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  2. THE MUSICAL WORLD.

    Our contemporary, "Music," reports that Mascagni recently delivered a lecture in Venice on "The Evolution of Music in the Nineteenth Century," in the coarse of which be observed that ...

    Article : 1,460 words
  3. EARTHQUAKES.

    The British Isles are by no means exempt from earthquakes, though they have done comparatively little damage and caused scarcely any loss of life. We have (says a writer in the "Young ...

    Article : 1,498 words
  4. NANETTE ON NOVELS.

    Nanette closed her book and tossed it onto the porch rail, from whence it fell unnoticed to the pansy bed, causing a wonderful literary excitement in a community of red ants. Then she ...

    Article : 1,051 words
  5. GENERAL CHRISTIAN DE WET.

    The last few months of the war have been illuminated (says a writer in the "Daily News"). for the Boers by the brilliant tactics and dashing made upon Lord Roberts's Tight flank and ...

    Article : 1,196 words
  6. SOVEREIGNS FROM AUSTRALIA TO AMERICA.

    The San Francisco "Weekly Chronicle" of October 25 contains the following: Four million dollars' worth of British sovereigns came on Friday in the steamship' Alameda. The big shipment of ...

    Article : 760 words
  7. ABOUT THE EARS.

    There is no [?] in our Body so delicate in its nature as the car, and I make hold to say no part is treated with less care (says Dr. Andrew Wilson), The [?] car is regarded [?] if it were ...

    Article : 1,495 words
  8. MARITIME SUPREMACY OF GREAT BRITAIN.

    The "Scientific American" says: The magnitude of potentiality of the maritime prosperity of Great Britain has been graphically illustrated during the past few months, owing to the state ...

    Article : 239 words
  9. TIRED OF LIFE AT EIGHT.

    The latest answer to the problem what the younger generation is coming to is supplied by an English Midland town in the disconcerting terms, "suicide in infancy." It semes incredible that a ...

    Article : 257 words
  10. SPIDER STORIES.

    Writing of Prison Recreation in the November number of the "Pall Mall Magazine," Mr. Tighe Hopkins says: Pellison was the friend and confidential clerk ...

    Article : 292 words
  11. SOME MEDICAL SUPERSTITIONS.

    In considering the medical superstitions that are observed to-day (says a writer in the Liverpool "Post"), it is instructive to notice that in a majority of instances they are practised for the ...

    Article : 1,082 words
  12. THE "SUDD" REGION OF THE NILE.

    Between the sixth and ninth parallels of north latitude, the Nile traverses a series of marshes, in extent probably the largest in the world. Their actual limits are as yet unknown. Their area ...

    Article : 435 words
  13. RUSSIA AND THE CZAR.

    In "Scribner's Magazine" for October the chief feature is the first of a series of articles by Mr. Henry Norman, M.P., on "Russia of To-day," from which we take the following extracts: ...

    Article : 732 words
  14. SOME COMMON MISQUOTATIONS.

    Byron in his footnote to the Field of Waterloo in "Childe Harold" misquotes "Macbeth," act II., sc. 4. "An eagle towering in her pride of place," instead of "A falcon towering in her pride ...

    Article : 304 words
  15. THIRST.

    Recent events in South Africa have drawn attention very strongly to the dangers connected with the drinking of polluted water, while they have also served to show how impossible it is to ...

    Article : 549 words
  16. AN IRISH JUDGE.

    A good story is told of Lord Morris, the distinguished judge, who has never lost the rich brogue of the West of Ireland. He was once engaged in hearing a horse-poisoning case, and ...

    Article : 133 words
  17. HE LIKED IT.

    Wife: "How do you like my new Christmas hat?" Husband: "The idea of paying big prices for ...

    Article : 67 words
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