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  4. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY.

    In bygone days the Earls of Arnley had been men of prominence and all alliance, holding the highest positions in the State, and enjoying the confidence of their ...

    Article : 2,776 words
  5. FACTS & FANCIES.

    On Thursday, 6th May, 1886, a fire, attended by loss of life, occurred at Derby, where the Grand Theatre, a new building. was burned down, and one of the actors ...

    Article : 447 words
  6. IN THE ARMCHAIR.

    In a volume entitled "The Minor Moralist: Some Essays on the Art of Everyday Conduct" (Edward Arnold), by Mrs. Hugh Bell, we obtain ...

    Article : 1,095 words
  7. THE SKETCHER.

    The loss of the British submarine, that was recently struck by a merchant steamer, and sent to the bottom with its hapless crew of eleven officers and men, proves ...

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  8. SPRAY.

    During the Crimean War a lady was distributing tracts to the occupants of a military hospital, and was excessively shocked to hear one poor fellow laugh ...

    Article : 1,330 words
  9. JOKELETS.

    Clara: "How was his voice when he proposed?" Maud: "Oh, it had the right ring to it!" "I say, if you can't give a bigger tater ...

    Article : 983 words
  10. THE FOUNDATION OF FENCING.

    First and foremost, the lunge must be mastered. Starting with the upright position, the heel of the right foot against the left heel, and at right angles to the ...

    Article : 278 words
  11. ADVANTAGES OF MODERN GAS LIGHTING OVER ELECTRICITY.

    Lighting by coal gas consisted not many years ago in a maximum of heat and a minimum of light. Very little effect was secured from the calorific capacity of the ...

    Article : 380 words
  12. THE COARSENESS OF THE AGE WE LIVE IN.

    It is an age of coarse effects, an age of advertisement, A poet could not conscientiously sing now about a rose left to bloom unseen, for excursion trains would ...

    Article : 221 words
  13. DISCOVERING NEW TRIBES.

    The public are likely soon to have an opportunity of seeing some of the trophies of sport and travel which have resulted from Major Powell-Cotton's great journey ...

    Article : 157 words
  14. THE DISPOSAL OF REFUSE.

    The progress of the refuse destrib[? England has been slow but sure, and there is no doubt that it would have been slower still were it not that the power ...

    Article : 202 words
  15. COST OF A BIG GUN.

    Anybody who has ever given the subject a thought must possess some inkling of the fact, that the modem big gun, with its complex and delicate breach mechanism ...

    Article : 144 words
  16. THE ANTIQUITY OF KOREA.

    The authentic, history of Korea begins at a date some hundreds of years anterior to the foundation of Rome. It was in B. C. 1122 that Kitsu, brother of Woo Wang ...

    Article : 318 words
  17. THE NEW MINERAL.

    Sir William Ramsay, in some particulars of the new mineral from Ceylon, given by him in a letter to "Nature," says:—The mineral, when heated alone, gives off 3.5 ...

    Article : 233 words
  18. AN UNREADABLE HAND.

    Writing of the late Sir John Robinson in the "Cornhill Magazine," Mr. H. W. Lucy says that the popular editor's hand-writing was terribly bad. ...

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  19. ANCIENT ARUNDEL.

    Arundel Castle has once again a mistress, after seventeen years. There were Earls of Arundel as far back as 1243, and the castle remained with them till 1580, when ...

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  20. TOO FAT.

    A few years ago a young man went to New Zealand to learn farming. One of the first orders he received from the overseer of the farm was to take a horse and ...

    Article : 115 words
  21. INSTINCT OR ACCIDENT?

    Arthur Patterson (Great Yarmouth), writing in the "Field," says :—During the slight frosts which prevailed in January a well-filled ditch was frozen over. A party ...

    Article : 97 words
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