Distinctive Legal Career Shows Monetary Sacrifices of High Office
The article reviews Sir Rufus Isaacs and predecessors, detailing the income lost when becoming Lord Chief Justice of England, the Attorney General and Solicitor General roles. It notes Isaacs’ prior earnings near 150000 yearly, the salary shifts, and contrasts with past chief justices and peculiar appointment tales.
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England
Rufus Isaacs
Lord Alverstone
Eagland
Eak
Sir Rufus
Rufus
John Simon
King’s Bench
Edward Coke
Lord Chif
Sir Rufus Isaacs
House of Commons
Reading
Lord Kenyon
Lord Ellenborough
Tenterden
Wright
Jeffreys
Difference In Premiers Contrast From Two Prime Ministers
The passage notes a dramatic contrast between Sir Henry Parkes and Gladstone as described by B R Wise. Parkes recalls humble early work from rope-walks and brickyards to statecraft while Gladstone rose from schooling to power, illustrating divergent paths to leadership.
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B. R. Wise
Henry Parkes
Commonwealth
G. W. E. Russell
Gladstone
Mr. Wise
Eton
Oxford
Queen's Highway
English Midlands
Australia
Sir Oury
Yard High Bridegroom in Stepney Green Wedding
A London Stepney Green Synagogue ceremony noted the groom stood 26 touches to hetcht while the bride towered a few torches taller, highlighting a playful height contrast at the nuptials.
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Stepney Green
London
Hetcht
Elephants Play Key Role in Indian Child Rearing Practices
In India elephants are commonly trusted with child care. Mothers place babies on elephant backs and guide them to water where the animal lies down, supporting the child with its trunk if they slip. Young humans grow up accompanying elephants and may become mahouts.
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India
Cleopatra's Needle Obelisk Cavity Items Listed
A London Thames Embankment display lists the items placed in Cleopatra's Needle base at erection. The inventory includes coins, a Bible collection, a Queen Victoria portrait, a translated gospel verse, a razor, cigars, hairpins, scale models, maps, documents, and engineering artefacts.
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London
Thames Embankment
Dr. Birch
Origin of O in Front of Oporto City Name
The article explains why Porto in Portugal gained the initial O in Oporto. It recounts a Peninsular War anecdote where Irish regiments, including the O Toole and O Haras families, favored the city. Their fondness led to the world calling the town Oporto, a form long used alongside Porto.
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Oporto
Portugal
Porto
Duke of Wellington
O’tooles
O’haras
Hat sparks clash as Lear attacked in Albania scene
In Ochrida amid recent fighting Edward Lear the inventor of Limericks faced hostility while painting landscapes. Wearing a large white wideawake hat the artist drew wrath from locals who viewed the hat as unholy. He was pelted with stones sticks and mud from behind walls and rocks.
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Ochrida
Edward Lear
Albania
First London Coliseum Opening and 1830s Programs
The first London Coliseum opened in Regent's Park in August 1829 offering a variety of entertainments. A British Museum collection of Coliseum programs from 1836 to 1840 lists dissolving views Bedouin Arabs marble groupings ballad concerts with 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 Britain's Pearl History
The article notes discoveries of cave pearls at Matlock and recalls Britain's historic fame for pearls. It mentions a breast plate dedicated to Venus by Caesar, Scotch pearls known in Paris by 1256, a flourishing Scotch pearl trade in Charles II's era, and Scotland's 1865 pearl production valued at 46 094.
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Matlock
Britain
Paris
Charles II
Scotland
Epidemics of Railway Accidents Across History
A historical analysis compares railway disasters to epidemics noting cycles, causes, and notable events. It cites the Alsgill Moor crash near Anchapoke, the Flying Scotsman at Chevington, and December 1870 incidents, plus malice driven wrecks in 1907 and 1898 involving Tomlinson.
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Alsgill Moor
Anapeake Im
Great Britain
Ffteen
Medinally
Chevington
Blackburn
Ludlow
Salandra
Grassano
Italy
Borki
Russia
Rhondda and
Swansea
Wales
Hucknall Tarkard
Nottinghamshire
Midland
Tomlinson
Wigan
Hartlepool
Guilford
Eva Moore Quoted on Why Women Should Have a Vote
The English actress Eva Moore cites an anti suffragist who left a meeting unsatisfied until Austen Chamberlain’s remark that men are men and women are women. The anti suffragist questions why either gender should define and settle laws for the other.
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Eva Moore
Austen Chamberlain
Amazing schoolboy howlers from Scotland examination report
The report on secondary education in Scotland lists humorous misreadings and confusions by students. Errors include mistaking mammon for manna or moths, misdefining Job and Jonah, misdating the House of Commons, and odd ties of religious terms to roles like priests or bishops.
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Job
Isaac
Moses
Gray
Macbeth
Milton
Satan
George Washington
George Stephenson
Mr. Gladstone
David Livingstone
Lord Roberts
Salvation Army
Panama
House of Commons
Famous Slote? Slovenly Greats Turner Johnson Carlyle Tennyson
Famous painters and writers of the era are described as untidy in dress. Turner’s hands and muffered neck garments, Johnson’s slovenliness, Carlyle’s dressing gown and smock, and Tennyson’s old souch hat and Inverness cape illustrate public perceptions of their appearance.
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Turner
Johnson
Carlyle
Tennyson
Thomas Carlyle
Chelseaway
Youth Should Be Idle Says R L Stevenson
The London Chronicle cites R L Stevenson arguing young people should enjoy idle periods in youth. It notes even great minds like Lord Macaulay faced school pressures, yet most youths sacrifice leisure for medals and later regret missing vivid learning hours between sleep and waking.
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R. L. Stevenson
Lord Macaulay
London Chronicle
The Last London Shoe-Black Faces Oblivion
The essay laments the disappearance of the London shoe-black trade as asphalt streets and self applying polish replace the old street vendor. It recalls the eighteenth century need for footpath care and carriages splashing patrons, noting the shoe-black as a surviving relic of bygone street commerce.
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London
Compulsory Exercise Substitutes for Lines Abroad
England and France consider replacing school lines with exercise. One boys school fines breaches with dandelion roots. another requires digging up thistles. A Yorkshire girls school punishes unmarked items by walking the grounds while holding the item in one hand.
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England
France
Yorkshire
Docent Man and the Acton Church Squib Incident
A boy in Acton is fined for running about a church during service and firing squibs at windows. The report cites broader debates on whether such conduct can ever be justified, and recalls a contrasting account from Orange Ulster tied to a Duke of Abercorn-related family. One Ulster man calls another a decent religious man, clarifying a rude scene outside a Catholic chapel during Mass with gunfire and insults toward the Pope.
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Acton
Duke of Abercorn
Enormous Antarctic Coal Field Reported
Shackleton and Scott expeditions found a vast untapped coal field in Antarctica. Wild discovered seven coal seams in a sandstone cliff, totaling seven feet in thickness. Sydney analyses confirm workable quality. Scott’s geologists mapped about 650 miles north from Beardmore glacier.
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Antarctic
Shackleton
Scott
Wild
Sydney
Beardmore
Spurgeon cites deacons worse than the devil in quip
The preacher Spurgeon joked that resisting the devil is easier than resisting his deacons who he claimed would fly at you. He quipped deacons are more troublesome than the devil itself in matters of church discipline.
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Mr. Spurgeon
Australian Olive Oil Output Surpasses One Million Six Hundred Thousand
Australian olive oil production in the last year reached 1 609 064 calons. The figure highlights a strong year for the industry with notable gains in domestic sourcing and export potential.
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Australia
Centre Door In Car Below London Underground Doors
A number of cars on one London underground road have centre doors opening inward. Conductors control these doors from their platform and can bolt or unbolt them with a lever. Each doorway connects to lights in the conductor’s platform and the driver’s cab, indicating whether doors are bolted. No train proceeds until the driver sees the light on the drive side showing doors are closed.
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London Underground
Aberdeen gets 150000 bequest from Australian Scottish benefactor
A Scotsman who died in Australia left Aberdeen University a 150000 bequest. He struck it rich in California during the gold rush then expanded his fortune in Australia’s sheep industry. He funded Scottish relatives to send sons to university and taught himself to write letters with distinction.
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Australia
Aberdeen University
California
Wonderful Sermon Maker Spurgeon’s Publishing Reach
C H Spurgeon, renowned for inexhaustible sermon power, published weekly sermons from 1861 until his death in 1891. The corpus continued posthumously, likely for over a decade more, with one sermon exceeding 300000 copies sold.
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C. H. Spurgeon
Spureon
Origin of Lawn Tennis Traced to Major Wingfield
A Major Wingfield of the British army is credited with initiating lawn tennis in 1874 under the name Sphairislike. The National Lawn Tennis Association of Great Britain followed, being organized in 1888.
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National
Peat Fire Burns Centuries in Border House
On a lonely fell near the Cumberland Northumberland border a peat fire has burned for 200 years. The house, occupied by William Goodfellow, has rested in the family for 660 years according to local legends.
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Cumberland
Northumberland
England
William Goodfellow
Canadians Hobbyists Spell Out Money as Prime Aim
The Toronto Globe notes few Canadians are true hobbyists with arts or stamps. money and health occupy leisure. Sir William Van Horne and Sir Edmund Walker exemplify art and criticism, while W. H. Brouse Col. William and J. W. Gage show charitable pursuits. Notable collectors include C C James and R B Angus with art and books.
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William van Horne
Brouse
James
W. A. Craick
Toronto Globe
Canada
Royal Gam
Borden
Sir William van Horne
Sir William
Montreal
St. Andrews
Manitoba
Toronto
Edmund Walker
Tate
W. H. Brouse
Toronto Stock Exchange
Col
William
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
Andrew Macphail
Frost Hurts Nova Scotia Apple Crop
Frost damaged Nova Scotia apples with crop far below normal after a cold spring. Officials note reduced yields across orchards and growers expect lower supplies for the season.
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Nova Scotia
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Spurgeon
Aberdeen
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