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  2. AND VIEWS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS.

    In the "Journal of Man," "E.L Dohoney writes:—"Haw the human race originated on earth can never be certainly known to man in mortal form, ...

    Article : 384 words
  3. HYMN TABOOED

    At , a meeting: of the Beckingham,Notts, council school managers, the head teacher was instructed to-discontinue the use of the hymn "All ...

    Article : 84 words
  4. PUZZLING POSERS

    Why is a handsome woman like bread?—Because-she is often toasted.When is a skein of thread like the root of, en oak? When it is full of ...

    Article : 172 words
  5. SMUGGLING

    At Agincourt, on the Franco-Belgium frontier, a man disguised as a priest was arrested for smuggling.When stripped he was found to be ...

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  6. THE SIMPLE LIFE

    Mr. William Edenborn, the richest man in New Orleans, has given up his fashionable residence.in that city in order to live in a humble one-storey ...

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  7. SPECTACLES

    The invention of spectacles is variously attributed to Roger Bacon, in the thirteenth century, and to Alexandra di Spine and Salvino degll Armati, ...

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  8. LIKE MARY'S LAMB

    One of the pupils at Cowden (Kenty School is accompanied every day by a tame pigeon. The bird remains qnietly in school during the lessons ...

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  9. ROOSEVELT

    That President Rooseveit intends to become a New York editor is the interesting rumor in Washington. It is said the President lias arranged to get ...

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  10. FLIRTING IN PUBLIC.

    The Highmore (South Dakota) City Council has passed an ordinance prohibiting flirting in public places tinder pain of fine or Imprisonment Couples ...

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  11. CHOOSING A WIFE.

    Man is so constituted (says Tames Douglas, in the "Morning Leader"7N that he insists upon choosing a wife without the assistance of others. ...

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  12. SOOTHED THE SAVAGE.

    The recent rioting at Belfast : reminds 'one (says the "Christian Age")of an incident which occurred daring the elections in Ireland in a bygone ...

    Article : 265 words
  13. THE CURSE OF COMMERCIALISM.

    The most serious danger hanging over everything in the civilised world to-day is commercialism (says an oversea exchange). It so permeates ...

    Article : 301 words
  14. WHY GIRLS GO WRONG?

    "Why Girls Go Wrong" is the title of a two-page article by Miss Jane.Addams, of Hull House, in the current number of the "Ladles' Home ...

    Article : 214 words
  15. WOMAN CRIMINAL.

    Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, the"witch of finance," probably the most remarkable woman criminal of modern times, who swindled American capitalists out of ...

    Article : 377 words
  16. BIRD REVENGE.

    A correspondent of "Country Life"tells the story of two house martins'nests built against an attic window of a farm, to which the birds came for ...

    Article : 127 words
  17. THE TRUNK HORROR.

    The arrival, of the Goolds, the alleged perpetrators of the recent Paris trunk horror, by special police train at Monte Carlo, is thus described by a ...

    Article : 455 words
  18. THE GERMAN OFFICER.

    I have devoted two days to a study of the German officer German officer (writes a special correspondent of the London "Dally Mall"). He is a fine, heavily-built ...

    Article : 133 words
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  20. WOMEN AND ATHLETICS.

    The open-air life, if it has robbed woman of some of her feminine charm,has also taken away most of her affections and vanities. The athletic ...

    Article : 59 words
  21. CHARLIE ABSOLOM.

    Charlie Absolom, the old Snrrey cricketer, though in his 91st year, ,is still able to work for his living He goes regularty once a week to his shop ...

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  22. SCIENTIFIC GERMANY.

    Germany is systematic in everything,even in crime.In the course of the trial of a thief at Cologne the prosecuting lawyer stated that investigation ...

    Article : 99 words
  23. RIVAL ARMIES.

    That the nineteenth division of the German army has just proved that it can march 40. miles In a day, carrying knapsack, great coat, entrenching tools, ...

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  24. KING EDWARD.

    It is satis [?]trry for his subject une how high in the Net of aged [?]cones Edward Not many Britsh [?]parchs. Edeed, [?] ...

    Article : 99 words
  25. NITROGEN FROM THE AIR.

    The extraction of nitrogen from the air, or, as it is generally termed, the fixation of nitrogen, is receiving attention on the Continent. The Bavarian Government has granted a concession ...

    Article : 209 words
  26. MODERN SLANG.

    America is the great mint in which modern slang is coined A word or a phrase gets into the papers, and is at once current. The representative, of ...

    Article : 234 words
  27. NOVEL.

    A somewhat novel method of assisting a church fund is being adopted in connection with St. Cuthbert's, Chitt'shill, N., (England, where a series of ...

    Article : 54 words
  28. A BRIEFLESS BARRISTER.

    A leading English K.C.Tecenlytold how he was indebted for his rise in the world to the active co-operation of a humble, but resourceful, individual. ...

    Article : 162 words
  29. SAVAGE FEAR.

    The unreasoning fear of, and faith in,the white man's magic which the savage displays does not invariably prevent, him from attempting to invoke ...

    Article : 243 words
  30. EAU DE COLOGNE.

    Everybody is familiar with the odor and properties of eau de Cologne, but few know that the recipe for making the original Italian toilet water, the ...

    Article : 76 words
  31. SIMPLE LIFE.

    Mr. S. R. Littlewood,describing the Garden City, established at Letchworth for the glorification of the simple life,writes:—"The flrst think that is likely ...

    Article : 265 words
  32. A LIVE UNIVERSE.

    Recent discoveries and deductions made therefrom in astronomical circles indicate that the inhabitants of, earth are shortly to establish pretty ...

    Article : 304 words
  33. Advertising

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  34. BERNARD SHAW'S DIET.

    Mr. Bernard Shaw, writing to the London "Daily Mail" on the diet best suited for the sedentary, says?—"There is no best diet, yet discovered for any ...

    Article : 190 words
  35. OBJECTED T0 STRAW HATS.

    Some 800 students of the Carnegie Technical College at Fittsburg objected to the wearing of stray hats by 150 others. The anti-straw hat party ...

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  36. INCOGNITO.

    Amused onlookers who were a ware of the identity of an elderly gentleman making his way with a slight limp along the platform at the Gare du ...

    Article : 178 words
  37. FUTURE NAVAL WARFARE,

    M. Turpin, the French chemist, who invested melinite, says he has made a discovery which will have an ...

    Article : 47 words
  38. "GIRLY" MEN AND VAIN WOMEN.

    A writer In the Melbourne "Age"says a young man dawdled along Collins-Street. He carried a "crook" stick upon his forearm; he walked ...

    Article : 185 words
  39. AN UNHAPPY PAIR.

    A butcher's employee was charged at the Collingwood Police Court the other day with having assaulted his wife, who stated that accused returned ...

    Article : 189 words
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  41. LYNE'S TARIFF.

    Mr. Dodwell, a Brisbane manufacturer, in all innocence, ordered before the new Australian tariff was promulgated l.009 bicycle frames, upon which ...

    Article : 119 words
  42. CHINESE GIRLS' FEET.

    Thirty-two years ago the girls and,women of the Chinese Empire were "under the dominion of a most cruel and ancient custom (writes the Rev. John ...

    Article : 154 words
  43. GOLF AND MATRIMONY.

    I As an illustration of the enthusiasm with which golf is pursued by its votaries, the following anecdote is told of a well-known Scotch author and a ...

    Article : 87 words
  44. THE OLDEST MASON.

    James Bellows McGregor, acknowledged to be the oldest Mason in the world, celebrated his 106th birthday anniversary at Mt Snnapoe, N;H. ...

    Article : 38 words
  45. AN ISLAND OP WOMEN.

    A visitor to Ouessant, off the Brittany coast, will see few'., if any, Onessantais. All that he will see are Ouessantaises—[?]men of One[?] ...

    Article : 42 words
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