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  2. AROUND THE WORLD.

    The Czar's favourite passage—the passage of the Dardanelles.—"Punch." ...

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  3. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    Professors Panichi and Tizzoni, the latter a member of the Italian Parliament, informed the Bologna Academy of Sciences on January 25 that they ...

    Article : 60 words
  4. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    It's an ill wind that inflates no tire. Man is the only animal that works the other animals for a living. It is the manufacturer of automobiles ...

    Article : 305 words
  5. MICHAEL ANGELO'S SPIRIT.

    Spiritualism caused the downfall and the arrest in Berlin of Carl Pospech, formerly a captain in the Austrian army. Some months ago Pospech made ...

    Article : 245 words
  6. THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF THE THEATRE.

    "I have often heard people deny the moral influence of the theatre," writes Sarah Bernhardt, in "Cornhill," but I find it undeniable. This influence ...

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  7. HOW LORD KITCHENER DANCES.

    At the durbar state ball Lord Kitchener's knowledge of the figures was of the vaguest kind, and in consequence whenever the call "Sides" was given all ...

    Article : 108 words
  8. DR. TEMPLE'S WILL.

    The estate of the late Dr. Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died on December 23, has been valued at £18,262 8s 10d, including net ...

    Article : 53 words
  9. THE OCEAN CURE.

    It is stated that an experiment is about to be tried in the North-Eastern Atlantic with a view to testing the value of the ocean in curing ...

    Article : 86 words
  10. REGENCY IN SWEDEN.

    Acting upon medical advice, the King of Sweden has abandoned for the present his projected visit to Norway, and has decided temporarily to entrust the ...

    Article : 37 words
  11. LARGE FEES.

    For two months' medical attendance on his daughter Mr. Jay Gould paid between £17,000 and £18,000. Mr. Whitney paid 5000 for a week's ...

    Article : 108 words
  12. THE SIZE OF WOMEN'S BRAINS.

    One of the newspaper things that is always with us, verdant and flourishing as the green bay-tree, is the size of women's brains. An indignant lady has ...

    Article : 278 words
  13. "A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK."

    Monday, January 20, being the birthday of little Master, Eloff, the ten-year-old grandson of Mr. Kruger, his grand-father gave him 4s to spend. The boy ...

    Article : 90 words
  14. TRADING FRAUDS.

    Any substance which is sold under one name but which contains a large proportion of another substance should be sold not simply as a mixture, but ...

    Article : 79 words
  15. A FASCINATING MUSICIAN.

    A certain Herr Wittenberg recently gave a concert in Berlin. He was much applauded, and on the next day he was startled to receive no fewer than three ...

    Article : 99 words
  16. RIVAL TO MR. MARCONI.

    Professor Braun, of Strassburg, announces that be has made a great discovery with regard to wireless telegraphy, having found means to ...

    Article : 95 words
  17. COUNTESS'S SHAM HEIR.

    A story which reads like an old-fashioned romance became known at Berlin by the arrest of Countess Isabella Wesierska Kwileska, charged with ...

    Article : 278 words
  18. THE NEW TELEPHONY.

    It has now become possible to sit in one's room at home, or in one's office, and use the telephone without placing the mouth to the instrument. ...

    Article : 152 words
  19. THE SECRET OF POPULARITY.

    It is said that when made Bishop of Stopney Dr. Winnington Ingram was anything but popular, Greatly worried the Bishop tried to trace the cause, and ...

    Article : 93 words
  20. REMARKABLE CENTENARIAN.

    Mme. Justine Poulet, an inhabitant of Vimenet, a village in the department of Aveyron, France, has just died at the age of 101. She had a remarkable ...

    Article : 80 words
  21. TRICKSTER'S DISCOMFITURE.

    By means of coughing violently and saying that he had diphtheria, a German who was travelling the other day from Korsar to Copenhagen managed ...

    Article : 104 words
  22. REAL AMERICAN.

    An American millionaire and his wife, being childless, wrote to a foundling school expressing a wish to adopt a boy or girl. ...

    Article : 96 words
  23. THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

    Thirty million people live under state local option and prohibition laws in America. Owing to the representations of the ...

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  24. FAMOUS PICTURES SOLD.

    The famous Marquand art collection was sold by auction recently at New York. There were several European bidders, among whom being Messrs. ...

    Article : 81 words
  25. CLOUDS MAY FORM WITHOUT DUST.

    For 20 years the assertion of Dr. A[?]tken, based on a series of beautiful experiments, that clouds cannot form in the air without dust particles to serve ...

    Article : 149 words
  26. STRANGE WAGER SETTLED.

    A bet between M. Yves Guyot and M. Edmond Thery, editor of the "Economiste Europeen," Paris, made so far back as June 30, 1897, has recently ...

    Article : 142 words
  27. MR. DOOLEY.

    The following are a few of Mr. Dooley's witticisms in his new book Just published:— "Laws ar-re made to throuble people ...

    Article : 172 words
  28. CHILD CIGAR-SMOKERS.

    Herr A. Boer, a well-known German schoolmaster, has just published some interesting statistics regarding the practice of smoking among German ...

    Article : 93 words
  29. MASTER AND MAN.

    At the small town of Cacilhas, facing Lisbon, on the opposite shore of the river Tagus, a curious conflict between an English manufacturer and his ...

    Article : 354 words
  30. SOAP AND SHAVING.

    Discussing the use of soap in shaving, the "Lancet" thinks that the fact that cuts with razors resulting from shaving seldom have serious ...

    Article : 172 words
  31. BRITISH ENGINEERS' TRIUMPH.

    The engineering firms of the United States have so often beaten British engineers by guaranteeing quicker delivery and quoting lower prices that it ...

    Article : 145 words
  32. THE MOROCCO QUESTION.

    When we recollect the declarations made by English statesmen last summer with reference to the Mediterranean question, we must consider it ...

    Article : 96 words
  33. THE UNIVERSAL HABIT.

    I saw her go shopping in stylish attired and she felt For her belt At the back. ...

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  34. OUR HUMILIATING POSITION.

    Great excitement has been produced on the United States by [Germany's] unnecessary and useless acts of force. The temper of the American people is, ...

    Article : 77 words
  35. VENGEANCE ON A CRITIC.

    Herr Leo Lazar, who arrived at Belgrade a little while ago to take up the duties of correspondent of the Berlin "Vossiche Zeitung," recently sent ...

    Article : 143 words
  36. TIGHT-LACING.

    Another death from tight-lacing, the second in a fortnight, is reported by the "Drapers' Record." A young Irish girl was out walking with a friend, ...

    Article : 172 words
  37. HOW THE WORLD MAY END.

    That old worlds perish daily in volcanic disaster and that new ones are continually formed from their dust and fragments is eminently probable. This ...

    Article : 91 words
  38. NEW HISTORY OF ROME.

    Another of the happy beliefs of the past has been demolished by the ruthless investigations of the archaeologist. The excavations which ...

    Article : 389 words
  39. RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA.

    We can state with pride that the [?]vacuation of Manchuria by the Russian troops has produced but little joy in the heart of the Chinese population, ...

    Article : 122 words
  40. BOLIVIA AND BRAZIL.

    On the authority of the Brazilian Legation in Paris it was announced the other day that Bolivia had been given to understand by Brazil that the ...

    Article : 158 words
  41. CONCENTRATED FOOD.

    It is not a new idea that in future chemists will make food in the laboratory so nourishing that a few balls or cakes of it will support a man for a ...

    Article : 209 words
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  43. RELIGIOUS REVIVAL IN LONDON.

    It is believed by many that London is on the eve of the greatest revival of religious enthusiasm known since the visit of Messrs. Moody and Sankey ...

    Article : 193 words
  44. CHURCH SERVICE BY TELEPHONE.

    Church service by telephone has become an established institution in cartain parts of Western America. It started in Indiana, where a telephone ...

    Article : 257 words
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