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  2. Innate Selfishness.

    THOSE folks who pride themselves on their naturalness are after all, only indulging their innate selfishness; it costs a little trouble to be artificial; it is ever so much easier to speak out whatever ...

    Article : 335 words
  3. Lord Wolseley's Prophecy of Doom.

    WHAT basis has Lord Wolseley for the calm assumption in virtue of which he dooms us and our children after us to irremediable ruin? He sighs for the times of Marlborough and Wellington, and ...

    Article : 630 words
  4. Telephonic Trouble.

    THE adaption of a telephonic system to commercial life may not be such an unmixed blessing as many people would believer. The Times of India remarks: —"The Austrian War Office is stated to be ...

    Article : 333 words
  5. Letters to the Editor.

    THE Editor does not hold himself responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents. ...

    Article : 16 words
  6. The Coming Ploughing Matches.

    SIR.—Allow me to make a few remarks on the above subject. In looking at the prize list I notice a prize for best set of harness. I would suggest that something be offered for harness best kept ...

    Article : 831 words
  7. Advice from American to Japanese Ladies.

    A NUMBER of eminent American ladies, headed by Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Garfield, have addressed an open letter "to Japanese women who are adopting foreign dress." The writers say that if the ...

    Article : 373 words
  8. A Possible Dog Craze.

    A CURIOUS reminiscence of barge life on the Dutch canals is furnished by the dog show opened in Brussels. In "Vanity Fair" Thackeray describes the comfort of barge life, and tells the legend ...

    Article : 231 words
  9. True Love.

    THE course of true love is proverbially said never to run smooth, but it might often run smoother than it does were it not for misunderstandings d'amour propre carried to excess. A case in point, ...

    Article : 270 words
  10. Military Genius.

    LORD WOLSELEY contributes to the Fortnightly Review for September a very interesting paper on "Military Genius," in which, referring to the future of armies, he says:—"Small and large armies ...

    Article : 379 words
  11. Scene in a Menagerie.

    THE Liverpool journals report an exciting scene which occurred in the menagerie at New Brighton. Md[?]le. Esmeralda, the snake charmer, was attacked by a large cobra, which coiled round her body. ...

    Article : 274 words
  12. The Matrimonial Question.

    THE discussion on marriage which has for the present, to the relief of most readers, taken the place of the Irish question in some of the daily papers, is of particular interest to us, as the ...

    Article : 254 words
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    COAL: GAS-MAKING AND GAS-SAVING.—In a lecture by Mr. W. M. Foote, M.E., at St. Leonards, he gave the geological history of coal, showing how the vegetable growths had been covered by debris, ...

    Article : 695 words
  14. Self-control.

    AN expert and experienced official in an insane asylum said to us, a little time since, that these institutions are filled with people who have given up to their feelings, and that no one is quite safe ...

    Article : 304 words
  15. An Adventure with a Panther.

    A CORRESPONDENT sends to an Indian paper an account of an adventure with a panther. It appears that the inhabitants of Fiazpore, a village situated about a mile from the forest bungalow at Kalesar, ...

    Article : 479 words
  16. The Queen as a Leaseholder.

    "TRUTH," speaking of some of the properties held by Her Majesty, makes the following remarks:— "The Queen has reason to appreciate the anomalous condition of the law of landlord and tenant in ...

    Article : 202 words
  17. A Bride Seeking Death.

    A ROMANTIC attempt to commit suicide is reported from Buda Pesth. As the morning express from Vienna was approaching the station of Palota a girl in a white bridal dress and a wreath of ...

    Article : 139 words
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    A SYSTEM OF CHANGING GRAVES.—Dr. Henry Littlejohn, the Edinburgh medical officer of health, states that in a cemetery within its jurisdiction there had been in one case a system of changing ...

    Article : 139 words
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