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  2. PERSONALITIES.

    Mr. E. T. Hooley has been interviewed by a representative of the I.L.P. 'I know the standpoint of you chaps,' Mr. Hooley is reported as saying 'I worked in my ...

    Article : 141 words
  3. SAD STATE OF SAMOA.

    Reliable information from Samoa gives a bad account of the condition of the community in which the late Robert Louis Stevenson took so deep an interest. The ...

    Article : 193 words
  4. CURIOUS MARRIAGE CUSTOM.

    One of the many superstitions still believed by the peasant population of Russia is that on the occasion of a marriage the happiness of the newly-wedded couple is not assured ...

    Article : 198 words
  5. MILLIONAIRE AND HIS MONEY.

    Apropos of a recent attack made on Mr. J. D. Rockefeller from the pulpit of a Baptist Church of New York of which he was formerly a member, the 'New York Herald' ...

    Article : 194 words
  6. A COUNTESS IN A TRANCE.

    A sensation has been caused in Warsaw by the alleged burying alive of a well-known member of Russo-Polish society, the Countess Helene Pottocka, who died suddenly and ...

    Article : 174 words
  7. THE TOMB OF RACHEL.

    The pools of Solomon lie on the left of the road to Hebron, and at a distance from Jerusalem of about two hours. Distances in the East are measured by time, not by miles. ...

    Article : 336 words
  8. LABOUR DEMONSTRATION.

    A terrible scene is reported to have occurred at Reschitza in Austria. A crowd of 5,000 men and women employed at the Anina Mines and the Steel Works of the ...

    Article : 232 words
  9. PALACE AND POORHOUSE.

    At Milpitas, Santa Clara Country, California, a palace has been turned into a poorhouse. The palace was built by a millionaire named O'Toole, who lost everything ...

    Article : 69 words
  10. TRAVELLER.

    It is a well-known fact in natural history that certain animals and fishes have 'friends' whose company acts as a safe-guard against danger, and it is now reported that the ...

    Article : 99 words
  11. 'THE CRAZY PAINTER.'

    One of the sights of Brussels is the Museum of Antoine Joseph Wiertz, containing his own paintings to the number of one hundred and ten. These paintings are characterised ...

    Article : 793 words
  12. ERRATA.

    The Mazarin Bible, published more than four hundred years ago, was full of errors. In an edition published two hundred years later the word 'not' was omitted from the ...

    Article : 491 words
  13. TRAINING OF GREEK ATHLETES.

    Greek boys began to be trained in bodily exercises at a very early age,--often at ten years. The problem was not merely to develop strength and health, but to secure ...

    Article : 167 words
  14. NEWSPAPER FILES UNDER GUARD.

    A complete file of each of the newspapers that have been published in Chicago since the fire--in fact, more complete than is to be found in many of the newspaper office--is ...

    Article : 275 words
  15. BUDDHA'S BIRTHPLACE.

    The remarkable discovery of the long-lost birth-place of Buddha will no doubt make of Rumindei in the Nepalese territory one of the greatest places of pilgrimages in the ...

    Article : 137 words
  16. VARIETIES.

    Patriotic sticklers in Scotland are very indignant at the use of the words 'England' of 'English' when 'Britain' or 'British' is meant. The Rev. David Macrae, of Dundee, ...

    Article : 167 words
  17. ASCENDED 24,000 FEET.

    A very interesting account of the ascent of the mountain Aconcagua in the Andes has been sent by a member of the Fitzgerald Expedition. On Christmas Day the ...

    Article : 113 words
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