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  3. LITERARY JOTTINGS.

    The interest which still attaches to the Napoleonic wars is divided to no small extent by the Peninsular part of the record. At no period of its military history was Britain better ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,880 words
  4. RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

    "The gossip is not always of the swift, nor the tattle of the wrong." A SAILORS' CONCERT. Are you a Harbor Light? That was the ...

    Article : 1,651 words
  5. PESSIMIST OR OPTIMIST

    A [?] may be defined as one who is compelled to live with an optimist, of as one who eats crab in the middle of the day. I live with an optimist, and two hours ago I ate ...

    Article : 911 words
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  7. Some Stories.

    An American lawyer, named Ames, was retained as counsel for a man who stepped in a hole in the street and broke his leg. Suit was brought against the city in the sum of ...

    Article : 122 words
  8. A GOOD OLD STORY.

    Of the two celebrated byegone British barristers, Balfour and Erskine, the former's style was gorgeously verbose, while, the latter's, on the contrary, was crisp and ...

    Article : 148 words
  9. BAD AND GOOD BOOKS.

    Grant Allen related that he was sitting one day under the shade of the Sphinx, turning for some petty point of detail to his Baedeker. A sheik looked at him sadly, and shock his ...

    Article : 116 words
  10. COULDN'T DO IT.

    There joined the police force of London a [?] Scot[?] but recently arrived his native land. Being detailed one day to block the traffic on a certain Thoroughfare ...

    Article : 118 words
  11. MURDERED IN COURT.

    An astounding tragedy was enacted at little Rock, Arkanisas (U.S.A.), on July 27, at the conclusion of habeas corpus proceedings brought by Mr. Parker Willis, a well-known ...

    Article : 196 words
  12. MAKING THEM SORRY.

    To the leader of a band in Omaha, U.S.A., [?]ly spoken of in that locality as the worst in seven different States," there once man with a request that the band ...

    Article : 122 words
  13. BIG GAME SHOOTING.

    This is from a hunter who did not go abroad for sport: "Why, once, do you know, I found a [?] inside a hollow log. Well, of course, I couldn't get at him to shoot him, and the ...

    Article : 120 words
  14. CHINESE FROZEN PIGS.

    The first consignment of frozen pigs french China to London within the records of the port medical authority was on July 27. unloaded from the steamer Palesmo in the Albert Docks. ...

    Article : 103 words
  15. DISTRIBUTED THE CONVERSATION.

    Roger, the celebrated French tenor, on one occasion was engaged for the sum of 1500 francs to sing at the house of a rich financier. Roger sang his first, song magnificently; but no ...

    Article : 127 words
  16. PENNY FRENCH NOVELS.

    The works of Bal[?] Dumas pere, Zola, and other famous novelist, are to be issued at a penny apiece by a Paris firm. The novals will be brought out in a curious form—eight pages ...

    Article : 107 words
  17. MUCH THANKS

    In the first year of his practice, Judge [?] of Vermont (U.S.A.), was called to presecute In a justice suit, and, fresh from Chitty, filed a pica in abatement, which he duly discussed. The justice, in deciding die case, said: "The young lawyer has filed what he calls a plea in ...

    Article : 170 words
  18. THE SWALLOWING BOY.

    Samuel Bull, aged 13, a small, delicate-looking boy, was found wandering at Long Ditton near London, at 4 a.m. on July 24, and was lodged in Kingston Workhouse, and left with ...

    Article : 123 words
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  20. REFUSED WORK.

    Prosecuted at North London Police Court on July 25 by the Islington Guardians for refusing to work, Gustav Blankmeyer was stated to have ...

    Article : 84 words
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  22. HARD ON THE MISSIONARY.

    A missionary returned from India tells a good story against himself. Once he was preaching at a lunatic asylum and he made use of a favorite sermon. After service, as he was ...

    Article : 108 words
  23. HOLIDAY IN BED.

    A defendant at Southwark (London) County Court, on July 29 offered to make a certain payment, but said that it would embarrass him considerably. ...

    Article : 97 words
  24. MARRIAGE TIME LIMIT.

    A woman who applied to the Windsor (England) guar[?] for relief on [?] that her husband informed her when they were married that the marriage would be for seven ...

    Article : 43 words
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