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  2. GREAT WARRIORS.

    A great deal has been said of the curious tenor possessed by the gallant Lord Roberts of the harmless and necessary cat, the presence of which animal, it is recorded, is able ...

    Article : 438 words
  3. DAYS OF BOTANY BAY,

    When transportation was a legal punishment, prisoners condemned to death for minor offences were frequently given their choice between exile and death. The ...

    Article : 230 words
  4. ENGLAND'S GREATEST KINGS.

    A long interval occurs before another Edward ascends the English throne, and then the event is brought about by one of the many accidents that ...

    Article : 2,989 words
  5. MARCUS CLARKE'S SUN BATH

    A rather amusing but serious summer story concerns Marcus Clarke's early and, alas! all too brief happy days. One of the many fads of Marcus was the sun bath ...

    Article : 425 words
  6. LORD ROBERTS' PORTRAIT.

    There is a stained gloss window at Wool[?] which is exciting a great deal of interest just now, because it contains a remarkable portrait of Lord Roberta ...

    Article : 277 words
  7. A TRAGEDY OF THE PAST.

    Lord William Russell, a brother of the Duke of Bedford, was, on the morning of May 6, 1840, found murdered in his bedroom at 14, Norfolk ...

    Article : 279 words
  8. The Lord Mayor of Dublin.

    The ill-mannered action of the Lord Mayor (Mr. T. Harrington, M.P.), in opposing the municipal vole of condolence on the occasion of the late Queen's death, has ...

    Article : 256 words
  9. III-Health of Women.

    It is a startling commentary upon the modem high pressure methods of living, that out out of three hundred young women seeking admission to a certain college, only ...

    Article : 220 words
  10. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

    It is bad enough to sec an ill-tempered, heartless cabman, exasperated with the sullenness of the brute he has to drive, using his whip savagely, mercilessly, to ...

    Article : 273 words
  11. A Privileged Prince.

    An anonymous contributor to the April "Century, who saw much of Queen Victoria at Osborne in 1880, says that Princess Beatrice's husband, the lute Prince Henry ...

    Article : 285 words
  12. The Boers and Mr. Boyd.

    A young Dutchman who was captured by the Boers and released by Lord Methuen's column confirms the shooting of five socalled rebels by the Boers at Wokmaranstad ...

    Article : 273 words
  13. THE INDIAN FAMINE.

    This is what the Bombay correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states about the famine when raging at its worst about a year ago ...

    Article : 256 words
  14. To Revive the Drowned.

    There is a new way of pumping air into the lungs of a drowned man, or, what is really important, a half-drowned man. It is called the Laborde method, and ...

    Article : 177 words
  15. The Future of Cuba.

    The Senate's committee on the relations between the United Stales and Cuba has agreed to an amendment to the Army Bill authorising the President to hand the ...

    Article : 276 words
  16. A Home of Brigands.

    Sardinia, although one of the most loyal regions to the Italian sovereign, is one of the least considered. The poverty, squalour, anil malaria have in one way or other ...

    Article : 115 words
  17. Sir Henry Colville.

    Sir Henry Colville, whose name has lately been so very much before the public, has had an adventurous career, and has spent a vast quantity of his life in imperilling it ...

    Article : 204 words
  18. MACEDONIAN'S MADMAN.

    Alexander the Great made an imperial banquet at Babylon, end though he had been drinking the health of guests all one night, and all next day ...

    Article : 118 words
  19. A Sydney Cabman.

    'Now Cabby,' said a nervous old lady, 'I want you to drive carefully, and do not go racing with other vehicles, and go round any comers quickly ...

    Article : 157 words
  20. Shameful Treatment.

    "What makes you so late from school?" asked his mother. "The teacher kept me in because I couldn't find Moscow on the map of ...

    Article : 69 words
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