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  2. BALLOONING TRAGEDY.

    Public attention has been called to the sport of ballooning by recent activities of the Aero Club of America, under the auspices of which some trials in ...

    Article : 658 words
  3. WAR OF THE FUTURE.

    While Mr Le Queux and Mr Wilson are chronicling from the British standpoint an imaginary war between England and Germany, it is a curious fact that ...

    Article : 1,464 words
  4. TRUTHFUL FRANK.

    Among the many types of criminals perhaps one of the strangest is Frank Russell, who, at Clerkenwell Sessions last week, was sentenced, to two years' ...

    Article : 852 words
  5. RAILWAY ROMANCE.

    An inquest was held by the Merioneth County Coroner at Llanuwchllyn on Tuesday, 17th May, on the body of Rowland Ellis Evans, aged 20, a Great ...

    Article : 599 words
  6. WEST-END SHOP-LIFTING.

    Albert Girod, forty, actor, and his wife, Eugenie Fougere Girod, thirty, musichall singer, were indicted, at Clerkenwell Sessions, on 10th May, before Mr ...

    Article : 672 words
  7. EASY DIVORCE.

    The "Church Times" (11th May) contains a striding editorial on Sir Gorell Barnes's judgment of the "Dodd v. Dodd" case and the ...

    Article : 779 words
  8. TREE-TOP SUPPERS.

    Very interesting is the log of the Dolce far Niente, the balloon which made a trip from Wandsworth to Brighton in brilliant moonlight between 9 p.m. ...

    Article : 280 words
  9. NOTHING TO STEAL.

    "No," snapped the woman with the square chin, "I don't want no burglar alarms." "Then the lady next door was right, I suppose," rejoined the agent as he turned to go. ...

    Article : 99 words
  10. HOW TO LIVE ON NOTHING.

    The "Express" experiment of living on fourpence a day has led the "Pelican" to propound a "brilliantly original scheme" of living on nothing a week. 1 ...

    Article : 372 words
  11. KLEPTOMANIAC PRINCESS.

    The Berlin correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote as follows on 7th May :-- William Glase, Prince Wrede's ...

    Article : 334 words
  12. CAN'T LOCATE SOUNDS.

    "If you are deaf in one ear," said the boilermaker, "I don't care about giving you a job." "Why?" asked the applicant. "Because you can't tell what direction ...

    Article : 164 words
  13. A HOSPITAL "ZOO."

    Though it has only been open for two days, the new Animals' Hospital in Hugh street, Belgrave road, started by Our Dumb Friends' League, is already ...

    Article : 260 words
  14. WEDDING PRESENTS.

    The action brought by Mrs Grace Adile Ansell, widow of Mr Charles Ansell, against the executors of the will of her husband, for a declaration that ...

    Article : 276 words
  15. A DRIVER'S FATE.

    An account of an extraordinary accident, which is described as quite without precedent, is sent to the "Standard" by its correspondent at Capetown. ...

    Article : 169 words
  16. A KING' HEART.

    The durability of cardiac muscle is shown in a report of Professor Lortet, of the French Academy, reproduced by the "Lancet," upon the condition of the ...

    Article : 203 words
  17. STATESMEN'S BLUNDERS.

    Some curious instances of "statesmen's blunders" are given in the May ''Grand Magazine" by Mr A. T. Story. Compulsory vaccination was established ...

    Article : 232 words
  18. PASSIONATE WEAR.

    Certainly in the dawn of things God made His servant nude; Only from valets, tailors, kings Came forth the dreadful dude; ...

    Article : 218 words
  19. WAGES IN SAN FRANCISCO.

    The scale of wages recently paid in the building trades in San Francisco would seem almost incredible in this country. The minimum to unionised ...

    Article : 197 words
  20. TWO EXCELLENT QUALIFICATIONS.

    Mr Timidity once had the misfortune to figure as defendant in a libel action, and since then he had been remarkably cautious with his pen. Some little time ago he was obliged to ...

    Article : 204 words
  21. LONG SKIRTS AS A NUISANCE.

    The flourishing town of Nordhausen, in Hanover, has, according to the "Chronicle," attracted much public attention by a ukase of its town council ...

    Article : 165 words
  22. HAD SEEN MUCH.

    Mrs Betsy Ware, whose death at the extraordinary age of 130 years was announced at Washington last week, was intimately associated in the days of her ...

    Article : 67 words
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