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  2. MAN GUILLOTINED

    At sunrise one day last month Antoine Favier, who brutally murdered and robbed a bank collector, was guillotined in the public square at Lille, France. The ...

    Article : 811 words
  3. A POISON DRAMA

    Mrs. Laura Farnsvrorth Schenck, a servant-girl who became the wife of a millionaire pork packer (killing and canning business), of Wheeling, West Virginia, was ...

    Article : 958 words
  4. THE FUTURE OF FLYING

    A study of the trend of development in aeroplane construction renders it possible to predict to some degree of certainty the leading characteristics of the aeroplane ...

    Article : 1,742 words
  5. EX-CONVICT'S STORY

    At Tower Bridge Police Court, London, Arthur Harrison (47), physician and surgeon, of Trinity-square, Borough, and Frank Anderson (20), butcher, of the same ...

    Article : 1,408 words
  6. A WIFE AND MILITARY CHAPLIN

    A petition for the dissolution of his marriage was presented by Captain Robert Hawkes of the Indian Army, on the ground of his wife's misconduct with the ...

    Article : 888 words
  7. ANIMAL AND INSECT LIFE

    In his closing lecture on the seasons, at the London Institution, Mr. F. MartinDuncan dealt with "Autumn and Winter, the Web of Life." His juvenile audience ...

    Article : 558 words
  8. SCIENTIFIC BURGLARS

    The burglar of to-day is as far removed from the Biil Sikes of a generation or two ago as the man who skims through the air with the speed of a swallow on his ...

    Article : 722 words
  9. A MAIDEN FAIR

    How is a man first of all attracted to the girl lie ultimately falls in love with? For, of course, there must be a "something" that attracts just at first. Well, ...

    Article : 593 words
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    Broker (to wealthy but stingy Client) —"Glad you did so well with those shares I told you to buy." Client—"Why, I lost a pot of money over them." Broker—What! You bought at two and sold at seven, didn't you?" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 50 words
  11. SOME DIVORCES

    But for a hobble skirt a German lady would still be a happy wife. A short while since a husband, when applying in the German courts for a divorce, stated ...

    Article : 532 words
  12. A REMARKABLE TRAGEDY.

    A remarkable tragedy has just occurred in the village of Senerchia near Ayellino. A man named Donato is alleged to have murdered his old father and his wife ...

    Article : 251 words
  13. SOMETHING NEW IN PENSIONS.

    An eccentric Hungarian of Miskolez has left the whole of his fortune of £12,500 to found an old-age pension scheme for horses. ...

    Article : 187 words
  14. MAN'S HEART STITCHED.

    A young Bavarian mason has just achieved a most astonishing recovery from a knife wound of a character that is generally regarded as fatal. Recently he was ...

    Article : 137 words
  15. STONE SUIT.

    A suit of clothes made of stone is the latest innovation on exhibition in a New York clothes-dealer's window. The material is soft and pliable, and when soiled ...

    Article : 44 words
  16. PREACHER IN A MASK.

    Captain E. Brodie, a London member of the Salvation Army has adopted a very remarkable method of appealing to his hearers by delivering what he calls ...

    Article : 115 words
  17. STREET BATTLE.

    A family fued at Nicotera, in the province of Catanzaro, Italy, has resulted in scenes in the streets of that town not unlike those of the Sidney-street drama in ...

    Article : 227 words
  18. SOMETHING ABOUT RAIN.

    If it were not for the countless hosts of dust particles that float, separately invisible, in the atmosphere, there could he no rain drops, snow crystals, or ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. SURPRISED THE WIDOW.

    Bank notes and securities worth £12,000 were found in an old coat belonging to a Greek beggar who died at Kasaka, Roumania. His widow, who found them, had ...

    Article : 45 words
  20. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

    A perfect outline of a tree was the imprint found on the body of a young man named Ernest Gustafson, who was killed by lightning during a severe thunderstorm ...

    Article : 100 words
  21. DREAM REVEALS TRAGEDY.

    A woman's dream led one Saturday last month to the discovery at Luton, England. of the body of Mr. Thomas Cook Webdale, leader of the Luton East-End ...

    Article : 124 words
  22. ROUND THE WORLD BY CANOE.

    Hermann [?]antz, a Swede, who has undertaken to tour round the world in a canoe in two years, has landed, at Toulon, after starting from Stockholm six months ...

    Article : 36 words
  23. A PRISONER'S REMARKABLE STATEMENT.

    A remarkable statement was made at Cardiff Quarter Sessions recently by Richard Parr, aged 28, a fitter, who was charged with shop-breaking. ...

    Article : 371 words
  24. A TERRIBLE REVENGE.

    Three women at Myslovice, Austria, discovering that they all had been deceived by the same man, combined to invite him to a rendezvous, where they blew ...

    Article : 37 words
  25. REMEMBERED MOSCOW.

    Mrs. Esther Davis, av resident of the Home for the Daughters of Jacob, New York, has just celebrated her 117th birthday. She remembers giving milk to ...

    Article : 42 words
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    Man (to temperance agitator)'—"Yes, mum, I've turned my back on drink for two years now." Temperance Agitator— "Ah, my noble man, and how do you occupy your time?" Man—"Driving a brewer's dray, mum." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 36 words
  27. PATHETIC DOG STORY.

    According to a Paris contemporary a remarkable instance of a dog's fidelity was shown in a case near Limoges. Two little girls, one a mere child of 4 and the other ...

    Article : 155 words
  28. QUICK-CHANGE WEDDING.

    They do things mighty quickly in the land of the Stars and Stripes. The other day the following extraordinary incident took place at a wedding party. Hundreds ...

    Article : 197 words
  29. MILK PROBLEM SOLUTION.

    A solution of the problem of sterilising milk without altering its ferments is claimed by a Russian chemist. When the. sterilisation is brought about by boiling ...

    Article : 193 words
  30. 45 YEARS IN GAOL.

    A German workman named Gauschy has just been released from the gaol at Mulhausen after serving forty-five years' imprisonment for murder. This constitutes a ...

    Article : 46 words
  31. DEATHBED ROMANCE.

    Mr. Leon A. Canter, a Civil War vete ran married his 27-year-old ward, Miss Emma Moore, on his deathbed at Philadelphia, in order to ensure that she should ...

    Article : 34 words
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