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  2. THE WIDE WORLD.

    The practice of fencing has been revived among Japanese young noble women. Fifty-two minutes is the time taken ...

    Article : 75 words
  3. THE RAMSGATE FELICIDE

    At Kent Assizes at Maldstone, on 18th July, Samuel Henson, 59, was indicated for the murder of his son at Ramsgate on 25th February by destroying by means ...

    Article : 680 words
  4. FACTORY GIRLS

    For years I have known intimately a set of brave factory girls in London, who have come to my club in the winter evenings, and from them I have heard of the ...

    Article : 868 words
  5. JAPANESE STATESMEN

    Marquis and Field-Marshal Yamagata, the greatest military authority as well as one of the leading political forces in Japan, is one of the few ...

    Article : 711 words
  6. THE COTTON CORNER

    The disastrous cornering, of American cotton is having far-reaching effects. During the cotton famine of 1860 to 1865 an unexampled ...

    Article : 517 words
  7. IN SOMALILAND

    Reuter's correspondent in French Somaliland, writing from Jibutil on June 13, says:—The opening of the railway between Harrar and Jibutil a ...

    Article : 798 words
  8. FARM NOTES.

    Do not abandon the old reliable varieties. Try all the novelties that are brought out, for some of them may be excellent, but do not venture on them ...

    Article : 1,898 words
  9. Unemployed in South Africa.

    Hundreds of able-bodied young persons (writes the "South African Review') are walking the streets of Capetown, Kimberley, and Johannesburg, ...

    Article : 98 words
  10. A Scots Lady Professor in France.

    A Scots lady, Miss Jamieson, has lately been appointed Professor of English language at Grenoble University. As such an appointment would inevitably raise ...

    Article : 106 words
  11. To Kill Nicotine Poison.

    The Paris correspondent of the "Morning Advertiser" states that a young doctor named Petitdidier has just discovered a means of neutralising the action ...

    Article : 117 words
  12. "The Pride of British Astronomy."

    According to the "Westminster Gazette." Jeremiah Horrocks, to whose memory a memorial is to be erected at Southport, was a Lancashire curate, ...

    Article : 175 words
  13. THE DAIRY COW AND HER WORK.

    It is a fact that while we are told to aim at the highest, and enjoined to admire the best in various shapes and forms, the majority jog along quite ...

    Article : 882 words
  14. SOME OF THE ENEMIES OF BEES

    Rees, in common with all classes of the animal kingdom, have many enemies. Of their own genus, Hymenoptera, the wasp and bumble bee, are ever on the watch to enter and ...

    Article : 644 words
  15. The Croton Dam.

    The Croton dam, which is now being constructed to increase the water supply of "Greater New York," will rival, when completed, the famous Assouan dam on ...

    Article : 165 words
  16. A CAMELOT ABROAD

    Napoleon Hayard, "Emperor of the Paris camelots," has been frustrated by the London police in his mission to England, which, to use his own words, was ...

    Article : 463 words
  17. REMARKABLE MONKEYS

    The "Straits Times," published at Singapore, is disposed to ridicule the following surprising item of news from "Science Siftings." That is to say, a journal which ...

    Article : 385 words
  18. Booked Ahead.

    Some good legal stories, if not new, contributed by Mr Stroud, of the Solicitors' Department of the G.P.O., London, appear in the same number. One of the ...

    Article : 166 words
  19. THE LAGOS PRESS

    That busy and growing West African town and port, Lagos, is much exercised about a Newspaper Ordinance brought into the Legislative ...

    Article : 265 words
  20. LEGAL LONDON

    Londoners (says a writer in "The Picture Postcard") are too prone to take long journeys to seek that which is very often at their doors waiting ...

    Article : 442 words
  21. Dinner at Breakfast Time.

    It is a curious fact that with almost every generation the dinner-hour has undergone a change, the principal meal of the day being ...

    Article : 169 words
  22. LADY HERBERT'S JEWELS

    Lady Herbert, wife of Sir Michael Herbert, the British Ambassador, probably would have lost her collection of Jewels on June 24 had it not been for the ...

    Article : 255 words
  23. HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY

    The reports on the recent trials of high-speed electric trains between Berlin and Zossen show that one of the cars actually attained, for a very brief period, a speed ...

    Article : 224 words
  24. A TERRIBLE TALE

    An Italian paper to hand by the last mail states that a pretty maid in the service of Professor Negri attracted the affections of a peasant in ...

    Article : 189 words
  25. The Automatic Telephone.

    Here is an extract from the report of an interview in connection with the installation of the automatic telephone in Chicago:—This exchange is all equipped ...

    Article : 215 words
  26. PANAMAS AND PANCAKES

    "Dear 'Truth,' I have seen in the papers, Whilst reading of this and of that, That there's been what they call in the city 'A slump' in the Panama hat! ...

    Article : 190 words
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