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  2. EDWARD GRIEG.

    Disease has taken its toll of our great musicians. Beethoven, greatest of all, suffered from the greatest affliction in his last years that can overtake any ...

    Article : 1,040 words
  3. THE HOLIDAY MAKER.

    In a previous article ("Daily Mall," 21st August) an imaginary conversation was given between a solicitor and a client wishing to remain within his ...

    Article : 1,398 words
  4. THE OLD HOME.

    The Rev. Samuel M'Chord Crothers writes in the September number of the "Altantic Monthly" on what an American travelling in England sees ...

    Article : 628 words
  5. THE LIMERICK IN POLITICS.

    MacDowell Cosgrave, M.D., writes in the "Daily Mail" of 20th August: Now that the season has terminated, and the Government has time ...

    Article : 1,204 words
  6. "THE CRIMSON CIRCLE."

    After a weeks's remand the two Peckham youths, James Lyle and Douglas Page, who confessed to sending letters threatening the vengeance of "The ...

    Article : 371 words
  7. STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE.

    One question asked United States Senator Beveridge regarding his book, "The Young Man of the World." was: "Senator, how did you learn all those ...

    Article : 100 words
  8. DEPORTMENT.

    According to the "Journal des Debats," the art of department lies on the point of death. Its very name is no longer a guarantee against the brutality of fate. ...

    Article : 611 words
  9. SIZE OF OREGON MOSQUITOES.

    The late Colonel L. L. Hawkins was fond of telling a mosquito story of his own, when Mazamas, gathered round their evening campfire, had to fight off ...

    Article : 158 words
  10. BISHOP POTTER'S "JOB."

    To illustrate a point he was making in an address he was delivering the other day, Bishop Potter told the following story:— ...

    Article : 95 words
  11. EMPEROR'S GOD-CHILD.

    It is doubtful whether any monarch in the world has so many little god-sons and god-daughters as Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. ...

    Article : 254 words
  12. EDISON USES HIS FRIENDS.

    When Thomas A. Edison was living in Menlo Park a visitor from New York said to him one day: "By the way, your front gate needs ...

    Article : 86 words
  13. TYPES OF DRESS.

    At the present time London is being visited by men from every nation in the world, and the various types of dress to be met with in a ...

    Article : 586 words
  14. WILLING TO TRY.

    "It's so sweet of you, Mr Guffy," she gurgled, "to want me to marry you. But papa says I'm such an extravagant girl. Do you think you could dress ...

    Article : 57 words
  15. HOW TO MAKE TELEPHONE POLES PICTURESQUE.

    For some weeks past (writes the 'Westminster Gazette") the æsthetic soul of Epping has been aroused to fury by a threatened invasion of the National ...

    Article : 161 words
  16. CABMAN FOR 53 YEARS.

    There is little likelihood that the cry "too old at forty" will ever be applied to London cabmen; for their longevity and activity is phenomenal. It was the ...

    Article : 259 words
  17. SHOOTING-BOX ON WHEELS.

    "The most luxurious caravan of modern times." Such is the claim put forward by a London firm on behalf of a vehicle, the total cost of which amounts ...

    Article : 206 words
  18. BEES FASTER THAN PIGEONS.

    It is not generally known that bees are swifter in flight than pigeons—that i[?] for short distances, says a writer in "The Reader." Some years ago a pigeon ...

    Article : 139 words
  19. STATUESQUE FEMININITY.

    The Juno type of woman seems primarily to think of her own importance; husband and children are only used as props to her glory. Her ...

    Article : 85 words
  20. A DUKE ON THE HOUSING PROBLEM.

    "What is Socialism?" Under this heading Duke Ernest Guenther, of Schleswig-Holstein, the brother of the Empress, has contributed an article to ...

    Article : 62 words
  21. THE FETISH OF YOUTH.

    There is altogether too much attention given now to youth in business. Shareholders in limited companies call out for "new blood" as if they were assisting at ...

    Article : 67 words
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