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  2. END OF OLD WARSHIPS.

    The gloirous end of the Vindictive, sunk by her own gallant crew across the month of the Ostend Canal, brings to mind the fact that the life ...

    Article : 357 words
  3. VICTOR HUGO'S GREAT GRANDSON.

    News of the distinguished conduct, at Cantigny, of Lieut. Victor Hugo, who is attached to the American forces in France as instructor, will ...

    Article : 256 words
  4. FOOTBALL IN CHINA.

    The Chinese, first as they were in many things, were first in the field with that winter pastime we regard as peculiarly out own—football. ...

    Article : 143 words
  5. THE LETTERS COME.

    Letters are great travellers: For 2½d. you can send them all round the world—through the hot, glaring bazaars of Tangier, or up the ...

    Article : 577 words
  6. BACK FROM THE DEAD.

    Three years ago a London resident received official notification of the death in action of her husband. one of the "Old Contemptibles." After ...

    Article : 83 words
  7. BOY AND THE BISHOP.

    Some racy stories of the East-end boy were told to the Aldwych Club by Rev. R. Hyde, director of the Boys' Welfare Association. ...

    Article : 206 words
  8. SAVED BY PIGEONS.

    A recogaised place in our sea Warfare is taken by the Naval Pigeon Service. The birds, who number several thousands, have repeatedly been ...

    Article : 221 words
  9. GERMAN STATISTICS FALSIFIED.

    Dr. George Usher, for many years a resident in Germany, and whose daughters were on intimate terms with the daughters of Field-Marshal ...

    Article : 138 words
  10. "ENTERTAINING" FATHER.

    Many a man who permits himself to be led forth to musical entertainments he does not care for will appreciate this story:— ...

    Article : 29 words
  11. GIRLS FACE ENEMY SHELLS.

    Indications of the hazards of the life of the Salvation Army workers with the American troops are contained in letters to officials of the ...

    Article : 365 words
  12. CORRECT.

    Sir Wilfrid Laurier was once on an electioneering tour in Ontario, and, as elections were bitterly contested, every effort was made to stir up race ...

    Article : 79 words
  13. HARD METAL CUT BY SOFT

    A bar of hard steel is cut rapidly with a revolving dine of soft iron. This is caused by the intense heat produced by the friction: the heat ...

    Article : 132 words
  14. BLOOD FOR A CHILD.

    Out of the hundreds of volunteers of both sexes who were eager to give their blood to save a child's life, a man was chosen. The operation of ...

    Article : 97 words
  15. WONDERFUL PREHISTORIC MUMMY.

    The discovery in the United States of the "Mummy Trachodon" furnishes a new and fascinating chapter which nearly doubles all previous ...

    Article : 899 words
  16. ORIGIN OF RABBIT FOOT CHARM.

    An explanation of the marvellous and mysterious properties of the rabbit foot as a good luck piece is to be found in the fact that witcheraft ...

    Article : 96 words
  17. MOVIES CRITICISED IN AFRICA.

    According to John F. Jewell, Consul at Lourenco Marques, East Africa, the local newspaper recently criticised Americas motion picture ...

    Article : 220 words
  18. RE-BIRTH OF BABEL.

    The arid tracts where out own troops and General Allenby's are fighting, and the desert between, span the whole land of Holy Writ, from ...

    Article : 314 words
  19. THE DIFFERENCE.

    The famous Polish pianist, Paderewski, who recently celebrated his 37th birthday, possesses a pretty with One of his impro[?]ptus is worth ...

    Article : 93 words
  20. U-BOAT CREW GO MAD.

    Stark honor! That alone will describe the scene in a certain German submarine which went to the bottom after striking a mine. ...

    Article : 580 words
  21. HEALTH AND FOOD SHORTAGE.

    Since it is the part of wisdom to turn everything, even misfortune, to use, there is considerable interest in what good effects may be had from ...

    Article : 145 words
  22. MARRIAGE BY PROXY.

    Many French soldiers and their sweethearts are taking advantage of a recent law enacted by the French Government, and getting married by ...

    Article : 111 words
  23. "GET A MOVE ON."

    "Vot you vant to marry der girl for?" asked Isaacstein. "Fader," answered Issy, "you've never seen her, else you vouldn't ask ...

    Article : 72 words
  24. HIS WAR RATION.

    In the barber's shop the scissors clicked away merrily, and the barber's dog lay on the floor close beside the chair, looking up intently all ...

    Article : 77 words
  25. BI-PRODUCTS OF LOCUSTS.

    Locusts are plentiful in Uruguay, and the farmers of that republic are compelled to keep up a constant war against them. Millions of these ...

    Article : 80 words
  26. MEANT HAVING SOMETHING GOOD.

    It was one of those rare moments when life seems divine. He was gazing with dreamy eyes into the limpid sea. ...

    Article : 69 words
  27. LARGEST CIRCULATION.

    The world-famous editor was dying, but when the doctor bent over, placed his car on his breast, and said: "Poor man! Circulation almost ...

    Article : 75 words
  28. RELATED TO BOTH.

    A dude was sitting in a street car, and by his side he had a little dog. An Irishman on the other side of him was very much interested in the ...

    Article : 103 words
  29. SOAP AND WATER.

    A district visitor was going her rounds one bright spring morning. In a crowded teneme[?] some five or six little children gazed inquiringly at ...

    Article : 121 words
  30. NO MATTER WHAT COLOUR.

    A well-known clergyman met two of his own parishioners at the house of a lawyer whom he considered too sharp a practitioner. ...

    Article : 85 words
  31. Advertising

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    Advertising : 42 words
  32. A DUTCHMAN'S ANSWER.

    "Vy iss der sun like a loaff of bread?" "Because it rises in der yeast and sets perhind der vost." ...

    Article : 25 words
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