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  2. JOTTINGS IN THE ART GALLERY

    Mr Little’s picture by Achille Leonari, of Guido taking the likeness of Beatrice Cenci previous to her execution. The story of the Cenci family, and ...

    Article : 657 words
  3. A NOVEL WAY OF RIPENING MELONS.

    According to a German horticultural journal‘the Persians, who extensively cultivate melons, cover the fruit with earth at an early stage of growth. The ...

    Article : 195 words
  4. GRASSHOPPER CURE.

    General M'Comb, warden" of the.- State prison at Folsen, has made a trial of a recommendation made by a Nebraska farmer to ‘ take hay, straw, or ...

    Article : 208 words
  5. A COMMENT ON GLADSTONE.

    Austria, of all States in the world, i the one most odious in the eyes of Mr Gladstone (remarks the St. James Gazette) and here is Mr Gladstone in his ...

    Article : 345 words
  6. MULTUM IN PARVO.

    In France the average amount of wages received by a farm laborer in 1872 —and it is not greatly different nowwas £6 16s 9d a year, in addition to ...

    Article : 1,097 words
  7. SELECTED POETRY.

    Like a blind spinner in the sun I trad my davs; I know that all the threads will run Appointed ways: ...

    Article : 268 words
  8. NEWS BY THE ORIENT MAIL.

    Two hundred thousand people in London alone, to say nothing of another 10,000 at least that do not come under the purview of charity, out of work Who can wonder ...

    Article : 283 words
  9. THE FUTURE OF THE SALVA-TION ARMY.

    General Booth estimate the financial requirements of the Salvation Army for the ensuing year at £30,000. This sum is needed for the efficient! maintenance ...

    Article : 291 words
  10. AN ARTFUL DODGE.

    Three or four commercial travellers were seated in a smoking car amusing themselves as commercial travellers are wont to do (says the Chicago Herald). ...

    Article : 400 words
  11. A LITTLE STREET HEROINE.

    One hardly expects to find heroes on heroines disguised in the rags of street children, and I can well understand the scepticism with which some who had no ...

    Article : 1,964 words
  12. THE HOME RULE PROBLEM.

    An address has been issued by the moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Rev. James Whigham, to his brethren in the ...

    Article : 275 words
  13. THE COLLIERY DISASTER IN WALES.

    The special correspondent of the Central News telegraphed on 26th December from Ferndale:—Fifteen bodies of the victims of the colliery disaster at Mardy ...

    Article : 310 words
  14. PARISIAN ECHOES.

    The finances and Tonquin are the two Egyptian plagues of Prance; the first resembles the boils and blains the second may necessitate letting the Israelites, that is all ...

    Article : 988 words
  15. A SEALED PACKET.

    The following anecdote is making the round the American papers. On being asked a day or two ago as to the possibility of seeing long distances by ...

    Article : 346 words
  16. AN IRISH EVICTION.

    One day recently a force of police, number iug close on 200 men, proceeded to the village of Vicarstown, about seven miles from Dungarvan, of carry out some evictions ...

    Article : 421 words
  17. THE ORIGINAL “MRS PARTING-TON.”

    There still lives in the metropolis of Hew England the humorist who delighted the newspaper readers of a bygone generation, and who is yet ...

    Article : 228 words
  18. WHAT POETRY WILL AND WILL NOT DO.

    ‘They tell me you’re quite a lover of poetry, Gusher ? ‘ Yes ; I love poetry as the eagle does the sunlight.’ ...

    Article : 386 words
  19. BRICK WALLS.

    Except upon sites where stone can be quarried in the immediate neighborhood, we are all familiar, (observes the Brick and Tile Gazette) with the economical ...

    Article : 245 words
  20. A LAUGHING PLANT.

    This is not a flower that laughs, but one that creates laughter, if the printed stories of travellers are to be believer. It grows in Arabia, and is called the ...

    Article : 227 words
  21. THE USE OF COCAINE.

    The prolonged use of cocaine to dull the sense of pain, and its remarkably long-continued success in this particular, has been one of the essential points of ...

    Article : 227 words
  22. A ROMANTIC STORY.

    A romantic story is making a stir in Beilin. A young and beautiful girl lately arrived there half-starving and without a penny. As there was some ...

    Article : 122 words
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