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  2. MUSICAL NOTES.

    Mr.Wybert Reeve will mark the commencement of his duties as teacher of elocution at the Conservatorium, by giving a public lecture at the University on the evening of Tuesday, ...

    Article : 1,098 words
  3. MYSTERIOUS MR. SABIN.

    She was not less firm, but her composure was affected. The rich color streamed into her cheeks. She remained silent. "For a betrothed young lady," he said ...

    Article : 731 words
  4. KRUGER AS A CAMPAIGNER.

    The campaign which resulted in the re-election of Mr. Kruger as President of the Transvaal, the Johannesburg correspondent of the Daily News thinks, will not be without ...

    Article : 739 words
  5. WOMEN AND TOBACCO.

    Up to the present time the recorders of society's habits and customs have generally associated feminine smoking with its extremes. The dainty dame in her boudoir, or even at ...

    Article : 1,138 words
  6. THE BRITISH REGALIA.

    At the London Society of Arts recently Mr. Cyril Davenport gave a lecture, illustrated by beautifully colored lantern slides, on the British regalia. The lecturer began by saying ...

    Article : 718 words
  7. HOW A WOMAN CROSSED THE CHILCOOT PASS.

    A woman has made the passage of the famous Chilcoot Pass in a box slung by a pulley on a rope between two elevated points, and in a letter to her friends in Boston she ...

    Article : 591 words
  8. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    The total cost of the Suez Canal was about £12,000,000. Mexican Hint knives are made so sharp that they could be used for cutting hair. ...

    Article : 1,749 words
  9. SOME WAR SCARES.

    A war scare travels fast (observes a writer in the London Daily Mail), and seeing that in Great Britain's diplomatic history many such strained relationships have had to be faced, ...

    Article : 871 words
  10. A PARIS TRAGEDY.

    "Come and fetch my corpse. I am committing suicide." Such (says the Paris correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph under date March 1) were the contents of a ...

    Article : 462 words
  11. DU MAURIER'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF.

    An article from the pen of the late Mr. Du Maurier appears in Harper's Magazine for March, in which, speaking of himself when he began to work for Punch, the writer says:— ...

    Article : 612 words
  12. ZOOLOGICAL SURGERY.

    Describing an operation on a rhinoceros at the London Zoological Gardens the Daily Mail of February 23 says:—Dwellers by the pleasant pastures of Regent's Park were badly ...

    Article : 510 words
  13. CHAPTER XXXI.

    A single glance from Mr. Sabin into Wolfenden's face was sufficient. Under his breath he swore a small, quiet oath. Wolfenden's appearance was unlooked for, ...

    Article : 1,017 words
  14. THE HANGMAN'S ROPE.

    Sir Edmund F. Du Cane (formerly chairman of the Commissioners of Prisons) discloses in the March number of Chambers' Journal some of the secrets of the common hangman. ...

    Article : 354 words
  15. THE SECRET OF BALDNESS.

    What is the secret of baldness? The answer, according to Mr. Clarke Nuttall, or rather according to M. Sebouraud, whose labors he describes in the March number of the ...

    Article : 429 words
  16. MADAME PATTI AT HOME.

    A friend of the late Signor Nicolini contributes to a Vienna paper a curious account of the daily life of Nicolini and Patti in "the Castle of Silence at Craig-y-nos." They ...

    Article : 283 words
  17. THE POPE'S BOYHOOD.

    Among the pilgrims who went to Rome from the different provinces of the Peninsula to honor Leo XIII. on his sixtieth anniversary of his first mass, and the twentieth of his ...

    Article : 622 words
  18. THE SHERLOCK HOLMES OF BERLIN.

    Dr. Jeserich is the Sherlock Holmes of Berlin. The London Morning Leader's Berlin correspondent describes him as a specialist in detective work. Not the footprints of ...

    Article : 323 words
  19. SEEING ROUND THE CORNER.

    A wonderful invention has just been made in Austria (says a Vienna telegram to the London Daily Chronicle) consisting of an apparatus called "Fernseher" (far seer). The ...

    Article : 285 words
  20. DRINKERS OF COFFEE.

    A New York doctor says his observation has shown beyond question that chronic coffee poisoning is much more common than is generally supposed. The symptoms are ...

    Article : 363 words
  21. A BISHOP IN NONCONFORMIST PULPITS.

    Few prelates work harder than the Bishop of Manchester, but his doings are probably less chronicled than those of most other bishops (remarks the Westminster Gazette of March 2). ...

    Article : 141 words
  22. FORTUNES IN NUGGETS OF GOLD.

    The Klondyke discoveries makes an article in Cassier's Magazine on the above subject trunely. The largest and most valuable nugget of gold ever found was discovered in Australia ...

    Article : 225 words
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  24. A MILLIONAIRE'S IDEA OF A PREACHER.

    Mr. John Wanamaker, the American millionaire, and prominent in the political and religious life of that country, has been giving his ideas on the kind of preachers that is ...

    Article : 115 words
  25. A MILLIONAIRE'S FREAK.

    The bizarre extravagance of the upstart millionaire seems (remarks the London Daily Chronicle) to reach its ultimate expression in the freak of Mr. George Gould, who is having ...

    Article : 104 words
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