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  2. AROUND THE WORLD

    A sheriff's posse were attempting to arrest a desperate negro in Tuscumbia city, Alabama, when the negro opened fire and killed three, mortally wounded ...

    Article : 57 words
  3. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    It is reported from America that ordinary coal-gas will be put on the market shortly in the States in cylinders and in a liquified form, so that con. ...

    Article : 47 words
  4. [PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.] THE KIDNAPPED PRESIDENT.

    Author of "Dr. Nikola," "Pharos the Egyptian," "My Indian Queen," "The Beautiful White Devil," Etc., Etc. ...

    Article : 765 words
  5. SAVED BY THE BABY.

    Miss Ellen Stone, the ransomed missionary, who arrived at New York on the Deutschland, in telling the story of her captivity. said she believed she ...

    Article : 116 words
  6. REST FOR THE EYES.

    A French author is credited with the accidental discovery that eyes exhausted from writing may be rested by gazing a few minutes at bits of ...

    Article : 63 words
  7. MULLAH ATTACKS A JUDGE.

    Mr. Fox-Strangways, the Deputy Commissioner of the Central Provinces, India, while at Dena Ismail Khan trying a Sheranns prisoner, was set upon ...

    Article : 57 words
  8. MANUFACTURED DIAMONDS.

    Dr. Ludwig, of Berlin (writes Invention"), is said to have succeeded in preparing diamonds of the size of peas by heating carbon in an atmosphere of ...

    Article : 89 words
  9. HOMING PIGS.

    A friend of mine bought two young pigs, about three months old, and they were carried home six miles in a. covered von. They managed to escape from ...

    Article : 119 words
  10. ENGLAND'S PUGNACIOUS COMPANION.

    England has made a companion of an exceedingly pugnacious young person by the name of Japan. The staid old John Bull will hardly be able to walk ...

    Article : 75 words
  11. REVOLUTIONISING OUR HABITS.

    The increasing use of motor-cars may lead the rich to transfer their patronage to the suburbs, and the younger generation may see the houses in ...

    Article : 78 words
  12. INSTRUCTION IN HYGIENE.

    If we wish to educate the public out of certain hygienically detestable habits potentially harmful to the individual and inimical to the public health, it is ...

    Article : 305 words
  13. NEW STORY OF CECIL RHODES.

    A well-known peer asked Mr. Rhodes to stand godfather to his son, and he replied he would on one condition, which was that he might invest at once ...

    Article : 121 words
  14. COLUMBUS THE SECOND.

    Since the discovery of Columbus opened up the Americas to the impact of European civilisation there has been no such ambitious colonial undertaking ...

    Article : 75 words
  15. TALE OF TWO NATIONS.

    The Irish Land Bill is characteristic of British administrative methods. Great Britain advances funds to buy out English landowners, and to instal in ...

    Article : 111 words
  16. M. DUMONT'S PROPHECY.

    "Within 10 years I will be coming to New York on an aimship," said M. Santos Dumont, as he stepped from the gangway of the Deutschland the other ...

    Article : 85 words
  17. VOLCANIC EFFECTS AT SEA.

    Despatches from Odessa report that the earthquakes and volcanic upheavals in South-East Russia have influenced the beds of the Black Sea and the ...

    Article : 60 words
  18. SNUFF FOR GIRLS.

    A large portion of the consumers of snuff in this country are women and girls. For many years the practice of snuff dipping has been common in the ...

    Article : 118 words
  19. FIRE DANGERS FROM ELECTRIC LIGHTS.

    There is a common belief that electric incandescent lamps give out very little heat, and that therefore fire danger from them is practically ...

    Article : 522 words
  20. WANTED, A PIED PIPER.

    Referring to the plague of rats in Kathiawar, the "Times of India," published in Bombay, states that the destruction wrought by this ...

    Article : 80 words
  21. WIVES FOR PRINCES.

    There are at present three youthful Princes in Germany whose choice as to wives is being very much discussed. The eldest is the Grand Duke of ...

    Article : 203 words
  22. AFGHAN PRETENDER SNUBBED.

    I learn from a well-informed source that Ishak Khan, the Afghan pretender, who is living at Samarkand with the son of Mahommed Ismail, has requested ...

    Article : 59 words
  23. THE PARISH SNUFF-BOX.

    A curious custom, dating from the beginning of last century, was observed at the St. John's Vestry at Exeter. In the year 1810 a snuff-box was presented ...

    Article : 167 words
  24. Advertising

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    Advertising : 160 words
  25. CHAPTER VII.

    As soon as I realised the identity of the man before me, you may be sure did my utmost to appear at my best to him. So much, I knew, depended on ...

    Article : 2,208 words
  26. GREAT BACCARAT SCANDAL.

    The great gambling scandal at the Jockey Club, Vienna, come to a conclusion last month, when a number of well-known aristocrats were tried for ...

    Article : 229 words
  27. FLOATING PRIZE RING.

    There seems no limit to the variety of uses to which a man-of-war can be put when past her work. Here in the latest. A syndicate of sporting men is said to ...

    Article : 92 words
  28. FRENCH COLONIAL WEAKNESS.

    M. Paul Doumer, the Governor of French Indo-China, in the course of a interview on arrival at Marseilles, said:—"It will be my ambition to secure for ...

    Article : 84 words
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