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  2. WRITERS AND BOOKS.

    Miss Amye Reade, niece of the late Charles Reado, and [?] of the circus story, "Ruby," is engaged upon a now novel, to be entitled "Zerma." ...

    Article : 1,044 words
  3. ARMY AND NAVY.

    The repairs of the Howe at Chatham are (reports the World) progressing very satisfactorily, over a thousand men being employed on them, or on work connected with them. Before ...

    Article : 89 words
  4. ART AND ARTISTS.

    Sir F. Leighton is said to be hard at work upon a picture, which at present he calls "The Spirit of the Mountain, representing a lovely female figure seated on a mountain top locking ...

    Article : 884 words
  5. Tryon Memorials.

    Two memorials of the lute Admiral Tryon were found floating in the water after the foundering of the Victoria, and they are now at the Admiralty, Whit[?] One was Sir ...

    Article : 100 words
  6. NATURALIST.

    Two specimens if that rare creature the tree lion ([?]ptoprocta ferox), just brought from Madagascar, were offered for sale the other day in Cheapside by auction. Two years ago a ...

    Article : 179 words
  7. French Submarine Boats.

    Naval science seems to be going ahead about as fast as the romancers can get on in their imaginings. The French, for mistake, are doing with submarine boats almost more than ...

    Article : 130 words
  8. Victoria Survivors.

    Her Majesty's ship Triumph, having on board the survivors of her Majesty's ship Victoria, arrived at Portsmouth Harbour on Saturday morning (August 12), from Gibraltar. ...

    Article : 163 words
  9. Suicide of a Rattlesnake.

    Mr. Edwards S. Holden, of the Lick Obserratory, describes in "Nature" a case of deliberate suicide by a rattlesnake, which he witnessed. He says: In the summer of 1888 ...

    Article : 667 words
  10. Sir Evelyn Wood.

    Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, who has received the appointment of Quartermaster-General, has been in turn a sailor, a dragoon, a leader of irregular cavalry, an infantry officer, a ...

    Article : 179 words
  11. Watertight Compartments.

    "Not a Sailor" writes to tell us (says the St. James's Gazette) that a visit to H.M.S. Theseus at the docks, the other day, enlightened him on at least one point in ...

    Article : 183 words
  12. Army Culinary Competition.

    In the Russian army a culinary competition takes place every year in connection with the regiments of Guards. The object is to keep the military cooks up to their duties. A ...

    Article : 264 words
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