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  2. AROUND THE WORLD.

    One explanation of the delay in the war in the Balkans is that it is waiting for a Kipling poem.—"Globe-Democrat," St. Louis. ...

    Article : 29 words
  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    The man who is satisfied with himself seldom satisfies others. A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can in a sermon. ...

    Article : 276 words
  4. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    According to the "Journal de Medecine," the-Arge[?]ine Health Department has experimentally arranged to have comprehensive instructions printed on ...

    Article : 43 words
  5. THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

    The Northern Temperance Alliance has had its notice drawn to the lack of energy and enthusiasm there is in the Band of Hope movement in Launceston, ...

    Article : 241 words
  6. CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION.

    A large and influential deputation, representing the mercantile community of Brisbane, waited on Mr. Kingston on Saturday to bring certain matters under ...

    Article : 1,349 words
  7. TAX ON DIVORCES.

    Advices from Bucharest state that M. Costinescu, Roumanian Minister of Finance, is about to submit a bill to Parliament which, among other things, ...

    Article : 115 words
  8. CENSUS HUMOURS.

    In the Akyab district one census enumerator, a native of India, who could not be suspected of jesting, entered the occupation of all children under 15 years ...

    Article : 55 words
  9. IN PRAISE OF "SEMI-TEETOTALISM."

    Most of our readers will by now be familiar with the aims of the "Semi-tee- total Pledge Association," a body the object of which is to stop all drinking of ...

    Article : 121 words
  10. THE GARDEN.

    Before the seeds on the asparagus begin to drop the stems should be cut close to the ground, and removed to the rubbish heap. This done, the weeds ...

    Article : 434 words
  11. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

    So far from there being any real danger of the defilement of the language by the profusion of Briticisms and Americanisms, of Canadianisms and ...

    Article : 71 words
  12. UNCONVENTIONAL MINISTER.

    Herr Budde, German Minister of Public Railways, assumed the role of a modern Haroun-al-Raschid a few days ago. With the intention of finding out ...

    Article : 100 words
  13. EUTHANASIA.

    "Veetis," the monthly journal edited by Dr. Dabbs, refers to the frequently discussed subject of euthanasia in hopeless cases of illness. Once the writer ...

    Article : 119 words
  14. SUDDEN RISE TO WEALTH.

    In one night a Roumanian teacher in most needy circumstances has become the possessor of a gold mine. Happening to find a lump of ore in a field at ...

    Article : 70 words
  15. W.T.C.U. CONVENTION.

    The meetings of the Australasian Woman's Christian Temperance Union Triennial Convention were held in Melbourne last week. They commenced on ...

    Article : 1,000 words
  16. HIS BOOTS DIDN'T FIT.

    As a sergeant was bawling out his orders and watching the line of feet as the new recruits endeavoured to obey the word of command, he found to his ...

    Article : 146 words
  17. PUGILIST TO PREACHER.

    William Morrell, Nottingham's oldest inhabitant, died the other day aged 103 years. His life had been a varied one. As a youth he followed the trade of his ...

    Article : 172 words
  18. MONTE CRISTO'S ISLAND SOLD.

    The Chateau d'If, on the small island near Marseilles, the scene of Dumas's famous romance, "Monte Cristo," which was put up for sale the other day, was ...

    Article : 72 words
  19. SIGHT-RESTORING PRETENDERS.

    Although it is not the "silly season," the readers of the daily press have been entertained during the past week with much cheap copy on the subject of the ...

    Article : 178 words
  20. SKIRT DANCE IN COURT.

    A performer who styles herself "She appeared at a Berlin court to answer a charge by Miss Loic Fuller of using her patented apparatus in a so-called ...

    Article : 75 words
  21. WHAT HAPPENED.

    She pressed her ruby lips to his In one ecstatic kiss; They seemed at peace with all the world, Enrapt in holy bliss. ...

    Article : 50 words
  22. A RECORD WEDDING.

    Baron Renaut de Baccarat and Mme Marie Duchan—Fauvel were married at the Church of Saint-Metard, Paris, on March 29, each for the fourth time. ...

    Article : 71 words
  23. COMPOUNDING A FELONY.

    The Mayence court has been occupied with a remarkable case of embezzlement. Some time ago the directors of the Mayence People's Bank discovered a ...

    Article : 151 words
  24. AFTER ALL HIS TROUBLE.

    A man was driving home one dark night, when, the way seeming long, he became uncertain whether or not he was on the right road. ...

    Article : 88 words
  25. WIRELESS TELEPHONES.

    Telephones without wires were on view the other day at the Alexandra Palace, where exponents of the Orling-Armstrong system provided some novel ...

    Article : 249 words
  26. BORDER SHRUBS.

    With the change of weather, in conjunction with the rains which have occurred during the past few weeks, the leaves are falling rapidly, and ...

    Article : 529 words
  27. A SPIRITUALISTIC JUDGE.

    According to a telegram reaching Berlin the testimony of Herr George Sulzer, president of the Swiss Court of Cassation, at the Berlin "flower medium" ...

    Article : 88 words
  28. ONE OF TOOLE'S JOKES.

    "What I want is a bright, short play," said Toole to the amateur who had brought him a six-act drama with lucid intervals. ...

    Article : 297 words
  29. NOVEL SHOOTING COMPETITION.

    A highly original and interesting rifle and fencing tournament will be held this month on the grounds of a Hungarian nobleman near Budapest. Mr. Nicolas de ...

    Article : 153 words
  30. GERMAN COURTESY.

    A noteworthy incident occurred at Danzig on March 28, showing the good feeling which exists between, at least, the unofficial classes of Germans and ...

    Article : 101 words
  31. CAUSE AND CURE OF "NERVES."

    Mysterious and far-reaching are the effects upon the human mind and frame to-day of the rush and tumble life the twentieth century imposes upon most ...

    Article : 592 words
  32. CUBA FOR TOURISTS.

    Sir William Van Horne, the Canadian railway magnate, who is now in Cuba, is devoting his attention to the development of the island as a resort for tourists. ...

    Article : 109 words
  33. RECORD IN AMERICAN STRIKES.

    Judge Adams in St. Louis on April 1 dissolved his injunction restraining the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Firemen and Railway Trainmen from ordering or ...

    Article : 180 words
  34. A GILBERTIAN SITUATION.

    Mr. Ira Terrill, an ex-member of the Oklahoma Legislature, is serving a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment in a Kansas gaol for manslaughter. He is ...

    Article : 103 words
  35. WRINKLE IN MAKING SUNSETS.

    The beginner at this work has, as a rule, something to learn. He must learn to discriminate (says "Camera Craft") between a sunset sky that charms by its ...

    Article : 231 words
  36. GERMAN DOMESTIC DRAMA.

    Germany has had her share of scandals lately. Hardly has one subsided than another crops up. Dusslcdorf is the scene of the latest society drama, and ...

    Article : 268 words
  37. ELECTRICITY v. BEESWAX.

    The Russian Holy Synod, after some years' deliberation, has finally decided to authorise all Orthodox churches to be lighted by electricity instead of wax ...

    Article : 116 words
  38. FOR FICKLE LOVERS.

    A paper very suitable for love-letters has been invented in France. It is treated with a weak solution of sulphuric acid, which destroys not only ...

    Article : 80 words
  39. DEFAMATION BY DUNNING.

    At Liegnitz a judicial decision has just been given in favour of a local tradesman who sued a Berlin firm for defamation, which took the form of an ...

    Article : 115 words
  40. EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION.

    The corporation of Berlin has just passed a resolution to engage the services of 36 medical men for the elementary schools of that city at a salary of £100 ...

    Article : 115 words
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