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  2. AROUND THE WORLD

    Births registered in England and Wales in the fourth quarter of 1908 numbered 1221,438, equal to 24.6 annually per thousand of the population. This, according ...

    Article : 71 words
  3. NAVY'S PRISON SYSTEM

    An important change is about to be introduced into the prison system of the Roval Navy. Hiterto offenders have been confined ...

    Article : 250 words
  4. SCIENCE AND HEALTH

    An armoured automobile, designed specially to attack and destroy airships is under construction at Berlin for the German army, and is to be tried ...

    Article : 125 words
  5. A GREAT POLICEMAN

    Monsieur Claude, who was Chief of Police during the reign of Napoleon [?] had some notable experiences. In spite of his many capture, the most ...

    Article : 780 words
  6. NOTES AND HINTS

    The sketch given herewith shows how a blade attached to a club became a tomahawk. The men of the "stone age" used clubs weighted by means of an ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 86 words
  7. WHAT THE KING WEARS.

    The King's recent visit to Brighton has done much towards setting men's fashions there. His Majesty is probably the best-dressed man in England, and as ...

    Article : 154 words
  8. MR. VANDERBILT'S COACHES.

    Ninety-seven coach horses have arrived in London for Mr. A. G. Vanderbilt's use on the London to Brighton road this summer. Most of the horses are from ...

    Article : 75 words
  9. OXYGEN FOR BOXERS.

    Dr. Leonard Erskine Hill, lecturer on physiology at the London Hospital, speaking at the London Institution on the use of oxygen, summoned two ...

    Article : 160 words
  10. A BACHELOR'S NEW PARADISE.

    A new Paradise for bachelors is to be opened shortly at Surbiton, with Mr. Eustace Miles as president. The idea is, a thoroughly organised place, run on ...

    Article : 375 words
  11. A SIMPLE RUSTIC TABLE.

    The trouble of carrying chairs and tables into the garden and inside again at night is worth taking some pains to avoid. The rustic table sketched ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 96 words
  12. £10,500 FOR GREEK COINS.

    The sale of the collection of Greek coins formed by the lute Mr. F. Sherman Benson, of Brooklyn, New York, was resumed at Messrs. Sotheby's rooms ...

    Article : 80 words
  13. BREACH OF PROMISE AT 78.

    An extraordinary breach of promise suit (says a New York telegram or January 10) has been commenced in Chicago. The defendant is a very wealthy ...

    Article : 158 words
  14. HALF-GROWN DWELLINGS.

    The first of the blocks of model dwellings for which the late Mr. W. R. Sutton, the millionaire carrier, left funds amounting to nearly 2,000,000, has been ...

    Article : 119 words
  15. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    A rural schoolmaster was one day greatly annoyed by not getting satisfactory answers to the question he put to one of the schoolboys. ...

    Article : 76 words
  16. NEW ELECTRIC LAMP.

    The new electric lamp of Robert Hopfelt, as tested in Germany, is claimed to combine the resistance to shock of the carbon lamp with the economy of the ...

    Article : 147 words
  17. CORRESPONDENCE

    I suffered for a long time with severe pains in the back, over the kidneys, and under the shoulder blades, and back of my neck. My back ...

    Article : 771 words
  18. HARRY LAUDER AND THE LUNATICS.

    Harry Lauder sailed from New York recently on his return home, One afternoon he appeared at the City Lunatic Asylum and sang to 2000 inmates. He ...

    Article : 131 words
  19. TOO BIG A BARGAIN.

    Mistress (excitedly)-"Bridget, you have roasted the chicken for dinner, and I wanted to have the mutton to- day." ...

    Article : 47 words
  20. £1,000,000 WORK COMPLETED.

    The Khedive on February 10, at Egypt, performed the ceremony of opening the Esneh Barrage, in the presence of Presence Mohammed Ali, Boutros Pasha Ghali, the ...

    Article : 195 words
  21. AN ELECTRIC BAKERY.

    Electricity has been used for heating and cooking to a very limited degree hitherto, owing to the high price of the current, although the results are ...

    Article : 227 words
  22. AN EASY-GOING CLOCK.

    A Scottish farmer was proudly showing a visitor an antique clock which had recently come into his possession. "Isn't that a gran' clock?" he said. ...

    Article : 83 words
  23. FUNNY POINTS IN THE LAW

    One of the strangest problems ever submitted to the decision of the law was that growing out of the disposition of the property of an Englishman, the ...

    Article : 407 words
  24. AN ARMY OF BEETLES.

    At Shoreditch County Court recently Judge Smyly, K.C., had before him a Ease in which Mary Ann Scambler, of Evening-road, Clapton, sued Mrs. ...

    Article : 158 words
  25. THE GOLDEN SPUR.

    A brewery concern began to build an extension to its premises. Many workmen were employed on the job, but the work of digging the ...

    Article : 241 words
  26. Advertising

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    Advertising : 354 words
  27. NAVIGATION BY WIRELESS.

    The necessity of taking observations of latitude and longitude is undoubtedly a great burden to seafaring men in these days of timesaving M. Bouquet de la ...

    Article : 333 words
  28. GOOD-BYE TO THE BULL'S EYE

    The bull's-eye is doomed—so it is said in an article which appears under the title of "The Passing of the Bull's-Eye" in the February number of "Pearson's ...

    Article : 498 words
  29. A BREED WORTH PAYING FOR.

    The calf which a farmer had taken the summer resident to see surveyed his. owner and the stranger with a wary eye. "What breed is your calf?" asked ...

    Article : 108 words
  30. A LAGGARD DAWN.

    All, the audience held their breath and simply [?] as Jack Brave boy, the hero, hilled the last of the Indians. lie staggered about; he almost ...

    Article : 127 words
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