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  2. FAST TRAVELLING

    The toy shops sell a little top called a "gyroscope." Everybody has seen it; whatever way you start it spinning it wants to Keep on spinning in the same way, and it ...

    Article : 1,379 words
  3. RUSSIAN STATE TRIAL

    No woman has played a more important or more romantic part in the Russian Revolution than Katherine Breshkovsky, who is to be tried nearly next month in ...

    Article : 1,104 words
  4. SPANISH BULLFIGHT

    I have been to the Plaza de Toros de Madrid at the "gran corrido extraordinario de beneficencia a favor del Hospital Provincial" (writes a correspondent of the ...

    Article : 1,204 words
  5. THE NERVOUS CHILD

    Some useful suggestions on dealing with the child who is easily terrified are made by Mr. Irving Hancock in a recent number of the "New Idea Magazine." "Most of ...

    Article : 506 words
  6. A PREHISTORIC MONSTER

    A most circumstantial report of the exisbence of a monster hitherto supposed to be extinct, has just been brought to civilisation. This creature bears, a close ...

    Article : 1,890 words
  7. IS MARS INHABITED?

    Once more interest is given to the speculations of astronomers as to the possibility of Mars being the home of "intelligent beings" by the statement that ...

    Article : 1,074 words
  8. A GIRL AND A MUSICIAN

    A piccolo player with a romantic temperament, named Leon Alexander, aged 45, met in a London street on a winter's day Catherine Newman, aged 15, and fell in love ...

    Article : 664 words
  9. SECRETS OF LIONTAMING

    M. Lair-Dubreuil, the celebrated auctioneer, whose hammer is accustomed to dispose of 50 per cent, of the art treasures that are sold in Paris, will shortly ...

    Article : 636 words
  10. HOW SOLLY WAS SOLD.

    THE INTRODUCTION Solly (who has ascertained before consulting doctor that the fee for first visit is two ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 69 words
  11. VOICE PRODUCTION MADE EASY

    To standardise anything is to fix a certain means of comparison by which things of the same kind may be measured to determine their degree of fitness. In ...

    Article : 1,008 words
  12. BEAUTIFUL GIRL'S FATE.

    After attending a dance at Atlantic, City, the Brighton of America, a pretty eighteenyear-old girl. Miss Jane Adams, mysteriously disappeared, and chiefly because she ...

    Article : 418 words
  13. QUEER CASE OF BIGAMY.

    Directly as the result of the disastrous earthquake, at Messina a pointsman at the Messina station. Scarinci by name, has become the possessor of two wives (says a ...

    Article : 204 words
  14. A JEWISH LOVE STORY.

    Miss Elizabeth Mendoza, of Spitalfields, in the King's Bench Division, London, sought damages from Jacob Cohen, asserting that he had;broken his promise ...

    Article : 289 words
  15. FREAK LEGISLATION.

    Maryland, the state par excellence of Southern chivalry and courtesy towards woman, is now discussing (says the New York correspondent of the London "Daily ...

    Article : 311 words
  16. A SPECIAL FUNERAL.

    The Vicomtesse de Vaugelet, who has just died in France at the age of 77, left the bulk of her fortune, estimated at £20,000, various minor legacies being ...

    Article : 268 words
  17. LOST HER CASS.

    Spinsters after a certain age should be wary, according to a decision of the French courts, and have only themselves to blame if they are jilted (says the Paris ...

    Article : 273 words
  18. WARSHIP'S HUMAN TARGET.

    An able seaman named Bailey bad a remarkable escape from death while the Atlantic fleet battleships were engaged recently in firing practice in the Channel ...

    Article : 157 words
  19. PANIC AT A BALL.

    A daring bandit caused a panic at a public ball one evening at Bucharest, which had terrible results for some of the lady guests. The man entered one of the ...

    Article : 142 words
  20. AERIAL SHAM BATTLE TAKES PLACE IN GERMANY

    The first aerial sham battle has been held at Cologne, in Germany. The German airship squadron, consisting of the "Zeppelin. II." "Parseval I.," and the military airship ...

    Article : 107 words
  21. TO AMERICA BY BALLOON.

    A telegram to the Madrid "Imparcial" from Teneriffe states that the German aeronaut Herr Brucker, accompanied by Colonel Shade and Captain Mesner, intends ...

    Article : 57 words
  22. FORGOT IT WAS HIS WEDDING-DAY.

    Mr. Stephen Paget stated, in a lecture in London, that Pasteur, the French scientist. forgot on his wedding-day that he was to be married, and had to be dragged ...

    Article : 42 words
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