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  2. THE WIDE WORLD.

    Recent arrivals at the London "Zoo" Reptile House include some examples of the rough-keeled snake (Dasypeltis scabra) of South Africa. This is quite a ...

    Article : 249 words
  3. THE CZAR.

    The personal attitude of the Czar towards his people in the great constitutional struggle now in progress in Russia is excellently indicated in an audience ...

    Article : 818 words
  4. LIVING RENT FREE.

    It is by no means a difficult matter to live rent free in London. This much a "Westminster" representative learned from a member of a firm of house ...

    Article : 1,358 words
  5. MAY DAY IN PARIS

    Sixty thousand troops were on duty in the streets of Paris on Tuesday, and May day did not past without much tumult, the worst disorders taking place at ...

    Article : 1,249 words
  6. A SEA VETERAN.

    The captain and crew of the steamer Knight Commander, which was sunk in the Pacific in July 1904, by the Russian Admiral Yesen are still seeking ...

    Article : 436 words
  7. LADIES' BRIDGE PARTIES.

    From New York on 6th April the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:-- The anti-bridge crusade in Georgia ...

    Article : 165 words
  8. A JEALOUS TORTOISE.

    It has long been believed that the tortoise had no other feeling or emotion than a desire to live. Its energies, it was thought, were all devoted to this ...

    Article : 196 words
  9. "SPOTTED FEVER" EPIDEMIC.

    The Dusseldorf correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 1st May:-- An epidemic of "spotted fever," or ...

    Article : 151 words
  10. "TRUST NO ONE."

    There are some caustic reflections upon human nature, in the article by Sir Henry Smith, ex-Commissioner of the City of London Police, in "Blackwood" for May. ...

    Article : 186 words
  11. THE LADY ANGLER.

    Lady anglers are largely on the increase this year, and numbers of them are already in the country in enthusiastic quest of salmon and trout. ...

    Article : 359 words
  12. THE TWO MILLINERS.

    Two milliners of Paris, after a rather romantic series of adventures had (wrote the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" on 9th ...

    Article : 353 words
  13. SHE BOUGHT THE JEWELLERY.

    Yes, marm, it is; real gold, every bit of it; eighteen English carat or I'm a Spanish onion!" "Go on with you!" said the cook at the back door; "if it was ...

    Article : 234 words
  14. MARTHA'S LADY DOCTOR.

    Martha, the infant gorilla at the Zoological Gardens, is a most puzzling patent. Only one thing has been found to suit her white of eggs. ...

    Article : 259 words
  15. TO RESCUE CHILDREN.

    Fire broke out on 23rd April in the Roman Catholic convent and school at Torgau, in Silesia. Most of the children and others escaped, but two were ...

    Article : 96 words
  16. TRIPLE TRAGEDY.

    Winterbourne, a quaint, old-[?]ashioned Gloucestershire town, six miles from Bristol, was on Monday, 30th July, rudely disturbed by a triple ...

    Article : 914 words
  17. THOSE WICKED PLANETS.

    Among the many possible agencies suggested as operating to bring about seismic and volcanic disturbances have been the attraction of the moon (which ...

    Article : 320 words
  18. LADIES AT SWIMMING GALAS.

    At a meeting of the Public Health Committee of the Cork Corporation on 1st May a discussion took place with reference to the admission of ...

    Article : 285 words
  19. THE KAISER AND THE PEASANT.

    An amusing anecdote about the Kaiser is told by the "Frankischer General-Anzeiger." While visiting his chateau, Schlitz, ...

    Article : 187 words
  20. THE NETHERLANDS RAILWAY.

    The Depeche Colonials'' gives some particulars of the understanding which has, it says, been arrived at between the British Government and the committee ...

    Article : 235 words
  21. THE SEISMOGRAPH.

    Professor John Milne's seismograph, the instrument which recorded the San Francisco earthquake in the Isle of Wright, is as simple as it is unerring. It ...

    Article : 463 words
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