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  2. A JUDGE'S JOKES.

    Mr. Commissioner Kerr has just resigned the office of judge of the City of London Court, after holding it for 42 years. Few judges have succeeded in making ...

    Article : 632 words
  3. EXPRESS TRAIN HORROR.

    Horrible particulars are reported in connection with a railway disaster on the Roumanian State railway on the night of September 20. The disaster occurred at ...

    Article : 416 words
  4. THE POLITICIANS NIGHTMARE.

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    Article : 10 words
  5. MR. DOOLEY ON ATHLETICS

    Mr. F. P. Dunne records in the "Westminster Gazette" a dialogue on athletics between his friends Mr. Hennessy and Mr. Dooley: ...

    Article : 1,505 words
  6. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    Europe loses 86,592 lives a year by accidents, and 86,000 die from similar causes in the United States. Out Of 100,000,000 passengers by sea all ...

    Article : 1,739 words
  7. FRENCH LOVE TRAGEDIES.

    Writing on September 23, the Paris correspondent of the London. "Daily Express" says:—Mile. Alice Alix was last night poignarded to death in her home in the ...

    Article : 166 words
  8. MAN AND BEAST.

    Same remarkable figures are given in the "Statistical Abstract Relatihg to British India," a Blue-book just issued for the information of the British Parliament. In ...

    Article : 351 words
  9. THE CHAMPION FAT MAN.

    Erastus H., better known as "Ras" Lewis, who is said to leave been the champion fat man of New Jersey, has just died at his home, Jersey City, of liver trouble, ...

    Article : 211 words
  10. CHAMPAGNE IN A LION'S CAGE.

    To go into a cage of lions to drink champagne in order to create sensation and puff up one's newspaper is, at least, an original idea. This (writes the Berlin ...

    Article : 475 words
  11. CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

    Mr. W. Howchin, F.G.S. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 7 words
  12. A POPULAR CITIZEN.

    The Hon. Sir E. T. Smith, M.L.C. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 10 words
  13. FUN BEHIND THE SCENES.

    There is generally some ringleader of green-room, fun—for most actors are very impatient of "waits between the scenes," and would rather pass such time in pranks ...

    Article : 781 words
  14. A FORGOTTEN EXPLORER.

    Who in England remembers Governor Eyre (asks a writer in "Black and White" of September 21). A generation ago his name was ringing through the Empire; ...

    Article : 1,179 words
  15. SAWN THROUGH THE SKULL.

    A Berlin telegram, dated September 19, says:—An interesting operation has just been performed in the hospital attached to the university at Halle. A six-year-old girl ...

    Article : 148 words
  16. PERILS OF STEEPLEJACKS

    It has been said that in the very extremity of the steeplejack's daily peril lies his greatest safety; for all recklessness and incompetence are weeded out by the ...

    Article : 420 words
  17. "THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD."

    The London "Week-End" reports an interview with John D. Rockefeller, owner of the greater portion of the natural oil resources of America and reputedly the ...

    Article : 525 words
  18. A SANITARY INSPECTOR'S TROUBLES.

    One of the sanitary inspectors started on his vacation one morning lately (writes the New York correspondent of the "Scotsman"). When he left for the Erie station ...

    Article : 358 words
  19. LANDING THE MINISTRY AT LARGS BAY.

    Samething of this kind must hannen before we get an outer harbor. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 18 words
  20. A CYCLIST'S CROWNING TRICK.

    The Austrian Tourists' Club publishes a comical story in its paper. A sort of goose fair was being held a few days ago in St. George, at the Ammersee Brewery, ...

    Article : 187 words
  21. EGGS AT £2,000 A DOZEN.

    "That is a ridiculous price for such an egg as this," said a London auctioneer the other day when a man bid 150 guineas for an egg. One of the company bid another ...

    Article : 246 words
  22. AN EXPENSIVE LAMB.

    Seven hundred pounds for a lamb seeing a stiff price, but that is the amount which one has cost an inhabitant of a little village in the department of Lozere (writes the ...

    Article : 180 words
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