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  2. WOMAN, YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY.

    The present younger generation of women is almost universally accused of selfishness, nor would it be consistent with justice to deny the charge. One may ...

    Article : 840 words
  3. SUN LOSING IT'S STRENGTH.

    In 1604, a star in the constellation Serpentarius flared up to many times its original brightness. Transitory meteors and comets had long been familiar objects ...

    Article : 1,586 words
  4. FISH INDUSTRY.

    The recent controversy in reference to the close season for crayfish has opened up a question of the very first importance to the State, and one can only ...

    Article : 1,162 words
  5. FAMOUS TURF SENSATIONS

    The most extraordinary attempt ever made by a jockey to falsify the weighing scales at an important race was that which created such a stir at the end of the 1863 ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,602 words
  6. WHAT TO READ.

    Laziness, I am afraid, is rapidly becoming a lost art. In the old days (writes E B. Osborn, in The London Morning Post) remote and incredible behind the ...

    Article : 759 words
  7. LOST CITES.

    Some of the treasures found by Professor Sir Flinders Petrie in Bethpalet, "one or the uttermost cities of Judah," which have been lost for 2,000 years, were shown ...

    Article : 469 words
  8. AUSTRALIAN BOOKS.

    "The Beehive." a juvenile novel, by Elizabeth Powell ("Kirtcaldy") will be issued by Angus &, Robertson, of Sydney, in about six weeks' time. It has been ...

    Article : 76 words
  9. PIOUS BOOKS.

    Pious Nonconformists still hold the name of James Janeway in reverence, and a characteristic book by him, even if it fetched only £223 at Sotheby's ...

    Article : 282 words
  10. A CRIME COMEDY.

    Mr. Edgar Wallace, when staying in Berlin, recently, related an amusing little comedy in which he was an unwitting actor one morning. Even he could hardly ...

    Article : 289 words
  11. "LET IN THE SUN."

    Mrs. Lillias Elizabeth Gorman, Evelyn Gardens. South Kensington, who died in May, aged 68 years, widow of the Rev. Robert Manners Norman, a former rector of ...

    Article : 126 words
  12. LONDON—THE MECCA OF TRADE.

    The outward movement of large commercial organizations from the City of London has to a certain extent stopped, and many of the important businesses ...

    Article : 587 words
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  14. A WONDERFUL OLD MAN.

    Col. Crompton—a pioneer electrician to whom we owe our electric lighting system, a pioneer of mechanical road transport, and a Crimean veteran—is at 83. one of ...

    Article : 296 words
  15. TRAMPS' HOME.

    Formerly the mansion of Sir Milton Sharp, Bart., chairman of the Bradford Dyers' Association, Spring House, Heck-mondwike, near Bradford, is now a home ...

    Article : 428 words
  16. DONN BYRNE.

    Mr. Donn Byrne, the brilliant young Irish novelist, who wrote "Messer Marco Polo," "Brother, Saul," and "Crusade," prepared, just before his death in June. ...

    Article : 395 words
  17. UNDERPAID!

    "When my husband and I lived in 10 Downing street." writes the Countess of, Oxford and Asquith in The Evening Standard. London, "we entertained on an ...

    Article : 246 words
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  19. TEMPLE CHURCH CHOIR.

    Ronald Mallett (states a recent issue of The Daily Mail, London) will, it is thought, succeed Ernest Lough, the "golden-voiced" boy of the Temple chair ...

    Article : 124 words
  20. PITY THE POOR DOG.

    "Bill, our dog has bitten me. I believe he has torn a piece of flesh right out." "Poor dog and the vet raid he was on ...

    Article : 41 words
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