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  2. THE IDEAL TEAPOT.

    Ear Buxton confided to the guests at a dinner of the London Institute of Patentees that he is contemplating two inventions—the ideal teapot and the ...

    Article : 249 words
  3. Light and Shade

    A mannequin parade on an express train—the first in tue world! This was the novel surprise sprung upon passengers on the Pulman car ...

    Article : 376 words
  4. SAXON KING'S COFFIN.

    Workmen engaged in excavating the Lady Chapel at Sherborne Abbey, Dorset (England), discovered a coffin which is supposed to be that of Ethelbert, King ...

    Article : 253 words
  5. AN AERIAL MARRIAGE.

    With a Baptist minister riding in an aeroplane, shouting the wedding ceremony through a megaphone. Mr. Howard N. Potter, a student aviator, and Miss ...

    Article : 119 words
  6. WITH PIGEON'S HELP.

    A homing pigeon was the means of deintilying a man who lay unconscious in the Sheffield (England)[?] Royal Hospital (states the London "Daily News."). ...

    Article : 177 words
  7. A MODERN AMAZON.

    Finding a stranger in her flat in Croydon (Eng.) Mrs. Lois Re[?]ngton made him turn out his pockets, then locked him in a bedroom (states the London ...

    Article : 157 words
  8. YE OLDE AND ANCIENT GAME OF ARCHERY.

    Attended by all the quaint customs observed for centuries, the meeting of the woodmen of Arden took place at Forest Hill, near Coventry,, England, recently. Wearing their ancient costumes the competitors engaged in two types of shooting, one Known as the "clout", consists of shooting at a target so small that a hit is se[?]dom recorded, When it does occur the marker signals the hit by throwing himself backwards on the ground, waving his arms and legs ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 120 words
  9. THE LAST TRUMPET.

    During the restoration, of Swithland Church, Leicestershire, England, which dates back to Saxon times, three of the original eleventh century windows were ...

    Article : 143 words
  10. THE TSAR'S THRONE.

    Before sunrise recently two powerful motor cars were speeding along the Paris-Meaux-road. On arriving at Meaux they turned aside and stopped on a quiet ...

    Article : 298 words
  11. "XX-PLACE, E1."

    What is the queerest address in London? Among the numerous examples quoted by Mr. F. Heathcote Briant in the "Post Annual," the organ of the ...

    Article : 114 words
  12. RED APES OF MALAY.

    A family of five orang[?]ans, who have just arrived at the London Zoo[?] are likely to prove a great attraction (says the London "Daily Chronicle.") ...

    Article : 201 words
  13. THE KAISER'S POVERTY!

    Any illusions that have been harboured concerning the material advantages enjoyed by the ex-Kaiser and the members of the Hohenzollern family haye ...

    Article : 196 words
  14. AT "TYPHOON CORNER."

    A graphic story of a fisherman's bravery at "Typhoon Corner"—that wild area in the North Atlantic, off Iceland, where wind and currents meet, and where ...

    Article : 258 words
  15. KING HELPS EX-SOLDIER.

    A man poorly dressed called at the gates of the Italian royal palace and asked to see King Victor. The palace guards, surprised at the request, wanted to send ...

    Article : 147 words
  16. ESKIMOS' WALLPAPER.

    Wallpaper to decorate the [?]uts of [?]ndians and Eskimos in the frozen wasies of Labrador was included in the strange [?]edley of goods which the little ...

    Article : 248 words
  17. A MIRACLE CANDLE.

    In recent years the crypt of St, Peter's has been a favourite resort of pilgrims, where thousands have prayed at the tomb of Pope Pius X. ...

    Article : 212 words
  18. DON'T.

    Some "Don'ts" for nurses were offered by a doctor in a lecture to nurses in London recently (says the London "Daily Chronicle.") ...

    Article : 147 words
  19. CAT ATTACKS CHILD.

    While playing with a kitten in the garden of her home, the two-year-old daughter of Mrs. VT. Gladwish of Hastings (England), was attacked by [?]he ...

    Article : 158 words
  20. UNDER THE CRINOLINE.

    "Granny" Emma Chandler, who was nearly 105 years old died in Bomford Institution, England, recently (says the London "Daily Chronicle.") ...

    Article : 98 words
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