Sacrifice of Wealth for England's top legal posts
The article notes the high monetary sacrifice of becoming Lord Chief Justice of England, Attorney-General, or Solicitor-General. It charts Rufus Isaacs’s rise from a private practice earning up to $150,000 annually to a public role with different fee structures, and compares incomes with predecessors and successors. It also recalls historical quirks shaping the judiciary’s high offices and twists of appointment.
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England
Rufes Isaacs
Lord Alverstone
Rufus
John Simon
Ise
King’s Bench
Edward Coke
Lord Chif
Sir Rufus Isaacs
Bar
House of Commons
Reading
Lord Kenyon
Wags
Lord Ellenborough
Lord Tenterden
Wright
Jeffreys
Difference In Premiers Reflects Two Paths To Power
The text contrasts Sir Henry Parkes and Mr. Gladstone, noting Parkes as a penniless emigrant who earned sixpence holding a horse outside a public house, while he and Gladstone rose from modest beginnings to political influence.
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Australia
Sir Henry
Yard High Bridegroom In Stepney Green Wedding
A recent wedding in Stepney Green London features a groom measuring 36 stoeches in height while the bride stands only a few inches taller, highlighting an unusual height contrast at the ceremony.
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Stepney Green
London
Straenrue
Beicht
Brrd
Elephants Raise Children in Indian Jungle Culture
In India children of mahouts are often raised among elephants. Mothers entrust babies to elephants for protection and play, with young children bathing on elephant backs and learning from the animals. As they grow, the children join mahouts and eventually become mahouts themselves.
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India
Obelisk at Thames Embankment Buried Rich Artifacts
A long list details items placed in Cleopatra's Needle base at the London embankment. The collection includes coins, scales, models, religious texts, maps, newspapers, a bottle, hairpins, toys, cigars, a hydraulic jack, wire rope, submarine cables, and various inscribed artifacts.
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London
Thames Embankment
Dr. Birch
Origin of O in Front of Oporto
The city Porto in Portugal was known as Porto. During the Peninsular wars Irish regiments with the Duke of Wellington stationed there grew fond of the place and formed clans named O'Tooles and O'Haras. Thus the name Oporto spread to the rest of the world.
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Oporto
Portugal
Porto
Duke of Wellington
O’tooles
O’haras
Hat provokes violence against Edward Lear in Albania
In Ochrida a fierce attack greeted Edward Lear the limerick inventor as he painted landscapes. He wore a large white wideawake hat that Moslems deemed typical affront while Christians assumed it showed a new form of here tic. Stones sticks and mud were hurled at him from behind walls and rocks.
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Ochrida
Edward Lear
Albania
First London Coliseum Opens in Regent's Park
British Museum houses Coliseum programs from 1836 to 1840 showing amusements such as dissolving views Bedouin Arabs marble groupings ballad concerts with Braham and Mme Sala panoramas French plays and English operas from the early era.
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London Coliseum
Colosseum
Regent’s Park
George
British Museum
Braham
Mme. Sala
Some Famous Pearls from Britain’s Pearl History
The note recalls cave pearls found at Mallock and Britain’s early fame for pearls. A breast plate dedicated to Venus by Caesar is cited, with 1356 Scottish pearls known in Paris and a flourishing Scottish trade during Charles II’s era. Scotland produced pearls worth £6604 in 1865.
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Mallock
Britain
Paris
Scotland
Epidemics of railway accidents across cycles and causes
A historical analysis argues rail accidents recur in cycles like diseases. Examples include the Aisgill Moor crash with fifteen deaths, the Flying Scotsman derailment at Chevington, and multiple December 1870 incidents. The piece weighs carelessness, climate, malice, Christmas traffic, and mysterious derailments as factors.
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Aisgill Moor
Great Britain
Chevington
Blackburn
Ludlow
Salandra
Grassano
Italy
Borki
Russia
Rhondda and
Swansea
Wales
Hucknall Tarkard
Nottinghamshire
Midland
Tomlinson
Wigan
Hartlepool
Guilford
Why should women have a vote says Eva Moore
The English actress Eva Moore cites an anti suffragist at a meeting seeking open minded discussion but failing to gain clarity until Austen Chamberlain’s quip that men are men and women are women is offered as the reason why either gender should not define laws for the other.
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Eva Moore
Austen Chamberlain
Enormous Antarctic Coal Field Discovered by Roving Explorers
Shackleton and Scott expeditions report a vast unworked coal field in Antarctica. Wild found seven coal seams along a sandstone cliff, thickness seven feet, with workable quality after analysis in Sydney. Scott's geologists mapped 650 miles north from Beardmore glacier head.
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Antarctic
Shackleton
Scott
Wild
Willd
Sydney
Beardmore
Spurgeon contrasts deacons with the devil in wit
The minister Charles Spurgeon quipped that his deacons were worse than the devil. He warned that resisting the devil makes him flee, but resisting a deacon provokes a sharper attack.
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Spurgeon
Olive Oil Production Totals in Australia
Olive oil produced in Australia last year totalled 1 699 064 gallons. The figure highlights ongoing domestic output in the food commodity sector.
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Australia
Absurd Definitions and Blunders in Scottish Education Report
A Scottish education report catalogs student misreadings and humorous errors from exams. Essays misdefine Mammon as a bigamist and confuse Muses with funerals, while Job’s comforter becomes a woollen muffler. Scholars mix up Biblical, literary, and historical figures, revealing widespread confusion.
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Scotland
Mammoth
Mahammed
Job
Jonah
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 Says Stevenson Plea
The London Chronicle quotes R L Stevenson arguing youth should be idle in youth. He says most boys pay dearly for medals and later have no shot in their locker, while education often burdens them.
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R. L. Stevenson
Lord Macaulay
London Chronicle
Compulsory Exercise Replaces School Lines in Europe
England and France consider replacing traditional lines with hard labor. At a boys' school punishments include paying with dandelion roots or digging up thistles. A Yorkshire girls' school requires walks with unmarked items held in one hand.
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England
France
Yorkshire
Center Door Inward Opening On London Trains
A number of cars on a London underground line feature center doors that open inward. Conductors control these doors from their platforms and can bolt or unbolt them with a lever. Each door links to lights in the platform and driver cab to indicate whether doors are closed, ensuring the train proceeds only when illuminated.
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London Underground
Wonderful Sermon Maker Spurgeon’s Enduring Legacy
The article notes C. H. Spurgeon as a remarkable sermon maker whose weekly publications began in 1861 and continued after his death in 1891, producing vast material that kept publishing for decades and possibly 12 more years. It highlights his unparalleled popularity with claims like over 366,060 copies sold of a single sermon.
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C. H. Spurgeon
Spureon
Famous Slobs Turner Johnson Carlyle and Tennyson Compared
The piece notes famous figures Turner Johnson Carlyle and Tennyson as slovenly in dress and appearance. It describes Turner's dirty hands and palette marks, Johnson's rumpled attire and wig, Carlyle in old dressing gown and frieze jacket, and Tennyson's worn hat and Inverness cape, with observers remarking on their unconventional garb.
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Turner
Johnson
Carlyle
Tennyson
Thomas Carlyle
Chelseaway
Shoe-Black Disappearing From London Streets
The piece notes the gradual disappearance of the shoe-black trade in London due to asphalt streets and cheap self-applied polish. It recalls the eighteenth century reliance on street traders, who offered polish with a stool, boar hair brushes, whale oil in blacking, and an old wig for final shine.
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London
Docent Man Fined For Mischief Outside Acton Church
A boy in Acton is fined for running around a church and firing squibs at windows during service. The report notes debates on whether such conduct can ever be justified and recalls a tale from Orange Ulster tied to a Duke of Abercorn family member. An Ulster man recalls another as a decent religious man for pacing outside a Catholic chapel shouting insults during Mass.
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Acton
Duke of Abercorn
Aberdeen Beneficiary Bequest from Australian Scot to University
A recently deceased Scottish immigrant who prospered in the California gold era and Australian sheep industry left Aberdeen University a $156000 gift. He supported education for Scottish relatives and sons, funded study costs, and, though uneducated early, learned to write letters with distinction.
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Australia
Aberdeen University
California
Major Wingfield Seen as Lawn Tennis Originator
The text credits Major Wingfield of the British army with creating lawn tennis in 1874, calling the original name Sphairislike and noting the game’s modern beginnings. It also mentions the National Lawn Tennis Association of Great Britain, organized in 1888.
Peat Fire Burns Two Centuries in English House
A peat fire has burned continuously for 200 years in a lonely fell house on the border of Curbesland and Northumberland, England. The dwelling is occupied by William Goodfellow and has stayed in the family for generations.
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Curbesland
Northumberland
England
William Goodfellow
Canadians Off Duty and the Nation of Hobbyists
The Toronto Globe notes Canadians favor recreation through golf and motoring with many owning cars. It highlights Sir William Van Horne as a multi gifted collector artist farmer and businessman in Montreal and St Andrews. Other figures like Sir Edmund Walker W H Brouse Col William Hendrie and J W Gage are cited for art collecting stamps war medals philanthropy and medical aid in Canada.
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William van Horne
W. BH. Brouse
Col. Hendrie
C. GO
James
W. A. Craick
Toronto Globe
Canada
Borden
Sir William van Horne
William
Montreal
St. Andrews
Manitoba
Toronto
Edmund Walker
W. H. Brouse
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
Chester D Massey
C. C. James
Frost Damages Nova Scotia Apple Crop Below Normal
Nova Scotia apple yields are down due to a frosty spring. The frost reduced early blossoms, lowering expected production for the harvest season.
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Nova Scotia
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Andrew Macphail
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