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  2. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    The Nile is the only great river that is largest at its source. According to insurance statistics, only one person in ten thousand lives to the age of 100 ...

    Article : 1,721 words
  3. HUSH MONEY.

    Will he hunt? Will he ride? Will he shoot? Or gamble? Or smoke and drink brandy? Or polka, or play on the flute, Like a regular drawing-room dandy? ...

    Article : 2,267 words
  4. "SPECTS THEY GROWED."

    That stones "grow" is still a firm article of belief in many rural districts. Sir Herbert Maxwell tells an amusing anecdote illustrative of this. A friend of his, a distinguished ...

    Article : 165 words
  5. THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

    The Monroe doctrine is at present on everyone's lips, but not one man in a hundred either in England or America has any but the vaguest idea of what it really means. A ...

    Article : 804 words
  6. MR. HARRY MUSGROVE.

    Mr. Harry Musgrove, the manager of the Australian Eleven, will bring much practical experience to bear in his management of the team in England, bis long connection with the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 94 words
  7. SIR PHILIP CURRIE.

    Sir Philip Currie, British ambassador at Constantinople, entered the service of the Foreign Office in 1854. In 1876, after he had served as an attache at St. Petersburg, he ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 79 words
  8. DEAN STANLEY'S LETTERS.

    A volume of the late Dean Stanley's letters recently issued contains more than one good story—like this of Dr. Whewell—with whom "science was his forte, omniscience his foible." ...

    Article : 1,374 words
  9. R. W. LEWIS.

    Winner of the Three-Mile Track Cycling Championship of Australasia. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. A DETECTIVE'S INSTINCT.

    The last chapter in the story of Herr Schulz has been closed (writes the Vienna correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph). Herr Schulz was a man of 70, reputed to be of ...

    Article : 2,638 words
  11. MR C. J. EADY.

    Mr. C. J. Eady, the young Tasmanian cricketer, is the finest type of an athletic Australian we have seen in cricket, as he stands about 6 ft. 2 in. in height, and in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 176 words
  12. H. A. HOURIGAN.

    Winner of the A.N.A. Wheel Race (£300 prize). ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  13. AN OCTOGENARIAN'S REMINISCENCES.

    The reminiscences of Mrs. Agnew, which appear in the January number of Temple Bar, under the title of "Lions in the Twenties," are remarkable for their long range. The ...

    Article : 932 words
  14. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND AND HIS SECRETARY OF STATE.

    President Cleveland is a lawyer by profession. He was born in 1837, his father being a Presbyterian minister. This is his second term of office, and it is not known whether he ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 102 words
  15. A MYSTERIOUS RACE OF WHITES.

    An extraordinary story (says a London paper) has been brought from the Koranza country by Captain H. D. Larymore, of the Gold Coast Constabulary, who has just returned ...

    Article : 145 words
  16. A DETECTIVE STORY.

    The cuts herewith represent the various disguises in which Arton, the man who distributed the mysterious cheques in the Panama bribery case, dodged the French police for ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 93 words
  17. A FAMOUS BLIND CHAPLAIN.

    Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the United States Senate, is like the late Professor Fawcett, a striking example of perseverance in spite of great obstacles. Ever since he was ...

    Article : 545 words
  18. A WORD FOR THE PIG.

    The pig is usually the symbol for greed, but if we may believe Dr. Louis Robinson, who writes on "Wild Traits in Tame Animals" in the North American Review, he might more ...

    Article : 467 words
  19. A WELSH ROMANCE.

    A strange affair Las just occurred at Llanrug, a small village in Carnarvonshire. The central figure was a Mrs. Jones, daughter of a former vicar of Llanrug. Upon the death of ...

    Article : 255 words
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