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  2. Extracts from the Latest English Papers.

    En ering of Men for the Royal Navy.— During the last few days the neighbourhood of Tower-hill has presented a rather lively appearance, in consequence of the notice issued by ...

    Article : 1,955 words
  3. THE EFFORTS OF GENIUS.

    It is found, on examining a Biographical Dictionary of distinguished individuals in all ages and countries amounting to about five thousand in number, that the largest proportion are ...

    Article : 1,723 words
  4. A STRANGE STORY.

    Agnes B., being at the time eighteen years of age, was living as a servant in a small inn at Undenheim, her native place. The host and hostess were quiet old people, who generally went ...

    Article : 749 words
  5. THE DOMESTIC MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF THE BEDOUIN ARABS.

    These Bedouins are curious fellows! You have heard of a nation of Jumpers: well, they are a nation of leapers. We walk, they fly. They are the hats of the human race—not men, ...

    Article : 1,125 words
  6. Fox Hunting.

    In our native land "Tally-ho!" is shouted and welcomed in due season by all conditions of men; by the ploughman, holding hard his startled colt; by the woodman, leaning his axe ...

    Article : 1,016 words
  7. FACETIAE.

    Mrs Partington, reading the death of a distinguished lawyer, who was stated to be the father of the bar, exclaimed—"Poor man! he had a dreadful noisy set of children." ...

    Article : 774 words
  8. Miscellaneous Extracts.

    Statistics of the Population of Paris.—According to the last census (1849), the population of Paris, inter muros, consisted of 945,724 inhabitants, without including strangers, who ...

    Article : 1,077 words
  9. THE MAJOR'S DEATH.

    The sergeant seemed troubled with a very peculiar kind of cough. The day had been a dark one, even for the gloomy season of the year, and the light now in the apartment approached ...

    Article : 745 words
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