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  2. AROUND THE WORLD.

    What is probably the smallest public school in the world was opened at Easter on the Hallig Nordstrandisch Moor, in Schleswig-Holstein. It had been closed ...

    Article : 54 words
  3. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    The juice of the pineapple is an active digestive agent. A little of the fruit taken at the end of a meal is a valuable preventive of dyspepsia. ...

    Article : 34 words
  4. THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

    The Duke of Fife has become a vice president of the Semi-Teetotal Pledge Association. The [?]inois Legislature has voted ...

    Article : 767 words
  5. THE GARDEN.

    Cabbages, broccoli, and winter greens should be divested when the weather is dry of all useless and withered leaves that would otherwise be likely to become ...

    Article : 410 words
  6. MILITARY FORCES.

    Full particulars of the new uniform for the Commonwealth military forces were published in Saturday's "Gazette." The main feature of the new regulations is ...

    Article : 1,348 words
  7. RADIUM RADIATIONS.

    Many London medical men are anxious to try the effects of radium radiations on pathogenic micro-organisms. The present market price, however, of fairly ...

    Article : 53 words
  8. STEALING A HOUSE.

    The thieves of Budapest are not lacking in resource, as their latest exploit plainly shows. It was discovered one recent morning that all the street signs ...

    Article : 67 words
  9. BETTER THAN A NEW BROOM.

    Even a new broom sweeps not half an clean as a new contrivance praised. by the London "Lancet" for "cleaning by vacuum." Ordinary methods of ...

    Article : 98 words
  10. FUTURE RAILWAY KINGS.

    Mr. George J. Gould, his sons, Kingdon, aged 16, and Jay, aged 15, and their tutor, Mr. Huntsman, are undertaking a tour of the Gould system of railways, embracing ...

    Article : 199 words
  11. CURIOUS ALPINE WAGER

    Two members of the French Alpine Club have concluded a sporting wager to climb Mont Blanc, one starting from Chamonix and the other from ...

    Article : 96 words
  12. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Matrimony often means a month of honey and years of vinegar. Some men are like telescopes; you draw them out, see through them, and then ...

    Article : 213 words
  13. GAS AND THE BEDROOM.

    The safety of a coal gas supply to a bedroom depends upon the integrity of the gas-fittings. These are only too frequently defective, and there can be no ...

    Article : 131 words
  14. EMIGRATION DE LUXE.

    Arrangements have been completed by the Canadian Pacific railway for the transportation of the Barr Colony from St. John (N.B.) to the North-West. This ...

    Article : 104 words
  15. DOG AS ACCUSER.

    How a dog led, to the discovery of his master's murderer was told at the Hauts Seine Assizes, when an Italian woodcutter named Cassinelli was put upon his ...

    Article : 271 words
  16. THE COLOUR OF NEGRO BABIES.

    It is odd, to say the least of it, that it should have been left to the beginning of the 20th century for an authoritative statement to be made concerning the ...

    Article : 175 words
  17. IMPERIAL HUMILITY.

    The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, assisted by 11 Archdukes, on April 9 performed the ancient. Holy Thursday ceremony of washing the feet of 12 aged ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. FRUIT GARDEN.

    Bush fruits as soon as clear of leaves, may be pruned. Red and white currants and gooseberries should be kept to single stems by the removal of all suckers ...

    Article : 544 words
  19. FELL TO PIECES.

    From a recent novel:— "Her eyes fell." "Her hands dropped by. her side." "He lost his tongue." ...

    Article : 52 words
  20. DOG AS A BETTING AGENT.

    While A. Lacambre, a police inspector, ,was searching a public-house in the Archives quarter of Paris, where it was suspected that clandestine betting was ...

    Article : 132 words
  21. MATTER.

    The researches of physical science into the ultimate constitution of matter have brought into the field of philosophic thought new and startling conceptions of ...

    Article : 241 words
  22. A BOY'S DEFINITIONS.

    A teacher once gave a boy a number of words to define. These were some of them:— "Salt," "fan," "sob," and "bearing ...

    Article : 77 words
  23. BISMARCK'S WOUNDED SON.

    Perhaps the most remarkable of the newly-discovered Bismarck letters addressed to his wife during the Franco Prussian war is published by the illustrated weekly "Gartenlaube." It is ...

    Article : 291 words
  24. TRAGEDY OF SUPERSTITION.

    An extraordinary case of peasant superstition resulting in the loss of two lives is-reported from Hungary. A peasant named Barjas, living at Nosztany, ...

    Article : 138 words
  25. "K.C.M.G."

    A story told at the expense of a rather pompous individual recently appointed Governor of a colony is going the rounds of the English clubs. ...

    Article : 116 words
  26. HUMOUR ON THE BENCH.

    Some years ago a barrister was defending a prisoner on the Midland Circuit. It was a well-nigh hopeless case he had to conduct, but he did his best, and in ...

    Article : 400 words
  27. THE CAUSE OF COLDS.

    One medical view of colds and influenza is that they are attributable, in part at all events, to a germ which exists in the mouth. This was discovered nearly ...

    Article : 442 words
  28. INGENIOUS JEWEL THIEF.

    At Marseilles a few weeks ago an elegantly dressed woman entered a jeweller's shop, selected £600 worth of precious stones, and asked that all assistant ...

    Article : 152 words
  29. THE POLICEMAN AND THE PUBLICAN.

    A policeman entered the house of a publican one morning and informed him that it would be necessary to hold an inquest at his (the publican's) house in ...

    Article : 157 words
  30. DUTIES OF DIRECTORS.

    Some sidelights upon the duties of directors of public companies and how they are performed were afforded in the London Bankruptcy Court lately, when ...

    Article : 397 words
  31. MRS. MAYBRICK.

    Mrs. Maybrick, who was convicted of poisoning her husband, is to be released in July, 1904. "This is certain, and is nothing new, except so far as the ...

    Article : 380 words
  32. FENCING FOR SHOP-GIRLS.

    The latest development of the scheme for providing rational and healthy exercise for Paris working-girls--dressmakers, milliners, an others—is a class for ...

    Article : 127 words
  33. REVIVING THE CURFEW.

    The people of Antrim have hailed with delight the decision of the town commissioners to revive the ancient custom of ringing the curfew nightly. At Antrim, as ...

    Article : 159 words
  34. LARGEST PICTURE EXTANT.

    What is probably the largest picture over painted—it measures 150 square yards—has just been finished, after eight years' labour, by M. Georges Bertrand, of ...

    Article : 145 words
  35. Advertising

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    Advertising : 185 words
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    Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is intended especially for coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough and Influenza. It has become famous for its cures of these ...

    Article : 162 words
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