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  2. FOR BEAUTY'S SAKE.

    "I am, glad to die, since I can no longer be beautiful," exclaimed, Maria, Countess of Coventry, the lovelier of the two famous Gunning sisters, whose almost unearthly ...

    Article : 930 words
  3. WOMAN'S LONG RIDE.

    In order to show the endurance of which Russian women, and Cossack women in particular, are capable, Mme. Kadasheff, widow of a Cossack officer, has undertaken ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 486 words
  4. HOW THEY REACH ONE ANOTHER.

    The air of Scotland is usually supposed to reek of romance, and two Scots lovers hit upon a novel plan of action whereby they might correspond with each other ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 590 words
  5. AN AMBASSADOR'S TROUBLES.

    It is perfectly understood that Dr. David Jayne Hill lost the United States Ambassadorship at Berlin because he was only a scholar and a working ...

    Article : 882 words
  6. CROMWELL'S HEAD.

    Incredible as it may sound, the head of the great Oliver Cromwell is for sale again after being hawked about England for years as if it were an antediluvian ...

    Article : 1,248 words
  7. A STRANGE CAREER.

    Amongst all the many beautiful and highborn ladies who thronged the gay Court of Louis XIV. of France, was none (says a writer in "Pearson's Weekly") to equal ...

    Article : 1,775 words
  8. NOVEL BREACH OF PROMISE.

    A comic tale was told in a breach of promise suit, which ended in the King's Bench Division, London, with a verdict of £35 damages for the plaintiff—no other than ...

    Article : 1,035 words
  9. THE LAUGH CURE.

    Mlle. Helene Renouard, a French actress, thus describes her experience of the laugh cure:—Ha. ha!—but that is most laughable of all. Behold, in my despair I begin ...

    Article : 891 words
  10. DOG'S EYE GRAFTED ON MAN'S.

    That a person totally blind from ophthalmia, even from birth, can be made to see by having a portion of a dog's eye grafted on his own was the startling ...

    Article : 255 words
  11. GIRL DECAPITATED.

    A large crowd assembled at the aviation field in Buda-Pesth one evening last month to await the arrival of Lieutenant Bier, who was competing for the "Zeit" prize. ...

    Article : 136 words
  12. ARE WOMEN'S FIGURES GROWING MASCULINE?

    Is the woman of to-day gradually losing her distinctly feminine figure owing to her increased interest in masculine sports? Will the tendency among women to adopt ...

    Article : 417 words
  13. A PRISON SCENE.

    Two Circassians, named Pertenava and Kajava, were recently condemned to death at Piatogorsk for the murder in a railway train of a French jeweller named M. ...

    Article : 174 words
  14. A SHORT HONEYMOON.

    An account of a terrible honeymoon tragedy has come from Geneva. A young Alsation couple named Tschaen were spending their honeymoon in Switzerland, and were ...

    Article : 86 words
  15. A PLUCKY NURSE.

    Four children—scarlet fever patients—who were sleeping in a canvas tent at the Heybridge (Essex) Isolation Hospital one night last month owe their lives to Nurse ...

    Article : 189 words
  16. THE ONLY TREE.

    Up a little lane of Lerwick's one street there is a garden. At least, it is an enclosed space. In the middle of this space there is a tree. It is not a very tall tree; ...

    Article : 119 words
  17. PECULIAR PRESENT.

    When Chinese parents arrive at about the ago of fifty-five their affectionate sons and daughters club together and give them each a coffin, and wish them many happy ...

    Article : 66 words
  18. DROWNED BY RISING TIDE.

    A young man named Thomas Jones leaped a stream leading form the Loughor River, near Swansea, and his legs stuck in the mud on the other side. ...

    Article : 51 words
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