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  2. PUBLIC WORKS SCHEME.

    The scheme of public works, submitted to Parliament yesterday by the Minister of Lands and Works (Hon, Alec. Hean), involves an expenditure for ...

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  3. AROUND THE WORLD

    The habit evidently takes care of itself when it has a decent chance. One trouble is that most people die before the habit commences.—"New York ...

    Article : 35 words
  4. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    A remedy for baldness has recently been found by a learned Egyptologist inscribed in a papyrus. It is said to have been used by King Chata, the ...

    Article : 73 words
  5. "TORPEDO-BOATS BY POST."

    A torpedo-boat that can be sent on by rail to the port where it is most required opens up possibilities which naval experts have never contemplated. Last ...

    Article : 178 words
  6. £22 FOR A CHERRY.

    A box of Californian cherries, containing 10lb. of fruit, was recently sold on behalf of a charity at Philadelphia, U.S.A., and realised £500. Each cherry ...

    Article : 42 words
  7. SCIENCE AND ALCOHOL.

    The theme of all the speakers at the temperance breakfast in connection with the meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at York ...

    Article : 245 words
  8. FALL OF 2500 FEET.

    A terrible colliery accident occurred at Marcinella, near Charleroi, Belgium. Through the carelessness of a mechanician, the "cage," containing nine men, ...

    Article : 48 words
  9. PRICE OF AN ELOPEMENT.

    Herr Thormann, of Dresden, is suing Princess Louise of Coburg for the sum of £2000, which he claims is due to him for arranging the Princess's elopement with ...

    Article : 73 words
  10. MOONLIGHT PRACTICAL JOKE.

    A couple of lovers who had gone for a row on the Alster—Hamburg's charming lake—and had chosen one of the most secluded parts, with overhanging trees, ...

    Article : 166 words
  11. THE KING'S CLOCKS.

    During the summer season, when the King and Queen are away from Sandringham and the park and grounds are occasionally open to visitors, the ...

    Article : 149 words
  12. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Gosling—"I wonder why they put a hyphen between the names of man and wife in announcing a marriage?" Old bachelor—"To keep em apart." ...

    Article : 106 words
  13. NEW TYPE OF SUBMARINE.

    Admiral Fournier, the Commander-in-Chief of the French fleet, declared at the close of the recent naval manoeuvres that the submarines spoilt all his plans of ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. THE EGG CURE.

    Pink eggs for pale people will be the recognised cure for debility at some future date. It has been demonstrated that the nutritive qualities of an egg ...

    Article : 320 words
  15. ROMANCE OF THE LIGHT CURE.

    A mysterious package recently reached the Finsen Light department of the London Hospital. When the sister opened it she found inside a fast withering bunch ...

    Article : 290 words
  16. A JEWELLED SKELETON.

    There disappeared on August 11, 1903, a lady named Mlle. Dora Bucheler, 34 years of age, who was born at Bonn, and who was a sister-in-law of M. Oscar de ...

    Article : 131 words
  17. KNEW HOW TO MANAGE HIM.

    A traveller saw a woman take a man by the collar, drag him up the steps into a railway train, jam him down into a seat, pile up a Gladstone bag and two ...

    Article : 106 words
  18. SLEEP LONGER.

    After the Physiology Section of the British Association had devoted a scorching Bank Holiday morning to the discussion of sleep and rest, many of the ...

    Article : 554 words
  19. KAISER AS GRANDFATHER.

    The Kaiser made the acquaintance of his first grandson in the Marble Palace at Potsdam on the evening on August 5, and admired the future ruler of ...

    Article : 174 words
  20. HER WAY OF IT.

    "Would you not like to fly with me to some hidden part of the world," asks the enamoured youth, "where the false conventions of modern society are things ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. NOT A GRIM TRAGEDY.

    On August 6 one of the rag-pickers of Paris was given a franc by a lady whose house was on his rounds to remove a cumbersome bundle of rubbish for her. ...

    Article : 158 words
  22. LORD HARRIS ON WIND "SWERVE."

    Lord Harris, in the course of a letter to the press, advances the theory that wind was the factor which influenced the collapse of Surrey in their second innings ...

    Article : 283 words
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