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  2. [PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.] THE KIDNAPPED PRESIDENT.

    The nest three days were about as happy, so far as I am concerned, as a man could wish to spend. Fortunately it was holiday [?] with mony, and in ...

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  3. AROUND THE WORLD

    Brewery firms are discontinuing the use of coke as fuel states the Mayor of Halifax, because it has been found to contain arsenic, which is carried by the ...

    Article : 40 words
  4. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    The lily of the valley contains a poison of the most deadly kind, says a German botanist. Not only the flower itself, but also the stem as well, ...

    Article : 75 words
  5. FIGHTING IN THE SUDAN.

    The latest reports received at Cairo confirm the news that Ali Dinar, Sultan of Darfur, is alive, and is endeavouring to organise his army. It ...

    Article : 104 words
  6. A FATEFUL CHAIR.

    The chair, with its covering of red velvet, in which Charles I. sat at his trial in the High Court of Justice, is still extant. preserved in a cottage ...

    Article : 59 words
  7. USES OF PAPER.

    The new uses 'to which paper may be put seem numberless. The latest announcements are of paper gloves and stockings, the latter having been in ...

    Article : 105 words
  8. ENGLAND'S INGRATITUDE.

    England has never been grateful to her great consuls. She deserted Bartle Frere, and is now paying for her conduct in South Africa. She allowed ...

    Article : 46 words
  9. SCENE ON LONDON BRIDGE.

    London Bridge was the scene of a most exciting incident the other morning. About half-past 11 a middle-aged man was seen to jump over the parapet. ...

    Article : 143 words
  10. MINDING OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS.

    Most people in Holland who concentrate their attention on the struggle in South Africa are ignorant of and indifferent to their own endless war in ...

    Article : 55 words
  11. THE SOMERSAULT CURE.

    A Swedish woman has started what is called the "somersault cure" for women who desire to improve their figure. "Sometimes," she says, "it takes ...

    Article : 95 words
  12. "LEADER OF BRITISH POLITICS."

    In spite of everything said against him at home and abroad, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, more than ever before, was last month the recognised leader of ...

    Article : 55 words
  13. VACCINATION PARTIES.

    Vaccination parties have become. quite fashionable in New York. Mrs. Driscoll, a prominent personage in Brooklyn, lately gave a dinner, the ...

    Article : 101 words
  14. THE ARMY AND THE SLANDERS.

    The attention of the army has only recently been directed towards the slanders of the German press by the agitation in the colonies. Speaking to ...

    Article : 158 words
  15. HUMAN MONEY SAFES.

    The Roman police have discovered that a number of local thieves have made a practice of swallowing bank notes and other stolen papers of value, ...

    Article : 65 words
  16. FIRST EXECUTION FOR 157 YEARS.

    The date of the execution of the man Richardson, who was sentenced to death at the York Assizes for the murder of his aunt, has been fixed for Tuesday, ...

    Article : 83 words
  17. THE VALUE OF SALT.

    Chloride of sodium-common salt—is a substance little regarded, but which we could ill do without. Aside from its use in seasoning almost everything ...

    Article : 275 words
  18. CURIOUS HOSPITAL COLLECTION.

    Dorset-street, spitalfields, Possesses a public-house known as "The Bluecoat Boy," which is at the present moment attracting some attention. The ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. SIX HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR.

    It is difficult to account for the enormous velocity of Some birds' flight when migrating. The northern blue throat goes at the rate of 540 miles an hour, ...

    Article : 98 words
  20. COURTSHIP IN THE TREES.

    At this period of the year it is no uncommon thing for some of the young rooks, on flirtation bent, to introduce themselves to eligible partners in the ...

    Article : 91 words
  21. A RECALCITRANT CHIEF.

    The Portuguese Minister of Marine has decided upon sending a military expedition under Lieut. Coutinha to the Barue district of Mozambique ...

    Article : 180 words
  22. NEW TRAVELLERS' SAFEGUARD.

    The North-Eastern Railway Company have adopted a new system for communication between the passengers, drivers, and guards of their trains. For ...

    Article : 96 words
  23. FRESH AIR IN HOUSES.

    Writing on fresh-air supply, Dr. Andrew Wilson says:—If we wish to empty a room of air we must open doors and windows; then we get ...

    Article : 426 words
  24. HOW A JURY "TURNED ROUND."

    A ludicrous scene, in which a jury convulsed a crowded court, occurred at the York Assizes. Evidence in the first case had closed, and the judge had ...

    Article : 105 words
  25. ENDORSED AT HOME.

    The public endersement of a local citizen is the best proof that can be produced. None better, none stronger, can be had. When a man comes forward and testifies ...

    Article : 344 words
  26. IMITATION JEWELS.

    There is a story current in the American papers that a certain peeress in having her tiara reset for the coronation found that more than half the stones ...

    Article : 239 words
  27. FRENCH ARSENAL GUTTED.

    Early on Saturday morning a fire, which was attended with the most disastrous results, broke out in the French Government arsenal at L'Orient. The ...

    Article : 102 words
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  29. FEWER IRISH EMIGRANTS.

    In 1901 39,613 natives of Ireland emigrated, being a decrease of 5675 as compared with 1900. The colonies and foreign countries attracted 33,349, or 84.2 ...

    Article : 136 words
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