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  2. AROUND THE WORLD

    In the course of excavations in some caves near Grimaldi, the property of the Prince of Monaco, the remains of several prehistoric animals have been ...

    Article : 61 words
  3. [PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.] THE KIDNAPPED PRESIDENT.

    '"A preposterous letter in every sense of the word, I cried angrily. "Not content with injuring me, he must endeavour to reflect on Captain Pomeroy, ...

    Article : 1,910 words
  4. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    With his electro-magnetic gun professor Birkeland, who has been experimenting at Christiania, expects to hurl 10001o. projectiles much further than ...

    Article : 32 words
  5. HIGH STEAM PRESSURE.

    Very high steam pressures are used on some launch engines. One show at the recent Glasgow Exhibition worked at under 3751b. per square inch, and, as a ...

    Article : 49 words
  6. A PHILOSOPHIC NOTIFICATION.

    "To all my esteemed friends, enemies and collcagues whom it may concern, and especially to those of the fair sex, the gladsome tidings is given that my ...

    Article : 62 words
  7. MR. PUNCH'S REPRINTS.

    Fired by the private example of the "Times" and "Globe," Mr. Punch has explored the archives of our leading journals and reviews, and has much ...

    Article : 214 words
  8. THE HIGH COLLAR.

    Doctors protest against the high collar. The oculist condemns it on the ground that it is a source of danger to the eyes, pressing upon the eye nerves ...

    Article : 76 words
  9. THE FORTUNE OF WAR.

    General Viljoen and his adjutant were among the prisoners who arrived at Broadbottom on March 1. A sergeant of the Buffs, who had been ...

    Article : 71 words
  10. HAIRDRESSING PRECAUTIONS.

    In Paris stringent rules are laid down for the sterilising of hairdressers implements. In a London shop in the West End all the razors are fitted with ...

    Article : 116 words
  11. LONGEVITY OF WOMEN.

    The preponderance of females over males in the matter of long life is striking. It is also constant. All authorities agree in this that many ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. MOSQUITOS AND MALARIA.

    Extensive experiments which have been conducted by the military authorities in Formosa for the purpose of determining the influence of ...

    Article : 69 words
  13. UNFLATTERING TO PORTUGAL.

    The Portuguese expedition against Makombe, the recalcitrant chief in Mozambique, was to start last month. There are many complaints that the ...

    Article : 189 words
  14. THE EARTH'S ROTATION.

    To utilise the vast energy of the earth's motion is now a dream [?] science. The late Professor G. F. Fitzgerald supposed that the magnetic field ...

    Article : 143 words
  15. LORD MILNER'S BUSINESS MOTTO.

    Johannesburg is settling down and filling up, and in spite of the clash of arms neither the laws nor the mine stamps are silent. The waters may ...

    Article : 86 words
  16. ENGLAND'S OLDEST CHORISTER.

    In a recent issue of the "Daily Mail" there appeared a statement to the effect that, by the death of Mr. Frank Roger Bishop, at the age of 85, there ...

    Article : 103 words
  17. OVERWORKING THE STOMACH.

    It requires about five hours for the stomach to work on an ordinary meal and pass it out of itself, when it falls into a state of repose. Hence, if a man ...

    Article : 221 words
  18. KIDNAPPED BABY FOUND.

    Some weeks ago a mysterious stranger disappeared with Mrs. Taverner's baby. The other day the distracted mother, who lives at Netley Yard, Amberley ...

    Article : 263 words
  19. A CHILD MILLIONAIRESS.

    Mr. Frank Conger, who died recently at New York, bequeathed a life interest in his estate of £1,200,000 to his wife. On her death his fortune goes ...

    Article : 84 words
  20. SIDELIGHT ON THE PREMIER.

    Lord Salisbury's real preoccupation is public business, and personal interests sit lightly upon him in the presence of affairs. There is a story which the ...

    Article : 103 words
  21. LOOKING FOR LIGHT.

    In an interview with Professor William Hallock, of Columbia University, a reporter of the "New York Sun" obtained some particulars relating to the ...

    Article : 292 words
  22. FARMING IDENTITY IN TROUBLE.

    Mr. Joseph Cooper, farmer, of Sorell, near Hobart, has lived for so long in the district—some 52 years—that there are few thereabouts who do not know ...

    Article : 384 words
  23. GENERAL MILES TO BE RETIRED.

    It is known, says the New York correspondent of the "Daily Mail," as positively as anything can be known which is not formally announced, that ...

    Article : 221 words
  24. STRIKE OF FIRE ENGINE HORSES.

    An extraordinary incident occurred at a fire which broke out at the storehouses belonging to the harbour commissioners at Blyth. The fire brigade ...

    Article : 108 words
  25. CHAPTER V.

    It was a new experience to me to find myself at sea as a passenger, to have no watches to keep, and no round of irksome duties to perform. It was ...

    Article : 1,028 words
  26. Advertising

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    Advertising : 208 words
  27. PLAGUE OF MOLES.

    South Lincolnshire agriculturists are suffering from the ravages of moles. They are said to abound in thousands, and a suggestion is put forward from ...

    Article : 104 words
  28. THE KAISER AS DETECTIVE.

    Last November the Emperor William received an anonymous letter from New York containing shares and title deeds amounting to the sum of £500, with a ...

    Article : 171 words
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