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  2. AROUND THE WORLD.

    "Society" is now a combination of men and women who overdress themselves at the expense of their tradesmen that they may overeat themselves at the expense ...

    Article : 40 words
  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Sitting by my open window, I distinctly hear the grass mower. This is an old joke, among minstrels, but I believe it has never before appeared in a nature ...

    Article : 146 words
  4. SKELETON MYSTERY.

    Several persons of distinction were born in more places than one—if the places concerned can be believed. Some left two skulls behind them when they ...

    Article : 447 words
  5. THE LODGE.

    The lodge is omnipotent in America. "From the President of the nation down to the humblest citizen the fascination of grip and password enthralls." The ...

    Article : 339 words
  6. AN ATHLETIC BABOON.

    On board the Comrie Castle, of the Union-Castle line, from South Africa, which arrived at Plymouth last month, was a large collection of wild animals, ...

    Article : 245 words
  7. CHESS IN THE DINING-CAR.

    A novelty has been inagurated on the Midland railway by the provision in the dining-cars of the Scotch expresses of elaborate sets of chessmen and draughts, ...

    Article : 60 words
  8. OLD RAILWAY UNEARTHED.

    When excavating for the new L.C.C. tramways in Wandsworth workmen came upon the remains of the track of the old Wandsworth to Croydon railway, ...

    Article : 92 words
  9. CRAZY, SURE.

    A Yorkshire mill-worker, charged with having set fire to a large hayrick, was defended on the ground that he was not altogether responsible for his actions. One ...

    Article : 109 words
  10. RICH MAN'S SIMPLE LIFE.

    Mr. George Mead, an interesting Peterborough personality, has died somewhat suddenly at the age of seventy-nine. He was the son of a Coventry ribbon ...

    Article : 107 words
  11. FIRST SLEEPING-CAR

    After 38 years of useful existence. the first modern sleeping-car has lately been condemned and broken up. The history of that car is worth reading. ...

    Article : 406 words
  12. MR. ROOSEVELT AND A BOOKMAKER.

    Emanuel Kane, a bookmaker, was on May 5 released from Washington Prison after serving three months' sentence, minus a fortnight for good conduct, for ...

    Article : 305 words
  13. STUPID CRIMINALS.

    Criminals, if they will pardon me for saying so, show a strange want of originality (writes Lient.-Colonel Sir Henry Smith, K.C.B., in "Blackwood's"). ...

    Article : 375 words
  14. THE GERM-PROOF BARBER.

    "This towel," said the attendant in the germ-proof barber's shop, "has been subjected to an extreme heat and is thoroughly sterilised. We take every ...

    Article : 371 words
  15. 14-YEAR-OLD MURDERER.

    A boy named Georg Gotz, 14 years of age, was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for the murder of a servant girl named Brenner, 13 years his senior. ...

    Article : 115 words
  16. HAVE PLANTS EYES?

    Plants are by no means so stupid or so helpless as they commonly get credit for being. No matter how a beech happens to be placed in the ground the ...

    Article : 307 words
  17. WOMAN WHO SAW TALLEYRAND.

    Mrs. Betsy Ware, whose death at the extraordinary age of 130 years is just announced at Washington, was intimately associated in the days of her youth ...

    Article : 108 words
  18. DEFENCE OF THE CIGARETTE.

    It is not easy for those who know anything of the action of tobacco on the human frame (says the "Practitioner") to understand the horror with ...

    Article : 481 words
  19. SOCIETY CALLOUSNESS.

    Some time ago her Majesty the Queen caused it to be announced that she strongly disapproved of the wearing of ospreys as hair ornaments, but in spite ...

    Article : 165 words
  20. "A NEW PATTI."

    It may be that in a sweet-faced, slender young girl now studying in Paris under the personal direction of M. Jean de Reszke the world has found a fitting ...

    Article : 386 words
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    Advertising : 1,303 words
  22. DOG CONVICTED OF MURDER.

    An extraordinary murder trial, in which one of the chief criminals is a dog, has just been concluded at Delemont, in the Canton of Soleure, Switzerland. In ...

    Article : 166 words
  23. ABOLITION OF BARMAIDS.

    The introduction of a bill in the House of Lords for the abolition of barmaids is occupying the attention of the Bishop of Southwark. The bill, it is estimated, ...

    Article : 228 words
  24. THE KING AND SUNDAY REST.

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, presiding at a National Conference at Caxlon Hall in furtherance of the movement set on foot for securing a national ...

    Article : 199 words
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