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  2. THE GRINDING MILLS OF GOD.

    Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience stands He waiting With exactness grinds He all. ...

    Article : 80 words
  3. DISCOVERIES IF BERLIN.

    Some time ago a great sensation was caused in London, as well as in Berlin, by the suicide of schoolboys of 10 and 12 years of age. Now a still more monstrous case has occurred in ...

    Article : 355 words
  4. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    The British public spend. £16,000,000 annually on tobacco. In St. Petersburg no outdoor musical performances are permitted. ...

    Article : 1,805 words
  5. HOW THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH SAVED INDIA.

    The above is the title of an article in the October number of Macmillan's Magazine. The story, in its essential parts at least, is not new. Sir John Kaye, the late ...

    Article : 760 words
  6. A HERO OF RORKE'S DRIFT.

    The death announced a few days ago of Colonel Chard, V.C. of the Royal Engineers, recalls to mind the most brilliant feat of arms performed during the Zulu war of 1879, the ...

    Article : 1,678 words
  7. THE TASMANIAN NIGHTINGALE.

    The following interesting interview with Madame Amy Sherwin, who will appear at the Adelaide Town Hall on Wednesday next, is taken from Woman's Life:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,375 words
  8. INCORRIGIBLE.

    Visitor—"Well, my man, I expect it must have cost you a lot of money to paint your nose that color?" REPROBATE—"Ah, an' if Oi cud afford it Oi'd have it varnished now!" [?] ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 40 words
  9. CHAPTER XVIII.

    I have just come up to my room, but sleep seems so far from my eyes that I will add a few more notes to my day's record before I go to bed. ...

    Article : 2,013 words
  10. THE MEANNESS OF MILLIONAIRES.

    If millionaires had been habitually generous persons it is just possible that they would never have come to be millionaires, but when they have, as folks say, "made their pile," ...

    Article : 204 words
  11. "GEORGE ELIOT" IN REAL LIFE.

    Readers of "The Mill on the Floss" can never forget the tragic incident associated with that strange phenomenon known as the eagre—a mighty mass of water that rushed ...

    Article : 966 words
  12. THE BLIND MADE TO SEE.

    A few months ago the world was startled by the suggestion of an optimistic oculist that the blind might be made to see by means of the X rays. Now it appears, from a ...

    Article : 205 words
  13. A DISTINGUISHED SOLDIER.

    Sir George White, V.C., G.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in India, gained his laurels late in life. He was distinctly unfortunate in his promotion. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 599 words
  14. THE SAFETY OF DUELLING.

    No little sensation has been created even in Paris (writes the correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, under date September 28). by the duel in which Count Badeni, the ...

    Article : 860 words
  15. WHY BISMARCK IS A MISANTHROPE.

    Herr Rudolph Lindau, one of Prince Bismarck's most tristed subordinates, in a very interesting article about him, makes the following remarks, a London Standard ...

    Article : 343 words
  16. A MAD RAILWAY SIGNALMAN.

    The Brussels correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle, under date September 30, says An occurrence almost Unique in the annals of railway traffic took place on ...

    Article : 165 words
  17. A BRAVE DEFENDER.

    Major C. H. Des Voeux, who conducted the late defence of Fort Gulistan, or Cavagnari, on the Indio-Afghan frontier, an episode worthy of record among the brave deeds of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 175 words
  18. A LEGEND OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE.

    It was to be expected that the Paris Exhibition of 1900. would bear traces of French enthusiasm for everything Russian, and it is now announced (says the London Daily Chronicle) ...

    Article : 117 words
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  20. THE STORY OF THE DRUM.

    The Paris Gaulois publishes some interesting details on the history of the military drum. The earliest classical mention of the drum occurs in a Greek hymn to the goddess Cybele. ...

    Article : 217 words
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  22. TAXING FRESH AIR.

    The conscript fathers of the city of Bonn have such an appreciation of the value of pure air that they have-put a tax upon it. Amongst the hew building regulations issued by the ...

    Article : 119 words
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