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  2. ECHOES AND RE-ECHOES.

    Some unknown friend has posted me a very nicely-printed paper in Chinese or Japanese. I have not yet been able to discover which is the top, the bottom, or the sides, although I ...

    Article : 546 words
  3. MEMORIES OF A LONG LIFE.

    About this time I travelled in one of the North lines with Calcraft—a stout, elderly looking man with grey hair. The word ran up and down the station. “ Where is ...

    Article : 1,195 words
  4. MUSICAL NOTES.

    Madame Clara Schumann, whose death was recorded in last Saturday’s Register, was without doubt, one of the greatest pianists of her time. She studied the piano at a very ...

    Article : 1,426 words
  5. OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

    Professor Edward Henry Rennie, M.A.. D.Sc., whose portrait wo publish to day, has been for many years the Angas Professor of Chemistry at the University of Adelaide. In ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 148 words
  6. FALLEN AMONG PIRATES.

    A letter from Mr. Arthur Stradling relates the following adventure:—“ I bad shipped at Rangoon on board a steamer bound for Shanghai. When I signed she was flying ...

    Article : 597 words
  7. HOW TOOLE’S “SHOW” WAS SPOILED.

    When Mr. J. L. Toole was in Scotland recently he told some friends a story of his early days there which does not appear in his “Reminiscences.'” He had been engaged m the ...

    Article : 774 words
  8. SHOES WORN BY DIFFERENT NATIONS.

    The Portuguese shoe has a wooden sole and heel, with a vamp made of patent leather, fancifully showing the flesh side of the skin. The Persian footgear LS a raided shoe, and is ...

    Article : 476 words
  9. Major Otto Schomburgk.

    One of the most deservedly popular of our Civil servants and military defenders is Major Otto Schomburgk, whose portrait appears today. He is the only sun of the late Dr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 137 words
  10. INFRA DIG.

    Did I hear that soma one objected to the sight of Commander Creswell, of “The Protector,” working side by side with his men because it was infra dig. Pshaw I infra dig.; ...

    Article : 553 words
  11. HOMICIDAL CRIMES IN AMERICA.

    A case in an agricultural district near the city of Rock Island, Illinois, and in the State of which Chicago is the chief town, illustrates the ease with which murders may be ...

    Article : 676 words
  12. “JOHN OLIVER HOBBES” ON AMERICA.

    Mrs. Cra[?]gie has recently been interviewed by the Daily Chronicle, and she speaks thus deliginfully of American woman:-“I don’t recollect,” she [?], “having heard ...

    Article : 377 words
  13. FOREIGN ITEMS.

    Five boys of about fourteen years of age were arrested at the St. Lazare Station, Paris, as they Mere taking tickets for Cherbourg. They were, armed with old army pistols and ...

    Article : 578 words
  14. MY RIGHTS.

    Yes, God has made me a woman, And I am content to be Just what He meant, not reaching oat For other things, since He ...

    Article : 360 words
  15. AN INTERRUPTED WEDDING.

    The horrors are never more deeply felt than in a single concrete example—such an example as the following, furnished by Mr. Archibald Forbes, in his “Memories of War and Peace.” ...

    Article : 412 words
  16. WOMEN.

    There are women Who are witty. And I fancy more’s the pity. As it tempts them caustic things to often say. There are women who love fashion, ...

    Article : 251 words
  17. MOUNTED ANTS.

    Not long ago a French explorer, M. Charles Meissen, in travelling through Slam, observed a species of small grey ant which were new to him. These ants were much engaged in ...

    Article : 307 words
  18. A CLEVER RUSE.

    A writer in the St[?]tan of March 25 says:— “ A firm of jewellers carrying on business in the strand has just been cleverly vic[?]nized and i think that a public warning will serve ...

    Article : 302 words
  19. BARMAIDS AND MARRIAGE.

    Do barmaids make good marriages? According to a writer in the Hotel and Restan[?]nt keeper they do, and there are to-day many ex-barmaids high in the ranks of society. One ...

    Article : 182 words
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