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  2. ONE MILLION LIVES LOST BY FAMINE.

    Of the terrible famine in India it now appears that half had not been told. The details received were bad enough, but later and more complete accounts far ...

    Article : 535 words
  3. FAMINE IN ITALY.

    The Gazette de France asserts that great destitution prevails throughout Italy. It says:—We lately recorded that at Venice, out of 110,000 inhabitants, ...

    Article : 168 words
  4. PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES.

    Protection, banished from the old world, has found rest in the new, and thirty millions of our race are there nestled under her wings. They have discarded the vulgar and defiant ...

    Article : 1,388 words
  5. THE TIMES NEWSPAPER.

    The Times journal is now an institution of the country. It was originally the Daily Universal Register, but in 1788 received its present and more appropriate title. For ...

    Article : 693 words
  6. A TERRIBLE FIREARM.

    The American Government is now having made at Hartford, Conn., one hundred battery guns of a new invention. Fifty of them will have a one-inch bore, ...

    Article : 259 words
  7. WINDING UP OF THE BANK OF AUCKLAND.

    The Bank of Auckland has been wound up under circumstances which cast grave suspicions on the manager, and show most culpable neglect on the part of the ...

    Article : 548 words
  8. REMARKABLE ESCAPES OF EMINENT MEN.

    Some years ago, a young man holding a subordinate position in the East India Company's service, twice attempted to deprive himself of life by snapping a loaded pistol at ...

    Article : 767 words
  9. THE MYSTERY OF THE "SOUGH" EXPLAINED.

    It is no great cause for wonder that all the sounds of Nature have not yet been traced to their source. If any one by way of experiment will betake himself to some lonely ...

    Article : 734 words
  10. THE FIRST GOLD MINER IN AUSTRALIA.

    The story of the convict who was flogged in 1788 for having pretended that he had found a gold mine has been told in many ways, but the following ...

    Article : 805 words
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