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  2. AROUND THE WORLD.

    A tinker died in a Paris hospital from copper poisoning, the result of not washing his hands before having his meals. ...

    Article : 30 words
  3. THE SCIENTIFIC CURE FOR INDIGESTION.

    I was subject to indigestion for some years, but did not pay much attention to it, as it used to come and go. I used to take pills and other medicines ...

    Article : 1,004 words
  4. POLICE AS LINGUISTS.

    The action of the Berlin authorities in giving a course of English to a dozen of their policemen may be followed by corresponding action on the part of the ...

    Article : 146 words
  5. NEW POLICE WEAPON.

    Several hundred members of the police force of Philadelphia are to be equipped with electric batteries which will enable them to shock lawbreakers into ...

    Article : 57 words
  6. TRADE IN FOUR-LEAVED CLOVER.

    M. and Mme. Tardout, who have a small farm at St. Michel-sur-Orde, France, were brought to the verge of ruin a few years ago by a bad season. M[?]. ...

    Article : 77 words
  7. NO PRESIDENTIAL BALL.

    Dr. Woodrow Wilson has determined that simplicity and thrift will mark the inauguration of his term as President of the United States, and has virtually ...

    Article : 262 words
  8. COFFINS AND PARCELS BY POST.

    When the new parcels post service in the United States was inaugurated on New Year's Day, practical jokers took advantage of its facilities. In one ...

    Article : 79 words
  9. A "LUNATIC."

    In a speech at Cambridge Professor Howard Marsh told a story of a lodger who many years ago lived on the ground floor in Half-Moon-street, Piccadilly. He ...

    Article : 75 words
  10. NON-ROLLING CHANNEL BOATS.

    Two new turbine steamers which are being built at Hoboken, near Antwerp, will be fitted with Frahm anti-rolling tanks to prevent sea-sickness among the ...

    Article : 94 words
  11. COMEDY OF TWINS.

    The Stevenage twins, Ebenezer Albert Fox and Albert Ebenezer Fox, aged 50 years, declares (says a London paper) that their remarkable likeness to each ...

    Article : 313 words
  12. £1,109,000 AN ACRE.

    The tiny strip of ground (461½ square feet) which abuts upon the Charing Cross opening to the Mall archway is to be sold by the London County Council to ...

    Article : 112 words
  13. KILLED BY A CORPSE.

    An extraordinary occurrence at Corunna is reported by the Madrid correspondent of the "Telegraph." In the upper storey of a house in the town lay ...

    Article : 107 words
  14. "LUCKY THIRTEEN."

    Thirteen no longer has mysterious dread for the average American (says the New York correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph"). A careful ...

    Article : 327 words
  15. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    The New York press prints the following, which is characterstic of some of the news published in America:—A doctor at Easton, Pennsylvania, has discovered a ...

    Article : 187 words
  16. WAITING FOR TRAINS.

    The problem of informing the public waiting for trains in railway stations of great cities has been solved by a simple piece of apparatus known as the ...

    Article : 128 words
  17. THE REST CURE.

    People are at last becoming alive to the fact that a rest cure, if taken in time, may ward off a serious illness, or may bring back renewed health and vigour. ...

    Article : 493 words
  18. NO "TURKEY TROT."

    The United States Navy Department has taken official notice of the "bunny hug," the "Gaby glide," the "turkey trot," and other new forms of dancing, ...

    Article : 138 words
  19. RADIUM WATERS.

    Sir William Ramsay, the scientist, who accidentally discovered the radio-activity of the waters at Bath, gave some remarkable proofs of the strength of the ...

    Article : 198 words
  20. TWO TRAIN-BEARERS

    "I am writing to tell you to the great benefit my two little girls received from Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery," writes Mrs. H. Gibbs, 20 Gipps-street, ...

    Article : 261 words
  21. HER SECRET.

    One day a pastor was calling upon dear old lady, one of the "pillars" of the church to which they both belonged. As he thought of her long and useful life, ...

    Article : 150 words
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    Advertising : 870 words
  23. FOOLING MOTHER.

    The inaugurator of the anti-kissing movement in America told an odd kissing story at a luncheon. "A boy,'" he said, "decided to tool his ...

    Article : 81 words
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