ...

    Article : 747 words
  19. THE COLOR CORE.

    Mr. A. Osborne Eaves, author of a little book on the "Color Cure," is evidently an enthusiast on tho matter, but whether he will find physiologists and physicians ...

    Article : 329 words
  20. FAMOUS JEWELS.

    Jewellery is one of the products of nature which are virtually everlasting. Practically a diamond or a sapphire or omerland is indestructible, so that in many eases we tarn ...

    Article : 329 words
  21. SECRETS OF THE DEEP SEA

    In the greater depths of the sea some of the fish have developed a curious whip-like projection above their heads, in the end of which grows a real lantern, a small bulb ...

    Article : 334 words
  22. PREMATURE BURIAL.

    Jean de Reszke, according to American messages dated April 2. has made a will. The distinguished singer has for several years given much consideration to the ...

    Article : 185 words
  23. HE WON HIS WIFE IN SLEEP.

    Perhaps no more remarkable instance of sleep-walking exists than that cited by Dr. Paul Durrier, a physician who practised in Paris at the conclusion of the last century. ...

    Article : 162 words
  24. SANS STOMACH, BUT ALIVE.

    A New York dispatch of April I says:—Four successful operations for removing the stomach have been performed in the Manhattan and Brooklyn hospitals within ...

    Article : 69 words
  25. THE ROYAL VISITORS.

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    Article : 7 words
  26. AUSTRIAN EMPEROR'S CURIOUS TASK.

    A curious and ancient practice was carried out on April 4 in Vienna, Rome, Moscow, Madrid, and other capitals of Roman Catholic countries, where the feet ...

    Article : 505 words
  27. FEMALE DUELLISTS.

    To the long list of his peccadilloes Cupid has added the incitement of two Paris shopgirls to light a duel (reports the correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph." ...

    Article : 506 words
  28. A USEFUL CRUSADE.

    An energetic crusade was started on April 2 (writes the London "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent) by the New York Board of Health against the practice of ...

    Article : 319 words
  29. A RIVAL TO THE STEAM ENGINE.

    The "Diesel engine" is a new thing, rich with promise. It has no boiler and no fournace: it requires 110 stoker; it emits no steam or smoke. I have seen a 22 ...

    Article : 451 words
  30. "MOVEMENTS" IN UNITED STATES.

    Telegraphing on March 23, the New York correspondent of the London "Morning Leader" says:—The effect of Mrs. Nation's energetic crusading methods against ...

    Article : 136 words
  31. SHOULD MINISTERS SMOKE?

    A dispatch from Vancouver, B.C., dated March 21, says:—The Methodist, Court of Discipline of Canada will, on April 12, decide on final appeal, if a Canadian Methodist ...

    Article : 129 words
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