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  2. PRIVILEGES OF PEERS.

    Among the many changes which Her Majesty's deeply-lamented death will necessitate, none is of more peculiar interest than the confirmation by the new monarch of ...

    Article : 705 words
  3. A STRANGE BEDFELLOW.

    YEARS ago business called me to Liverpool. A great political meeting was about to be held, and consequently there was an ...

    Article : 2,458 words
  4. MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

    It was a case of chicken stealing, and the prints of bare feet were found in the gravel around the hen-house. The lawyer for the prosecution was one who, if he had been ...

    Article : 309 words
  5. FUEL OF ATLANTIC LINERS.

    Not a little guesswork has been gone through by many as to the probable quantities of coal which are daily shovelled into the furnace mouths of such big Atlantic ...

    Article : 350 words
  6. FINLAND AND THE FINNS.

    Owing to the arbitrary way in which the people of Finland have been treated by their Russian rulers, a wholesale emigration of Finns is likely to take place at a very ...

    Article : 312 words
  7. LIQUOR TRADE IN CHICAGO. Some Strange Drink Figures.

    A combination of "temperance" with statistics often yields strange results. Inquiries show that there are more than thirty-one miles of public-houses in Chicago, ...

    Article : 159 words
  8. THE POSITION OP A QUEEN CONSORT.

    The "Law Journal" says:—The question of the constitutional position of a Queen Consort once more becomes of interest. The status of a Queen Consort always differed ...

    Article : 233 words
  9. FACTS, FIGURES, AND FANCIES.

    The population of Delagoa Bay, which Was 300 in 1890, is 6,000 to-day. In England 600,000lb. of tea are consumed daily. ...

    Article : 494 words
  10. A Royal Lion Hunt at Sea.

    There was a strange scene on board the steamer Himalaya on February 3, 1859, when a lion consigned to Her Majesty broke loose. The animal was one of a collection, ...

    Article : 204 words
  11. VICTOR HUGO.

    The great Trench writer, Victor Hugo, used to tell this story about his childhood—his father, be it remembered, was one of Napoleon's Generals. When I was five ...

    Article : 174 words
  12. NAYAL BALLADS OF BRITAIN.

    Alongside the best ballads of Tennyson, Mr. J. A. R. Marriott would place the ballads of Mr. Henry Newbolt. The following stanzas of ...

    Article : 265 words
  13. Musical-Boxes.

    The chief industry in Geneva is the manufacture of musical-boxes. Thousands of men, women, and children are employed in the factories. The making of ...

    Article : 185 words
  14. PEKING DESCRIBED.

    Peking is at once interesting, despicable, superlatively beautiful, disgustingly filthy, and, in short, a city of contradictions. Originally a Tartar encampment, begun by ...

    Article : 330 words
  15. Lost Memory Regained.

    That truth is no less strange than fiction is illustrated by a recent occurrence at a well-known hospital. Some two years ago (says "Science Siftings") a woman was ...

    Article : 114 words
  16. Value of Ivory.

    African ivory fetches a higher price than any other, being denser in texture, susceptible of a higher polish, and not so liable to turn yellow when exposed to the light as ...

    Article : 141 words
  17. Legacy to the Late Queen.

    An eccentric lawyer, some years ago, bequeathed the whole of his fortune amounting to nearly a quarter of a million sterling, to the late Queen Victoria, to whom he was ...

    Article : 137 words
  18. A Mother's Responsibilities.

    When a woman has taken upon herself, of her own free will, the responsibilities of wife, mother, and mistress of a household, she has bound herfelf to interests which ...

    Article : 157 words
  19. The Boers at St. Helena.

    The last craze among the Boer prisoners at St. Helena is hut-building, and, considering how difficult it is to get material of any sort there, the shanties they manage to erect ...

    Article : 190 words
  20. A Monster Match Factory.

    The biggest match factory in the world is probably the Vulcan match factory, at Tidaholm, Sweden. It employs over 1,200 men, and manufactures daily 900,000 boxes ...

    Article : 75 words
  21. A True Gentleman.

    By a gentleman we mean not to draw a line that, would be invidious between high and low, rank and subordination, riches and poverty. The distinction is in the mind. ...

    Article : 163 words
  22. A Plucky Queen.

    The Queen of Portugal is one of the most popular reigning Sovereigns alive; so that anything like a revolution in Portugal is absolutely out of the question. The recent ...

    Article : 143 words
  23. Why She Didn't Have One.

    At a large fashionable dinner-party one evening in Dablin, the hostess noticed that one of the guests, the Hon. Mrs. Snodgrass, had no spoon for her soup, and called the ...

    Article : 74 words
  24. Badly Put.

    A popular elergyman recently delivered a lecture to his parishioners assembled upon the interesting subject of "Fools." There was naturally a very large audience, ...

    Article : 59 words
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