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  2. ODD PROPERTIES OF LIGHT

    Light travels at an enormous ate of speed, some one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles a second. But there are some peculiar and interesting arguments ...

    Article : 638 words
  3. A STORY OF HORROR

    Particulars are to hand of a terrible affair which occurred near Balta, in the Government of Podolia The chief forester on the estate, who ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 506 words
  4. THE EARLY TRIALS OF WEDDED LIFE

    It is an old saying that great results spring from seemingly insignificant causes, and so the newly-married, while avoiding such harrier reefs as ill-temper, jealousy, ...

    Article : 818 words
  5. WHEN MAN PROPOSES

    (Miss Marie Illington is well known to all theatre-goers. and holds a foremost place in the ranks of our most talented comedy actresses.) ...

    Article : 905 words
  6. DIVORCE ACTION THAT FAILED

    The president of the Divorce Court had a strange case before him this week, that of Mr. James Thomas Moore, manager of the Old Rose Inn, New Cross-road, ...

    Article : 1,430 words
  7. WHAT IS FEAR?

    M. Fernand Mazade, in an article published in Paris "La Revue," asks, "What is Fear?" and enters into some curious details, from a medical point of view, and ...

    Article : 845 words
  8. PRECIOUS JEWELS TO BE MADE

    The time seems to be at hand when the poorest man may look forward, if he thinks it worth while, to seeing his wife decorated with, gems which at present prices would ...

    Article : 1,013 words
  9. THE WOMEN OF TURKEY

    "Turkey is kept down byits women," says Miss Hester D. Jenkins, professor of history in the American College for Women at Constantinople. Miss Jenkins is taking ...

    Article : 671 words
  10. NEURALGIA: ITS MANY FORMS.

    The term "neuralgia" is applied to any pain felt in the course of a nerve; the most common form is that affecting the branches of the fifth nerve, which supplies ...

    Article : 830 words
  11. A NEW SONG OF AUSTRALIA

    There is a land across the sea. Whose climate suits us to a T. Oh hearken, brother Japan-ee! A land (though legislators boast). ...

    Article : 163 words
  12. DEATH RECALLS TRAIN MYSTERY.

    A famous crime is recalled by the death, which has just occurred at Preston, Brighton, England, of Mrs. Gold, widow of the retired merchant who was murdered ...

    Article : 466 words
  13. LIFE'S MINOR ROMANCES.

    Although the adventures of Giovann Marola hardly provide an instance of the truism that truth is stranger than fiction, they nevertheless show (says the Naples ...

    Article : 481 words
  14. 840 MILES IN A CAB.

    An Englishman visiting Interlaken jumped into a local cab on January 18. and told the driver to take him to Cannes, on the Riviera. ...

    Article : 212 words
  15. AN INTERESTING COMPARISON.

    The time which has elapsed since the first appearance of life on our earth has been variously estimated at 100,000,000 to 200,000,000 years. To tax our powers of ...

    Article : 161 words
  16. NEW CANCER "CURE."

    Before an illustrious gathering of cancer specialists at Pavia. Professor Rampoldi. a local ophthalmist, presented (says an English newspaper) twenty patients formerly ...

    Article : 264 words
  17. 37 MILES AN HOUR ON ICE.

    Some very successful experiments were made at the mouth of the Neva with what is described as an "aero-ice-yacht," sails being replaced by a screw-propeller worked ...

    Article : 52 words
  18. TAXICAB CRIME.

    A remarkable crime, in which a taxicab figured prominently, has been committed outside a well-known West Side (New York) saloon. The police state that the ...

    Article : 167 words
  19. A REFRESHMENT INN-TERVAL.

    Motorist (who has over-lnbricated at wayside inn)—"Ish confounded car sheems devilish stiff to start," ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  20. A MAN DROWNED.

    A fatal accident indirectly attributable to the great Paris floods, has occurred on one of the unfinished lines of the metropolitan railway. Workmen had been ...

    Article : 272 words
  21. ACTOR'S LOVE LETTERS.

    It is necessary (says a London paper) to inform a crowd of emotional women that Signor Grasso, the strenuous Sicilian actor, now playing at the Lyric Theatre, has a ...

    Article : 189 words
  22. SHOOTING-IN-THE-DARK INVENTION.

    For aiming a rifle in complete darkness the novel appliance of a German engineer is a telescopic searchlight, containing a small electric lamp, fixed to the barrel ...

    Article : 54 words
  23. MASCAGNI'S PUPIL.

    A good story is related concerning Signer Mascagni and an organ-grinder. The man was stationed beneath Mascagni's window, grinding away the intermezzo from. ...

    Article : 132 words
  24. ITALIAN LOVER'S REVENGE.

    A beautiful Italian girl, Signorina Matilda Muzio, known as the Belle of Varese, who was engaged to be married to an Italian professor, has been the victim ...

    Article : 110 words
  25. PRESENTMENT OF AN ACCIDENT.

    George Venables, who was killed during the recent gale by the fall of one of the trees at White Hart-lane, Tottenham, England, was stated at the inquest to have ...

    Article : 51 words
  26. £1,120 IN JAMPOTS.

    Jampots filled with gold coins worth £2,120 have been found in the box of an old man called Pere Lafon, who died in a garret an Angers last month in the greatest ...

    Article : 37 words
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