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  2. A CHAINLESS WHEEL.

    A CHANGE in cycle construction, almost as radical and revolutionary as the safety and ...

    Article : 1,176 words
  3. On the Island of Shadows.

    HIS is the story told by Eugene Tripot, convict ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 3,749 words
  4. Celebrities at Botany Bay.

    THE fifth and last of the martyrs was Joseph Gerrald, born at St. Kitts, in the West ...

    Article : 363 words
  5. The Decay of the Cabbage-Tree.

    HIS is not a paper on botany, but on the gradual decay and disappearance ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,148 words
  6. DINNER TALK.

    Standing at the bar, Gerrald began the proceedings by objecting to Braxfield sitting on the bench, on the ground that he had prejudged the case; and then read a written statement of his Lordship's ...

    Article : 417 words
  7. AT THE BAR.

    When the plantation passed in the ordinary course of business into the hands of the money-lenders, the pressing necessity for exertion drove him from the old home to the United States ...

    Article : 174 words
  8. A NEW LEAF.

    "Dear and Respected Sir,—I take the liberty of acquainting you that, after a residence of some years in different parts of the West Indies and on the Continent of America, I am now arrived in ...

    Article : 239 words
  9. A FOREGONE CONCLUSION.

    Gerrald's counsel, Gillies and Laing, then attacked the indictment The first began by alluding to the state of the public mind on the subject of sedition—"that firmly-rooted and widespread notion ...

    Article : 258 words
  10. POLITICAL WHIRLPOOLS.

    The friendship was renewed, and Gerrald became a frequent visitor at the parsonage at Hatton, in Warwickshire, where the Doctor preached on Sundays to the villagers, and took a pipe in ...

    Article : 201 words
  11. THE HORRORS OF BOTANY BAY.

    "Should he reach his place of exile, his punish meat would, indeed, be severe. A man of high talents, of a cultivated underetanding, is to be condemined to the communion of thieves and ...

    Article : 348 words
  12. A WEST INDIAN ORATOR.

    His speeches at the Convention came bet from the heart, and sent such unwonted thrills through the cold tissues, of the Scotchmen that they listered to them with wonder. A few days made ...

    Article : 366 words
  13. A Fatal Ring.

    One of the strangest jewels which figure round the neck of the statue of Our Lady of Almudena at Madrid is a ring which heaps a carious connection with the misfortunes which have so ...

    Article : 210 words
  14. "Ars Longa."

    There are actually oil paintings manufactured in London by the yard. The proprietor of a well-known factory is a German, with four sons, and a dealer who orders pictures from them tells how it ...

    Article : 172 words
  15. INTERESTED JURORS.

    When the jumps were nominated, Gerraid challenged two of them—one on the ground that he had repeatedly declared he would condemn any member of the British Convention if he were on the ...

    Article : 98 words
  16. A LETTER TO DUNDAS.

    He had been arrested and held to ball the day before, and on December 28 he addressed a letter to the Lord Advocate respecting the date of trial. ...

    Article : 653 words
  17. Hard-hitting Heenan.

    In after years (wites Julian Hawthorne) I made the acquaintance of John C. Heenan (the ex-prize fighter), the "Benicia Boy," as we fondly dubbed him—a tall, grave urbane gentleman, with ...

    Article : 190 words
  18. An Eau-de-Cologne Drunkard

    "Did you notice that lady who just went out?" asked the assistant in an Oxford-street chemist's shop of a reporter recently. "Yes," was the reply, "and a very pretty woman she was, too," "Oh. ...

    Article : 195 words
  19. "Pulling Billy."

    "Puffing Billy," which was built by George Stepheson for the Killingworth Colliery Company, and which is believed to he the third locomotive he constructed, has for the past fourteen years ...

    Article : 66 words
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