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  3. OUR SERIAL STORY

    Tom Dare, an Englishman, wandering about Rotterdam at midnight, encounters a beutiful girl fleeing from two men. He follows, hears a cry and a splash, hurries forward, is seized by one of the men and thrown into the ...

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  4. THOSE WHO WILL DO AUSTRALIA'S FIGHTING AND THOSE WHO WILL LOOK ON.

    Each of these men behind the gun to responsible for the safe keeping of 225 men, women, and children. Excepting 100,000 boy soldiers, whose ages range from 14 to 17, Australia will have in 1912-13 19,000 trained men of from 15 to 19 to defend her shores. This means that each of these trained soldiers will have to protect about 225 defenceless men, women, and children. This position is arrived at because the Commonwealth has put the burden of defending the country upon its ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 168 words
  5. WARSHIP ON MUSSEL BED.

    The cruiser Champion, training ship for second-class stokers at Chatham, has just been taken into dry dock, after lying seven years in the Medway. The Champion's bottom was ...

    Article : 76 words
  6. £2000 A LINE FOR A SONG.

    There is no doubt a popular comic song is a money-making affair. "Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back" earned £20,000 for the author and publisher: "The Bogey Man" ...

    Article : 128 words
  7. PARS FROM ALL PARTS

    On board the cadets' training cruiser Cornwall at Devonport, last month, Commander-in-Chief Admiral Sir Wilmot A. Fawkes. presented the King's Gold Medal to the selected cadet ...

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  8. ARMOR-PLATE FIRES TONS OF OIL.

    One of the destructive possibilities of the manufacture of armor-plates caused a fire in 60 tons of oil at Messrs. Cammell, Laird and Co.'s establishment at Sheffield, England, and other ...

    Article : 110 words
  9. 220 GUINEAS FOR A TURNER.

    Turner's drawing of Caerlaverock Castle, Dumtries, was sold at Christle's, London, for 220 guineas. In the Heugh sale, 1878. It sold for 180 guineas, whilst a year earlier, in the ...

    Article : 38 words
  10. INDIA'S EXTRAORDINARY GROWTH.

    The final provisional census returns for India give the total population of India as 315,000,000 this being an increase of 20,500,000 is compared with the 1901 census. ...

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  11. £100 FOR A RARE DECORATION.

    A specimen of the rare New Zealand Cross was sold in London recently for £100. This cross was granted to Constable Henare Kepa To Ahuru, A.C., for bravery during an attack ...

    Article : 97 words
  12. "UNCLE OF EVERYBODY."

    "He appears to have been passing as the uncle of everybody," remarked the Recorder at Dublin, in sentencing John R. Waller to four years' penal servitude for obtaining goods and ...

    Article : 47 words
  13. AN EYE TO COLOR.

    Hayti, which is now in the throes of one of its perennial revolutions, appears to bread a spirit of sensitive patriotism unknown in other countries. A French paper records that a ...

    Article : 119 words
  14. THE CONFIDENT GERMAN.

    German cannot be defeated by international conferences, but only with the sword in the hand (says the "Die Post," Berlin). But the German sword is still sharper and more ...

    Article : 102 words
  15. LOST ISLAND OF DEAD SEA.

    The Dead Sea is encroaching upon the land about it so rapidly in this decade that whole forests of trees which formerly grow at some distance from its banks are now partially ...

    Article : 30 words
  16. THE KING AND HOUSING.

    The King and Queen gave further evidence of their interest in the housing problem by paying a private visit to the Hampstead Garden Suburb, England, last month. ...

    Article : 212 words
  17. SOME CURIOUS PRACTICES.

    In the "eastern World," a paper published in Lahore, India, Mr. Robert Dulwich. who has travelled extensively in the lesser-known regions of the Himalaya, gives an interesting ...

    Article : 136 words
  18. PECULIAR FEATURE OF MINING.

    A short time ago a man fell from the top of cliff at Dover, and was afterwards found insensible, floating in five feet of water. He had fallen 400 feet. A magazine article, in ...

    Article : 47 words
  19. THE LONGEVITY OF BIRDS.

    An instance was recorded in German paper recently of the shooting of a crow with a ring on its leg bearing a date of over a hundred years ago. In the same week a resident in ...

    Article : 102 words
  20. METHODISTS AND THE VATICAN.

    The long-standing conflict between the Methodists in Rome and the Vatican, which became so accentuated at the time when President Roosevelt was there that it prevented the ...

    Article : 118 words
  21. CRUELTY IN THE GERMAN ARMY.

    The German non-commissioned officer usually appears in the newspaper as a brutal mishandler of recruits, but, according to the "English Mail," he has himself an uncaviable time ...

    Article : 118 words
  22. SO WE GROW.

    A number of painstaking German scientists have given the results of their observation concerning the growth of the human body. They find that development is most rapid in ...

    Article : 144 words
  23. TITLED LADIES' EXAMPLE.

    A young man, John Jenkins, pleaded guilty, at Belfast Assizes last month, to throwing an explosive on the night of the election and seriously injuring a man named Watson. The ...

    Article : 134 words
  24. COUNTESS ARRESTED.

    Countess Zolo Delitala, a beautiful Sardinian, has been arrested at Sassani, Italy, on a charge of being implicated in the murder of her husband, who was found in a lonely spot last June. ...

    Article : 126 words
  25. FLOATING NESTS FOR FLYING FISH.

    Science is beginning to know a good deal more than it formerly did about that strange "drowned meadow" in the Atlantic Ocean, south-west of the Azeres, which is called the Sargusso Sea. ...

    Article : 294 words
  26. INCREASED ASSURANCE.

    The remarkable figures issued by the chief English assurance societies afford striking evidence of the more careful instincts of present-day people. The great Prudential Assurance ...

    Article : 230 words
  27. ORCHESTRA OF HARPS.

    Mr. J. M. Glover has organised a band of harps, at the Palladium, London, at the National Sunday League concerts, and will be conducted by Mr. Glover. ...

    Article : 55 words
  28. CAMPAIGN AGAINST WOOD PIGEONS.

    so serious is the damage being done to green crops in parts of England by flocks of wood pigeons that shooting parties on a large scale have been organised for the destruction of the ...

    Article : 247 words
  29. EGG-STEALING SCOTCH TERRIERS.

    A friend of mine, says a correspondent in the "Scotsman," who rears wall-bred Scotch terriers, made an interesting discovery the other day. For almost a fortnight he had found no ...

    Article : 221 words
  30. WHERE FISHERMEN'S CATGUT IS MADE.

    Probably but a small percentage of the fisherman who use flies strung with fine translucent "catgut" are aware that the almost unbreakable substance that holds the hooks ...

    Article : 138 words
  31. DAHLIAS AND POTATOES.

    By a kind of horticultural irony the dahlia, that popular flower that so often forms a conspicuous display at flower shows, has a dreadfully prosaic parentage. It has been developed ...

    Article : 130 words
  32. RAILROAD ACCIDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES.

    The Inter-State Commerce Commission Accident Bulletin, covering the three months ending September 30, 1910, gives the number of persons killed in train accidents during that ...

    Article : 118 words
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