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  2. WATERLOO REFOUCHT

    Imagine Waterloo fought in this year of grace, nineteen hundred and ten. Imagine, if you can, Napoleon in this 20th century—the same Napoleon, brilliant, ...

    Article : 904 words
  3. SCENE AT KOEPENICK.

    Within three days of the fourth anniversary of the immortal exploit of the spurious captain, the little town of Koepenick has been once more shaken out of its ...

    Article : 490 words
  4. BALLOON DROPS THREE MILES

    Of the ten balloons which started from St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday afternoon in the competition for the Gordon-Bennett International Cup, three have not yet been ...

    Article : 277 words
  5. THE IRONY OF CRIME

    The irony in the case of Thomas Goudie, who, in 1902, was sentenced at the Old Bailey, London, to 10 years' imprisonment for the theft of £169,000 is that he never ...

    Article : 1,683 words
  6. A COLD DIARY

    If one wants to avoid an evil he must ascertain whence to expect it Accordingly (says a writer in a London paper) I have kept in my diaries a record of my colds ...

    Article : 693 words
  7. THE RED-BEARD'S REVENGE

    A vivid idea of the insecurity of life and property in the interior of Manchuria is given in the "Wide World Magazine" for November. The writer describes an ...

    Article : 2,895 words
  8. CAREFUL.

    MacGregor (who has just borrowed a match)—"Eh, but I've forgotten me baccypooch." MacCabe—"Ah, weel, gie me back the match; ye'll hae no use for't." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 29 words
  9. OUR SIMIAN ANCESTORS

    A discovery of about 200 worked flint[?] has been made by Mr. J. Reid Moir, a resident of Ipswich, in the neighborhood of that town and other parts of Suffolk. They ...

    Article : 668 words
  10. DANCING AS MENTAL EXERCISE.

    At the conference of the National Special Schools' Union at Birmingham recently Dr. J. S. Farries (superintendent of the Sandwell Hall for Feeble-minded) spoke of ...

    Article : 215 words
  11. SCHOOLBOY HANGED.

    An Oxford schoolboy met his death under extraordinary circumstances one Saturday last month. The boy was Theodore William Meyer, ...

    Article : 170 words
  12. MUMMIFIED BODY IN A CUPBOARD.

    A Nottingham shopkeeper has just made a grim discovery, a parcel left behind by a former tenant being found to contain the mummified body of a boy about 14 years ...

    Article : 262 words
  13. WHY WE DON'T LIVE LONGER.

    Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton, in the "Girl's Own Paper," after showing the length of life of various animals, draws attention to the comparatively short lives ...

    Article : 359 words
  14. THE LAST STRAW.

    The Doctor—"You don't feel any better? Well, how's that? Have you done what I said and taken plenty of animal food?" John—"Yes, doctor; but I'll 'ave ter drop it. [managed middlin' well with the oats and maize, and done a bit at split beans; but the chopped 'ay—that was too ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 68 words
  15. "14 YEARS OF GOVERNMENT WORK."

    A detective stated at the Middlesex (London) Sessions that a man who was charged with stealing lead piping wag released on ticket-o-leave in October, 1898, ...

    Article : 49 words
  16. TELEPHONE CONNECTION FOR MOTORISTS.

    By means of the simple device, proposed by Mr. Charles A. Hartley, motorists who get into trouble or meet with an accident can have telepnone connection from any ...

    Article : 248 words
  17. A MAD AERONAUT.

    Henri Dupre, an insane aeronaut made a curious attempt to escape from the Pennsylvania State Asylum, where he has been confined for many years. ...

    Article : 183 words
  18. A MISER'S FORTUNE.

    Senor Miguel Orueta, a pawnbroker, of Lima, aged 72, has been strangled to death by a negro. The pawnbroker left a fortune of more than £150,000, half of which ...

    Article : 106 words
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