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  2. FOREIGN PARTS.

    W. R. Titterton writes in the London "Daily News":— I left England a violent Internationalist, with the usual bias of my ...

    Article : 1,183 words
  3. "THANK YOU."

    "Thank you." There you have the fundamental principle of London politeness in a common-place. And when a London cabby speaks ...

    Article : 1,141 words
  4. SNAILS IN PARIS.

    "The only way to treat a snail," said Amanda, "is to pick it off whatever it eating and throw it over the wall; is your boots are thick, and your mind ...

    Article : 1,175 words
  5. PRISON DISCIPLINE.

    The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London "Daily News" writes: An American tourist was driving down the Nevsky the other day with ...

    Article : 778 words
  6. GAGGED AND ROBBED.

    The gagging of a lady at Croydon last week, and the subsequent theft of articles of value from the house, has been followed by a precisely similar ...

    Article : 404 words
  7. IN A STRAIGHT JACKET.

    An astonishing story of the treatment of a lunatic was told by witnesses to the Coroner at an inquest at Hampstead last evening (30th ...

    Article : 518 words
  8. TIN IN THE STARS.

    Since Sir William and Lady Huggins in the observatory at the back of their Tulse Hill residence, founded half-a- century ago the science of astrophys[?]s ...

    Article : 219 words
  9. WHAT IS A MIDSHIPMAN?

    By luck I, for the first time in my life, have found a plausible derivation for midshipman. It would appear that in the days immediately after the flood the ...

    Article : 226 words
  10. THE MODERATE DRINKER.

    Mr Lloyd-George, M.P., speaking at a temperance demonstration at Criciceth last night (3rd October), said the Temperance Bill had not ...

    Article : 176 words
  11. A DESERTED VILLAGE.

    The site of the erstwhile flourishing village of Brendon is represented by a few gaunt stone chimneys, a stray cluster of roofless cottages, a. dilapidated ...

    Article : 238 words
  12. AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

    The Moscow correspondent of the London "Dally News" wrote from Moscow on 26th September:- "At the present time Russia is in a ...

    Article : 636 words
  13. FROZEN OUT.

    What with bridge in the nursery and diabolo elsewhere, the lot of the modern father is indeed an unhappy one. Children, there are lines of care ...

    Article : 171 words
  14. AT NANCY.

    It was at Nancy that I first began to appreciate the fact that between France and Germany there still lie the fateful and sinister memories of their ancient ...

    Article : 203 words
  15. FREAKS.

    Freaks appear to have gone somewhat out of fashion, but in the States they seem to be as popular and abundant as ever. And their very abundance ...

    Article : 169 words
  16. CAN MAN FLY LIKE A BIRD?

    If it be true (remarks the '"Westminster Gazette") that Dr. Rose, a Shropshine medical man has constructed a pair of wings "with which he has ...

    Article : 194 words
  17. BURDEN OF EMPIRE.

    It is impossible to rule the Empire without occasional trouble among the native peoples it includes. The perfect Administration which is never at fault ...

    Article : 74 words
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