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  2. AROUND THE WORLD.

    Socialism offers woman what it is pleased to call freedom and equality with man—freedom that would be worse than slavery and an equality that Nature ...

    Article : 39 words
  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    "Please, pa," pleaded Bobby, "just one more." "All right," said pa. closing his book. "Well. say, pa," began Bobby, "who is going to bury the last man that ...

    Article : 147 words
  4. EARTHQUAKES.

    For the world, taken as a whole, our records do not carry us sufficiently far back to say whether earthquakes are increasing or decreasing in number. From ...

    Article : 1,462 words
  5. BUNKERED.

    Mr. Harry Thaw, in sending his membership subscription to the Pittsburg Golf Club for next year from his prison, is believed to have enclosed it in a ...

    Article : 36 words
  6. WHO DYED THE DOG?

    It has often been remarked that if dumb animals could speak they would tell strange tales. To none could this be more truly applied than to the little ...

    Article : 332 words
  7. MAGISTERIAL ANXIETY.

    Mr. Plowden, who has lately suffered severely from overcrowding at his court, is said to be anxious to communicate with the clergyman who declared that ...

    Article : 40 words
  8. SUICIDE FOR NATION'S SAKE.

    A Chinaman who committed suicide at Johannesburg because he had applied for registration under the Asiatic law, which requires, among other things, ...

    Article : 167 words
  9. NOVEL READERS' TASTE IN VILLAINS.

    The great English novel-reading public has but one faith stronger than in its own national virtues, and that is its deep-rooted conviction of the wickedness ...

    Article : 45 words
  10. SHUTTING OUT THE SUN.

    A policeman who was on duty directing the line of traffic at a crossing had occasion to check a cab-driver who seemed to be in a big hurry to get past. ...

    Article : 85 words
  11. BORN IN A MOTOR CAR.

    A baby was born in an automobile near Neuchatel, Switzerland, the mother being the wife of a tradesman. The car was stopped, and when a doctor arrived ...

    Article : 40 words
  12. HALF A CROWN ASSETS.

    A cart was necessary to take away all the writs, demands for payment, and creditors' letters found on the premises of a Vienna firm which has gone ...

    Article : 50 words
  13. LOOKING AHEAD.

    A man went into an oculist's the other day, and, complaining of failing sight, got fitted with a pair of pince-nez. "Is this the weakest glass for my ...

    Article : 96 words
  14. WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

    Telephoning without wires for 50 or 60 miles is now in daily progress between Berlin, Nauen (where the great central wireless telegraph station is ...

    Article : 181 words
  15. SCHOOL FOR MAGISTRATES.

    Suggested by the Paris Prefect of Police, a school for magistrates has been started. Young magistrates are being familiarised with every branch of crime ...

    Article : 92 words
  16. AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED.

    A man who, with his family, had spent several weeks at a fashionable summer resort, discovered one morning that he had lost his pocket-book. Thinking it ...

    Article : 113 words
  17. THE SIMPLE DIET.

    A simple diet does not necessarily mean a strict vegetarian diet (says Mr. Hermann Senn, director of the Cookery Exhibition in London), but it should ...

    Article : 307 words
  18. JAPAN AND AMERICA.

    Addressing his subjects in Hawaii, who number 110,000 of the total population of 100,000, the Japanese Emperor (according to a Honolulu telegram to the ...

    Article : 105 words
  19. IF MOSQUITOES WERE LIKE EAGLES

    A naturalist asks us to think what things would be like if some insects were only bigger, and man were to become the hunted instead of the hunter. ...

    Article : 352 words
  20. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    The universal belief in the efficacy of cold baths has become somewhat modified of late years (says a medical authority). People are realising that not ...

    Article : 270 words
  21. A PROFITABLE STROKE.

    A rather funny adventure is said to have happened to Mr. Pierpont Morgan who, it is said, never grants an interview to any pressman. ...

    Article : 197 words
  22. ARM DRILL REDUCES FAT.

    Professor D"Arsonval, described to the French Academy of Sciences an "almost "infallible" method of preventing the man of over 40 from becoming too stout. ...

    Article : 112 words
  23. £17,500 TO BE LORD MAYOR.

    How much does it cost to be Lord Mayor of London? One who has filled the office stated—"It costs generally from £10,000 to £20,000 more than the ...

    Article : 107 words
  24. HEALING BY SUGGESTION.

    "Vis medicatrix naturae," the medical name for a marvellous healing power which lies inherent in the human body, was the main subject of a peculiarly ...

    Article : 354 words
  25. TELEPHONE HORSE.

    Perhaps the only horse in London provided with a "speaking" tube direct from its stall to its owner's living apartments is Birthday, a hunter, owned by Mrs. ...

    Article : 129 words
  26. NOT EQUAL TO IT.

    A lady had a pet chameleon that changed its colours in sympathy with its environments, and did so with wonderful rapidity. It was in charge of an old and ...

    Article : 163 words
  27. THE RAILWAY SETTLEMENT.

    In an article headed "The Great Surrender," the "Labour Leader" says—"The Railway Conference was the Sedan of the British trade union movement. The ...

    Article : 135 words
  28. FREE TEETH.

    The Berlin branch of the Imperial Insurance Company has set aside the yearly sum of £5000 for the purpose of providing a dental institute in the city for ...

    Article : 88 words
  29. ENGLAND NEVER SO RICH.

    A remarkable story of the progress of the United Kingdom during the past 15 years is supplied in a volume of nearly 400 pages, called the "Statistical ...

    Article : 179 words
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