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  2. BITS OF LIFE

    A Man who let his hair grow long and lived in the woods clothed in rags, scaring women and children by his appearance, was sent to gaol or a month at ...

    Article : 250 words
  3. CRIMINAL'S LAST TRICK.

    A Criminal's triek to get poison with which to kill himself was revealed at an inquest at Birmingham on Harold Mifflin, aged 39, who was found unconscious ...

    Article : 236 words
  4. "WORTH WEIGHT IN GOLD."

    "MY wife is worth her weight in gold," said a husband, who appeared with his wife to ask the Highgate (Eng.) magistrate to quash a separation order. ...

    Article : 92 words
  5. A QUEER DREAM.

    A Remarkable trial took place at Budapest, Hungary, Georg Kalapos, a wealthy wholesale merchant and owner of numerous houses, being sentenced to 11 ...

    Article : 102 words
  6. THE BRIDE WAITED.

    WITH his bride and a host of relatives and friends waiting for him outside the court, Charles Penwright, aged 21, a moulder, of Armley, Leeds, England, stood ...

    Article : 92 words
  7. HUMAN SUBMARINE.

    JIMMY Charles, a six-years-old Irish boy, of Sarnesfield, Herefordshire, England, knows what it feels like to be a human submarine. ...

    Article : 76 words
  8. MAN AND BIRD FIGHT.

    A Four-year-old girl, still clasping her sourie was out walking when a big Pyrenean vulture attacked him, striking again and again for his eyes. ...

    Article : 78 words
  9. SCHOOLBOY STOIC.

    A FTER breaking his leg in the school playground at Ibstock, Leicestershire, Eng., Albert Barrs, the six-year-old son of a miner, made his way into the ...

    Article : 56 words
  10. Alas, My Poor Brother!

    Last year Australia sent the United States £2,200,000 worth of rabbit skins, which mostly became "Mendoza Beaver," "Chinchilla," "Soallne" and other imitation furs. The U.S.A. Department of Commerce recently listed 49 different brands of furs, all of which were rabbit skins masquerading under aristrocratio names. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 50 words
  11. IMAGINARY ORPHAN.

    AN extraordinary deception by a "daily help," aged seventeen, was revealed by Mr. Bingley, the Marylebone (Eng.; magistrate recently. ...

    Article : 171 words
  12. INSTRUCTIONS IN THEFT.

    A Shocking case was revealed at Manchester recently of a woman teaching and using her 13-year-old step-daughter in the ways of stealing. ...

    Article : 207 words
  13. ALIVE IN COFFIN.

    HEARING a funeral sermon preached over her as, at the point of burial, she lay in a coflin unable to move, is the experience through which Miss Fannie ...

    Article : 173 words
  14. "THEY RE BOTH GONE."

    A Young man walked into Charing Cross Hospital, London, and asked to speak to Mr. Philip Inman, the superintendent. "Have you had any babies born here ...

    Article : 162 words
  15. MAN WITH 30 CHILDREN.

    A Northampton (England) resident who related to the local county court that he had a family of 30 children was sought out recently by a newspaper ...

    Article : 134 words
  16. INVALID CLEARS HIMSELF.

    A Man suffering from double pneumonia went to Carlisle Quarter Sessions (Eugland) recently without his doctor's knowledge or permission to ...

    Article : 120 words
  17. MAGISTRATE'S LAPSE.

    A NORTHANTS (Eng.) magistrale, William Waters, of Burton Latimer, was fined £5 at Kettering Police Court for stealing a packet of cigarettes, value 11½d., ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. "TWO DAYS TO LIVE."

    SUFFERING from sleepy sicknes, a Lincoln girl of 19 was refused admission to a hospital "because she had only two days to live." ...

    Article : 138 words
  19. MADMAN'S ADVENTURE.

    A Man's mad actions caused excitement in Commonwealth-street, Sydney, recently. Screaming wildly and brandishing a ...

    Article : 144 words
  20. IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

    ONE of the most remarkable war stories yet told has been related at Romney (Hauts., Eng.) by Captaiu H. V. Stokes, Officer under the British War Graves ...

    Article : 123 words
  21. MEMORISES MARRIAGE SERVICE.

    THE bridcgrpom who could not Bay the responses at his wedding ceremony recently has since learned the service off by heart and has been secretly married. ...

    Article : 126 words
  22. "HONOURED ENORMITY."

    AMUSING examples of baboo English in India was recently given by a wellknown Bishop. He told of some of his flock addressing him as "Your Divine ...

    Article : 119 words
  23. SWEETHEARTS' SHOCKS.

    HOUSEHOLDERS in the small town of Weiz, Syria, have been annoyed by young men going to the windows of their maidservant sweethearts' rooms for ...

    Article : 100 words
  24. TRAGEDY THROUGH LETTER-BOX.

    LOOKING through the letter-box of her house, Mrs. Englebach, of Lealandroad, Tottenham, England, saw her husband lying at the bottom of the stairs. ...

    Article : 107 words
  25. HARBINGER OF HIS OWN LUCK.

    A Cyclist employed by the Founder Press Agency in Paris had to collect from a public hall the report of the results of a draw in the Credit National ...

    Article : 89 words
  26. THE "DROWNED" DOLL.

    A Touching little episode of the English flood has been reported. Among the contributions to the Relief Fund, the Mayor of Westminster received ...

    Article : 78 words
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