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  2. THE LORD OF NINEVEH

    The history of Nineveh and of its great builder, Sennacherib, is gradually being revealed to us by the excavators who are continuing the work of Layard. The latest ...

    Article : 968 words
  3. IS ACUTE PAIN PECULIAR TO MAN?

    Professor Frederic S. Lee has just published a paper to demonstrate some popular error in what he terms the physiology of pain in the lower animals. ...

    Article : 839 words
  4. LOVE AND HAPPINESS

    Woman is called (writes Ella Wheeler Wilcox in a New York paper) a loving creature. Woman's capacity and power of faithful love has been the theme of poets ...

    Article : 776 words
  5. JOSEPH'S DREAMS

    Princess Karadja, the new and energetic president of the near and energetic Cosmos Society, was unable to be present on January 7 at the headquarters of ...

    Article : 1,078 words
  6. THE PHILISTINES OF OLD

    An interesting view that the terrible Philistines of the Bible were Greeks is put forward by Mr. H. R. Hall in the "Proceedings of the Society for Biblical ...

    Article : 551 words
  7. WE ALL EAT INSECTS

    It will be news to most people that they are in the habit of eating insects. And yet an insect is a thing for which the average person has a horror, amounting sometimes ...

    Article : 1,099 words
  8. WOMEN SPIES

    It may be remembered that a short time ago some valuable Admiralty plans disappeared from Chatham. Mr. MeKenna, the First Lord of the Admiralty, admitted ...

    Article : 847 words
  9. A SCOTS JUDGE'S STORIES

    Sheriff Guy, a well-known Scots legal luminary, has just been telling some stories of lawyers and the courts. Mentioning the maxim, "Ignorance of the law is no ...

    Article : 548 words
  10. SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH

    The fascinations of dialect study were discussed by Mr. Daniel Jones, M.A., who, lecturing before the Elizabethan Society, in London, explained that pronunciation ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 385 words
  11. THE THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE.

    "Mummy dear, does it snow because it's winter, or is it winter because it snows?" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 23 words
  12. FLITCH OF GAMMON?

    There may be little need of explaining which virtue is rewarded by presentation of the Dunmow flitch, for everyone knows that it is given "to married folk who have ...

    Article : 491 words
  13. MET BY DEATH.

    A daring attempt of four men to gain admittance to a Manchester warehouse last month by swimming a canal ended in one being drowned. This so ...

    Article : 151 words
  14. WOMEN AND A BURGLAR.

    The tale of a fight between a lady, her servant, and a burglar was told at Bristol Police Court, when a sturdily built man, Charles Nicholls, was charged with ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 235 words
  15. THE GRAND DUCHESS'S PETTICOAT.

    Mr. Labouchere has been recalling to an interviewer of the "Florence Herald" some of the stirring events in Florence in the year 1859. He was a witness of the ...

    Article : 313 words
  16. NEW PATRIOTIC SONG.

    Mine Clara Butt sang for the first time a new patriotic song, "The King's Way," the words of which have been mitten by Lady Elgar and the music specially ...

    Article : 201 words
  17. OLD MAID'S REVENGE

    An extraordinary will hoe been left by an elderly unmarried lady who recently died in Vienna. Her property, amounting to about £50,000, is appointed to be divided ...

    Article : 249 words
  18. DANCING AMID FLAMES.

    A fire broke out last month in the palace of the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievitch, St. Petersburg, which contains great art treasures and much valuable plate. ...

    Article : 175 words
  19. MARRIED MEN AND WEDDING RINGS.

    Desertion and misconduct on the part of her husband were the grounds on which Mrs. Marion G. Gale, of Bournemouth, was granted a decree nisi. ...

    Article : 323 words
  20. THE WORST SPELT WORD.

    "Oblige," of all the words in the English language, is the one most frequently mis-spelt. This assertion is made by Mr. W. ...

    Article : 157 words
  21. GILBERT ISLANDERS.

    Some curious eecfcs of civilisation are related in a Government report on a visit to the scattered Gilbert Islands in the South Pacific, annexed by Great Britain in 1892. ...

    Article : 269 words
  22. PROFITABLE SORCERY.

    A "prophetess," calling herself Zenith, has just been sentenced at Geneva to 15 days' imprisonment and a fine of £12 for a series of most remarkable frauds, out of ...

    Article : 151 words
  23. ATTEMPT TO ROB A BANK.

    The strange disappearance of a carpenter has recently disclosed the existence of an extraordinary plot to rob the Fourteenthstreet Bank, New York, where over £300,000 ...

    Article : 153 words
  24. THE EARNINGS OF FRENCH DOCTORS.

    Paris doctors, who are signalising the new year by an increase of 30 per cent, on their minimum fees, are not badly off, according to M. Georges d'Avenel: In his ...

    Article : 152 words
  25. THE CHINESE "PIGTAIL."

    The news that the pigtail is to be abolished in the Chinese army as "a hopelessly unmilitary appendage," is another sign of the leavening ...

    Article : 156 words
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