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			<title><![CDATA[Extraordinary Adventure with a Bear]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News 3 July 1886: 
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			<title><![CDATA[The Compulsory Vaccination Act]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News 3 July 1886: COMPULSORY VACCINATION ACT
The large engraving in the centre of our front page has been re-drawn from a small design printed on the envelope used by the London Society for the abolition of Compulsory Vaccination. Without doubt there are thousands of persons who oppose the Vaccination Act by every possible means in their power. We are in receipt of a number of letters upon this vexed question. Mr Tebb, President of the London Society says:-- “The Preventive we offer as a substitute for vaccination is personal and municipal cleanliness. By that I mean an abundant and continuous supply of pure water, an efficient system of drainage, the prevention of overcrowding, the erection of healthy and well-ventilated dwellings, the multiplication of public baths, wash-houses, and open spaces.” All this is very excellent in its way, but it is not a safeguard against the ravages of smallpox. The old question “Who shall decide when doctors disagree?” is never more apposite or more perplexing than when put in connection with the very practical and very vital subject on which people have disagreed for a century past and disagree still often most acrimoniously.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News 3 July 1886: COMPULSORY VACCINATION ACT
The large engraving in the centre of our front page has been re-drawn from a small design printed on the envelope used by the London Society for the abolition of Compulsory Vaccination. Without doubt there are thousands of persons who oppose the Vaccination Act by every possible means in their power. We are in receipt of a number of letters upon this vexed question. Mr Tebb, President of the London Society says:-- “The Preventive we offer as a substitute for vaccination is personal and municipal cleanliness. By that I mean an abundant and continuous supply of pure water, an efficient system of drainage, the prevention of overcrowding, the erection of healthy and well-ventilated dwellings, the multiplication of public baths, wash-houses, and open spaces.” All this is very excellent in its way, but it is not a safeguard against the ravages of smallpox. The old question “Who shall decide when doctors disagree?” is never more apposite or more perplexing than when put in connection with the very practical and very vital subject on which people have disagreed for a century past and disagree still often most acrimoniously.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Foolhardy Feat]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News, 21 September 1895
One of the most terrible occurrences recorded in menagerie annals of recent years has taken place in the wild beastshow owned by Castanet and Pezon of Paris... A man named Léon Eyssete, twenty four years old and employed in the Perrache station as a porter, conceived the idea of having himself photographed in the central cage of the show... He accordingly entered the cage in the morning, about six o' clock, without the permission or knowledge of MM. Castanet and Pezon. He has had to pay with his life for his strange and imprudent freak. The central cage was empty, but near it was another, in which Romulus, the biggest lion in the collection, was sleeping. While the photographer was adjusting his apparatus the railway porter went over to Romulus, and after having called and excited the animal unbolted the bars of the cage. The lion flew at the man like a flash of lightning, as the horror-stricken photographer described it. In an instant the porter's head was crunched between the jaws of the enraged animal, who then dragged the dead body to a corner of the central cage...
At last Lucas, the leading lion tamer, who had been sent for, arrived. He succeeded in driving Romulus into the smaller cage, and Eysette's body, or what was left of it, was removed.
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News, 21 September 1895
One of the most terrible occurrences recorded in menagerie annals of recent years has taken place in the wild beastshow owned by Castanet and Pezon of Paris... A man named Léon Eyssete, twenty four years old and employed in the Perrache station as a porter, conceived the idea of having himself photographed in the central cage of the show... He accordingly entered the cage in the morning, about six o' clock, without the permission or knowledge of MM. Castanet and Pezon. He has had to pay with his life for his strange and imprudent freak. The central cage was empty, but near it was another, in which Romulus, the biggest lion in the collection, was sleeping. While the photographer was adjusting his apparatus the railway porter went over to Romulus, and after having called and excited the animal unbolted the bars of the cage. The lion flew at the man like a flash of lightning, as the horror-stricken photographer described it. In an instant the porter's head was crunched between the jaws of the enraged animal, who then dragged the dead body to a corner of the central cage...
At last Lucas, the leading lion tamer, who had been sent for, arrived. He succeeded in driving Romulus into the smaller cage, and Eysette's body, or what was left of it, was removed.
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			<title><![CDATA[Rattlesnakes]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[From The Daily Journal, 28 October 1729]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[From The Daily Journal, 28 October 1729]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Burglar Bitten by a Skeleton]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News 27 June 1874: 

A “skeleton in the closet” is not generally considered a pleasant thing to have, but a recent occurrence in Greensburg, America, shows that it make sometimes answer a good purpose. We learn from the Philadelphia Medical Times that a burglar broke into a physician’s office in that town, and opening a closet (while his companion with a dark lantern was in another part of the room), got his hands between the jaws of a skeleton, which being adjusted with a coil spring and kept open with a thread, closed suddenly on the intruding hand by the breaking of the thread. Startled at being thus seized, he uttered a faint shriek, and when his companion turned the lantern towards him, and he beheld himself in the grim and ghastly jaws of Death himself, he became so overpowered by fear that he fainted; and fell insensible to the floor, pulling the skeleton down upon him, and making so much noise that his companion fled immediately. The doctor, alarmed at the noise and confusion, hastened into the room, and secured the terror-stricken burglar; still held by the skeleton. Burglars who may have a design upon the tranquillity or incumbrances of any of our households will take warning by the unhappy fate which befel one of the “comrades in arms” in a doctor’s study at the other side of the Atlantic.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News 27 June 1874: 

A “skeleton in the closet” is not generally considered a pleasant thing to have, but a recent occurrence in Greensburg, America, shows that it make sometimes answer a good purpose. We learn from the Philadelphia Medical Times that a burglar broke into a physician’s office in that town, and opening a closet (while his companion with a dark lantern was in another part of the room), got his hands between the jaws of a skeleton, which being adjusted with a coil spring and kept open with a thread, closed suddenly on the intruding hand by the breaking of the thread. Startled at being thus seized, he uttered a faint shriek, and when his companion turned the lantern towards him, and he beheld himself in the grim and ghastly jaws of Death himself, he became so overpowered by fear that he fainted; and fell insensible to the floor, pulling the skeleton down upon him, and making so much noise that his companion fled immediately. The doctor, alarmed at the noise and confusion, hastened into the room, and secured the terror-stricken burglar; still held by the skeleton. Burglars who may have a design upon the tranquillity or incumbrances of any of our households will take warning by the unhappy fate which befel one of the “comrades in arms” in a doctor’s study at the other side of the Atlantic.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Encounter with a Sea Devil]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[In the Illustrated Police News Saturday June 21 1873, but taken from the Japan Gazette, April 23: 

We have received from the mate of an English trading vessel a rough sketch of “a monster of the deep” known by the title of “A Sea Devil” attacking a fishing smack. We are informed by our correspondent that he can vouch for the truth of the strange encounter, which is briefly described in the paper he forwarded with his sketch, and from which our engraving is taken. The apparently exaggerated description of the Sea Devil in The Toilers of the Sea loses much of its impossibility in one’s mind after an inspection of a huge cephalopod now being shown in a house near the temple at Asakes, Yedo. It seems that a fishing boat was seized by its tentacles whilst off the village of Kononoto, in the district of Kisaradzou, and that the boatmen killed the creature by repeated blows. Its length from the tail to the insertion of the tentacles is about 16 feet; one of the arms is from its junction with the body to the sucker at its point nearly five feet. It must be borne in mind that the polypus has shrunk since its death, so that living it would probably measure considerably more. After this, even Bishop Eric Pontopidan’s kraken stories are almost credible.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[In the Illustrated Police News Saturday June 21 1873, but taken from the Japan Gazette, April 23: 

We have received from the mate of an English trading vessel a rough sketch of “a monster of the deep” known by the title of “A Sea Devil” attacking a fishing smack. We are informed by our correspondent that he can vouch for the truth of the strange encounter, which is briefly described in the paper he forwarded with his sketch, and from which our engraving is taken. The apparently exaggerated description of the Sea Devil in The Toilers of the Sea loses much of its impossibility in one’s mind after an inspection of a huge cephalopod now being shown in a house near the temple at Asakes, Yedo. It seems that a fishing boat was seized by its tentacles whilst off the village of Kononoto, in the district of Kisaradzou, and that the boatmen killed the creature by repeated blows. Its length from the tail to the insertion of the tentacles is about 16 feet; one of the arms is from its junction with the body to the sucker at its point nearly five feet. It must be borne in mind that the polypus has shrunk since its death, so that living it would probably measure considerably more. After this, even Bishop Eric Pontopidan’s kraken stories are almost credible.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[French Letters]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News, Saturday 10 Nov 1900]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News, Saturday 10 Nov 1900]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Men Make Themselves Useful]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News 9 October 1897: 

On Wednesday night a thunderstorm of great severity and grandeur passed over the metropolis. In the whole of London rain fell in torrents, accompanied by brilliant lightning and continuous peals of thunder…

…A swimming entertainment at the Hampstead Baths had to be abandoned, as the baths were completely flooded. There were 500 people in the building when the water swept in by the temporary entrance and poured down into the bath like a cascade. Ladies were drenched to the skin, and it was quite an exciting time when they were carried out…

…Most of the incidents in connection with the recent storm are very sad, but our North London artist was an eye-witness to a somewhat novel and amusing sight, and the result of his experience is depicted in our front page illustration. The picture proves that men are now as gallant to the fair sex as they were in days of old.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News 9 October 1897: 

On Wednesday night a thunderstorm of great severity and grandeur passed over the metropolis. In the whole of London rain fell in torrents, accompanied by brilliant lightning and continuous peals of thunder…

…A swimming entertainment at the Hampstead Baths had to be abandoned, as the baths were completely flooded. There were 500 people in the building when the water swept in by the temporary entrance and poured down into the bath like a cascade. Ladies were drenched to the skin, and it was quite an exciting time when they were carried out…

…Most of the incidents in connection with the recent storm are very sad, but our North London artist was an eye-witness to a somewhat novel and amusing sight, and the result of his experience is depicted in our front page illustration. The picture proves that men are now as gallant to the fair sex as they were in days of old.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Spectre in the Forest]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News, 25 December 1886: 

A story reaches us from Virginia which seems on all-fours with many similar narratives that have appeared in the public newspapers in this country. It appeared for some months past the villagers and farm folk belonging to a small hamlet in Virginia were so positive that a ghastly and unearthly visitor haunted a neighbouring forest, that few cared to be in its precincts after nightfall. At length, however, the mystery was cleared up. Two travellers were passing through the forest a few evenings ago when all of a sudden they came upon what they deemed to be a spectre, which the foremost traveller challenged, but receiving no answer, fired at it. Upon closer inspection, our travellers found that the whole affair was an optical delusion. A mist was rising through the shrubbery, and between two trees, whose branches overlapped each other, there was depicted what our artist has shown in the illustration accompanying this article.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Illustrated Police News, 25 December 1886: 

A story reaches us from Virginia which seems on all-fours with many similar narratives that have appeared in the public newspapers in this country. It appeared for some months past the villagers and farm folk belonging to a small hamlet in Virginia were so positive that a ghastly and unearthly visitor haunted a neighbouring forest, that few cared to be in its precincts after nightfall. At length, however, the mystery was cleared up. Two travellers were passing through the forest a few evenings ago when all of a sudden they came upon what they deemed to be a spectre, which the foremost traveller challenged, but receiving no answer, fired at it. Upon closer inspection, our travellers found that the whole affair was an optical delusion. A mist was rising through the shrubbery, and between two trees, whose branches overlapped each other, there was depicted what our artist has shown in the illustration accompanying this article.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Training Female Pugilists]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Ilustrated Police News 13 April 1872: 

Our American Cousins are rather ingenious in inventing new sensations. The last novelty is a match made between two female competitors for fistic honours in the prize ring. The ladies are at present undergoing a rigid course of training…

…In the morning at six o’ clock they get up and drink a cup of tea, and eat a piece of brown bread; then get on their bloomer costumes, heavy-soled shoes, and dog-trot with their trainer for five miles. They then bathe, and are rubbed down in the most approved style, and permitted to rest in bed one hour. At nine o’ clock they breakfast, usually on mutton chops, brown bread, baked potatoes and coffee. No butter is allowed them. At eleven they drink a glass of porter, and then go sparring or striking the sand-bags. This exercise lasts about thirty minutes, when the trainer steps up and they have two hours of boxing. Then a bath and the usual rubbing down, and then their dinner, which is pretty well the same as breakfast, a beefsteak or mutton chop, potatoes, or coffee. Then a rest of thirty minutes and then a walk or dog-trot with their trainer of a mile and repeat. Then a half-hour’s exercise with the sand-bags – that is, striking from the shoulder a bag of sand suspended about the height of their breasts, and weighing 175 pounds. This, we believe, is done to harden their fists, or “flukes” as the trainer calls them. After this exercise a cup of tea without the lacteal fluid or saccharine matter, and a piece of dry toast is given them for supper. The evening, until about 8.30, when they retire punctually to rest, is spent talking over the approaching fight, making small bets on who gets the first blood and the feminine who goes first to grass.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Ilustrated Police News 13 April 1872: 

Our American Cousins are rather ingenious in inventing new sensations. The last novelty is a match made between two female competitors for fistic honours in the prize ring. The ladies are at present undergoing a rigid course of training…

…In the morning at six o’ clock they get up and drink a cup of tea, and eat a piece of brown bread; then get on their bloomer costumes, heavy-soled shoes, and dog-trot with their trainer for five miles. They then bathe, and are rubbed down in the most approved style, and permitted to rest in bed one hour. At nine o’ clock they breakfast, usually on mutton chops, brown bread, baked potatoes and coffee. No butter is allowed them. At eleven they drink a glass of porter, and then go sparring or striking the sand-bags. This exercise lasts about thirty minutes, when the trainer steps up and they have two hours of boxing. Then a bath and the usual rubbing down, and then their dinner, which is pretty well the same as breakfast, a beefsteak or mutton chop, potatoes, or coffee. Then a rest of thirty minutes and then a walk or dog-trot with their trainer of a mile and repeat. Then a half-hour’s exercise with the sand-bags – that is, striking from the shoulder a bag of sand suspended about the height of their breasts, and weighing 175 pounds. This, we believe, is done to harden their fists, or “flukes” as the trainer calls them. After this exercise a cup of tea without the lacteal fluid or saccharine matter, and a piece of dry toast is given them for supper. The evening, until about 8.30, when they retire punctually to rest, is spent talking over the approaching fight, making small bets on who gets the first blood and the feminine who goes first to grass.]]></media:description>
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