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  2. FOUND OUT

    A Territorial appeared in uniform at the North London Police Court one day last month to prefer a charge of assault against a carman of 45, named Edward May, living ...

    Article : 478 words
  3. BARBARITY IN CHINA

    The administration of justice in China, in which term is included the collection of evidence, is still attended on occasion by torture (says a Shanghai dispatch dated ...

    Article : 322 words
  4. HEIRESS AND HER TZIGANE LOVER

    An extraordinary Gipsy romance has taken place at Szent-Marton, on the Ronmanian frontier. Anastasia Bogul, daughter of a wealthy landowner, conceived a ...

    Article : 233 words
  5. A TERRIBLE WRECK

    A fearful gale in the Spanish corner of the Mediterranean Sea has-been responsible for appalling loss of life in the wreck of a French vessel. ...

    Article : 1,148 words
  6. ACTRESS SUES HER HUSBAND

    What Mr. Justice Coleridge described, as "a rigid story of folly and extravagance" was told in the King's Bench Division, London, one day last month. He had ...

    Article : 1,611 words
  7. COCK-FIGHTING IN SCOTLAND

    It was asserted (says a writer in the "Glasgow Weekly Mail") by a certain authority the other day that cock-fighting was almost a thing of the past. But is it? ...

    Article : 981 words
  8. PEERS AND PRETTY ACTRESSES

    The recent case of the late lord Sackville and the Spanish dancer "Pepita" has set (says a writer in "Tit-Bits") people talking of the man who said that pirouetting was ...

    Article : 806 words
  9. FOOTBALL AS FOUGHT IN AMERICA

    Referring to a recently cabled announcement that owing to. the increased, number of fatal accidents on the field of play football is to be discontinued in at least two ...

    Article : 2,569 words
  10. A MONOPLANE IN THE VALLEY OF THE PYRAMIDS.

    "FOR STILL THE NEW TRANSCENDS THE OLD IN SIGNS AND TOKENS MANIFOLD." —Whittier. Mr. Folkard's clever drawing in the London "Bystander" acquires additional interest from the fact that an aviation meeting took place recently at Heliopolis. The strange spectacle of flying-men astounded the Arabs and Nubians, some of whom, especially the women, were not a little frightened. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 70 words
  11. PERIL IN THE AIR

    The dangers of an airship voyage were illustrated by the experience of the latest of the Gross vessels over Berlin on an afternoon of last month. ...

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  12. RIPPER GRIME IN TURIN.

    The whole of Turin is a prey to the dreadful suspicion that within its walls is living a ferocious and elusive criminal of the type of London's infamous Jack the Ripper. One ...

    Article : 163 words
  13. LEFT WITHOUT PAYING.

    Two men asked two ladies to lunch, and entertained them royally at a Paris re staurant. But when the lunch was over they retired, and were not seen again. The ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. HE CHANGED HIS MIND.

    In a breach of promise suit at Bristol, England, the defence was that, love having waned it would have been cruel to the girl to marry her. The jury, however, ...

    Article : 340 words
  15. TROUBLE AT A DINNER PARTY.

    The antics of two escaped monkeys caused a "scene" at a dinner party given at Washington by Mis. Alice Roosevelt Long worth. The guests included Mr. and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 157 words
  16. COMPULSORY SHAVE.

    The director of a Brana bank, having to visit Constantinople, found on arriving there that the authorities insisted that he should shave off his beard. ...

    Article : 96 words
  17. SURPRISED THE PARTY.

    Miss Agnes Leslie Elkins, a cousin of Miss Katherine Elkins—who was at one time believed to be betrothed to the Duke of the Abruzzi—and a niece of Senator ...

    Article : 326 words
  18. KILLED BY A MUTTON BONE.

    A mutton bone carelessly thrown out of a railway dining car near Vienna injured, a little girl named Bohm so badly that she died. The parents have been awarded ...

    Article : 52 words
  19. HISTORICAL NOSES.

    "Give me a man with plenty of nose," said the great Napoleon. His own was exquisitely chiselled, sculpturesque in mould form, and expression. He was a great ...

    Article : 227 words
  20. OPERA TRAGEDY.

    An extraordinary incident occurred at the fall of the curtain at the Court Opera House, Vienna. Standing up in a box, an elegantly ...

    Article : 101 words
  21. A LOCK OF NAPOLEON'S HAIR.

    A lock of Napoleon's hair, cut by his servant oh May 31, 1811, at the Hotel de Lorz, Brussels, was sold for 16/ at Stevens' Auction Rooms, London, last month. ...

    Article : 36 words
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