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  2. A SPECIAL SUIT.

    Mr. Roo—“ A bit staring, don't on think, Madame?” Madame' La Mode—“Not at alI, sir; most becoming! The tricolour suit our London House made for your ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 570 words
  3. A DETECTIVE'S DUTIES,

    Chief-Detective Crystal, of Christ. church, who is about to retire from the service, has an inexhaustible fund of reminiscences to relate. The following two ...

    Article : 734 words
  4. HIGHLAND FUNERALS.

    In towns much of what one might describe as the Scotch familiarity with death has disappeared, and a good deal of restraint in the presence of it is now ...

    Article : 1,344 words
  5. THE CASH BOXES.

    The Australian cashboxes evidence themselves, in a sense, in the different State revenues. "The people are not taxed to death, “as is sometimes alleged; hence the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 569 words
  6. FASHION'S MADNESS.

    'A spirit of feverish' rivalry possesses the makes of modes at present (says a a writer in The London Daily Mail), and fashions that are absolutely exocentric are begin ...

    Article : 948 words
  7. A LITTLE TARGET PRACTICE.

    The Earl of Crewe (Secretary of State for the Colonies) has referred in gentle strain to such anti-Federal feeling in Australia as may be observed in England. He ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 543 words
  8. ROMAN[?] OF UNEXPECTED FORTUNES.

    “Guilty!" The foreman of the jury, standing in the jurybox of the Liverpool Assize Court, pronounced the word, and the eyes of the ...

    Article : 1,829 words
  9. THE SWIFTEST PAS SAGE ON RECORD.

    “So quietly have the two giant racers of the Cunard fleet established their unchallenged claim to the sovereignty of the seas that achievements of nothing less than ...

    Article : 957 words
  10. WRITING SHORTHAND BY MACHINERY.

    In yet another field of activity mere manual dexterity is threatened with dispossession by mechanical ingenuity. At last a machine has been devised for writing ...

    Article : 504 words
  11. FUN BEHIND THE FOOTLIGHTS.

    If there is one virtue more than another that an actor should have it is that of self-possession. Whatever be the unrehearsed business on the stage, whatever ...

    Article : 697 words
  12. EUGENIC MATING MARRIAGES.

    “At a meeting of the Eugenic Society Dr. Slaughter delivered," says The Glasgow News (May 19, a lecture to it a gathering of about 100, principally composed of ladies. ...

    Article : 444 words
  13. MR. W. J. BRYAN ON PREACHING.

    Mr. Bryan, the famous- American politician, has been giving his opinions on preaching. Among other things, he said, “I desire my minister to .preach every ...

    Article : 155 words
  14. PRIEST AND PUGILIST.

    Father Bernard Vaugban and "Tommy" Burns, the world's heavyweight boxing champing, met in a prizering a few weeks ago, but the meeting was not a pugilistic ...

    Article : 321 words
  15. JEAN DE RESZKE.

    M. Jean de Reszke, the famous tenor (says M. A. P.), has recently been the victim of an amusing practical joke. A short time ago he was visted by a poorly clad ...

    Article : 354 words
  16. DUEL BETWEEN MAN AND WIFE.

    Signor Ciffariello, the Italian sculptor, is on trial at Naples for the murder of his wife. The crimp took place nearly three years ago, the proverbial delays of Italian ...

    Article : 268 words
  17. NON-CHURCHGOING IN THE HIGHLANDS.

    “Scotland does not stand where it did by a long way in the matter of churchgoing,” write The Westminster Gazette. “At the last meeting of the Established ...

    Article : 157 words
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