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  2. OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

    The largest room in the world is the room for improvement.—Sir William Mather. ...

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  3. THE GLEBE MURDFR.

    The inquest on the body of Henry Trevascus, whose dead body was found dreadfully mut[?]tated in a room at No 1 Glebe-road, Globe, on November 4, was commenced on Thursday by ...

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  4. TOO MUCH FOR ONE MAN.

    While the philosopher may take the world to pieces in the privacy of his own study, he has to call on the neighbours to help him when he wants to make a better world.—Dr. Edward ...

    Article : 41 words
  5. PROVIDENCE OR DRINK.

    People have been taught to believe that poverty is due to Providence, and when it is not due to Providence they attribute it to drink.—Mr. Ellis Davies, M.P. ...

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  6. THE EDUCATED AGE.

    This is the most educated age that ever has been; everybody seems anxious to educate somebody else at a third party's expense.—Bishop of St. Germans. ...

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  7. THE GARMENTS OF PRAISE.

    As long as people put on particularly expensive clothes to go to church it will be very difficult for a large number of people to attend.— Rev. W. Temple. ...

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  8. BEWARE OF CONTEMPT.

    The spirit of contempt is dangerous; it destroys the balance of human judgment and makes impartiality impossible.—Bishop of Ripon. ...

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  9. READY, AYE, READY.

    It is a fundamental fact in English life that whenever there is a demand for it there is a sudden rush of self-sacrifice.—Dr. R. F. Horton. ...

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  10. NOT ASLEEP.

    When we compare the expenditure on the British Navy with that of the Power to which we most look at present it will be found to be double. There may be some doubt as to whether ...

    Article : 61 words
  11. THE TESTING OF DEMOCRACY.

    There is no divine right behind democracy; it is only a form of government, to be tested, like other forms, by its fitness to govern.—The Archbishop of York. ...

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  12. THE BEST EDUCATION.

    We have not yet succeeded in making the British public appreciate that self-education is the highest and most serviceable and the most profitable kind of education.—Sir William ...

    Article : 31 words
  13. THE JOY OF LIFE.

    A normal English boy who gives other boys black eyes does not know what it means to be a miserable sinner.—Rev. A. J. Waldron. ...

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  14. REFORMERS' SHAME.

    An indispensable note in the temper of reformers towards the wrongs of our times is a feeling something akin to personal shame and contrition.—Professor G. A. Smith, ...

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  15. QUALITIES OF LEADERSHIP.

    Force, fervour, intensity—these are the qualities which have given their power to great leaders in all the movements by which the world has been swayed.—Mr. James Bryce. ...

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  16. A FAULT OF THE SYSTEM.

    One of the greatest blots in our education system is that to a large extent we stop short at the most important period of a child's life.— Colonel Sir J. D. Legard. ...

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  17. THE UNPARDONABLE SIN.

    Very often the chief difference between the criminal and the rest of us is that the criminal has been caught and we haven't.—Dr. Devon. ...

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  18. ALWAYS WITH US.

    If every working man in this country were thrifty, industrious, sober, and competent, we should still have poverty, because the workers are poor in spite of their vices.—Mr. Cyril ...

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  19. HOW WAGS THE WORLD.

    A matrimonial bureau, described as a "clearing house for lonely souls," is the latest municipal institution in the United States. Its founder, Mr. Hauna, mayor of Des Moines, ...

    Article : 118 words
  20. THE SISTER NATIONS.

    Any attempt to check the national development of the colonies, or to deal with them in a captious or carping spirit, would alienate our kinsmen over the seas. We must allow them ...

    Article : 55 words
  21. THE TOWN DWELLER.

    A modern Englishman bears the mark of being urban. He gets his water from the tap, his excitement from newspapers, his work is regularised on urban conditions, and he goes ...

    Article : 48 words
  22. BOYS' FATAL DUEL.

    A pistol duel between high school boys has been fought at Teichel, near Rudolstadt. A sixteen-year-old boy named Von Necker was killed, and his opponent, who was eighteen, was ...

    Article : 94 words
  23. A HOPELESS TASK.

    In the Middle Ages the whole library of the world could be contained in a cupboard. The largest libary did not exceed four hundred volumes. These were the monastic libraries. ...

    Article : 104 words
  24. WHILE THE BAND PLAYED.

    A Hungarian named William Hoechst recently made an attempt to murder his sweet-heart in a suburb of Budapest while he was serenading her. They had been engaged for ...

    Article : 140 words
  25. THE FIRST AERIAL POST.

    The ancient records of China reveal the fact that our aerial post was forestalled some thousands of years ago, aptly enough by a Celestial. It is true that the first postal airman was an ...

    Article : 202 words
  26. DEMOCRACIES AND WAR.

    The free and enlightened democracies of the world are beginning to realise that war is a relic of barbarism, and should have no place in the civilisation of the twentieth century. Militarism ...

    Article : 61 words
  27. PALACE FOR CABMEN.

    The union of cabmen and taxi-drivers of Paris is now the possessor of a veritable palace for its members, it is situated at Levallois-Perret, and is the most complete trade union building of ...

    Article : 86 words
  28. A NEW EARTH.

    I am taunted that I have promised a new heaven and a new earth. They seem to think that phrase was uttered by me. I am a humble believer in it. I should like to be able in a ...

    Article : 132 words
  29. AVIATORS AND THEIR PAY.

    After considerable controversy it has now been decided that French soldiers and officers engaged in aviation shall receive special pay. This is to be a considerable advance on the ...

    Article : 143 words
  30. CARDS FOR DOGS.

    Amongst the latest novelties in Paris are visiting cards for dogs. Pet dogs who accompany their owners when visiting now leave their card on the dogs at the houses they visit. The cards ...

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  31. A HEALTHY SIGN.

    The determination of the masses of the people to better their conditions is one of the most healthy signs the country can have.—Sir W. H. Lever. ...

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  32. OPPRESSORS OF THE PEOPLE.

    In a country like our own, which for weal or woe has placed its destinies in the hands of the people, if the people are oppressed they are their own oppressors.—Mr. Phillip Snowden, M.P. ...

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  33. DIVORCE COURT.—THURSDAY.

    Mr. R. W. Fraser appeared for the petitioner, Henry Arthur Egan, who sought for a dissolution of his marriage with Mary Evelyn Egan, formerly Cross, on the ground of desertion. In ...

    Article : 187 words
  34. RAINBOW AT MIDNIGHT.

    The very rare atmospheric phenomenon of a rainbow by moonlight has recently been witnessed in the Alps. Towards eleven o'clock at night a thick bank of clouds collected above the little ...

    Article : 125 words
  35. STILL TRYING.

    I started with, two ambitions. They were— and I make them candid confessions—to be Prime Minister and to win the Derby. I have been second in the Derby arid am about to be ...

    Article : 53 words
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  37. KIDNAPPED BY BRIGANDS.

    Signorina Laura Abbate, the twenty-year-old daughter of a wealthy merchant at Palermo, has been kidnapped by brigands in broad daylight in one of the main thoroughfares of the ...

    Article : 124 words
  38. WOMAN'S HEAD IN STRONG ROOM.

    A woman's head in a state of mummification has been found in a box in the strong room of a bank at Nice. The principal partner in the bank. M. Crossa. died some months ago, and in ...

    Article : 222 words
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