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  2. BREVITIES.

    Key-collecting is the latest fad. England spends £580,000 a year [?] blacking. In Dickens's 24 novels there are [?] ...

    Article : 1,565 words
  3. NEWS AND NOTES

    The Ophir is being freely turned to commercial uses. Alleged pictures of the ship are being chalked by pavement artists. Sailor hats for boys and girls have ...

    Article : 1,728 words
  4. THE HUNDRED RICHEST MEN.

    "Chambers's Journal" for April contains a most instructive series of articles entitled "Studies in Millionaires," by Mr. James Burnley, author of "The Romance ...

    Article : 638 words
  5. PARLIAMENTARY PICTURES.

    Mr. Michael Joseph Flavin's Parliamentary successes have been numerous, but never has that hard, rugged countenance of his worn so triumphant a look ...

    Article : 1,411 words
  6. GROWTH OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

    The growth of the British Empire is one of the marvels of the nineteenth century. The growth of her population has kept pace with her territorial expansion. [?] ...

    Article : 872 words
  7. TOPICAL ITEMS.

    Extremes meet, and an organ of hotelkeepers is as unfair in its comments on nurses as "A Matron of Experience" is unjust in her estimate of the attitude of ...

    Article : 390 words
  8. THE STORY-TELLER

    Three men were closeted in the private office of the Mayor of the town of Hempstead. One was the president of the first ...

    Article : 2,303 words
  9. THE ETIQUETTE OF "ROBES."

    Considerable consternation is experienced on the part of the peers by the discovery of the fact, not generally known, that the "robes" for ...

    Article : 185 words
  10. WHAT THE BIG TOWNS WILL PAY FOR THE WAR.

    Supposing that when the war is finished, compensation paid for losses, pensions provided for, gratuities distributed, etc., the cost totals up to £160,000,000 ...

    Article : 243 words
  11. LORD LLANDAFF'S CONFESSION.

    Lord Llandaff, once known to fame as Mr. Henry Matthews, Q.C., one of the Bar's cleverest cross-examiners, made some piquant remarks recently upon ...

    Article : 342 words
  12. AS OTHERS SEE US.

    The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall have started on their long voyage to the British colonies. After having honoured with their presence the opening of the ...

    Article : 799 words
  13. DIDN'T LIKE TRIPE.

    Liston, the actor, delighted in a peculiar sort of practical joking in the public streets. Walking one day through Leicester Square with Mr.Miller, the ...

    Article : 270 words
  14. WAS TOLD HE HAD CONSUMPTION.

    One of the most peculiar things about the consumptive is that he will never admit that he has consumption until in the last stages of the disease, when there ...

    Article : 588 words
  15. THE BLOCKADE OF BRITAIN.

    Amid the erics and counter-erics for the Empire's defence, there is heard but little of the preparedness of Britain herself against invasion. ...

    Article : 1,145 words
  16. A MATTER OF HISTORY.

    Has a British square of soldiers ever been broken? This was the substance of a question put by a correspondent to the "New Zealand Herald," which, in ...

    Article : 174 words
  17. HOLDS ITS GROUND.

    This is Testimony from Hobart as well as everywhere. Can this be so? Is it true? Are the facts as stated? These are the ...

    Article : 380 words
  18. A HARD PULL.

    On holidays two parties of men or boys will frequently get hold of the opposite ends of a rope and pull on it, as a test of the strength of the two ...

    Article : 234 words
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