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  2. AROUND THE WORLD

    Table tennis has dealt the coup de grace to port. Men no longer sit over their wine, but have the table cleared with all celerity for the fray. ...

    Article : 72 words
  3. SCIENCE AND HEALTH

    A London coroner, on resuming duty after an illness said he wished to offer advice to the public-never to use medicine which they had kept for any ...

    Article : 45 words
  4. [PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.] THE SHADOW OF THE ROPE.

    They had been strolling quite apart, though chatting amiably. Rachel had not dreamt of putting her hand within his arm, as she had sometimes done ...

    Article : 2,075 words
  5. FIRE INSURANCE ETHICS.

    The Pudsey Fire Brigade Committee is notifying all fire insurance companies who do not contribute towards the up-keep of the Pudsey Brigade that the ...

    Article : 101 words
  6. PROPORTIONS.

    In the man of average stature the height of the body is 10 times the length of the face; the face, from the chin to the hair, is as long as the ...

    Article : 76 words
  7. SCANDINAVIA AND THE BEAR.

    Now that Russia's ambition has received so palpable a check in the East in consequence of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty, it is a debatable point as to ...

    Article : 126 words
  8. X-RAYS.

    The "Western Electrician" that Rontgen rays have at length attained the popular distinction of "a" penny in the slot." Self-acting ...

    Article : 56 words
  9. PRINCESS AS A[?]FE SAVER.

    An exciting scene [?] place on the ice at Potsdam, in which Princess Frederick Leopold, sister of the Empress, took a leading part. Seeing three young ...

    Article : 130 words
  10. BROMIDE OF POTASSIUM.

    A very interesting train of thought is raised by Sir Lauder Brunton's speculations on the question how far the history of the world would have been ...

    Article : 122 words
  11. NEW SOUTH AFRICAN ERA.

    Readers who still read news from South Africa must have observed that a new era has set in there. In place of the monotonous "regrets to report" and the ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. NO ADMITTANCE TO LHASSA.

    Dr. Sven Hedin, the well-known Asiatic traveller, who has arrived at Bombay, says he thinks that no European will be allowed to enter Lhassa ...

    Article : 122 words
  13. ELECTRIFIED CANALS.

    Canals in England have long been regarded as the most hopeless enterprise afoot. They were thought to have beep killed by the railways, and they have ...

    Article : 81 words
  14. AN[?]MIA FOR YEARS

    To see many of the hurrying thousands in the streets of London you might almost believe that modern conditions of life left them no chance to look other ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 648 words
  15. ARTIFICIAL RAIN.

    Some interesting experiments for the artificial production of rain by means of electricity have been carried out in Japan. The probability of greater ...

    Article : 161 words
  16. A BOOKLESS LIBRARY.

    M'Keesport, Pennsylvania, has a bookless library. The fine stone building was erected with 50,000dol. Andrew Carnegio donated, but the entire donation ...

    Article : 67 words
  17. THE CHAMPION WATERWALKER.

    Captain Grossmann arrived at Vienna on February 26, on the completion of his water-walk on the Danube from Lints. The journey took .a long time because ...

    Article : 114 words
  18. HONOURED NEWSPAPERS.

    The late Duke of Portland subscribed for all the ordinary newspapers and magazines of the day, and had them whole-bound in beautiful morocco coats ...

    Article : 67 words
  19. THE PERSECUTED NAZARENES.

    Hungary is giving considerable trouble to the authorities. These people, like the Russian Dukhobors, are forbidden by their religion to bear arms, and year by ...

    Article : 123 words
  20. SOME DISADVANTAGES ATTENDING ELECTRIC SYSTEMS.

    "We ("Lancet") anticipated, at the time when the electric underground railways were started in London that sooner or later, owing to their peculiar ...

    Article : 409 words
  21. FISHERMEN'S CHURCH AT SEA.

    A new steamer of unique character arrived at Yarmouth the other day from a the builders at Leith. She is named the Queen Alexandra; by her Majesty's ...

    Article : 99 words
  22. DEBTS AND NATIONS.

    That debts do not always interfere with progress England has demonstrated. There was a time when the debt of England was the standard of comparison, ...

    Article : 84 words
  23. PETER THE GREAT'S MEMORY.

    There is shortly to be another memorial in London to Peter the Great in commemoration of the famous ship building monarch's stay in England. ...

    Article : 126 words
  24. DANISH GIFT TO INVALIDS.

    At a meeting of the United Breweries Company, of Copenhagen, it was announced that the Queen of England has been graciously pleased to accept a gift ...

    Article : 84 words
  25. PUZZLE IN CRIMINAL LAW.

    Recently a desperate character named Piva was sentenced in the canton of Fribourg to 24. years' penal servitude for murder. Afterwards he was sent ...

    Article : 120 words
  26. Advertising

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    Advertising : 273 words
  27. A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

    A most unusual accident is reported from Verviers, where an artisan named Sarlet was caught in the belting of some machinery which revolved horizontally ...

    Article : 75 words
  28. MAN SWALLOWS A FORK.

    A curious story comes from Limoges, where a butler named Jury, who had been recommended to paint his throat with a certain preparation, attached a ...

    Article : 89 words
  29. AFFAIRS IN AFGHANISTAN.

    It is reported that Mohamed Ismail, the Afghan agent at Simla, has been recalled, the Ameer having accused him of misappropriating state funds and of ...

    Article : 218 words
  30. IN WINE-MAKING LANDS.

    In the Sunny South, one is occasionally confronted by an apparition of a bareheaded gentleman in a ragged shirt, still more ragged knickerbockers, with his ...

    Article : 87 words
  31. THE CZAR'S HUMANITY.

    An instance of how the Czar sometimes intervenes to over-rule the narrow Russian officialism is reported from Lodz. A Polish woman in that town ...

    Article : 101 words
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