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  2. CORRESPONDENCE.

    Sir,—I was much interested and receive ed good information from my attendance at the public meeting held in Eaves's Hall on Monday evening, and was glad ...

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  3. AROUND THE WORLD.

    Men wear their hair much too closely cropped. shall we form a League for the Encouragement of Hyacinthine Locks on the Head of Man?—"Madge," in ...

    Article : 34 words
  4. MELBOURNE GOSSIP

    Two political veterans of quite diverse characters have passed away this week. A more genial personality than that of Sir John M'Intyre can scarcely be ...

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  5. NEW MAN-CATCHER.

    The Vienna electric tramways are running for the first time with a new patent safety man-catcher. There have been many fatal accidents hitherto ...

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  6. WOMEN AT WEDDINGS.

    The average man can make about a hundred different kinds of a fool of himself, but when it comes to sheer imbecility it requires two or more women and ...

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  7. ESTIMATING THE ENEMY.

    The Japanese have a good fleet, but their army cannot be compared with that of Russia. The Japanese soldier has not much endurance. and cannot stand long ...

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  8. STORY WITH A MORAL.

    Speaking the other day at a meeting of commercial travellers, M. Trouillot, Minister of Commerce, gave the following amusing definitions of the methods of ...

    Article : 115 words
  9. USE OF A SUICIDE'S SKULL.

    A rather gruesome Highland practice for treating epilepsy is the drinking out of a suicide's skull. In a churchyard' there is a suicide's skull lying perdu, ...

    Article : 57 words
  10. PRETTY NURSES.

    It is not our experience that ladies object to pretty private nurses. Indeed. over and over again we have been asked for "a nice-looking nurse," as "my ...

    Article : 58 words
  11. RADIUM BLANCHES MICE.

    At a meeting of the Academy of Sciences Dr. Roux, of the Pasteur Institute, reported the results of some interesting experiments with radium made by ...

    Article : 112 words
  12. THE CAPTAIN OF THE ENGLISH TEAM.

    The January "Cussell's Magazine" has an interesting sketch of Mr. P. F. Warner, the captain of the English team of cricketers now touring Australia, and who, ...

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  13. PROSPEROUS TASMANIA.

    The Premier of Tasmania (Hon. W. B. Propsting) arrived in Adelaide by the Melbourne express on Saturday morning. Mr. Propsting's term of office as Premier ...

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  14. A MARRYING YEAR.

    I do not recall any other year in which so many marriages and engagements have taken place. I am rather reminded of the complaint of the anxious ...

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  15. TO BLACKMAIL WIVES.

    On Christmas morning some ladies in Charlottenburg, returning from church, were stopped by a little boy, who handed them a letter. The ladies, presuming it ...

    Article : 219 words
  16. PERIL OF GAMES.

    We are growing accustomed to being called a nation of shopkeepers, and we seem to be goiug the right. way towards earning the still less enviable title of a ...

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  17. NEW PLAY BY MR. W. S. GILBERT.

    Mr. W. S. Gilbert has just completed a new play. which has been secured by Mr. Arthur Bourchier for production at tote Garrick Theatre. Playgoers may be ...

    Article : 71 words
  18. CONVERTS TO MORMONISM.

    Many peasants in Upper Austria have become Mormons the majority in the hope of receiving monetary assistance. One wealthy convert. however, has ...

    Article : 91 words
  19. WIFE FOR SALE.

    A peasant living in the village of Pet. rowka, near Irkutsk. Siberia, has tried a novel method to disembarrass himself of his wife, who apparently has strong ...

    Article : 311 words
  20. FRENCH CONSULAR REPORT.

    We are repeatedly reminded that our British methods of seeking trade are behind tile times; that the consular reports of Continental Governments are examples ...

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  21. STRANGE REASON FOR SUICIDE.

    The young and beautiful wife of Mr. Clell Thorpe who was married last March, shot herself through the heart at Chicago, leaving a note to her husband in ...

    Article : 108 words
  22. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S "DESIGNS."

    Russian public opinion is being misled on the subject of Mr. Chamberlain's tariff proposals just as grossly as it was shout the South African war. The ...

    Article : 106 words
  23. STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES.

    Sir,—Your contemporary writes in last Saturday's leading column:—"Owing, to the increasing severity of foreign competition in the earthenware and chinaware ...

    Article : 296 words
  24. COURTSHIP BY WIRE.

    Although Post Office telegraphists are strictly forbidden to use their instruments except when sending or receiving telegrams, operators have an personal ...

    Article : 81 words
  25. BLEACHING NEGROES.

    Professor Pancoast, of the University of Pennsylvania, believes that negroes can be made white. His belief is due to the fact that the skin of negroes treated with ...

    Article : 438 words
  26. LUCKY PROPHECY.

    "Professor" Abraham Hochman, who describes himself as a thought-reader and palmist, has been remanded at the Harlem Police Court, U.S.A., on a charge of ...

    Article : 99 words
  27. LAWSUIT OVER 1½d.

    The Antwerp Tribunal of Commerce has just given its decision on a curious action brought by an aged lawyer to recover 1½d from the tramway company ...

    Article : 111 words
  28. CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIGS.

    This ideal laxative gently assists the natural functions when there is any tendency to sluggishness of liver, bowels, or kidneys. It relieves promptly and ...

    Article : 148 words
  29. THEATRE SEATS AT 5d.

    The Berne authorities, holding that the theatre is a powerful instrument for the education of the masses, have decided that on two days of the week the ...

    Article : 170 words
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