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  2. A FRIENDLY CALL.

    Miss Von Gabble—" There goes Mrs. Goode, the new minister's wife. Seems to be off of a visit somewhere; has a satchel with her." Mrs. Von. Gabble-" Why so it is. They do say ...

    Article : 125 words
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    Advertising : 2,358 words
  4. MAIL EXTRACTS.

    On Sept. 4 the Harris Academy at Dundee, which had been erected at a cost of £10,000 through the munificence of the late Bailie Harris, was opened by Sir Lyon Playfair, M.P., who delivered an ...

    Article : 174 words
  5. COAL v. NATURAL GAS.

    Nearly all the ironworks at Pittsburgh, besides some forty iron firms within a radius of thirty miles, are now using the natural gas, as also are most of the glass factories, distilleries, brewers, ...

    Article : 114 words
  6. NO STOVES AND WOOD TWENTY DOLLARS A CORD.

    There isn't such a thing as a fireplace or stove in all Mexico. The temperature remains at about sixty degrees the year around, and, while the stranger will complain of being chilly at first, he ...

    Article : 121 words
  7. FIFTY-SIX YEARS A CLERGYMAN

    By the death of the Rev. Robert Taylor, which is just announced, one of the oldest beneficed clergymen in the diecese of York has passed away. Mr. Taylor was ordained as far back as 1828. In ...

    Article : 100 words
  8. THE ITALIAN LAW OF DESCENT.

    A lawsuit has just been finished at the Court of Appeal in Florence. On May 27,1875, the Duke of Sermoneta married his third wife, Harriet Ellis, daughter of Lord Howard de Walden. On the ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. MOUNTAIN DEFENCE OF INDIA.

    Lord Randolph Churchill proposes to create an Indian frontier army to defend those passes which would be assailed by the Russian advance, the first steps having been taken to this end, and they are ...

    Article : 108 words
  10. THE CORRECT TIP.

    At the quarterly meeting of the Grand Lodge of English Freemasons, held the other night at Freemasons' Hall, General Brownrigg, C.B., Provincial Grand Master for Surrey, presided in the absence ...

    Article : 109 words
  11. AMERICAN COALFIELDS.

    In a lecture on coal, recently delivered at Philadelphia, it was stated by the author that the United States have an area of 440,000 square miles of coalfield; 100,000,000 tons of coal were mined in the ...

    Article : 191 words
  12. TERRIBLE CYCLONE IN AMERICA.

    On Sept. 8 a cyclone passed across Ohio, south of Columbus. It demolished several buildings at Plain City, and then proceeded south-westwards, over Washington Courthouse, a place having 4000 ...

    Article : 132 words
  13. WHERE THE CAMELLIA GOT ITS NAME.

    Ferdimand VI of Spain, while suffering under the hereditary melancholy from which he subsequently died, was pacing to and fro one December day in the year 1739 in his bedroom in the Palace ...

    Article : 217 words
  14. THE SALVATION ARMY TO POST SENTINELS—CALLING FOR MORE LEGISLATION.

    London, July 17. — The Salvation Army have started a movement to establish pickets at the doors of houses of ill-fame. The sentinels are not to approach or disturb in any way men who enter ...

    Article : 150 words
  15. A CRYSTALLINE COATING.

    An attractive crystalline coating for wood or paper, it is found, may be obtained by mixing a very concentrated cold solution of salt with dextrin, and laying the thinnest possible coating of the ...

    Article : 146 words
  16. THE ERUPTION OF COTOPAXI

    American advices give details of the eruption of the volcano of Cotopaxi, which occurred early on the morning of July 23. The papers report that one morning people were awakened by a heavy artillery ...

    Article : 229 words
  17. A MOUNTAIN ON FIRE.

    Owing to the drought which has not long prevailed in Switzerland and Savoy, writes a correspondent, fires, some of them of an unusual character, have taken place in various parts of the country. ...

    Article : 261 words
  18. LONDON HOSPITALS.

    We have now just now a visitor in London who is receiving a great deal of attention of an unobtrusive sort from the heads of our hospitals. These institutions, both as to liberality of support, ...

    Article : 112 words
  19. VICTOR HUGO'S WEALTH.

    It is now known that Victor Hugo died worth, in round numbers, five million francs (£200.000). This fortune has been nearly all, if not quite all, made during the last few years. Last year alone ...

    Article : 104 words
  20. REPEATING IT.

    " Now, Mamie," quoth a fond parent to her darling, who was about to depart for a children's dinner party, "don't forgot your manners. Be sure and say yes, sir, no sir, and yes, ma'am, and no, ...

    Article : 90 words
  21. ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A TRAIN.

    Troy, July 10.—A track man yesterday morning discovered a box about twenty inches long and four inches wide on the bridge over the Salmon River, four miles south of Plattsburg. A string leading ...

    Article : 152 words
  22. ALDERSHOT FILTHY.

    The principal medical journal again calls attention to the sanitary state of Aldershot camp, where the eldest son of the Prince of Wales is undergoing military training. It says that it is due to the ...

    Article : 106 words
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