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  2. NEWS AND NOTES.

    For sweating witnesses in the London Police Courts, a Bible with celluloid backs is being made. After being kissed by a witness it is wished in ...

    Article : 3,505 words
  3. THE STORY-TELLER.

    Written specially for The Mercury Literary Supplement by the Dan Wynno, authors of "One of the Royal Celts," "Days in Sicily," "David," ...

    Article : 35 words
  4. THEY ARRIVED IN TIME.

    Not only is heroism found among women on rafts or small boats, or even on the field of battle, it also bursts forth occasionally in the no less ...

    Article : 282 words
  5. CHAPTER I.

    It was only a small, low homestead, built of undressed grey, native stone, standing on the bleak, black cliff's, overlooking Cardigan Bay. Its situation ...

    Article : 6,023 words
  6. A GIANT "DITCH."

    The career of prosperity which the Manchester Ship Canal appears to have entered upon at last has inspired Brussels to favour a similar project for ...

    Article : 260 words
  7. BRITISH OFFICERS ON THE STAGE.

    If our memory serves us correctly, Mr. Punch or one of his comic rivals had some comments on "The character of Napoleon Bounaparte judging from ...

    Article : 313 words
  8. THE RITUALIST PARSON.

    Dr. Guinness Rogers writes as follows in the Nineteenth Century:—"The strength of a chain is at its weakest point, and the real influence of a system ...

    Article : 450 words
  9. TOPICAL ITEMS.

    In every-ay life the most formidable type of woman is the so-called "little woman." She is the woman of greatest power socially and in every walk of ...

    Article : 205 words
  10. GREAT MEN'S DOCTORS.

    The Pope is becoming very disobedient. Though Dr. Lapponi, the papal physician, recently insisted that his Holiness was not to leave his bed ...

    Article : 278 words
  11. A LIVING PICTURE SCHEME.

    There is an individual in Paris who has been working the living, picture idea very profitably for himself at the expense of a portion of the frail sex. ...

    Article : 314 words
  12. "THE DOGS OF WAR."

    An interesting article in Pearson's Magazine describe? the training that is given to the war-dogs of the Prussian Army. ...

    Article : 418 words
  13. THE QUEEN AND HER SUN SHADE.

    The Queen is a very keen observer when out driving. A story related of her—and I happen to know that it is true—runs as follows:—The season ...

    Article : 200 words
  14. HUMOUR OF THE INSANE.

    "I was sitting in my office the other day," said the superintendent of an insane asylum, "when one of the patients, a harmless follow who is ...

    Article : 291 words
  15. SISTERS OF MERCY.

    Multitudes of people will be distressed to learn that sisters of mercy—the genuine Roman Catholic variety—die, on an average, in their 36th year. ...

    Article : 334 words
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