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  2. SIR HIRAM MAXIM'S REAL SECRET

    The captive flying-machines which Sir Hiram Maxim is building to give the patrons of the Crystal palace and Earl's court a taste of what an ...

    Article : 1,298 words
  3. TRICKED AND TRAPPED

    It was very dark when they came out of the Kursaal. They both stopped involuntarily, and looked up at the heavens. There was a brownish streak ...

    Article : 1,427 words
  4. THE FALL OF BABEL

    Sir .William Ramsay writes in the "Daily Mail" of 12th March:— The progress of science during the last fifty years has had the effect of ...

    Article : 1,391 words
  5. AS OTHERS SEE US

    "Pardon. Madame," said the attendant. The little bride looked up with a quick shy smile at the man beside her. To be called Madame was evidently a new ...

    Article : 1,432 words
  6. PATCHED UP

    There was no occasion for doubting, no probability of being mistaken—the second glance would surely verify what the first might easily ...

    Article : 878 words
  7. LEARNING LONDON

    Pity the poor colonial returning to London after an absence of many years I have been roughing it so long in South Africa (writes "just Home") that ...

    Article : 404 words
  8. HISTORIC NUMBERS

    Probably none of the revolutionary changes effected by the new War Office reformers will be quite so welcome as that which gives back to the regiments of ...

    Article : 413 words
  9. DO WE SLEEP ENOUGH?

    A well-known London medico writes to the London "Daily Mail":— STRESS OF MODERN LIFE. We do not sleep enough. ...

    Article : 533 words
  10. JAPANESE CARPENTERS

    Japanese carpenters are the only workmen on the World's Fair grounds at St Louis who wear gay uniforms. Their loose-fitting jackets ...

    Article : 243 words
  11. FIRST WAR CORRESPONDENT

    Probably the first war correspondent was Henry Crabb Robinson, who in January. 1807. received a proposal from Mr Walter that he should take up his ...

    Article : 346 words
  12. WAR IN TOYS

    Since the outbreak of war in the Far East there has been a record "boom" in 'war toys, and the London toy shops are full of topical novelties. ...

    Article : 380 words
  13. INDIGNANT WAITRESSES

    "Have you a bun, Miss?" It was a question innocently asked by a mild City clerk during his midday meal, but it evoked a severe ...

    Article : 307 words
  14. THE QUALITY OF MERCY.

    The present agitation to abolish the pronouncing of the death sentence in cases where it is patent that capital punishment will not follow, will probably ...

    Article : 365 words
  15. WOMAN'S WORLD

    It is now (says a writer in the "Saturday Pall Mall"') nearly forty years since Mrs Lynn Linton. with heavy touch and total lack of humor. constituted herself ...

    Article : 412 words
  16. DEFIES THE STAGE VILLIAN

    Limonier a stalwart furniture remover of Paris has peculiar views about the drama, something like those of the British sailor, who was reported to have ...

    Article : 160 words
  17. VULGARITY

    It is impossible to define vulgarity. It is a disease of character, producing different symptoms according to the moral constitution upon which it fastens and ...

    Article : 119 words
  18. JAPANESE CRADLE SONG

    None San, Little Lady Moon, How old are you? Thirteen days, ...

    Article : 90 words
  19. WHERE HE DREW THE SWORD.

    After a certain victory a College Professor entertained one night a group of students at his residence. A magnificent sword hung over the fireplace ...

    Article : 107 words
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    The Bishop of Chester has just issued to the clergy and laity a rearrangement of the Athanasian Creed, in which three of the so-called "damnatory" clauses ...

    Article : 74 words
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