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  2. HARD LIFE ON A LINER.

    Doubtless the life on an Atlantic lines farthest removed from that of the passenger is the stoker's. Begrimed, smutty-faced, red-eyed mortal that he ...

    Article : 712 words
  3. LIFE ABROAD. NOTES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    Empress Taiton o Abyssinia, the wife of Negus (King of Kings) Menelek. has just completed a splendid palace in Jerulsalem at a cost of 160,000dol. The furniture, ...

    Article : 75 words
  4. THE NOVEMBER MAGAZINES.

    Mr. Archibald S. Hurd contributes to the "Nineteenth Century" a highly informing article as to the progress which is being made with submarine boats. On both ...

    Article : 2,090 words
  5. SHROUDS OF CHRIST.

    On Saturday last we quoted from Dr. Vignon's work "The Holy Shroud of Turin" certain passengers in which he described the markings on the Shroud, and ...

    Article : 2,784 words
  6. AMONG THE STATE MEMBERS.

    It is seldom indeed that charges of personal corruption are insinuated against members of Parliament in British communities, and still more seldom that they are justified. ...

    Article : 1,148 words
  7. THE PASSING SHOW.

    The woman who didn't is likely to have a rather bad hslf-hour after polling-day. She has been appealed to in every way. As a citizen, as a mother, as a sweetheart, as a ...

    Article : 1,625 words
  8. BOW A BRIDE WAS JILTED.

    Writing from a suburb of Hamburg, a father of seven unmarried daughters complains to a local paper that there is no registry office in the district, and that it is ...

    Article : 157 words
  9. SMOKING CARRIAGE STORY.

    Just as the train started, and just as Cecelia was comfortably settling herself in the corner of the carriage, a young man threw open the door and took a flying leap ...

    Article : 1,624 words
  10. THE DAILY BATH.

    An outery is being raised in London against the bath "extra" in hotels. It is never less than 1/. and oftern 2/. Mr. Sydney Weetman writes in the ...

    Article : 409 words
  11. THE RELIGION OF NAPOLEON.

    Mr. J. A. Rose, author of the recent successful biography of Napoleon, writes a very readable article in the "Quarterly Review" for October on Napoleon's ...

    Article : 758 words
  12. NIAGARA AT ST. LOUIS.

    An immense artifical cascado has been determined upon by the authorities of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 as the centrepeice of the semicircular lay-out ...

    Article : 214 words
  13. CONSUMPTION IN THE POST-OFFICE.

    It is stated by the "Sanitary Record" that a scheme is under consideration for the establishment of a sanatorium for the benefit of employes of the British ...

    Article : 79 words
  14. DIDN'T LOOK HIS PART.

    A defendant at Southwark County Court recently described himself as a comedian. Judge Addison.—What sort of a ...

    Article : 76 words
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    Advertising : 397 words
  16. NEWEST THING IN TOWNS.

    The "First Garden City Limited" is beginning to take shape in Hertfordshire, in England. The population will be limited to about ...

    Article : 132 words
  17. DEVICES OF ABORIGINES.

    Mr. M. L. Hutchinson, of Melbourne, contributes to "Chambers's Journal" for November an article on the aborigines of Victoria. Some of his fats have been obtained ...

    Article : 536 words
  18. MUNICIPAL DAIRY'S SUCCESS.

    The dairy opened in June by the Battersea Borough Council for the supply of human sterilised milk for infants has proved so successful that it will probably ...

    Article : 74 words
  19. SPORT V. WORK.

    The effect which sport in general, and football in particular, is having upon the industrial classes of the Midlands is year by year becoming more acute. In most of the ...

    Article : 162 words
  20. NEW THACKERAY LETTERS.

    In the "Century" for November Miss Lucy W. Baxter begins the publications of a series of letters written by Thackerway to members of the Baxter family, whose ...

    Article : 629 words
  21. LONDON 'BUS DRIVING.

    A London 'bus driver who has been passed by a rival 'bus, or, worse still, for it shows he is running behind his schedule, by a 'bus of his own company (writes Mr. Sydney ...

    Article : 421 words
  22. BEAUTY INCREASING.

    A Baker-street photographer gives it as his opinion that physical culture has enhanced the beauty of the girls of to-day. They compare most favourably with those ...

    Article : 159 words
  23. LUXURIOUS MOTOR-CAR.

    The Marquis of Anglesey, who is now touring Great Britain with his private musical comedy company, giving performances for local charities in certain favoured places, ...

    Article : 160 words
  24. WHISTLER'S METHOD.

    The "Studio" contains "Reminiscences of Whistler," by Mr. Mortimer Menpes, as recorded by Miss Menpes. Whistler's habit of committing to memory for subsequent use ...

    Article : 282 words
  25. ORIGIN OF GRAIN WEIGHT.

    The "Druggists' Circular and Chemical Gazette" publishes an interesting note an the origin of the grain weight. By an English law passed in 1266, it was provided that ...

    Article : 126 words
  26. A PURELY BUSINESS RULE.

    About 30,000 young men are affected by a notice served by various Chicago employers against race-track gambling, excessive drinking, immoral conduct, and ...

    Article : 101 words
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