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  2. Light and Shade

    A learned Arab tells me that Islam is expecting the near advent of the Messiah. This, he says, is no idle thought, but is based on ancient tradition (writes ...

    Article : 602 words
  3. UNDER CAR AND RIVER.

    While William Smith, aged 17, was sitting on the banks of the Thames near Beaumont College, Runnymede, England, a motor car, in which were the Rev. ...

    Article : 301 words
  4. HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH.

    Three of the quaint bequests of the quain[?]y-wonded will of Mr. G. L. Norris, a well-known Penarth (Wales) character, were disallowed when the will was ...

    Article : 370 words
  5. A FLIRT'S CONFESSION.

    "I am a flirt, and I rejoice in making man unhappy and breaking their hearts." This extract from a letter written by a girl to a youth of 17 was read at ...

    Article : 181 words
  6. ICED BACK TO LIFE.

    An effective cure for a creature overcome by the heat has been tried in the London Zoo (states the London "Daily News.") ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 288 words
  7. 'PLANE FLIES ITSELF.

    A three-engined transport aeroplane which flies itself is being experimented with at the London Air Station, Croydon (Eng.) by Imperial Airways (states the ...

    Article : 181 words
  8. BUTTERFLY SANCTUARIES.

    The earnest youth who pursues natural history study too strenuously is threatening many varieties of British butterflies with extinction (says the ...

    Article : 161 words
  9. UNMASKED BY CENSOR.

    Letters from Ireland that were opened by the postal censor led to the conviction at Stafford Assizes (Eng.) of Alexander Pelan and Dorothy Henshaw, ...

    Article : 162 words
  10. SHIP BOY'S "DREAM."

    The Earl of Rending, who was the guest at luncheon of the Reading (Eng.) Chamber of Commerce recently, amusingly recounted the circumstances of his ...

    Article : 366 words
  11. "VALLEY OF DEATH."

    One survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, 71 years age (October 25, 1834), is still drawing a pension from the special fund, of the ...

    Article : 266 words
  12. WHAT'S A FAIR TIP.

    London railway officials and workers are discussing the general question of [?]ps arising out of the case of a porter at Victoria Station (London) who ...

    Article : 260 words
  13. "REDS" LOCK UP POLICE.

    At St. Denis, an industrial suburb of Paris, a police commissary was captured by the Reds and locked up in his own lock-up (states the London "Daily ...

    Article : 122 words
  14. TOAST OF THE EVENING.

    Eight rounds of toast were lying on the window-ledge of an office in Chancery-lane, London, one night recently. I passed the curions deposit three times ...

    Article : 126 words
  15. LUXURIES FOR LIZARDS.

    A family of nine tuberculated iguanas, which has arrived at the London Zoo from South America, are to be treated in luxuric[?]us fashion (says the London ...

    Article : 146 words
  16. HA'E YE A CORKSCREW?

    Brandishing a bottle of whisky. Joseph McDonald, a steel worker, from Scotland, bore down upon a constable on traffic duty in Fleet-street and asked, "Man, ...

    Article : 127 words
  17. LOOPING A PRECIPICE.

    Four people whose ear fell over a precipice while they were motoring in the Lanfrothen district, near Har[?]ech, North Wales, had remarkable escapes ...

    Article : 107 words
  18. PIGEON'S SEA FLIGHT.

    A pigeon which had flown more than 2,000 miles from England alighted on the liner Leviathan when in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Captain Hartley ...

    Article : 99 words
  19. FINES HIMSELF £300

    For a technical breach of motoring regulations, Mr. John Curtiss Weber of Bessemer Grange, Denmark-hill, London, has fined himself £300 (says the London ...

    Article : 94 words
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