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  2. STELLA'S PARIS LETTER.

    THE State ball at the Tuileries was exceedingly brilliant. The Emperor, who looked remarkably well, and seemed in excellent spirit, is declared by those who see him habitually, and are admitted to the honour of talking with him, ...

    Article : 846 words
  3. THE FARM, THE CITY, AND THE SEA.

    "WHAT letters have you got, Job?" asked Polly Summers, running out to the front gate to meet her brother, who had just returned from the Windsor post-office, on the Tuesday morning after John Bell's ...

    Article : 3,142 words
  4. A GRATEFUL HUSBAND.

    In one way or another the East just now is prominently before our eyes. Travellers in Egypt and the Holy Lead are constantly passing through Paris, or being reported of from other capitals; and the latest incident we have ...

    Article : 136 words
  5. KING OF BAVARIA AND HIS PARLIAMENT.

    The quarrel between the young King of Bavaria and his Parliament is coming to a crisis. Prince Hohenlohe, the Prime Minister, is altogether out of the "good books" of the latter, being accused of a too great leaning to unification ...

    Article : 251 words
  6. A GEM OF A SINGER.

    Madame Adelina Patti, to her triumphs and the vast amount of jewellery which serves as the outer and visible sign of the same, has just had the pleasure of adding the decoration of the Russian Order of Merit, magnificently ...

    Article : 195 words
  7. HEALTH OF THE CZAR—PRINCESS DAGMAR.

    The Emperor Alexander is persistently declared to be in very bad health, and to be sinking under a sort of melancholy depression, amounting almost top to mania, and causing him to shut himself up for days and weeks together. The ...

    Article : 243 words
  8. AN "ELEPHANT" SINGER.

    Madame Alboni (who has grown so stout that people call her "an elephant that has swallowed a nightingale"), having torn herself reluctantly from her patrician retirement, (she married an immensely rich Italian, Marquis, ...

    Article : 165 words
  9. BOWING TO THE USAGES OF FASHION.

    It appears that the new Premier's black coat, and the high-necked muslin dress worn by his wife, at their first appearance at the Court balls, produced a sensation so decided, that the young couple decided to conform, for the ...

    Article : 375 words
  10. DEATH OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.

    A telegram from the commander of an English man-of-war, on the West Coast of Africa, stating that Dr. Livingstone had been killed by the people of Cargo, and his body burned, on the supposition that ...

    Article : 74 words
  11. ROCHEFORT—HIS IMPUDENCE—ARREST—RIOT—BARRICADES—DISTRESS.

    The "following" of the candidate of Belleville has actually treated the rising generation of Parisians to the sight of half-a-score of barricades! They have been, of course, immediately "taken" by the troops and the Paris ...

    Article : 1,315 words
  12. PARISIAN DISPLAY OF BEAUTY.

    Mr. and Madame Chevrean, the successors of Baron and Baronets Haussmann at the Hotel de Ville, have taken Paris captive with an instantaneousness that can hardly give the ex-Prefect a flattering idea of the Parisian constancy. It ...

    Article : 474 words
  13. PRUSSIAN MATTERS.

    The King of Prussia's speech at the opening of the Prussian Chambers having so clearly shown the steady determination of Prussia to pursue the unification of North and South Germany until the whole of the Fatherland ...

    Article : 282 words
  14. OBITUARY.

    Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, grandson of old Meyer Anselm de Rothschild, founder of the house, has just died, after many years of painful illness and blindness. His mental faculties were clear and active to the last; his ...

    Article : 102 words
  15. THE OPERA IN RUSSIA.

    The Russian Princes has since made her début at the Italian Opera, in the "Barber of Seville," but she was so thoroughly paralysed by nervous terror that it is impossible to say what she will be. Her voice is evidently fine, ...

    Article : 341 words
  16. AN INGENIOUS FORGER OF ANCIENT MSS.—HIS SUCCESS AND FATE.

    The learned ingenuity of Vrain Lucas, author of the impudent but wonderfully well-executed forgeries of manuscripts, which so completely victimised M. Chasles, of the French Academy, and, by ...

    Article : 648 words
  17. REMINISCENCES OF MR. GEORGE PEABODY.

    DURING my professional attendance on Mr. Peabody, for the last four weeks (writes Mr. J. J. Moerman to the Baltimore Sun) I have had various short but interesting conversations with him on general ...

    Article : 1,771 words
  18. LIGHT READING.

    "So you are going to keep a school?" said a young a to her old aunt, "Well, for my pert, sooner than do t, I would marry a widower with nine children," "I had prefer that myself," was the reply, "but where is a ...

    Article : 631 words
  19. STRIKES AND THEIR RESULTS.

    The strike at Creusos having ended in the return of the whole of the working population to their posts, M. Schneider has returned to Paris, and was received by the Emperor, who takes the greatest interest in all matters ...

    Article : 417 words
  20. THE PATRIARCH OF BABYLON.

    Another reminder of "the old times" of Biblical history has been afforded to Westerners by the story that has reached us from Rome, where the Patriarch of Babylon, having ventured to deliver a speech against Papal ...

    Article : 149 words
  21. GARIBALDI AS AN AUTHOR.

    Garibaldi, who has been suffering much from rheumatism, and whose orange plantations have been a good deal damaged by the atmospheric riotings of the last few months, has just published a novel, entitled Clelia, dovero il Governo ...

    Article : 58 words
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