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  2. BITS OF LIFE

    COLOUR-Blindness, total or partial, is a serious handicap to a large number of men, but women are much more fortunate. It was stated before the Trans ...

    Article : 269 words
  3. HOTEL PORTER NAMED IN WILL.,

    JIM Crowley, porter at the Clift Hotel (San Francisco) since its opening fourteen years ago, has fallen heir to several hundred dollars for a peculiar service ...

    Article : 173 words
  4. ENGLAND'S HARDIEST BABY.

    THE hardiest baby iii England spends most of.the day on the rocks, sittini sunk naked on a lump of iee, and chewing a piece of potato or apple when ...

    Article : 257 words
  5. DOCKWORKERS' PADRE DEAD.

    ONE of the best loved men in London is dead, Father Wainwright, vicar of St. Peter's. in the London docks. For sixty years he had worked among the dockyard ...

    Article : 198 words
  6. MEXICAN FELONS' HEAVY SENTENCE.

    A Scone similar to those frequently enacted in France took place in Mexico City recently when 174 convicts were marched out of the penitentiary to ...

    Article : 171 words
  7. . The Breaking" of the Drought.

    Sir Hubert Wilkin who has long held the theory that Antarctic ice affects the weather In Australia, commends the proposal of the U.S.A. Meteorologfcaf Socfety to control the weather by redistributing three icebergs in the Antarctio by towing them from one place to another thereby promoting rainfall in desired areas. We are sure some of our fanners wilt readily avail themselves of this new method of rain making. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 75 words
  8. EXPENSIVE STRAWBERRY PARTY.

    IX Paris, on one of the coldest winter A afternoons, with a bitter wind whistling up tho Seine, and flurries of snow sweeping thc quai in front of the Institute de ...

    Article : 217 words
  9. STARVING GIRL IN A BOAT.

    AN unconscious girl was found in an empty fishing boat in the creek at Foulness Jsland (England) recently, when military police rowed out from the War ...

    Article : 246 words
  10. TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE WITH LUNATIC.

    A Girl belonging to a well-known Parisian family was invited to stay with some friends at their country mansion in Burgundy recently. She arrived at 6 ...

    Article : 193 words
  11. THE COSTERS' CHAMPION.

    A Small blind alloy in the East End of London was glorified with flowers one day recently. Hothouse flowers of all sorts, red roses and carnations. Nile lilies. ...

    Article : 229 words
  12. . TRANSFORMED MAID SEES LIFE.

    WHEN M. and Mme. Parrara returned * * to their flat in the Avenue Victor Hugo, Paris, after a long absence, they lound that the maid whom they had left in ...

    Article : 218 words
  13. AN EXTREME TEMPERATURE.

    FOLLOWING on the heels of several recent hoaxes in which abnormally high body temperatures were recorded for sick people, an authentic abnormal tem ...

    Article : 132 words
  14. SIX PERSONS GASSED.

    WORKMEN were busily engaged in excavating in a roadway at Acton, London, recently, to trace a gas leakage which, in the early hours, caused great ...

    Article : 235 words
  15. ITALIAN BEAUTY SHOPS TABOO.

    A MONG the many things that Fascism has declared taboo are those "beauty parlours" that have cropped up in Italian cities during the last few years. In one ...

    Article : 249 words
  16. DARING BROADCAST TURN ABANDONED.

    A Variety programme which was to have been broadcast by Douglas Byng and Lance Lister in London recently was abandoned. The reason given by Mr. ...

    Article : 207 words
  17. ACCUSED MAN LOSES HIS TROUSERS

    WHEN La Vene Sears appeared in a ** San Francisco (U.S.A.) Police Court recently to answer a charge of petty theft, he didn't come before the bar of justice ...

    Article : 124 words
  18. MAN READS BIBLE IN SEA.

    HOLIDAY makers at Lancing (England) recently were amazed to see a young niau leading aloud from a large and elaborately bound Bible, walk into the sea up ...

    Article : 89 words
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