A Tragic .case Of .accidental Poisoning Occurred Last...
Loch Masse, in Ross-shire. No fewer than eight persons, members of a fishing party, died as the result of eating potted meat. Other members of the party who did not eat the......
He Spent His -youth In The Great Impeopkd Plains Of
South America, and he seemed always to wear about him the air of those vast quiet spaces which he loved. This was always very apparent when on rare occasions one found him in a......
Last Sunday Was The First On. Which Games Have Been
allowed In the parks. Cricket was, as ever in England, the king game. The Times tells us that throe distinct kinds of matches were to be detected—those of no flannels or pads,......
The Symptoms Displayed By The Victims In Scotland—double...
progressive paralysis, with diffioulty in.speaking and swallowing, all without any rise of temperature—correspond exactly, says Dr. Ledingham, to the symptoms of botulism as It......
The International Chess Congress Finished On Saturday...
champion, retained his title and also contributed daily bulletins of how he was doing it to the Times. The coldly scientific nature of his and of the other masters' play aroused......
And Of All Games, What Could Be So Wonderful A
recreation as cricket, with its charm, its grace, the beauty of the great green lawns it is played on, and the almost mystic fascination of its mighty tradition? August is the......
She Immediately Began To Study For The Stage And Appeared
as Lady Macbeth in Manchester in 1873. In 1893 Sir Henry Irving engaged her and she was recognized as one of our greatest actresses. She had an astonishing success on the......
Dame Genevieve Ward Died Last Friday At The Age Of
85. Her life was one of exceptional romance. She was born in the United States, but from her early girlhood she spent most of her time in Europe. Her training for the operatic......
This Is The True Reason For Games And For The
essential part they play in our national life. And yet the profound if well- intentioned folly of those who would deny them to 90 per cent. of our population by forbidding their......
Mr. W. H. Hudson, Who Died Last Friday, Was In
many respects a unique figure. Asa, naturalist he was unsurpassed in his own field. His abnormal memory for the details of Nature and his unusually accurate power of observation......
Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent., Changed From 3i Per Cent.
July 13, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 100i; Thursday week, 100*; a year ago, 88.......
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