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  2. LITERARY NOTES.

    The latest book of campaigning re-collections and memoirs is "Lumsden of the Guides," a biography of "one of the best frontier soldiers I have ever ...

    Article : 646 words
  3. NEWS AND NOTES.

    At Genoa the unusual spectacle was recently witnessed in the Politcania Theatre of a young lady composer concluding in person at the premiere of ...

    Article : 2,315 words
  4. THE STORY-TELLER.

    His thirtieth birthday! His first youth was behind him, with all its heart-burnings, its failures, its manifold humiliations. What had he done ...

    Article : 2,445 words
  5. THE TOPSY-TURVY ACT, 1898.

    "An extraordinary tangle of legislation," said Deputy-Judge Pitt-Lowis recently, speaking of last year's Workmen's Compensation Act. "The Statute ...

    Article : 180 words
  6. TOPICAL ITEMS.

    It is an acknowledged fact that women more often attain a very great age than men. Among women one of the most famous centenarians was the ...

    Article : 206 words
  7. TO BE A STRONG MAN.

    It must not be supposed that it is neccssary to possess unusual strength to pose as a strong man, indeed, in many strong men's feats, strength ...

    Article : 315 words
  8. CHINESE IDOL IN DISGRACE.

    Because he turned a deaf ear to the supplication of pigtail adorers, the god of the Anacortes Chinatown, Tacoma, haa been dethroned and thrown by the ...

    Article : 148 words
  9. SCIENCE & INVENTIONS.

    Juan Tonkin, a civil engineer, of Iquique, Chili, has been granted a patent for a hydro-dynamo, and has arranged with certain capitalists in ...

    Article : 2,113 words
  10. THE LAUNDRYMAN'S DESCRIPTIVE STYLE.

    Most people suppose that the vertical row of hieroglyphics on a Chinese laundry check are merely so many numerals. As a matter of fact, they ...

    Article : 159 words
  11. CONQUERED BY THE KINE-MATOGRAPH.

    Till recently the employment of electricity in any shape or form in Constantinople was strictly forbidden. Incredible as it may appear, the Sultan ...

    Article : 181 words
  12. ECCENTRIC WAGERING.

    Perhaps the most marked characteristic of the Briton is his fondness for wagering. But horseracing is not the only excuse afforded the Britisher to ...

    Article : 622 words
  13. AN ARISTOCRATIC JEWEL MYSTERY.

    A scandal that threatened to end in a sepatation between a well-known peeress and her husband has been amicably settled. The peeress in ...

    Article : 302 words
  14. THE MORMON WOMAN.

    The North American Review shows, in a remarkable article by Mr. Eugene Young, that the Mormon priesthood can always rely on the women. They ...

    Article : 272 words
  15. WILES OF THE WARY DRINKER.

    A lady who invariably carries a brandy flask hidden in her bosom must be an inveterate tippler. Exceptional cunning is displayed in partaking of ...

    Article : 663 words
  16. BURNS' BIRTHPLACE.

    Important alterations are to be carried out at Burns' cottage, at Alloway. There is in course of erection, within the grounds on the Ayr side, a ...

    Article : 167 words
  17. LOVE-MAKING BY TELEPHONE.

    A breach of promise suit growing out of one of the queerest courtships on record has been commenced in Midvale, Nebraska, by Miss Emily ...

    Article : 337 words
  18. EXERCISE IN TALKING.

    The farther south one goes in Europe, the more do the people gesticulate in conversation, assorts a traveller who is at present "doing" Italy. ...

    Article : 286 words
  19. SEA SERPENT AT IT AGAIN.

    Observed a sea, monster on the port bow, certainly over 150ft. in length; apparently propelled by large fins, and lying very low in the water." ...

    Article : 170 words
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