Sacrifices of Fame for a Top British Judge
A profile of Sir Rufus Isaacs as he rises to Lord Chief Justice of England, detailing the monetary tradeoffs and fees foregone with high office. It contrasts his income with prior earnings, notes the salary structure of the judiciary, and recalls historical quirks of judicial appointments including anecdotes about predecessors.
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England
Bir
Rufus Isaacs
Lord Alverstone
Gland
Tlk
Crounsel
Sir Pufus
Rufus
John Simon
King’s Bench
Edward Coke
Chit
Sir Rufus Isaacs
House of Commons
Reading
Lord Kenyon
Wags
Lord Ellenborough
Tenterden
Wright
Jeffreys
Difference In Premiers and their humbling origins
In Wise’s history of the Australian Commonwealth a contrast is drawn between Sir Henry Parkes and Gladstone. Parkes recalls humble beginnings from rope-walks and brickyards to public life, paralleling Gladstone’s youth in distinctly different settings. The remark reflects on the origins of leadership.
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B. R. Wise
Henry Parkes
Commonwealth
G. W. E. Russell
Gladstone
Mr. Wise
Eton
Oxford
Australia
Sir Henry
Unusually Short Groom Marries Bride in Stepney Green Synagogue
A wedding in Stepney Green London ended with an exceptionally short groom of 36 inches in height marrying a bride only a few inches taller. The ceremony drew attention for the couple’s remarkable stature difference.
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Stepney Green
London
Elephants and Children in Indian Jungalow Life
In India mahout families often have children raised with elephants. The elephants protect naked toddlers at water and carry them on backs. Youngsters grow into mahouts, learning to guide these first class creatures through daily jungle life.
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India
Cleopatra's Needle Obelisk Base Eccentric Loot List
London visitors’ favorite Cleopatra's Needle includes a curious base vault list from its erection. Items range from scale models and engravings to coins, Bibles, a translation of St John’s verse, a razor, cigars, hairpins, and a hydraulic jack used in raising the obelisk.
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London
Thames Embankment
Dr. Birch
Origin of the O in Front of Oporto
The city once called Porto in Portugal gained the prefix O in Oporto from Irish regiments serving with Wellington during the Peninsular War. The soldiers jokingly coupled O with surnames like O T ool es and O H ar as, leading to the widely used name seen today.
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Oporto
Portugal
Porto
Duke of Wellington
O’tooles
O'Haras
Hat Provokes Clash as Edward Lear Painted in Albania
Edward Lear, the inventor of Limericks, faced fierce hostility in Ochrida Albania while sketching landscapes. He wore a large white wide awake hat that offended locals who pelted him with stones sticks and mud from behind walls and rocks amid the fighting.
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Ochrida
Edward Lear
Albania
First London Coliseum Offerings in Regency Era
The first London Coliseum opened in Regent's Park in August 1829 with varied entertainments. A British Museum collection of Coliseum programs from 1849 to 1856 shows dissolving views Bedouin Arabs marble groupings ballad concerts featuring Braham and Mme Sala panoramas French plays and English operas.
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London Coliseum
Colosseum
Regent’s Park
George
British Museum
Braham
Mme. Sala
Some Famous Pearls Through British History
The article recalls fine cave pearls found at Matlock and notes Britain’s historical fame in pearls. It mentions a breast plate dedicated to Venus by Caesar, Scotch pearls known in Paris by 1355, a flourishing Scotch pearl trade in Charles II's era, and Scottish pearl production valued at 1865 dollars in 1865.
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Matlock
Britain
Paris
Charles II
Scotland
Epidemics of railway accidents span years and regions
A study notes cycles of rail crashes, from the Aisgill Moor disaster to the Flying Scotsman derailment, listing causes such as carelessness and climate. It mentions historical waves in 1870 and 1873, including malice driven wrecks, landslides, tunnel collapses, and a Guilford cow incident.
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Aisgill Moor
Great Britain
Chevington
Blackburn
Ludlow
Salandra
Grassano
Italy
Bork
Russia
Rhondda and
Swansea
Wales
Hucknall Tarkard
Nottinghamshire
Midland
Tomlinson
Wigan
Hartlepool
Guilford
Why should women have a vote asks Eva Moore
The English actress Eva Moore cites an anti suffragist who left a meeting unsatisfied until Austen Chamberlain quipped that men are men and women are women. She notes the question of voters and lawmakers across genders.
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Eva Moore
Austen Chamberlain
Enormous Antarctic Coal Field Discovered by Explorers
Shackleton and Scott expeditions yield a vast unworked coal field in Antarctica. Wild reports seven beams of coal in a cliff face, seams seven feet thick with occasional clay bands. Sydney analyses confirm workable quality. Field traced 650 miles north from Beardmore glacier head.
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Shackleton
Scott
Antarctic
Wild
Sydney
Beardmore Glacier
Spurgeon’s Wry Jibe On Deacons and the Devil
The preacher quipped that resisting the devil makes him flee, while resisting two deacons provokes a harsher response, illustrating his humorous take on church leadership dynamics.
Olive oil output in Australia reaches 1.7 million gallons
Australian production last year totalled 1,699,664 gallons of olive oil. Figures reflect domestic output across regional producers and processing facilities.
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Australia
Absurd Exam Answers Highlight Scottish Education
In a Scotland secondary education report, pupils misdefine terms from Bible to poetry. Mammon versus manna, Muses at funerals, Job and whale, vanity fair errors, and misdated House of Commons founding appear. Confusions include Washington with Stephenson and Gladstone with Livingstone. The piece notes Presbyterianism misdefined as priestly or episcopal rule.
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Scotland
Mahammed
Job
Jonah
Mases
Muses
Isaac
Moses
Gray
Macbeth
Milton
Satan
George Washington
George Stephenson
Mr. Gladstone
David Livingstone
Lord Roberts
Salvation Army
Panama
House of Commons
Youth Should Be Idle Opinion Echoed by London Chronicle
A London Chronicle quotation highlights R L Stevenson and other writers who argue that idleness in youth is beneficial. It cites the risk of overstudying and suggests most boys sacrifice creativity and future opportunity for early medals and rigid schooling.
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R. L. Stevenson
Lord Macaulay
London Chronicle
Compulsory Exercise Replaces Lines in Schools Abroad
England and France consider enforcing new workouts as punishment. One boys’ school replaces lines with dandelion root penalties, another requires digging thistles on fields. A Yorkshire girls’ school assigns a sober walk around grounds while carrying the offending item.
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England
France
Yorkshire
Centre Door In Car on London Underground
A number of cars on a London underground road have centre doors opening inward controlled by the conductor. Doors can be bolted or unbolted from the platform by a lever. Each doorway links to lights on the conductor’s platform and in the driver’s cab, indicating status. A train starts only when the driver sees all doors are closed via the lights.
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London Underground
Wonderful Sermon Maker and Spurgeon Heritage
The excerpt describes C. H. Spurgeon as a prolific sermon maker whose weekly publications began in 1861 and continued after his death in 1891, leaving substantial material still in print. It notes extraordinary popularity for Sourcean's sermons, with one title selling over 300,000 copies.
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C. H. Spurgeon
Sourcean’s
Famous Slovenes A Portrait of Sloppiness in Great Men
The piece describes Turner Johnson Carlyle Tennyson and others as slovenly in dress and appearance. It notes Turner with dirty hands and muffler, Johnson with a wig misstuff and rusty clothes, Carlyle in old dressing gown and frieze jacket, and a noble but unkempt image of Tennyson in a worn hat and Inverness cape.
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Turner
Belt Court
Boswell
No. 1
Inner Temple Lane
Thomas Carlyle
Chelseaway
Tennyson
Vanishing Street Trader The London Shoe-Black
The essay laments the disappearance of the shoe-black trade in London as asphalt roads and cheap home polishing replace the traditional cobbler’s helper. It recalls the eighteenth century need for footpath cleanliness and the shoeblack’s simple kit, including a stool brushes and whale oil blacking.
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London
Acton Youth Fined for Church Disturbance Squib Tossing
A boy at Acton is fined after running around a church during service and firing squibs at windows. The case prompts discussion of whether such conduct can be justified, with a reference to religious tensions in Orange Ulster and remarks from a local man describing a neighbor as a "decent religious man" who shouts at Mass.
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Acton
Orange Ulster
Duke of Abercorn
Osterman
Pope
Scotch benefactor leaves Aberdeen University bequest
A Scottish man who died in Australia left Aberdeen University 150000 dollars. He had earlier mined wealth in California during the gold rush and expanded his fortune in Australia through sheep farming. As he aged he urged Scottish relatives to send their sons to university, promising funding, though he himself was uneducated in youth. He learned to write letters with distinction.
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Australia
Aberdeen University
California
Origins of Lawn Tennis Traced to Major Wingfield
The article notes lawn tennis as a modern game, credits Major Wingfield of the British army with origin in 1874 under the name Sphairislike, and mentions the National Lawn Tennis Association of Great Britain organized in 1888.
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National Lawn Tennis Association of
Great Britain
Peat Fire Burns Two Centuries in English House
A peat fire has burned for 200 years in a lonely border fell house between Cuc beesland and Northumberland now occupied by William Goodfellow. The house has reportedly remained in the family for many generations.
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Cuc Beesland
Northumberland
England
William Goodfellow
Canadians Off Duty and the Art of Hobby Collecting
A Toronto Globe essay notes that most Canadians pursue money and health, with golf and motoring as favorites. It highlights Sir William Van Horne as a premier arts patron and artist, and Sir Edmund Walker as a versatile art critic. It details Stamp and war medal collectors like W. H. Brouse and Col. William Hendrie, plus other noted collectors and philanthropists in Canada.
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William van Horne
W. H. Brouse
Col. Hendrie
C. G. James
W. A. Craick
Toronto Globe
Canada
Borden
Sir William van Horne
William
Montreal
St. Andrews
Manitoba
Toronto
Edmund Walker
Boek
Toronto Stock Exchange
William Hendrie
48Th Highlanders
J. W. Gage
J. Ross Robertson
R. B. Angus
Montreal Art Association
E. B. Greenshields
D. R. Wilkie
Imperial Bank
E. F. B. Johnston
Cheefer D Massey
C. C. James
Andrew Macphail
Apples Hurt as Frost Lowers Nova Scotia Crop
Nova Scotia apple harvest is forecast below normal due to a frosty spring. Growers report damaged blossoms and reduced yields across the province, with several orchards expecting smaller shipments to markets this season.
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Nova Scotia
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Isaacs
Pat Fees
Ima
Spurgeon
Aberdeen
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