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  2. ECHOES FROM LONDON.

    An appeal has just been heard under the Workmen's Compensation Act. The widow of a workman was awarded L300 by the arbitration for the loss of her ...

    Article : 148 words
  3. AN ENEMY TO ELECTRICITY

    If Miss Selina Emmons bad known just a little more about the company their tracks never would have crossed her land. ...

    Article : 1,381 words
  4. OUTBREAK OF AFRICAN TROOPS.

    An untoward circumstance which has lately taken place in Mauritius throws a discouraging light upon an experiment made last year in the direction of using ...

    Article : 1,188 words
  5. PRISONERS OF WAR.

    Since it has been announced that the Boer women—angered and grieved by the knowledge of how many of their husbands, fathers, and brothers have been slain in ...

    Article : 1,594 words
  6. SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL.

    A lady, writing from De Aar, gives an account of her visit to the hospital there, from which we ("Daily Telegraph") take the following: ...

    Article : 1,765 words
  7. FORBIDDEN TO SMILE.

    The young lady who, on Tuesday, sued her employer for L1 in lieu of a week's notice for dismissal from his employ—satisfied the Court that she had been very ...

    Article : 130 words
  8. IRON ENVELOPES AND GUNPOWDER STAMPS.

    The idea of using a bombshell as a letter-box is no new one, although—probably owing to the vastly increased range of modern guns—the device seems ...

    Article : 666 words
  9. A GREAT SCHEME.

    A great scheme that seemed to promise well induced Mr Wimbush to invest L13,000. It was no less than a scheme for preparing dried eggs. He paid L100 for ...

    Article : 122 words
  10. THE WAR THROUGH BOER GLASSES.

    In view of recent events, the following ex- tracts from the "Standard and Diggers' News," the organ of the Transvaal Government, published on 16th January, will ...

    Article : 678 words
  11. THE ABSENT MINDED MULE

    [The battery mules stampeded. With them went the mules carrying the small-arms ammunition, so that when actual fighting began, the two battalions had ...

    Article : 551 words
  12. PROTECTION IN FACTORIES.

    The authorities are enforcing the provisions of their Factories Acts, and their inspectors are hunting up some of the firms with much rigor. Quite a ...

    Article : 95 words
  13. MASS AND CONFESSION.

    The Bishop of London this week held his primary visitation in St. Paul's Cathedral, and in the course of his deliverance condemned the mass and compulsory ...

    Article : 138 words
  14. KNOWLEDGE FOR ITS OWN SAKE.

    The Bishop of London's dictum, expressed in a scholarly and thought-inspiring address from a Protestant standpoint, which has ...

    Article : 164 words
  15. MONEYLENDERS TO BE CHECKMATED.

    Moneylenders of the class in evidence at the famous Monson trial of a year or two ago will find their dozen aliases more difficult of adoption under Lord James's new ...

    Article : 196 words
  16. JOHANNESBURG.

    The news that all the women and children are to be removed from Johannesburg, and the later cable message advising us that a large Creuzot gun has been ...

    Article : 373 words
  17. A GENTLEMAN PAUPER.

    Captain Philip H. B. Salisbury, son of the late Mr Enoch Gibbons Salisbury a well-known barrister, who at one time represented Chester in Parliament, has ...

    Article : 265 words
  18. AN EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION.

    A strange case has just been decided in the Queen's Bench Division. A school-master sought to recover damages from a young man under twenty-one years of ...

    Article : 332 words
  19. LONDON STREET CHILDREN.

    Kind people often pity the lot of the children of the street, the diminutive and patient population which spends its days outside the houses of the poor. The streets are not, ...

    Article : 435 words
  20. AMERICA.

    "Mr Dooley," writes the "Westminster Gazette," has-been giving New York his ideas on the American abroad. He admits that living in America is very tiring work ...

    Article : 254 words
  21. TO WAVE AT PRETORIA.

    Mr Lyde, head master of the. Bolton Grammar School, and son-in-law of the late Colonel Gildea, commanding the Pretoria garrison in 1881, tells a strange story ...

    Article : 211 words
  22. THE PRINCE'S HAT.

    The Earl of Wemyss is an orator of the ,vociferous order. On Tuesday evening, in one of his muscular flourishes, he swung his arms wide, and struck the crown of ...

    Article : 100 words
  23. HUMAN SACRIFICES.

    A despatch from Apeldoorn to Amsterdam, in Holland, gives particulars of a terrible tragedy, arising out of religious fanaticism, which was enacted in the ...

    Article : 134 words
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    Comforting.—"You are destined to marry riches," the gipsy said; "but—"But what?" "Death will claim you two years before the event." ...

    Article : 99 words
  25. THE SINGING IN CHURCH.

    How few ministers of religion recognize the love of music in their congregations. People like not only to listen to singing, but to join in it, and not a few ...

    Article : 199 words
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    Edison, the inventor, prefers women machinists for the delicate details of his electrical machines. He says that they display more fine sense about machinery ...

    Article : 48 words
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