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  2. AN ICY BIVOUAC.

    The most dangerous military Alpine post in France, that of Les Chapieux, in the department of Savo[?]e, at a height of 5000 feet, will in future be ...

    Article : 91 words
  3. AROUND THE WORLD.

    Ye mariners of England, Give up your native seas Your flag has braved too many years The battle and the breeze. ...

    Article : 51 words
  4. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    A vest amount of business is transacted in the American metropolis by telephone. In New York and its suburbs about 120,000 telephones are in use, ...

    Article : 53 words
  5. [PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.] THE KIDNAPPED PRESIDENT.

    I cannot attempt to make you understand how beautiful the senorita looked as she divested herself of her cloak and seated herself on the luxurious ...

    Article : 808 words
  6. THE X RAYS AND CANCER.

    Experiments made with X rays on eggs indicate that the rays destroy the germ cells, thus preventing incubation. From the experiments it has been ...

    Article : 51 words
  7. CHAPTER X.

    It was with a feeling of profound thankfulness I turned into my bunk that morning. The clattering of feet on deck, the slapping of the water ...

    Article : 1,950 words
  8. DEATH IN THE COFFEE CUP.

    Two young men who had been in America for some time came to their home in the north of Palestine recently and were welcomed by their old ...

    Article : 74 words
  9. MARVELS AT NIAGARA.

    Lord Kelvin, who visited the electrical works at Niagara, was deeply interested in the wonderful work done with the power furnished by the falls. ...

    Article : 95 words
  10. A YEAR CLOCK.

    A clock has been invented that has to be wound just once a year. The movement contains but one heavy spring, which is placed within a drum or ...

    Article : 87 words
  11. PRINCE'S HEAVY DEBTS.

    The projected marriage between the Countess Chotek, sister-in-law of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, and Prince Stanislas Radziwill, ...

    Article : 64 words
  12. TO THE FAR EAST IN 11 DAYS.

    Passenger and goods traffic on the Manuchurian Railway will be opened as far as Port Arthur ins the coming autumn. M. Pawlowski, an eminent ...

    Article : 113 words
  13. ELECTRIC LIGHT.

    A Russian specialist has decided that, contrary to the general opinion, electric light plays less havoc with the eyes than any other forms of artificial light. ...

    Article : 83 words
  14. A BRIDE OF ILL-OMEN.

    At midnight on Sunday a young woman named Mile. Louise 'D— 22 years of age, dressed in a white flowing robe, was found kneeling on a ...

    Article : 86 words
  15. NEW WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    The U.S. Government experts who experimented with Professor Fessenden's system of wireless telegraphy on the Carolina coast pronounce it to be ...

    Article : 82 words
  16. HOW TO PASS A BUDGET.

    In order to facilitate the passing of the budget, the Greek Government submitted a bill allowing each deputy the sum of 25. The bill was at once ...

    Article : 109 words
  17. VICARIOUS COCK CROWING.

    One of the Paris police regulations prohibits citizens from keeping cocks because of their crowing. A baker in the Rue Sevigne was accordingly ...

    Article : 83 words
  18. THE HANDY CIGARETTE.

    Discussing the fact that the raison d[?]etre of the tobacco war is the cigarette, the "Lancet" says the reason is not far to seek. The cigarette is cheap, ...

    Article : 115 words
  19. TERRIBLE'S COALING RECORD.

    H.M.S. Terrible has just completed at Hong Kong a world's coaling record of 2500 tons in nine hours ten minutes. Up to 2450 tons the hourly ...

    Article : 71 words
  20. MISUNDERSTOOD.

    The other day, at one of the safe deposits, the renter of a safe, anxious for the spiritual welfare of one of the janitors, said, while they were in the ...

    Article : 95 words
  21. CLUB FOOT.

    Surgeons are now said to advocate a free and radical operative treatment of both severe and mild forms of club foot, the principle of which consists in ...

    Article : 173 words
  22. JUDGE'S DRASTIC ADVICE.

    Judge 'Tuthill, of Chicago, in recently granting a divorce to a woman whose husband had treated her cruelly, caused a great sensation by declaring that ...

    Article : 66 words
  23. LADY CONVERT TO ISLAM.

    The conversion to Mahommedanism of Miss Isabella Dunn, the daughter of an English engineer formerly in the employ of the Turkish Admiralty. has ...

    Article : 118 words
  24. AN ANNUAL FAILURE.

    Mme. V— a lady living in the Rue de Paris, St. Maude, has never got over the loss of her husband seven years ago, and every time the ...

    Article : 89 words
  25. A[?]RICAN NAVAL SCANDAL.

    Ca[?] Frank Wiene (? Wynne) and Lie[?] Robert Ledbetter and Jam[?] Doddridge, and the marine Wl[?]ey, of the United States ...

    Article : 132 words
  26. "THE IDEAL LIFE."

    "The ideal life for a human being," observes a scientific author, would be one in Which every main worked with both this head and his hands. The ...

    Article : 184 words
  27. LEGACY EATEN BY MICE.

    A short time ago a peasant of Finisterre, who had come into an inheritance of £400, sold off his effects and went to Paris. Mistrusting bankers ...

    Article : 80 words
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  29. "DO YOU EASILY CATCH COLD?"

    In our Australian climate the winter season is always accompanied by an epidemic of colds, chills, influenza, rheumatism, etc., and the reason for this is not ...

    Article : 324 words
  30. SAD END OF AN AIRSHIP.

    Count Zeppelin, whose experiments with his airship on the shores of Lake Constance excited great interest at one time, has decided to abandon his work ...

    Article : 91 words
  31. A TERRIBLE ADMISSION.

    The trial began at Manila on April 25 of General Smith, who is charged with conduct prejudicial to good order and disoipline. Colonel Woodruff, counsel ...

    Article : 101 words
  32. ELECTRICITY AND DENTISTRY.

    We are greatly in need of some simple method of benumbing the gums in dentistry to supersede the use of cocaine, carbolic acid, or of any of the ...

    Article : 210 words
  33. WIFE'S ELECTION STRATAGEM.

    An amusing election incident is reported from the Are de Triomphe district of Paris, where a certain elector and his wife could not agree as to ...

    Article : 95 words
  34. WHALE SINKS A WHALER.

    Part of the crew of the American wheling barque Kathleen of New Bedford, arrived at New York on April 25 from Dominica, West Indies. On ...

    Article : 135 words
  35. GERMAN BARGAIN WITH HAYTI.

    The "New York Herald" prints a sensational story that the President of Hayti has given a German syndicate certain concessions, including a mono. ...

    Article : 92 words
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