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  2. A DRAMATIST OF THE DAY

    Mr Rudolph de Cordova writes in the "Daily Mail":—With "Merrie England" produced at the Savoy on Wednesday, and "My Pretty ...

    Article : 1,542 words
  3. EDISON'S LATEST.

    In the London "Daily Mail" of March 29th W. B. Northdrop writes: Thomas A. Edison has just achieved another of his wonderful ...

    Article : 1,838 words
  4. MINISTERS AT PLAY.

    Formerly the pastimes of his Majesty's Ministers were cards and dice. To-day the recreations of the King's advisers are based upon a diet of fresh ...

    Article : 737 words
  5. CECIL RHODES.

    Mr Rhode' was always trying to look ahead at the South Africa of the future. "To-day," he characteristically observed, "they call Rhodes a land-grabber 'and "a ...

    Article : 735 words
  6. NEW YORK.

    "It's no use dogmatising," I was saying one afternoon as we came round the corner into Park-row; "let us just try and think this thing out calmly and—"I ...

    Article : 1,569 words
  7. ASTROLOGY AND COMETS

    Astrologers the world over are seeking to fathom the curious coincidental connection between Encke's comet and the assassination of three Presidents of the ...

    Article : 349 words
  8. NOT POPULAR IN LONDON.

    A "Westminster" representative has seen several officers of Highland regiments in London with regard to the proposed abolition of the kilt, and, ...

    Article : 628 words
  9. FISHING FOR TIGER

    Mr W. Sherwill tells in this month's "Wide World Magazine" a very wonderful story. The scene of the incident was the wild and remote north-eastern ...

    Article : 545 words
  10. THE PACIFIC CABLE

    The exchange of messages which has taken place between the Postmaster of New Zealand and Mr Chamberlain over the first section of the Pacific cable ...

    Article : 425 words
  11. SCIENCE OF THE SEA

    Prince Albert of -Monaco writes as under in "Smart Set":—One of the latest of the great sciences to come to maturity is that study of the ...

    Article : 598 words
  12. STEALING AN EARL.

    Bill Sykes has stolen many things in his day, but never, surely, anything more remarkable than a corpse. The carrying away of a corpse in a Cheshire ...

    Article : 318 words
  13. SAILING ON LAND

    The queerest craft that ever sailed glides over the pathless stretches of shifting sand that comprise the dreaded Mojave Desert in Southern California. It ...

    Article : 466 words
  14. A DYING INDUSTRY

    The jobmasters to the King (when Prince of Wales) and to several European monarchs are offering for sale by auction their goodwill, their premises, and their ...

    Article : 341 words
  15. FATHER OF HIS SUBJECTS

    In his autobiography Sir Walter Besant wrote as follows:—"Childish ignorance may sometimes lead one into strange confusions. I was ...

    Article : 299 words
  16. A TALL STORY.

    Some startling yarns are told in an article in "St. Nicholas" dealing with certain "Careers of Danger and Daring": "Tell ye a queer thing," ...

    Article : 218 words
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    There never was a riper period than the present for a Gilbert. We have on every side socially and in p[?]liics. themes quite as susceptible to the Gilbertian ...

    Article : 103 words
  18. Hard Lines.

    Magistrate: You ought to be ashamed of yourself. The idea of hitting your wife with a flat-iron! Prisoner (aggrievedly): Well, the poker was ...

    Article : 26 words
  19. When He Had Sense.

    He: Ethel, what can it mean? Last night I dreamed that I pro- posed to you She: I should say it meant that you were more sensible asleep than awake. ...

    Article : 33 words
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