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  2. MONEY-ORDER BRANCH.

    The advantages secured by the public from our most efficient postal service has frequently been dilated on, and there are few unacquainted with the ...

    Article : 1,879 words
  3. STAGE, SONG, SHOW.

    The extraordinary success which marked the opening weeks of the season of "The Sign of the Cross" at Her Majesty's Theatre has been admirably ...

    Article : 1,587 words
  4. SIX JUBILEE BALLOONS.

    Captive balloons from which to view the Diamond Jubilee procession is positively the latest proposal. And it is to be carried into effect, too! Messrs. C. G. ...

    Article : 517 words
  5. AN EXPENSIVE FEAST.

    From Rome of 1739 De Brosses, a French writer, describes a rather curious and expensive custom:--"Every year, on the festival of St. Louis, ...

    Article : 394 words
  6. SAYINGS AND DOINGS

    Brigands in Mexico recently, robbed a mule train loaded with £10,000 in gold dust. Perfumed warming-pans are the ...

    Article : 1,285 words
  7. A BISMARCK STORY.

    Mr. Frederick Greenwood, in his half-century's survey of the newspaper Press, given in the May number of "Blackwood," tels a new Bismarck ...

    Article : 446 words
  8. SO MUCH FOR BUCKINGHAM.

    It was a motley crowd that gathered round the stockyard one morning to see the champion rough rider of the district try his hand at riding the ...

    Article : 373 words
  9. SHE SAT ON HIS HAT.

    Recent events have made unaccompanied ladies extremely timorous when their only companion in a railway carriage compartment is a strange man. ...

    Article : 355 words
  10. SIR GEORGE GREY.

    The London correspondent of the Auckland "Star" contributes the following interesting paragraph concerning that veteran New Zealand statesman, ...

    Article : 412 words
  11. A LITTLE DIFFICULTY.

    A curious feature of a large relief works camp in the Punjab, where about 40,000 persons are at work, is the arrangement just introduced, by which ...

    Article : 154 words
  12. DU MAURIER AND HIS DOG.

    Du Maurier loved dogs, as we all do who are normally constructed. His pictures are good evidence on this point, and one of the conspicuous ...

    Article : 416 words
  13. LIQUEFIED AIR.

    C. E. Tripler (says the "American Scientific Press") claims to have discovered a new power, which, according to him, is going to revolutiounise ...

    Article : 492 words
  14. FULTON'S FIRST FARE.

    There was one little incident in Robert Fulton's life about which few people know, and which Fulton never forgot. It took place shortly before the ...

    Article : 371 words
  15. COSTLY AUTOGRAPH.

    Mr. Chauncey, the American orator and millionaire, used to go to travel in the Southern States a good deal. He tells the following story:-- ...

    Article : 157 words
  16. THE RICHEST CROWN.

    The crown worn by Portugal's King on State occasions is probably the most precious in the world, though it contains one of the finest rubles known, ...

    Article : 140 words
  17. THE ORIGIN OF JAPANESE.

    Dr. Eastlake, who has lived many years in Japan, has a theory that the Japanese people are not Mongolians, nor related in any way to the Mongol ...

    Article : 91 words
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