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  2. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    With a view to assist in the prevention of consumption the Leamington Town Council (Eng.) has instructed the borough medical officer of health to ...

    Article : 70 words
  3. AROUND THE WORLD

    I frankly cannot understand how a woman does not know whether she wants to marry a men or not. Of all the affairs of life this seems to me the ...

    Article : 63 words
  4. PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.

    There was another pause, during which John Preston sat with his brows knit, and Sir Ronald lit another cigarette and waited uneasily for the words ...

    Article : 3,008 words
  5. A DEADLY VENDETTA.

    Twenty years ago an Albanian chief named Duka killed another chief named Bajanis, near Scutari. Ever since a fierce feud has raged between ...

    Article : 89 words
  6. SUPERSEDING THE PORTER.

    The Metropolitan railway authorities in Paris have been testing the phonograph as a means for proclaiming the names of stations, directions of trains, ...

    Article : 60 words
  7. MINUTE MEASUREMENTS.

    The chronoscope, which is an instrument used in gunnery for determining the velocity with which a projectile travels while on its passage between ...

    Article : 97 words
  8. A REMARKABLE WILL.

    Mr. Harvey Scott, of Faribault, Minnesota, who publicly burned bank-notes amounting to £400 last winter, has Just died, at the age of 82. In order ...

    Article : 112 words
  9. MALTA INDIGNANT.

    Bitter opposition to Mr. Chamberlain's decision to levy taxation in Malta by Order in Council continues, and is fanned by the Ralophiles. A mass ...

    Article : 59 words
  10. LESSON FROM THE SILKWORM.

    At the Zoological Congress at Berlin last month Professor Schenk delivered a lecture on his well-known theory regarding the determination of sex. The ...

    Article : 164 words
  11. WINDFALL FOR M. DUMONT.

    The "Presse" of August 12 thated that the Republic of Brazil intends to present a premium of £11,000 to M. Santos Dumont ...

    Article : 63 words
  12. CIDER IN THE FIRE HOSES.

    While absinthe added to the fury of the flames at the big distillery fire at Pontarlier, cider helped to put them out at Caudezout. near Lorient. A fire ...

    Article : 125 words
  13. IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

    An impression has been created that the Government mean in the near future to deal with the extraordinary over-representation of Ireland in the ...

    Article : 68 words
  14. NEW BURDEN FOR PARIS.

    The long-suffering Paris taxpayer has been informed, by a notice posted on the walls of the city, that another new tax has been decreed by the ...

    Article : 162 words
  15. THE COLONEL'S COMPARISON.

    In a letter from London to Mr. Fred. Ernst. Colonel Knight, father of Miss Portia Knight, whose breach of promise suit against the Duke of ...

    Article : 74 words
  16. OXYGEN GAS.

    According to M. Raoul Pictat, a famous Swiss inventor, his latest discovery in regard to the manufacture of oxygen gas will revolutionise the metal ...

    Article : 270 words
  17. JOURNALISM IN NORWAY.

    Our readers will notice that the present number of this paper is published on a Friday, instead of Wednesday. The editor, sub-editors, and staff, who ...

    Article : 64 words
  18. THE LATEST IN ROBBERY.

    The Paris papers record the very latest thing in robbery—and also the meanest of mean thefts. Two hawkers, named Francols Crepe, alias Chignon, ...

    Article : 138 words
  19. DARING AUTOMOBILE FEAT.

    Two Americans. Messrs Anchor and Friars, created a record by ascending the Grand Bernard from Martigny in an automobile. The astonishment of ...

    Article : 67 words
  20. EFFECT OF AN EXPLOSION.

    More than 30 tons of nitro-glycerine were exploded at Sen Francisco by electricity. the object being to destroy the arch of rock which is the greatest ...

    Article : 154 words
  21. AN HYPNOTIC MIRACLE.

    A correspondent at Beauvais (Oise) furnishes the "Daily Mail" with the following particulars of a notable cure by hypnotic suggestion which Dr. ...

    Article : 380 words
  22. SWISS ELECTRIC TRIUMPH.

    Messrs. Wyss and Co., of Zurich. electrical engineers, have obtained a great success in America. The installation works for the illumination of ...

    Article : 113 words
  23. "THE BITING MACHINE."

    The latest dodge of the Paris vagabond is a biting machine—a steel pincer which, when it closes on a man's arm. leaves a mark closely resembling ...

    Article : 169 words
  24. LAUNGUAGE-TINKERING.

    The latest plea for reforming—or deforming—the spelling of the English language, put forward at the recent meeting of the American Philological ...

    Article : 100 words
  25. A DANGEROUS NEIGHBOUR.

    Baron Stietencron, a retired Prussian officer living on his estate in Alsace, recently shot and killed an Italian workman who, with some others, ...

    Article : 98 words
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