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  2. ECHOES AND RE-ECHOES.

    A well known Semaphorean boniface, bearing a good old Scotch name familiar in “Scots wha hae,” laid in a stock of [?]eese for the Easter season, and imprisoned ...

    Article : 542 words
  3. FINGER-PRINTS OF CRIMINALS.

    In the current number of “Knowledge” Mr. R. Lydekker writes an interesting article on the structure and form of human “finger prints,” with a description of the ...

    Article : 291 words
  4. THE SULTAN AT HOME.

    The secrets of an Oriental despot are usually more worthy of the name than political secrets as Western peoples understand the term. Under Governments more or ...

    Article : 1,300 words
  5. ODDS AND ENDS,

    There are nearly 2.700 crossing sweepers in London. The G.P.O. pays £1,250,000 a year for the carriage of English mails. ...

    Article : 1,578 words
  6. THE FORTY-SECOND AT RETIEF’S PASS.

    But what is that? “That” is a British cheer. Said a squat, broad Light Infantryman, “Thae fellows o’ the Forty-cwa hae a the luck! They are in wi’ the bay net.” the ...

    Article : 416 words
  7. AN ISLAND ROMANCE.

    During the century which has just passed, writes the “St. James’s Gazette,” the stream of population has practically completed the circuit of the globe, yet it was ...

    Article : 1,153 words
  8. THE HUMANITY OF THE SOLDIER.

    Mr. James Barnes, a well-known American war correspondent, contributes, says the “Daily News,” an account of a “farm, burning” incident to “The Outlook” ...

    Article : 1,230 words
  9. OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

    The Very Rev. Dean Farrar, who is at present prostrated by illness, was born at, Bombay on August 7, 1831. His father, a comparatively unknown clergyman, died ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 360 words
  10. WHEN MOTHER IS AWAY.

    The ducks are quacking m the yard, The magpie sings his lay, The batcher does not bring their meat when mother is away. ...

    Article : 580 words
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  12. THE GREATEST IRONMASTER IN THE WORLD.

    Mr. Charles M. Schwab, the president of the billion-dollar American. Steal Trust, the greatest industrial organization ever formed in the history of the world—is only ...

    Article : 750 words
  13. SIR EDWARD POYNTER, R.A.

    Sir Edward John Poynter. R.A., who has many years past occupied a place in the front ranks of British artists, was born in Paris on March 20, 1836. He was ...

    Article : 191 words
  14. INTERNATIONAL “DOUBLES.”

    A professional phrenologist and physiognomist, who is as well known on the other side of the Atlantic as on this, writes as follows to the “Daily Mail”:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 840 words
  15. The Onlooker.

    It was a dark winter’s evening in a large provincial town in England, a poor locality, and a lonely street. I noticed only one person on the road—a district nurse—and she ...

    Article : 207 words
  16. THE KING’S FRIENDS.

    In “Cassell’s Magazine” for March is a special article on the personal friends of the new sovereign. Among politicians, says the writer, His ...

    Article : 377 words
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  19. IMMORTALITY.

    Nothing can utterly die; Music, aloft upspringing. Turns to pure atoms of sky Each golden note of the singing. ...

    Article : 70 words
  20. AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY

    Messrs. Baker & Rouse, 65, Bundle street, have been appointed leading agents for American Cameras, produced for the 20th century trade. ...

    Article : 40 words
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