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  2. PIERPONT MORGAN.

    Mr Pierpont Morgan, says Mr I. S. Baker, "impresses one as a large man, thick of chest, with a big head set close down on burly shoulders, features ...

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  3. ENGLISH SOCIETY

    Before I attempt to answer this question, proposed to me by the editor, I must carefully distinguish between society and the nation. I am not ...

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  4. NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.

    For the sixth quarter sessions in succession the Recorder of Penzance has had no prisoners before him for trial Mrs Bellairs (to visitor): So sorry, my ...

    Article : 1,339 words
  5. THE KWANG-SI REVOLT.

    Though there is an essential difference between the avowed aims of the Boxers, who in 1900 overran Chih-li, and those of the excited peasantry of the extreme ...

    Article : 601 words
  6. THE PESTERED PORTE.

    It is confidently stated here (says the correspondent of a contemporary, at Constantinople) that the unification scheme is progessing satisfactorily. It ...

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  7. NOTABLE WILLS.

    Extremes met in the will of Napoleon. There was something in this last testament very mean, with something very heroic. He left behind. ...

    Article : 252 words
  8. NOBLER SIDE OF "THE LAST PHASE."

    There was a nobler phase of the last testament of Napoleon. In his last days at St. Helena his thoughts were with the brave men of his ...

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  9. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, MILLIONAIRE.

    It is Napoleon's will which, among those of great men, affords the nearest approach to that of Mr Rhodes in the fortune it bequeaths. He was, ...

    Article : 137 words
  10. ANOTHER DANGER.

    There is, according to the "Lancet" another danger threatening the un—"happy householder. It has for years been the custom in many families. to ...

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  11. A MISER'S END.

    "Within the last thre weeks," writes the Paris correspondent of the D" Daily Mail" (May 30) " this city has been startled by three ...

    Article : 535 words
  12. ALFRED THE GREAT.

    The wills of great men have not often been of paramount interest. Alfred's was among the exceptions, and it stands to-day, after a ...

    Article : 185 words
  13. IN FAR OFF YUKON.

    The arrival in London of Mr F. C. Wade. K.C., Crown Prosecutor in the Yukon, serves as a reminder that, so far as England is ...

    Article : 399 words
  14. ONE PARIS ONLY.

    How fond are most of us of detecting —so we imagine—little likenesses, little similarities, between peoples, countries, things! (says a writer in the "Saturday ...

    Article : 445 words
  15. HIS LAST WISH.

    Alfred's will was notable, too, for a passage on slavery. He had not been able, in his life-time, to entirely free the slaves on his lands, and ...

    Article : 167 words
  16. A FRENCH DRUMMER.

    Everybody knows the stories concerning girls and women who, caught up in the patriotic enthusiasm often accompanying the beginning of a war, have ...

    Article : 335 words
  17. SNOWLESS ASASKA.

    According to the report of the Special Agent of the Department of Agriculture in charge of Alaska investigations, a traveller may go from one end of the Yukon ...

    Article : 272 words
  18. THE "FORMIDABLE" ACCIDENT.

    The following details were received in Rome on April 29 from Maddalena, Sardinia, of the accident on the British battleship Formidable:— ...

    Article : 169 words
  19. EXPENSIVE GIRAFFES

    Speaking generally, it is undoubtedly the larger animals for which, were they put up to auction, the bidding would be highest; and of these the giraffe, of the ...

    Article : 203 words
  20. IN CENTRAL ASIA.

    It is reported in "Engineering News" (New York) that a Central Asian Inland Sea is proposed in an elaborate project worked out by M. Demchenko, a Russian ...

    Article : 224 words
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    Poetess: The poem I sent you Mr. Editor, contains the deepert secrets of my soul. Editor: I know it, madam, and no one shall ever find them out through ...

    Article : 65 words
  22. A New Complaint.

    Doctor: You ride a horseless carriage a lot, I believe, don't you. Patient: Yes, I do. Doctor: Ah, I thought so. You are ...

    Article : 59 words
  23. On the Alps.

    On the Alps,—She: Oh, what a lovely view. I cannot understand how you can remain so apathetic in view of one of nature's wondrous works. Don't you ...

    Article : 56 words
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