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  2. CHARLES PEACE AND THE CIGARS.

    Of all the chief actors in crime in our time, so far as comedy is concerned hand in hand with downright villainy and murder, we must give ...

    Article : 337 words
  3. MORPHIA AND COCAINE.

    One evening, after consulting hours, I was sitting solitary in my room, having just injected an extra strong dose of morphia and ...

    Article : 418 words
  4. LIGHTNING AT SEA.

    I left the wheel for a second or two to close one of the skylights, and, as I did so, a flash of lightning seemed to set the ship on fire, and ...

    Article : 490 words
  5. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LARGE FAMILIES.

    Many good people sha[?]e their heads gloomily each time they observe that the Registrar-General's returns announce yet again the ...

    Article : 804 words
  6. DO YOU KNOW?

    Sir Albert Rollit, at a gathering in London of accountants, said that the Italian bankers from Lombardy who settled in England in the ...

    Article : 1,047 words
  7. ROCKEFELLER, THE LONELY MAN.

    Mr John D. Rockefeller, the richest man in the world, is now busily engaged in writing his reminiscences. If he intends to reveal the inner ...

    Article : 1,586 words
  8. A REALISTIC ASSAULT.

    The following story, says the "Pelican," is not true, of course—it couldn’t be, could it?—but it bears telling, nevertheless. ...

    Article : 526 words
  9. THE DADDY LONGLEGS.

    This familiar, awkward fly, which has a habit of catching its unwieldly legs in spider's webs or other trifling obstructions wherever it goes ...

    Article : 427 words
  10. FIGHTING THE WHITE ANTS.

    All the way from here (Broken Hill, North-west Rhodesia) to the Zambesi River the telegraph poles and the railroad ties are of steel. ...

    Article : 413 words
  11. DIDN'T GET ANY DAMAGES.

    "A little strategy and resource will often win an apparently hopeless case," says a well-known barrister. "Take, for instance, a compensation ...

    Article : 272 words
  12. GLASS SPINNING.

    A future industry of much importance is foreseen by M. E. Lemaire, a Frensh writer, in the use of spunglass. The spinning of glass into ...

    Article : 243 words
  13. LIONS IN THE PATH.

    Railway travelling in Central Africa affords delights that such oldfashioned lines as the Great Northern and Midland know nothing of. ...

    Article : 244 words
  14. A COLLEGE FOR WAITERS.

    Swiss hotelkeepers who represent the national industry of the land of thrift and mountains have out classed all Europe in preparation for the ...

    Article : 197 words
  15. DISTRIBUTOR OF MILLIONS.

    Few weeks pass without the announcement of a further distribution, in some practical form or other of Mr. Andrew Carnegie’s immense ...

    Article : 222 words
  16. TAXING BACHELORS.

    The town council of Strasburg in Germany, not long ago adopted as an experiment a sliding scale of payment with regard to municipal ...

    Article : 183 words
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