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  2. SILVERTOWN.

    The story goes that one day in the spring of 1903 two navvies at work on the construction of a railway track for lumber in Northern ...

    Article : 1,317 words
  3. "THE AEROWAY."

    One more link has been forged in the chain of airship inventions. At last an inventor has come forward with a flying machine modelled on an absolutely new ...

    Article : 841 words
  4. BACK TO CIVIL LIFE.

    Every year some 40,000 soldiers, whose service has expired, leave the Army. For the most part unskilled, it takes the united efforts of over a dozen ...

    Article : 1,464 words
  5. MODERN WRITERS.

    On the outskirts of fiction proper has always been met the polemical, the satirical, or the sociological novel. Its guises have been ...

    Article : 1,098 words
  6. PRINCE BUELOW'S LIBEL SUIT.

    Prince Buelow was to-day, 6th November, splendidly vindicated of the charges preferred against hint by the self-confessed "degenerate" journalist Adolf ...

    Article : 1,108 words
  7. A FAMOUS CORPS.

    A fact not generally recognised is that the Honorable Artillery Company of London is the oldest military body in the Empire. Formed ...

    Article : 416 words
  8. HOW DRUGS AFFECT PLANTS.

    It has been known for a long while that plants, as well as animals, are sensitive to anaesthetics, such as chloroform and ether. Mr G. Clarke Nuttall thus ...

    Article : 601 words
  9. THE ITALIAN SENATE.

    The Senate sat as a High Court today to try Signor Nunzio Nasi, lawyer, professor, deputy, and ex-Minister, on charges of misappropriation of public ...

    Article : 389 words
  10. WEED EXTERMINATOR AND LEVELLER.

    After you have disced your land and given it a first stroke of the tine harrows, try tying a board in front of the teeth of the tines, as shown in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 90 words
  11. NAPOLEON III.

    Here is a witty saying, attributed to Napoleon III., about a certain lady who came to the Tuileries in a costume which was "an adornment rather than a ...

    Article : 130 words
  12. TRIPLE DUEL.

    A despatch from Comatini, in Sicily, gives details of a tragic sequel to a long-standing quarrel between two families living in the little town. For ...

    Article : 213 words
  13. THE HISTORY OF A JOKE.

    In an article on "The Influence of Laymen on Missions," a writer in the "East and the West" recently wrote: -- "Readers of Indian history will ...

    Article : 194 words
  14. SUBWAYITES.

    They are always making discoveries in the United States. The latest is a new aliment --the "subway bead." A New York correspondent of one of the ...

    Article : 161 words
  15. THE 5th LANCERS AND THEIR RECORD.

    Of the six regiments of Lancers on the cavalry establishment, the 5th (Royal Irish) stand first in order of precedence. Their record of active ...

    Article : 117 words
  16. THE CAREFUL BISHOP.

    When a bishop was about to be transferred to Kentucky his friends remonstrated with him. "Are you really going to Kentucky?" they inquired ...

    Article : 117 words
  17. PUBLIC HOUSE NAMES.

    Most of the odd names that one sees on public-houses are of old date. The modern publican [?]s, like most other people nowadays, afraid of being ...

    Article : 77 words
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