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  2. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    Professor Thwing, of Syracuse University, New York State, has invented a thermo-electric generator which he claims greatly reduces the cost of ...

    Article : 31 words
  3. AROUND THE WORLD

    The whole of the Viennese chemists assistants have decided to strike, with the object of compelling the Government to introduce badly-needed ...

    Article : 56 words
  4. [PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.] THE KIDNAPPED PRESIDENT.

    After a while I sat up, and endeavoured to puzzle out my position. Where was I? Who was it had made me prisoner? Was it a simple act of ...

    Article : 1,519 words
  5. A UNIQUE SOUVENIR.

    A unique souvenir was lately sent by an English, photographer to his brother in Australia. It consisted of a gramophone laden with messages ...

    Article : 70 words
  6. PATHOS OF A SUICIDE.

    A well-dressed man, about 35 years of age, committed suicide in the Bois de Vincennes, Paris. He had been rich, but having squandered his fortune did ...

    Article : 88 words
  7. KILLED BY A HAT-PIN.

    The Southwark coroner investigated the death of Henry Rosser, a bricklayer's labourer, of Barbel-street, West-minster Bridge road, whose death was ...

    Article : 131 words
  8. A MAN'S BEST.

    At what hour of the day is a man at his strongest and so fitted to do hard work with the least weariness? Probably the answer occurring at once ...

    Article : 98 words
  9. THE FIGHTING SENATOR.

    Mr. Money, the senator for Mississipi, had an alteroation with a tramway conductor over the payment of his fare. The conductor finally stopped the car ...

    Article : 77 words
  10. SURPRISE INVASION IDEA.

    The "surprise" invasion of England is a favourite topic for debate in military circles on the Continent; but such an enterprise requires for its ...

    Article : 113 words
  11. FATTENING ON MILK.

    If milk does not disagree with one, a quart or more a day will help immensely in the work of getting fat. It should be sipped rather slowly, as ...

    Article : 80 words
  12. NOVEL ELECTRIC LINE.

    Permission is being sought for the construction of an electric omnibus railway between Bunnen. Gersau. Vitznau, and Weggis on the Lake of ...

    Article : 74 words
  13. A STENOGRAPHIC TYPEWRITER.

    A Philadelphia inventor has patented an ingenious machine for short-hand typewriting. The instrument is not intended, however, as its name ...

    Article : 176 words
  14. MURDER BY A RUSSIAN PRIEST.

    News has reached Vienna from Odessa that a priest of the Greek Orthodox Church named Petrow has been convicted at Totaravka, in the Kuban ...

    Article : 82 words
  15. WILL LONDON TUMBLE DOWN?

    Mr. F. Hovenden, F.L.S., hon. sec. of the London Institution, believes that "tube" railways will prove one of the most disastrous things to London— ...

    Article : 110 words
  16. CHAPTER IX.

    It was evident to me that Hermanos had laid his plans carefully, for some hundred and fifty or two hundred yards from the gate, we found a vehicle ...

    Article : 1,540 words
  17. A TERRIBLE DEATH.

    Schemacha, the earthquake city, the other day experience two new and severe shocks. The whole town was thrown into a state of excitement. ...

    Article : 81 words
  18. STORY OF MR. RHODES.

    Mr. George Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, speaking at Brighton, said they had in South Africa what they must still call a war, and ...

    Article : 157 words
  19. TELEPHONES UPON TRAINS.

    What is intended to be a scheme by which steam railways may be equipped with telephones and be kept in talking connection with the train ...

    Article : 454 words
  20. TRADE UNION PAYS DAMAGES.

    The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners was ordered by Mr. Justice Wills at the Manchester Assizes to pay 100 as damages to Sydney ...

    Article : 95 words
  21. STRANGE CAUSE OF DEATH.

    A cabman was admitted to the Hospice Dubois Paris, complaining of severe internal pains. He was pronounced to he suffering from cancer in ...

    Article : 100 words
  22. POISONING A MAHARAJAH.

    A "Gazette Extraordinary" was published recently at Simla, announcing the finding of the commission appointed to enquire into the charge against ...

    Article : 297 words
  23. JURY METHODS IN LOUISVILLE.

    When the jury in a recent murder trial in the Louisville courts had retired to their room the foreman said—"Gentlemen this is a serious case we ...

    Article : 102 words
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  25. THE MAD CASHIER.

    When a lady customer went to the desk to pay for some purchases she had made at a warehouse in St. Denis, France, the cashier told her with a ...

    Article : 102 words
  26. BLOW TO FRENCH GAMBLING.

    The Mayor of Neris, a summer resort in the department of Allier, France, issued an order 12 months ago prohibiting all games of hazard such as ...

    Article : 105 words
  27. AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.

    Mr. Kruger recently received, to-gether with General De La Rey's atrocity report, a despatch from Mr. C. J. Smuts, formerly Transvaal State ...

    Article : 119 words
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