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  2. SANDS THAT SWALLOW SHIPS

    Notwithstanding our improved knowledge of navigation, better vessels and the multiplication of marine cautions, such as lightships, &c., the sea possesses as many ...

    Article : 832 words
  3. HOUNDSDITCH DRAMA

    An important development in connection with the search for the foreign assassins of the three police officers, at Houndsditch, on December 17, was the formal ...

    Article : 1,496 words
  4. THE TREATMENT OF INDICESTION

    Dr. Spriggs tells us he had 425 cases of dyspepsia under his care, of which he has taken notes (writes a London weekly). Sixty-one were well marked cases of ...

    Article : 951 words
  5. SOME HOWLERS

    A collection of delightful schoolboy "howlers" appears in the "University Correspondent." They have been gathered (says a London paper) from all parts of ...

    Article : 147 words
  6. A SAVAGE OF SCIENCE

    By the recent death of Paul Mantegazza the world has witnessed the exit of one of the most cruel and ruthless vivisectors of whom we have any knowledge (writes Dr. ...

    Article : 896 words
  7. IF WE COULD ALL MAKE GOLD

    What would happen if gold could be produced at a fraction of what it now costs is mildly indicated in the reign of high prices which is now oppressing the United ...

    Article : 807 words
  8. SOME GHOST STORIES

    According to Mr. Elliott O'Donnell, ghosts are still in season. He has seen them "by one—by two—by three," as the old asseveration goes. In his "Ghostly ...

    Article : 1,113 words
  9. THIS MAY MAKE AVIATION POPULAR

    Not until aviation is far safer than it is now will it compete with motoring as a popular sport. The death list of aviators has reached an appalling figure and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 496 words
  10. TINY LADY BUYING HER TROUSSEAU.

    One of the smallest ladies in the world has been staying for a few days at the Savoy Hotel London. She is only 26 in. in height and her years are just as many. ...

    Article : 229 words
  11. SHOULD THE GIRL PROPOSE?

    This appears on the surface to be a question very easily answered. It is not the girl's privilege to propose, and therefore she must not. But every rule has to be ...

    Article : 635 words
  12. A TRAGIC ROBBERY.

    At 5 o'clock one afternoon a crowd of Christmas shoppers was startled by seeing a large stone crash through the glittering windows of the shop of Herr Elimeyer, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 580 words
  13. A MAN AND HIS HEART.

    A party of doctors and journalists were invited to the Hotel Cecil, London, to test the claims of an Austrian Pole named Nordini, described in the preliminary ...

    Article : 530 words
  14. A VENERABLE JURY.

    There was tried in Denver the other day a murder case in which the defendant was aged 77—the oldest man, it is said, ever prosecuted for murder in Colorado. An ...

    Article : 95 words
  15. COUNTESS PRISONER BECOMES INSANE.

    According to Italian law, prisoners cannot serve sentences of hard labor in prisons in the cities where they were tried and convicted. The rule naturally applies to ...

    Article : 301 words
  16. A GREAT PASTIME.

    A man named Petit, who has been arrested at Beauvais, France, as an escaped convict from Guiana, begged in court that he might again be sentenced to deportation ...

    Article : 63 words
  17. TRAIN TRAGEDY.

    A shocking tragedy is reported from Hemelingen, a village a few miles from Bremen, Germany. Four girls between 9 and 13 years of age raised, the barrier at ...

    Article : 68 words
  18. DOLLARS FROM DUST.

    The United States Steel Corporation is reported to have devised a plan for increasing its income by the utilisation of a by-product hitherto wasted. Hitherto ...

    Article : 85 words
  19. ISLAND DISAPPEARS.

    The correspondent of the New York "Times" at Port Limon (Costa Rica) states that seventy families, numbering 150 to 170 souls, were drowned one Saturday ...

    Article : 45 words
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